yesterday i found a link to the website tiltshiftmaker.com, which allows you to upload photos and create cool tilt shift effects, much like in the old mister rogers tv show. it’s definitely a fun web app, and it makes the effect easy to create without having to spend tons of money on a tilt shift lens or learning how to duplicate the effect in photoshop.
anyhow, here’s my experiment with the site, using an aerial photo i took of downtown portland from on board the OHSU aerial tram almost two years ago. click on the image thumbnail to view a larger version on flickr! -h
starting tonight, my old comic series white shirt, philosopher is back online!
if you remember it from when it first launched almost two years ago, WSP is a comic about what might happen if the events of the biblical old testament were to happen in modern-day times, and what an average guy’s reaction to those things might be. unfortunately, over the time that’s passed since it launched, i was distracted away from the project, and the original site ended up going into disrepair and had to be taken offline. since then, new comics have been written and produced, but never released, so it’s become long overdue that a new site was developed and put online so they could see the light of day.
so, to re-introduce the series, as of tonight 18 of the original 32 strips are published and online at the new digs. at noon PST from monday through friday this week, one more of the next 5 comics is scheduled to go back online! next week, 3 more(the documentary trilogy!) will be re-released on monday, wednesday, and friday, also at noon PST. after that, i’ll be releasing strips twice a week, every monday and thursday, and i already have enough new material to last all the way through mid-september on that schedule!
i’ve been getting more of these video haikus done, and i wrote a ton of brand new and rather hilarious haikus(which may or may not get accompanying videos) last night. are you on vimeo and/or youtube? follow my channels on there to catch new videos as they’re released/uploaded! here’s my vimeo channel and youtube channel links. -h
last night on the daily show, i was pleasantly surprised by what i saw. finally a taste of real, actual journalism in american mainstream media, even if it was an easy target like jim cramer and cnbc.
to be honest, a lot has been made of this “feud”, but i thought the show last night was hardly a fight, even though stewart was clearly playing hardball with cramer. i’ve seen a lot of media reports today claiming stewart skewered, eviscerated, killed, etc. but that’s not the point of the interview, is it?
if you haven’t seen the full, unedited interview, the clips are embedded below(clips 2 and 3 below the fold), and you can see what i mean by that. while stewart clearly takes cramer to task for his own statements and actions, he also makes it clear that “this song ain’t about you” and that his real target is CNBC – an entire news organization that has cornered itself into irrelevance by NOT blowing the whistle and NOT seeing the warning signs. what they’ve done is a great disservice to the public, and truly is as stewart says “criminal at worst”.
ultimately, it comes down to this: journalism is, or at least should be about finding the truth and exposing it, seeking justice for the good of all – the common people as well as society at large. by its very nature, good journalism is often a david vs. goliath fight, to expose corruption at even the highest levels and not just distribute information and sound bites from CEOs and political figures. while that is almost all that we’ve come to expect from our mainstream news organizations, it’s also what the folks at the daily show have not been doing – they may corner their show into relative obscurity by making easy targets of political figures with their punchlines, but as it is now, the entire crew on that show is also proving themselves unsurpassed at researching and disseminating the truth behind the sound bites, exposing corruption, deception, hypocrisies and omissions. this interview should serve as an example of analytic reporting for those in the media, that truth can be found and brought to light, with or without punchlines.
starting tonight, my old comic series white shirt, philosopher is back online!
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