Olympus EP-1 Pen

Instant Love, Followed by Letdown, by David Pogue, NYtimes>stateoftheart

This has got to be the best (★★★★★) gadget review I've read so far.

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Phil27 (ethics & morality) final today, then 8am Math20c final tomorrow (saturday!). Fun.

Then in the evening will finally fly back home for a summer in Berkeley. =]

Sied van Riel:::Rielalistic 015

Sied van Riel:::Rielalistic 015 on AH.fm, 27.07.2009

84 mb/mirror

★★★★

1- Airbase ft Floria Ambra - Wonders
2- Robert Gitelman - Rockless ( jan oostdyk remix )
3- Rank 1 - Symfo ( marcus schössow & robert burian remix )
4- Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - Man on the run ( nic chagall remix )
5- Sied van Riel - Rush
6- Carl B - How things could have been ( sied van riel remix )
7- Armin van Buuren ft Jacqueline Govaert - never say never ( myon & shane 54 remix )
8- Sied van Riel - Mongoosed
9- Temple One - String Theory ( m6 remix )
10- Marcus Schössow - Kaboom
11- Purple Haze - Bliksem

Sied van Riel, myspace.

alldj

Wurster Cottage

When Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tweets, a million people listen. So it wasn't surprising that when he recently posted a message about selling his home, the broker's Web site he linked to was so overwhelmed that it froze up.

"We loved our Wurster cottage in Berkeley but it's time to move - if you're into architecture, check it out," read the tweet.

—Twitter co-founder selling Berkeley cottage, sfgate

Many people don't like these little Chronicle homes articles which because they seem like advertisements. But I enjoy them because I like looking at architecture.

ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE

Karate High School – Zombies Everywhere

★★★★★

What a killer song. Punk-pop rock-ish.

Local band, somewhere in the SF Bay Area, they did not specify.

First heard on live105's Radio Soundcheck.

SF Marathon

With the Bay Bridge lit in the background, the first wave of runners started off on the marathon at just after 5:30 a.m. (Brant Ward / The Chronicle)

More than 20,000 runners circled the city for the annual San Francisco Marathon on Sunday, July 26, 2009.

ceiling pipes

fb photo albums

Going to be blogging real tumblr style for a bit.

What did I do this morning?

I facebook-photo stalked.

Hopefully she keeps her profile public to her network.

Gots more blog material photos.

Art school/indie/Berkeley kids are so interesting.

Not captioning with any names. Can't have anyone googling themselves and landing on my blog, finding out that I stole their pictures. ahah

Music posts postponed.

Which means I won't be getting many hits to my blog.

LINK ME LINK ME LINK ME please.

meteor showers

I've never seen a meteor shower before.

July 28-30, August 12-13.

Luis Sanchis

nokaalma: by Luis Sanchis (via)

newspaper, mMorford, ...

Gosh, I'm getting too lazy/busy to blog.

I'm not even writing long personal entries, just short entries of things that catch my eye.

But I guess this will turn into a medium-long length entry, now that I've started it, and started it with talking about myself. + random thoughts

I WANT THE NYTIMES. DELIVERED. TO MY DOORSTEP. EVERY DAY.

if not NYtimes, SF CHRONICLE IS FINE/ALSO GOOD.

gosh, I just love reading. I don't really like reading the newspaper online. I just look over the headlines on the main page, maybe read an article or two, then open new tabs to check e-mail, facebook, dl music, etc. It sucks. I want the newpaper in hard copy. Then I could skim through every headline, big and small, maybe little articles that will be of some interest. I could cut out pictures. The NYtimes has really good photos, if you haven't noticed that many of my previous posts are photos+links to NYtimes articles. + with hard copy of newspaper, comicspage! =D wow I miss getting the newspaper. If I got the newspaper, I would be so much more aware of current events. It's just too easy to scroll through the main nytimes page then go on with the usual interweb browsing. =[ mehh

I MISS ICE CREAM. SUPREME ICE CREAM.

Socal is too dominated by fuckin fro-yo. WTF Yogurtland opened in Berkeley???! On Bancroft right across campus??! WTFFFFF. Ok, it's good because it's a lot cheaper. 30¢ an ounce, 8¢ less than here. Yes, a good thing that froyo opened there. Fine. But I am so freakin tired of froyo. I get froyo like every week. I WANT ICE CREAM. Ici, Tara's organic ice cream, and gelato. Ahhhh that's what I'm really missing from Berkeley. Haha. That and pizza. and Thai food. Zachary's Chicago style. Their thin style is also really good. Then, real Thai food. Yessss. Lols the things I miss most from home is the food. xD

Oh, and grass (I don't mean weed). Sitting in the parks. So relaxing. No one really sits on the grass at school. No parks around where I'm living right now.

