environmentalgraffiti is kewl! March 13, 2009
Cool photos of Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/images-inside-human-body-images/8292
This site also got me thinking that the one reason I might wait to buy an iphone is this: If Mac rumors has it right, there might be a solar enabled iphone. Holy shit! A mini green machine!
According to the site MacRumors, Apple have apparently filed a patent application to investigate the use of solar cells in their mobile devices, including the iphone and portable computers.
I Really Like working with Sony Digital Imaging Products! December 8, 2007
So I was curious about how can compress images so they will show up on my screen faster? Anyone got any advice?
San
Stuck between Geek and Gangster May 1, 2007
My friend Bao posted this in an
APIA listserve that we are on. I find it to be very thought-provoking…
a New York Sun commentary
-A Bad Week for Asian Americans Gets Worse
By GRADY HENDRIX
April 24, 2007It’s been a lousy 10 days for Asian Americans. Last Monday, 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 of his fellow students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the media were quick to try and link the shootings to Asian movies by directors Park Chan-Wook and John Woo. That same day, the Ed Lover radio show on Power 105 aired a comedy skit called “Are You Smarter than an Asian?” featuring questions like “How does an Asian pronounce ‘fried rice’?” On Sunday, “The Sopranos” featured a quiet Asian-American resident of Uncle Junior’s mental hospital who turned out to be a violent psychopath. And this coming Friday, you can watch “The Condemned,” a new action movie featuring a sadistic Japanese martial artist who burns a rival to death.At a time when a Stepin Fetchit descendant, Uncle Ben, is being remade as a corporate CEO, it seems incongruous that Christopher Walken will be donning “yellow face” to play a Fu Manchu clone named Feng in the forthcoming dire-looking comedy “Balls of Fury.” When Don Imus can get fired for saying “nappy headed hos,” how can Ed Lover stay on the air with “Are You Smarter than an Asian?”“We’re a convenient minority,” said Greg Chang, the manager of operations at the ImaginAsian theater, a Manhattan cinema that screens exclusively Asian fare. “A comedian can make fun of Asian Americans and seem edgy without running much risk. Or a school can point to their Asian students and say that they have a lot of minority students even if they don’t have any African-Americans enrolled.“Max Han, who runs the Korean news site NewYorkSeoul.com, points to the emphasis placed on Cho Seung-Hui’s nationality as an example of Asian Americans still being excluded from the mainstream. “Major media outlets labeled Cho as a Korean national. Even though he came to the U.S. at age eight, he was considered a foreigner. For the Virginia Tech shooting, we put an emphasis on his Asian ethnicity.”That may be because Asians are the bad guys again. Ken Leung, who played Carter, the psychopathic mental patient on “The Sopranos,” is a professional bad guy. He’s known for playing a sadistic mutant who grows quills in “X-Men: the Last Stand,” for playing the psycho killer, Sang, in “Rush Hour,” and for playing that most evil of all creatures, a high school guidance counselor, in “The Squid and the Whale.”Ever since women have been given the choice to be either virgins or whores, Asians have been given the choice: gangster or geek? On the one hand, in pop culture you have the lovable nerd Hiro on the NBC’s hit show “Heroes.” On the other, you have DC Comics‘ best-selling comic series of 2006, “52,” which features a sinister villain known as Chang Tsu, a revamped Wonder Woman Yellow Peril baddie from the 1960s previously known as Egg Fu, who assembled a cabal of evil scientists on the mysterious Oolong Island.“Four of
America’s last five wars have been fought on Asian soil against Asian armies and that’s become part of our collective unconscious,” Jeff Yang, an author and a consultant on Asian-American marketing for Iconoculture, said. “Four decades of hostility, on and off, have given us this image of a cunning, heartless, inhuman Asian invader.”But it goes back earlier than that. In 1914, Jack London wrote a breathless fantasy about the extermination of all Chinese people called “An Unparalleled Invasion”; Buck Rogers made his debut fighting “Mongol hordes;” and the names Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless have entered our vocabulary along with James Bond and Sherlock Holmes. And these stereotypes are getting rehabilitated fast.Americans are worried about their jobs being outsourced to India, magazine covers are proclaiming that China is the world’s next superpower, and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il is not only ramping up his nation’s nuclear program, but he’s been named as part of the science-fiction sounding “Axis of Evil.” “There’s a sense of anxiety and it’s coming out in popular culture,” Mr. Yang said.“Any other ethnicity or race are very vigilant and vocal about this,” Mr. Yang said. “They know all too well that the first signs of cultural danger are when people embrace these media images because from there everything else flows.”But things are hardly looking better for the future. The Olympics are going to Beijing in 2008. America is bringing China up for trade violations in the WTO. India and America are at loggerheads over a nuclear deal. So it comes as no surprise that next summer’s big comic book movie is “Iron Man” starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. Its villain? He’s called “The Mandarin.”
Click here for more frightening news of an Asian-American Straight-A High School Student who got racially profiled for work he did for a creative writing class: http://www.tripmastermonkey.com/archives/news_views/april_26_2007_another_case_of_asian_profilin.php
As a self-proclaimed creative “writer” I find this atrociously disturbing.
