ZADI DIAZ

Links for 2009-07-09 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Charter For Compassion
"...the task of our generation, whether we are religious people or secular people, is to build a global community where people of all persuasions can live together in peace and harmony."

Links for 2009-07-06 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Your Amazing Brain
Explore your brain, take part in real-life experiments and test yourself with games, illusions and brain-benders.
Le Love
images of love

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-5)

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:01:47 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-5):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Cannes - Île Saint-Honorat: Built around the year 410 and...

Zadi Diaz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:01:00 -0700

Cannes - Île Saint-Honorat:

Built around the year 410 and occupied by monks.

This place reminded me of The Elder Scrolls. I felt like I was in the game… the stage with the well, where you first learn to shoot your arrow: reference photo here

All pics here: www.flickr.com/photos/karmagrrrl/sets/72157620612934136/

right now…: researching, drinking coffee, preparing...

Zadi Diaz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:26:25 -0700

right now…:

researching, drinking coffee, preparing notes, playing producer…
happy tuesday!

Good morning from Cannes: View from Hotel Martinez. Here for...

Zadi Diaz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:54:30 -0700

Good morning from Cannes:

View from Hotel Martinez. Here for Cannes Lions

Dear People Who Game Twitter For Followers: It’s Over.

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:27:00 -0700

Twitter has announced that they will be going after these individuals and deem their accounts spam. These individuals game the system by using scripts, software that follow thousands of people a day and unfollow anyone who doesn’t follow them back. It’s a grey-technique called churning followers. So that dude who’s a Realtor from Florida? The dude who has 3 videos on YouTube and calls himself an “SEO maven”? That 64 yr old grandma from Utah who says she’s a social media expert because she has 30 thousand followers?

All done by software.

This has been going on for years on YouTube as well…people who scrape accounts, have refreshers… the list goes on.

(via tremendousnews / @stevegarfield / @murnahan)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-21)

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:23:43 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-21):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

BAT FOR LASHES. I’m loving the new album right now....

Zadi Diaz — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:03:13 -0700

BAT FOR LASHES.

I’m loving the new album right now. Natasha Khan has a voice that’s a thousand years old. The album art is perfect. :)

You can listen to a recent KCRW Live recording.

Where I’ll be this Sunday night. Join me! You can RSVP on...

Zadi Diaz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:14:24 -0700

Where I’ll be this Sunday night. Join me! You can RSVP on Facebook. ;)

Have you listened to Jarrod? He’s AWESOME.

More info here!

Joshua Hoffine - Horror Photography Process I stage my photo...

Zadi Diaz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:03:56 -0700

Joshua Hoffine - Horror Photography

Process
I stage my photo shoots like small movies, with sets, costumes, elaborate props, fog machines, and special effects make-up. I use hotlights rather than strobes because they give me better fog effects as well as a warming color shift. My images are not photoshop collages. I use photoshop to finesse details and to adjust color and contrast for printing. I use friends and family members as actors and crew. Everyone works for free. We do it for fun.

Statement
I love old Disney cartoons. I like the hyper-realism of animation, and the overblown production values of big Hollywood movies. I want my images to be pretty so that you’ll look at them longer. I am interested in the science of fairy tales. I want to reinvent archetypes. I embrace the Jungian power of a cliche. I think of my photographs as pieces of candy.

I believe that the horror story is ultimately concerned with the imminence and randomness of death, and the implication that there is no certainty to existence. The experience of horror resides in this confrontation with uncertainty. Horror tells us that our belief in security is delusional, and that the monsters are all around us.

(via: karenabad)

my new twitter background :): twitter.com/zadi This is what...

Zadi Diaz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:38:02 -0700

my new twitter background :):

twitter.com/zadi

This is what happens while I wait for video to render in FCP.
(photo by the bui bros.)

Iran today. Photo by Spiegel.

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:58:49 -0700

Iran today. Photo by Spiegel.

Following real-time Twitter stream on Iran election...

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:21:45 -0700

Following real-time Twitter stream on Iran election protests.

See more Flickr photos

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-14)

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:07:32 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-14):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Temper Trap’s Sweet Disposition (GREAT song!). …And...

Zadi Diaz — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:15:50 -0700

Temper Trap’s Sweet Disposition (GREAT song!). …And how I want to enter the cosmos when I die. :) (via @epicfu)

Listening to: Sia - Day Too Soon

Zadi Diaz — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:22:23 -0700

Listening to: Sia - Day Too Soon

Angular Momentum… I finally understand what my friend...

Zadi Diaz — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:41:36 -0700

Angular Momentum… I finally understand what my friend Beth’s avatar is all about. Aw… :)

(via: peetypassion)

Videobloggers circa 2005

Zadi Diaz — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:24:46 -0700

Videobloggers circa 2005

Mustafa Ahmed, 12: spoken word artist “Mustafa is in...

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:19:16 -0700

Mustafa Ahmed, 12: spoken word artist

“Mustafa is in Grade 7 at Nelson Mandela Park Public School in Regent Park. This poem, “A Single Rose,” earned him a standing ovation at the Hot Docs film festival. Video Randy Risling, Tara Walton.” (via: thestar.com)

(Note: This video player takes about a minute to load.)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-7)

Zadi Diaz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:52:51 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-7):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

stevewoolf: “I never used a web service that made me feel...

Zadi Diaz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:08:00 -0700

stevewoolf: “I never used a web service that made me feel bad about myself.”

LOL. Too bad you have a life, huh? :)

Links for 2009-02-06 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Huge Compilation of WordPress Code

Links for 2009-01-18 [del.icio.us]

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PST

The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House?

Links for 2009-01-15 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PST

Links for 2008-11-05 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST

EPIC FU: what would you change?
Change is in the air, but now what? There's change all around us if you know where to look. This week we have a game hacker's marriage proposal, an art exhibit based on LOLcats, and the FU of the Week is served by Causecast, a cause-based social network. Plus our Artist of the Week created a painting from 600 viewer-submitted moments of change. What are you going to change? To get the show early with all the show links, go to http://epicfu.com!

Links for 2008-10-29 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT

EPIC FU: halloween craziness + tim and eric awesome show, great job!
http://epicfu.com - This week Tim and Eric from Adult Swim take us on a crazy journey through their show's evolution, which actually began on the web! We also run down Halloween costumes for the lazy, check out some ridiculously amazing pumpkin carvings, check out some old people fighting, and throw in a few upside-down dogs for good measure. It's a horrific Halloween episode!