Berkeley Parks ♥. and walking around houses that are all different. Instead of walking around business parks and empty parking lots and wide streets.

I was reading Mark Morford's latest column (he hit the FB limit of 5000 friends! I missed my chance.. =[ but I became a fb fan. lol I left a comment saying his columns are literary orgasms.), and in it, he subtly includes links to NSFW blogs. So really, why are guys so fucking tasteless and still look Playboy and online porn where all the girls are oiled up and photoshopped and all that? Ughh. There's indie porn (don't click), and lots more tasteful artsy porn that're so much more interesting and beautiful. And you don't even need to pay for a subscription. Seriously, guys.

Next topic: tumblr

Tumblr's are so easy to use. But tumblrs are just for reposting stuff. And that's exactly what almost every blogger does. Repost shit. Blogspots are more for blogging/writing. Tumblrs are just for pictures. Not sure where I was going to go with this paragraph, maybe no where to go, just wanted to state the difference from different blogging sites. I repost stuff, pictures and links to articles, to music downloads.

Yeah. gosh that was such a cruddy ending to this post.

I watched Citizen Kane last night. Woke up late today.

My handwriting keeps getting messier. Going to spend the rest of my day typing up my notes.

Nagakin Capsule Tower

Composed of 140 pods, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has fallen into disrepair,
with leaks and maintenance problems.

Kisho Kurokawa's Future Vision, Banished to Past, NYtimes

It's a pretty interesting read. Heard of the Japanese Metabolist Movement?

The tower looked familiar though I had never been there; a scene was shot there in the film (actually a triptych) Tokyo! Or not, I don't have that good memory. Or yes, at least in the background:

lonely vocals mixx01

I finally recorded my own mix!
But not live.
I heard mixmeister is pretty easy to use, but I couldn't download it (all of the ones I tried just showed up as text files x__x) so I got Ableton instead. which is much too complicated for me and I'm not going to produce. I only wanted to make a mix.. =| it took like 10x longer mixing on software than live spinning on cdjs/turntables. Blahh

Anyhow, I finished it. Please download+listen and tell me if you like it. =)
Feedback on track selection/flow welcomed. Not so much for mixing, since it was my first time using Ableton and I've spent enough time on it and don't wanna mess with it anymore, unless you have tips for mixing on Ableton.

Dianne Yee – lonely vocals mixx01
96mb | 70 mins
trance—vocal

1. 16 Bit Lolitas feat. Jennifer Horne - Nobody Seems To Care
2. Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved (adam k and soha vocal mix)
3. Above & Beyond pres. Oceanlab - Lonely Girl (Gareth Emery remix)
4. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Ana Criado - Sunset Boulevard (original mix)
5. Above & Beyond - Alone Tonight (Above & Beyond's Club Mix)
6. Armin van Buuren feat. Gabriel & Dresden - Zocalo (Original Mix)
7. Rozza - London To Bangkok (Estiva Remix)
8. Markus Schulz - Without You Near (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
9. Nadia Ali - Love Story (Dresden Johnston Vocal Mix)
10. Adam White & Andy Moor pres. Whiteroom feat. Amy Cooper - Someday (Vocal Mix)

Happy 4th!

Fireworks display off Staten Island NY with the Verrazano Bridge in the background which connects Staten Island to Brooklyn.

I went to the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar with a couple friends. A ton of fried high-risk-for-heart disease All-American food there. Some really gross-sounding stuff, too. There was one stand that sold fried frog legs, which might be okay. But this other stand: Krispy Kreme donut chicken sandwich. and this cookie sandwich thing which consists of a chocolate chip cookie, cream cheese, strawberry syrup, and chicken. omgwtfbbq fo'reals?! I just had chicken parmasan. Went on two rides, this mouse roller coaster and the ferris wheel. It was fun. Wish I could've gone on more rides, though, but ticket$$. =\

I brought my film camera, on black & white right now, and got 25 shots. Yay! That's the most shots I've taken in one place so far. haha.

The Del Mar fireworks weren't really impressive. And where we were sitting, a building/tower & a palm tree blocked some of the fireworks. Then the pause leading up to the finale was a little too long and gave off momentary confusion as to if that was just the end of the show.

New York fireworks shows are always better.

But there were fireworks last week at EDC, going along with great music, so whatever. haha.

I still haven't written my review of EDC yet, maybe in a couple more days.

Started classes on Monday. Also finished Rosetta Stone Swedish and started on Italian. Then I also downloaded Ableton and am trying to make a mix. So yeah, kinda busy, but thought that of course I need to make a July 4th post. Yeah. Laters. ~