I shot this a few months back as I was leaving New York to go home and visit the family.
I applied a tint effect to some of the video at 10% opacity to give it some color and change throughout. Below are screenshots of the video within Final Cut Pro.
An old jam is a new jam to those who've never heard it.
Seeing Dylan tonight at the United Palace Theater up in Harlem.
Though some come close, his meaning in my life greatly surpasses all other music and musicians.
For me, now, getting to see him play, here at this moment in my life, in this place, in this city, with all the romance of my history pressed up against me, pushing me forward into the overwhelming scale and mystery of the great next unknown
with every thing gained and lost, all those loved, things torn,
it'll be like coming home after a very long time, from unexpected travels that have made me heart-worn, heart-stronger.
Since its Wordpress Wednesday, I thought I would recap my favorite tweets from WordCampNYC.
FYI, just in case you didn't read my previous post, my Stats Showdown presentation is posted. Here are the tweets. Enjoy! @MircoSteph Also lots of notepads not many laptops out just interesting to see especially at a bloggers conference #justsayin #wcnyc @tylerbreed Great tips on video-making... Ex. Don't interview someone up against a wall. Put person in middle of the room! #wcnyc @privatestorm common sense: don't use buddypress on shared hosting #wcnyc @torlowski are you a #WordPress pusher? Do you encourage others to use #WP? or maybe a distributor? #wcnyc @jasonalley OK. Elastic Theme is off the hook sick @drylk! #wcnyc @technosailor Let me rephrase. @anildash standing to ask @photomatt a question froze my early departure from #wcnyc
There's a small coffee shop and bakery near me called Made Fresh Daily. They've got great coffee, pastries, and free wifi – everything that makes a good coffee shop. But I noticed that they seem very stressed at busy times. They frequenty have two people moving back and forth from the kitchen to the register, and trying to attend to people in the store. I overheard one of the women running the register say to an inquisitive patron that they were looking for more help to run the register.
And then I started wondering why they even needed a register at all.
What if every patron was able to place their order online, from within the store, by connecting to the access point? For one thing, it would instantly reduce the rate of customer dissatisfaction (as a result of recieveing the wrong order) to zero. Human errors like this seem to be a common problem during particularly busy hours. But what if every patron was forced to place their order through a web browser? What if it was a wifi only café? What if you had no register, and instead reclaimed that space and made it available for extra seating?
If you used the wifi connection as a gateway to placing an order you could sovle another problem that anyone offering free wifi has to deal with – leaches. Lots of people will often take up a seat and use the Internet connection without buying anything. But in this case you could simple force people to place an order before you grant them Internet access. Problem solved.
Why does nothing like this seem to exist here in New York? This would be the perfect place for such a thing considering just how expensive space is. It would also allow you to sell a cheaper cup of coffee than the person next to you, since that person next to you is still paying staff to run the register. And even during the morning rush, you'd never have a line.
Someone should invent this.
I've never seen the movies nor read the book and I'm pretty sure I never will, but man, it seems they've got this whole emo/ennui/heartbreak thing down pat.
The soundtrack actually kills it. Just check this Lykke Li track.
Nice work, Ms. Patsavas.
Central Park's horse-drawn carriage drivers are making "hansom" profits -- charging tourists outrageous fees or shorting them on trotting time.
A standard half-hour jaunt should cost $34, according to the rates set by the city.
But more than a half-dozen drivers questioned about the price of a ride last week said it cost $34 for 20 minutes, noting that the tip wasn't included.
Longer rides are supposed to cost $10 for each additional 15 minutes, with a 45-minute ride set at $44.
But drivers quoted rates that began at $60 for a 45-minute trip, and went up from there.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/taken_for_ride_TtM1wU97tnbyWZt4sCXBgO#ixzz0WvwSmETd
Other Music in New York is one of three in the world all tied for first place for best record store.
The other two are Mississippi Records in Portland and Honest Jons in London.
Every time I go into any one of them, I am overjoyed and feel like a little kid in complete wonderment.
And at Other Music, I'm lucky enough to know my friend, Daniel Givens, who every time I see him, turns me onto something new.
Recently it was the album "Catholic" from Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras.
And now it's my honor to turn you onto it, via their rad cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man":
Read about the album here:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=6740
