On March 24th activists from Greenpeace, infiltrated a Kleenex “Let It Out” commercial that was being shot in Times Square. This action was part of Greenpeace’s Kleercut campaign against Kimberly-Clark for their old-growth forest destruction in Northern Canada. Not An Alternative put together a great video of the intervention.
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Julia Wertz, creator of The Fart Party, recently launched a new project called “I Saw You”, which is a collection of comics submitted by artists that illustrate various craigslist “Missed Connections” postings. Julia will be compiling an anthology of these comics that will be released at APE in April and SPX in October. She has posted a few of the submissions that she has received so far and they’re really great. Here’s more info on how to contribute to this project.
While Craigslist offers a variety of public services from apartments to one night flings, the Missed Connection ads offers a tender insight into a world of people who run around the city making eye contact with strangers and falling instantly and madly in love. And what better way to pay homage to such unrequited love than to exploit it in a comic book?
Web 2.0 has finally consumed Web 1.0 once and for all with today’s announcement by Michael Arrington that TechCrunch has acquired FuckedCompany, the notorious tech company deadpool website started by AdBrite founder Phil Kaplan in 2000.
Wait, April 1st is tomorrow…
Since FC focuses on the negative news coming out of startups, and TechCrunch tends to focus on the positive, this combination may seem odd. But the sites are in fact extremely complimentary.
UPDATE: Of course, as expected, this was in fact an April Fool’s Day prank. Regardless, I think it would have been great if it was actually were the real deal.
Two teenagers from Illinois set the Hollywood Hills on fire today. The fire, which started near Burbank, came dangerously close to the famous Hollywood Sign, but luckily there were no injuries or major damage.
Metroblogging Los Angeles is all over the story with some great coverage and there are a ton of photos already up on Flickr, including some amazing HDR photos by Dave Bullock.
UPDATE: Micki Krimmel went up on her roof and shot some video of the fire.
Videoblogging Week 2007 takes place next week (April 1-7) and is a way to promote videoblogging by encouraging people to create and post a daily video, each with a different theme.
Videoblogging week started in 2004 with less than ten videobloggers as a participatory way to raise awareness of videoblogging and welcome new videobloggers. In 2005 and 2006 it grew to include hundreds of videobloggers. In 2007 we hope thousands.
Every year videoblogging week is based on a theme. For example in 2006, it was “vlogging dangerously”. There have been several themes proposed this year such as the “seven deadly sins” for seven days. Past single day themes have included “I love” and “anarchy”
SuperHappyVlogHouse, an all day “video making extravaganza”, takes place tomorrow at Hat Factory in San Francisco and it is the kickoff event for Videoblogging Week 2007. During the day videobloggers will learn how Creative Commons can be used for video distribution and collaboration. Later in the day there will be a video blogging workshop to create video trailers to help educate people about the use Creative Commons.
For more info, check out the Upcoming.org listing.
Come learn how to videoblog, or just collaborate on projects with other vloggers.
4-6pm: Discussion with the Creative Commons Folks on why CC is important in Videoblogging. Tech aspects, legal aspects etc. If more videobloggers put a Creative Commons License at the end of all their videos, awareness grows as our videos move around the web. Independent creators unite!
6-9pm: We’ll all make custom CC trailers that can be used in videos. Schlomo has a stop-animation table, lots of space at Hat Factory, great neighborhood for shooting.
Anyone new can team up with an experienced videoblogger to learn how it’s done.
Lots of video nerds will be available to answer any question you’ve ever had. Bring your computer and camera.
9pm-????: Screenings and party!! Plenty of free booze and food.
“What We Call The News” is the latest episode of the popular animated satire series JibJab. This installment makes fun of the news industry in the US.
If you look closely, at around the 1:20 mark, you will see a brief cameo appearance by mega bloggers Michael Arrington, Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble. They are featured as part of the only 3% of Americans that can point to Kabul on a map (my guess is that they cheated and did an online search). It’s pretty cool to see your friends immortalized in something as infamous JibJab.
So keeping up with a streaming video series like Justin.tv that is live 24/7 can be a bit difficult. Well Ryan Kawailani Ozawa just made things a little easier with the recent launch of his new blog Justin.tv Guide, which chronicles the “Highlights and lowlights of Justin Kan’s lifecasting experiment”. Michael Doeff, who took some screenshots of my debut appearance on Justin.tv, is one of the several contributors to the blog.
Sunday night, after the St. Stupid’s Day Parade, there will be monumental Church of the SubGenius literary convergence at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.
“Avatars of Slack” celebrates the release of the Church of the SubGenius books “The SubGenius Psychlopedia of Slack, Vol. 1: The Bobliographon” & “Revelation X: The ‘Bob’Apocryphon”, as well as Hal Robbins’ books “Dinosaur Alphabet” & “The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks”. SubGenii in attendance will include Dr. Howland Owll, Dr. Philo Drummond, Puzzling Evidence, Bishop Joey another others.
Avatars of Slack
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
@ City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue
SF, CA 94133This Event is Free
City Lights & The Church Of The Subgenius present
AVATARS OF SLACK!
The Living Word of J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs & his AcolytesANNOUNCING THE LITERARY EVENT OF THE AEON!