~san
Spring FORWARD March 12, 2007
Winter: YOU CAN GO NOW..I feel robbed of an extra hour of sleep this weekend, but rest assured, I think it’s a fair trade if you can fast FORWARD, make the sun shine & the moisten the air with warmth.
on the corner of s4th and berry
the open city show at eyebeam is kind of cool. http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=116
i made some glasses
s. african cowboy apple-head February 1, 2007
ON MY WAY TO ATLANTA YESTERDAY…
When I got on the airplane, the man in 37G was trying to stuff a tripod and overstuffed suitcase beneath the seat. My eyes were immediately drawn to his grey skull cap with the familiar and almost comforting apple icon iron- on patch on the side of his beanie. He later revealed that his wife cuts them off the t-shirts he wears for work–he has so many of them– and makes hats with them in different colors for each day of the week. Isn’t that the cutest!! This man had a stark white fu man chu stache that adorned his long face. I was not at all bothered by his compendium of gear and equipment, and in fact was excited to find a fellow machead, and an easy lead in to why he was overflowing with applegear. Our initial exchange was curt because I have a habit of falling asleep the minute a plane takes off.
We spoke enough for me to find out his name is Ralph and he was on his way to the motherland of south africa where he had not been back to for 10 years. Also he works at a new jersey apple store. That explained why he kept whispering into his big black ipod. I was surprised, not only that not one flight attendant questioned his tripod, (especially in this day of heightenened securityin the “age of terrorism” paranoia, but that he was also talking to himself– doing a dictapod while on the plane. His hat, which gave him away to not just myself, but another stray traveler who saw him, was the first hint. Then there was also the SUPPED up ipod, with an attachment that allows him to record his audio dictation for his podcast. He said he was documenting his reunion with S. Africa. He grew up in Jo’berg. Turns out Mr. Mac expert purchased his first mac a mere 6 years ago. He didn’t even know about the famous 1984 superbowl commercial Apple debuted. To this day it is still the most successful superbowl ad campaign-and mmost eceomical too. This spot only ran once during the some of the most-coveted on-air timeslots: 1984
Whoa…this was 23 years ago…
But like many of apple’s astute decisions and business maneuvers, they gambled right on a concept commercial that gained more buzz that year than any other commercial that year. Ralph told me that 3 years ago he was offered a job at an apple store because of his continued zeal for the product. Every apple support person knew the african cowboy who was trying to figure out how to use his mac. He is now the #2 seller of products at his store in NJ, but as he me reminded me more than once, the staff does not work on commission. They are knowledgable because they know
and love the product. So I prodded him on the features of the much anticipated release of the iphone which will be avail in may, that steve jobs just announced a week ago at the mac expo. Nothing on that front, although he told me that the latest little SHUFFLE comes in color. It is now more like the size of a starburst trumping the last micro-iteration of the now ubiquitous pod, which is longer like a stick of gum (sans color). Apparently a new airport base station will be 5 times faster and have a syncing system which will allow for wireless access of external drives. In addition, the new operating system, LEOPARD (Purrrrrrr)will be out soon, as will the ITV. Ralph has 6 ipods with various music and films. He does photography and digital art and at 69, he teaches classes at the store, and seems to love it. If a old dog can learn new tricks, then my gnawing suspicion that it IS possible for MY dad to come around to embrace technology. Once he gets the bug, the possibilities are endless. Until then I suppose I will have to communicate with my dad the old fashioned way thru landlines an snail mail. I told the african cowboy that I was already suffering from separation anxiety from my laptop, and of my mental preparation in allowing myself time away from staring into a computer screen. Whether work or play, it
seems like that is the state of being that monopolizes the majority of my waking life. And since I am now in the habit of blogging my every every move and nonsense thought, it’s a wonder I have time to live life and have actual real life events to blog about. PS: even though I was without laptop, even talking about it helped ease my withdrawal symptoms. For the record, I did have my nano with me. In anycase, I was relieved to find my neurosis is not a singular condition- that other people, like my fellow traveler suffer from a similar affliction. What’s more, according to him, the apple chain has surpassed old navy to be the fastest growing chains in the US. Turns out, we are NOT alone, my friends. What’s even more is that we’ve come along way since 1984 when apple began ’la revolucion.’ Ralph gave me his card, and I wrote down my website for him. I told him I’d continue to ply him for MAC tips and the latest scoop on gadetry. And so it goes, I think I made a friend in person with whom I will hopefully continue to be friends with in the web-O-sphere. Macheads are everwhere, and our comrades and growing exponentially. I realized today that apple is a way of life. LIVE IT! -San
24 hour party people…in the apple store June 5, 2006
fakecake in a glass cube
http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/16706
You may ask yourself, what does this mean??? Such philosophical questions prompted by emails pop into my little head ALL the time…..
Yours truly, aka “Fakecake” to be doing a live realtime blog this week for the suicidegirls website starting tonight. Timing could change again, but I will keep you posted. (www.suicidegirls.com)
I have carte blanche in terms of content, except I cannot mention SPIN magazine. Not sure why, but I plan to find out. You may ask, is San a suicidegirl? The answer is no. I will be a “geek editor.” What does THAT mean? I suppose you’ll have to check out the blog to find out.
I’ll be in the new 24 hour the apple store.
Welcome to the world of MAC…
steve jobs invites you to ENTER:
It’s kind of a David Blaine thing that I’m doing…I’ll be a squatter in the new apple store uptown (nyc) and blogging real time for as long as I can last trapped in a glass store (like Blaine’s stunt, but cooler and without the water)… until I run out of food or they call security on me. Wish me luck…and I’m holding my breath the entire time!!!!
HOW??
WIKI….Guess you have to keep going…
I broke in while they were cleaning…well it is 24 hours, so anyone can go at anytime…but let’s not get to technical about it…-fakecake
first it was like my home office…
it got crowded…
and the video game freaks kept getting in my way…
then the computer leaked strange fluid resembling anti-freeze, like radioactive kryptonite in acid neon green dripped out of the computer and into my mouth..
and poof. it was like that scene in Heathers, that 80s flick.
I passed out from the gaseous green, and someone else had to take over the blog. to greener pastures. ce la vie.
Sanster, the fakecake-walk.
June 13, 2006 in Current Affairs |
