Jeffzilla

Ikea Brooklyn

I’m going to Ikea Brooklyn… Here goes nothing. I will now spend the
next hour or so wandering endless aisles of strangely named Swedish
furniture.

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Dessert?

Would you like some dessert? 25 feet of the most intense dessert
spread I’ve seen in a while….

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DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist

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DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist @ McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY

Tonight, between the Gawker Media Meshing situation and dinner, I randomly met up with a friend and checked out sunset from the top of the New Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. I think we got there just at the right time, because the sun was just below the horizon, giving great light. This little panorama is quick and dirty, as you can see, and shot with a 16mm lens. You can see at the edges the distortion is very pronounced, especially where building elements join at the end of one frame into the middle of another frame - the differences in magnification is intense.

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

Wordle is a service that takes any text or rss feed, and parses the content down into the most important and most used words. It generates all sorts of nifty tag cloud-like graphics. Next step, I wish, would be to get a Wordle wordpress plugin that dynamically generates a real blog tagcloud, but with the cool, randomized Wordle stylings.

Why make software for an increasingly dwindling market - the 1st generation (EDGE) iPhone. Instinctiv is a new company that’s making iPhone software that purports to predict what you want to listen to based on a number of factors, and the smartly shuffles your songs accordingly. But it only shuffles your own songs. Only the music you have on your phone at that moment. No network listening.

I can see how this would appeal to iPod Touch and 1st generation (slow EDGE) owners, but, since the 1st Gen iPhone is no longer on sale, that group is starting to dwindle. On the new iPhone 3g, with speedy fast 3G network connectivity, is Instinctiv really necessary? (Or, does it have a viable future?) Why not just listen to real, genuine Pandora radio, if that’s the experience you’re going for? Although it’s not out yet, I’m almost positive a real, native Pandora radio application will be released for the new iPhone 3G, which will (or, should…) use not only the iPhone’s wifi connection, but the 3G cell data connection as well.

Better yet - ever shared with a friend a Pandora station you’ve made? Cool to be able to listen to the same batch of songs, no? How about allowing iPhones running the Pandora radio application to synchronize their stations, so two iPhone listeners can listen to a synchronized Pandora station? Why not push this feature to the standard browser based web player too? It might get dicey for the music licensing, but would be cool nonetheless.

(Seen on TechCrunch)

Macbeth @ St. Ann’s Warehouse

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Sitting outside under the Brooklyn Bridge, at the old tobacco factory, to see the St. Ann’s Warehouse production of Macbeth. Presented in Polish with English supertitles.

Its nice to be outside for theater, fresh air etc. We all get headphones to wear so we can hear whatever special sounds they have, and there are weird green lights all over the place…

The trailer:

Kenai River

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Kenai River, Alaska
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Alaska….

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On my way to AK for the week….
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