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Last week I took photos and volunteered at the Friends of the Highline Design Book Release Party. The party was actually underneath the Highline, and featured a great band, food and drinks. The new book, “Designing the Highline” showcases the Highlines’s design from Gansevoort to 30th street. I haven’t been up on that section of it yet, but I did get the opportunity to explore the upper section, near the rail yard. Pics from that soon.

Photos are posted up on my new photography site - AcidLoungeMedia.com/Vision.  Additionally, the Friends of the Highline blog wrote about the party, and linked to the photos.

Nat and David’s 4th of July BBQ was tasty - and I had a good time shooting some photos… Photos on flickr.

The possibilities for the more open, developer-friendly iPhone 2.0 software just keep getting better, especially on the speedier iPhone 3G. TechCrunch reports that Qik just announced that they are coming out with an iPhone application, to allow users to stream live video direct from their iPhone. Pretty cool feature, and that will also mean that the iPhone will now be able to capture and record video, since Qik records your video streams.

They’re not the only ones doing live streaming, and I hope sites like Ustream.tv and Mogulus.com get on the bandwagon for over-the-air streaming too. Especially considering Mogulus’ capabilities for real-time mixing of multiple video sources, it could make an intensely robust control studio for remixing and re-broadcasting multiple live remote video streams. Live-mixing/streaming the next Tumblr Rock Band jam from multiple roaming cell-connected audio/video sources? Sure.

**Update - Max Haot, of Mogulus, just informed me via comments that Mogulus is actually already integrated with Qik, so users can do live mixes of multiple remote video streams - awesome!

Thrillist! Hiro Ballroom! Stacks of fake money!

I suppose it was appropriate that the first song I heard as I walked into Thrillist’s Internet Week party was Nada Surf’s “Popular“… Place was packed, cash was flying. Nick has more pictures over on RandomNightOut.com

The annual NYC pillow fight was this past Saturday, March 22nd in Union Square. My buddy Chris and I walked over to check it out. Although I’m not sure you could call this thing a “flashmob”, there were definitely a bunch of bystanders who were totally confused by the whole situation. By the end of it, there were piles and piles of feathers strewn all over Union Square. The event was put on by NewMindSpace and was also discussed on Rocketboom, CNET News, and Gothamist, although my video is much better….