With many of the original Doktors of the Church, including:
~ Dr. HOWLAND OWLL
Late of the ‘Ask Dr. Hal!’ show and master of subgenial ceremonies~ Dr. PHILO DRUMMOND
Anointed to dispense ‘Bob’s’ wisdom as he sees fit~ PUZZLING EVIDENCE
Broadcasting (on KPFA 94.1 fm) for 25 years~ BISHOP JOEY
The First Church Of the Last Laugh~ and many other SubGenius ‘Stuporstars!’
Celebrating the release of Two Sacred Books of SubGenius Wisdom:
~ The SubGenius Psychlopedia of Slack, Vol. 1:
The Bobliographon
Liturgies and Gospels of the Church of the SubGenius the Perfect Self-Validating Philosophy
published by Thundersmouth Press
&
~ Revelation X: The ‘Bob’Apocryphon
The Descended New Testicle of the Charismatic SubGenius Faith
published by Thundersmouth PressAlso celebrating the release of TWO books by HAL ROBINS
~ Dinosaur Alphabet
published by North Atlantic Books
&
~ The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks
published by Frog Pressamong other essential works.
HOW DID THIS COME TO BE? Know that you were born with Original Slack. But the Conspiracy, of whose overarching existence you are but vaguely aware, eternally seeks to steal this, the Precious Gift of J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs from you, and sell you, in its place a Worthless Mess of the Pottage of False Slack. The Conspiracy doesn’t want you to have True Slack. Oh, no– the Conspiracy wants you to work for a living. But we say:
REPENT! QUIT YOUR JOB! SLACK OFF!
SOUND COMPLICATED? IT IS!
SO COME TO CITY LIGHTS APRIL 1st
City Lights is located in San Francisco’s historic North Beach district between Broadway Street and Pacific Avenue on Columbus Avenue. 24 hour parking is available at the public garage on Vallejo Street between Stockton and Powell Streets, across from Central Police Station. MUNI access via No. 15 and 30 lines. The nearest BART access is MONTGOMERY station.
This Sunday, April 1st, The First Church of the Last Laugh presents the 29th Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade. Dress stupid and meet at the Transamerica building at 12 noon. Here are my photos from last year’s parade.
The parade starts at the pointy bldg, (take a guess), then up Columbus Ave. to Washington Square Park for staged mini-service with 2 minute talent show, sacramints, leap of faith, free lunch and the search for the answer to the question…”What is Benjamin Franklin doing in Washington’s Park?”.
This year there are two post-St. Stupid’s Day Parade events, the “Avatars of Slack” at City Lights Bookstore and the “After Saint Stupid’s Day Parade, After Party Extravaganza” at Fat City.
Chuck Cirino posted a great St. Stupid’s Day video over on Weird America.
UPDATE 1: I’ll be brining Justin.tv down to the parade, so all of the world can tune into the stupidity live.
UPDATE 2: Here are the photos I shot at the parade.
Last night I want to VaultCamp, an independent ETech 2007 after party organized by Pete Forde and Ryan McMinn of Unspace Interactive, David Crow and Jay Goldman of Radiant Core and Dan Grigsby. The event was held in amazing venue, an old walk-in bank vault (used for safety deposit boxes) turned into a meeting room, which is in the basement of the Courtyard by Marriott, which itself is in located in a historic 1920’s bank. Of course I had quite a bit of fun shooting photos at the party. It was by far one of the best social events of ETech 2007.
Michael Galpert shot some great video from inside of the vault.
Last night at ETech 2007, Make Magazine hosted their annual Make Fest, a small preview of Maker Faire.
I’m in San Diego this week for ETech 2007, O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference. I’ll be shooting photos and posting them here as the event progresses.
Here are more ETech 2007 photos from James Duncan Davidson.
Kevin Marks has video that he streamed from the EFF BoF talk on Monday night.
I’m working with Wired this week and they using my photos from ETech 2007 as part of their coverage of the event.
I’m working with Wired this week and they using my photos from ETech 2007 as part of their coverage of the event.
On Saturday night I made it out to the final San Francisco performance of “Gonzo, A Brutal Chrysalis” at Climate Theater. It is a brilliant and riveting one-man show about Hunter S. Thompson, set at his Woody Creek home between 1968-1971. Here are some photos from the show.
Next month the show moves north to Portland. It will be at The Know Bar on April 18 & 19 and The Shoebox Theater on April 20 & 21.
Laughing Squid is organizing a Drinkup with Justin.tv tomorrow night (Sunday, March 25th) at Zeitgeist in San Francisco starting at 7pm. Come out and have some beers with Justin Kan and the crew from Justin.tv. If you can’t make it, just tune in and watch the live online stream.
Zeitgeist has a large outdoor patio and great selection of beer. Of course, this is San Francisco, so it will probably be cold out back, so dress warm.
Laughing Squid will buy a couple of pitchers to start things off and we might try another experiment with Spontaneous Microsponsorships.
Feel free to spread the word via Twitter, Upcoming.org and all of the usual channels.
For more on Justin.tv, see my previous posts “Justin.tv: The 24/7 Human Video Stream” and “Late Night With Justin.tv, So Meta It Hurts”
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