about borat vs martha stewart

about soundball

It may look it, but Aleksei R. Stevens’ Soundball is no ordinary soccer ball. it’s embedded with a motion sensor that can detect being thrown, hit, kicked, and spun, then via Bluetooth sends the info to a computer that plays sounds and music that correspond to its movements. Stevens is a New York-based musician and teacher; the video below was shot at Sony Wonder Labs in NYC.

[via Core77]

about roads limos shouldnt drive on

I came across this image that helps prove why limousines and the hills of SF don't always mix. For this and more instances of such sad occurrences, go here.

about people you might want to pownce on

Adrian Lamo - Famed Hacker
http://pownce.com/lamo/

Alex Albrecht - Diggnation
http://pownce.com/alex/

Anil Dash - Blogger / VP Six Apart
http://pownce.com/anildash/

Brad Fitzpatrick - Founder, LiveJournal
http://pownce.com/bradfitz/

Brian Lam - Editor, Gizmodo
http://pownce.com/blam/

Daniel Burka - Lead Designer, Digg. Co-Founder, Pownce
http://pownce.com/dburka/

Joshua Schachter - Founder, Del.icio.us
http://pownce.com/joshua/

Leah Culver (and hot babe!) - Co-Founder, Pownce
http://pownce.com/leahculver/

Nick Douglas - Founder, Look Shiny. Writer, ValleyWag
http://pownce.com/nick/

Om Malik - Founder, GigaOM
http://pownce.com/gigaom/

Robert Scoble - Writer, Internet Slut
http://pownce.com/Scobleizer/

Shawn Allen - Stamen Design.
http://pownce.com/shawnbot/

Tantek Çelik - Too much to list, Wikipedia Him
http://pownce.com/t/

about Stairway to Heaven live (Rodrigo y Gabriela)

about Pain game for PS3

Pain is an upcoming title for the Playstation Network in which your goal is to sling your avatar with a slingshot into an open-city environment where everything is intractable. Stuff explodes, cars drive by and run you over, flinging you ever further, and you even have the ability to grab onto objects (including people!) as you fly across the city. The goal of course is to cause as much pain as possible.

Thankfully the game is cartoony and exaggerated, and about as far from being realistic as you can get without being too fantastical.

A new video interview with the African American director Travis Williams reveals more details about the online play and even how you can record your favorite crashes and pause the action, view it from any angle, rewind, etc.

Watch this interview in HD.

made with 3DSMAX
Car model by turbosquid.com/

havok test, vray test.

about BarCampDC is August 11th!

Sign up on the upcoming.org page

Saturday, August 11, 2007

9:30 AM - 11:00 PM

Fleishman Hillard D.C.
1615 L St. N.W., Suite 1000
Washington, District of Columbia 20036

I cant decide what to talk about..

choices are

1. Blog design field trip (an old fav of mine)
2. Social Networking design roundup (leveraging my recent research flickr gallery)
   

about Puma RS Computer Shoe Pedometers (mid 1980s)

These Puma running shoes were affixed with pedometer computers that could be reset and would count up time and distance that could be then downloaded to the game port on the Apple II. Allan Lundell put these shoes to good use in Santa Cruz, California in the mid 1980s

about Startup Weekend is Coming to Washington, DC on October 26-28

Back in early July, 68 geeks got together in Boulder, Colorado with one goal. They wanted to create a Web application and a startup company in a weekend. It was Startup Weekend. They created VoSnap.

Well from October 26th to 28th, Startup Weekend is coming to Washington DC.

It will be hosted by Andrew Hyde from the original StartupWeekend and William Kern from AOL.

Nick Oneil, Peter Corbett, Justin Thorp and the Social Media dc crew should be out in full force.. im excited about this one..

about Live: Daft Punk @ Los Angeles Sports Arena

i wanna see daft punk perform!!!

about ladybug's butt

Flickr user yospyn took this photo of a ladybug's butt at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, Va.

about Guy Kawasaki spoke at AOL today

it was pretty sweet

about Lauryn Hill mp3s

Selah



So High (with John Legend)

about News anchors can't stop laughing at falling model

glumbert.com - News anchors can't stop laughing at falling model

this is a video from last fall from washington dcs own nbc 4. thats my main man jim vance laughing.. and its really contagiously funny to watch.. I highly recommend.

about a banned president bush interview

about installation project inspiration

taking interactive and personalized online experiences and merging them with events in physical environments.

FACE2FACE2FACE

ONEWORD

AREYOUHERE?

Light Tracer

Electric Moons

Wrong Plug

Mossalibra

about 1-take trampoline video clip

an infographically inspired, 1 take, top shot videoclip with professional trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video editing effects.

as predefined conditions, a live audience witnessed the whole shoot, which could only be recorded once, so that no option existed to reshoot or edit if something went wrong.

[via infosthetics]

about RJD2, 'Work It Out'

Post hip-hop troubadour RJD2 teamed with dance and media artist Bill Shannon for the 'Work It Out' video. Shannon, born with a degenerative hip condition, developed a way to express himself through dance (and even skateboarding) on crutches. Director Joey Garfield took to the streets of New York and captured one continuous shot of Shannon, injecting RJD2 into random roles throughout the video.

Keep reading to see a behind-the-scenes clip and photos from the shoot.

about iPhone problem 1

ok, so I love my iPhone.. and I play with it everyday, I rapture about it with my AOL colleagues, and I read about it on the internet..

the biggest problem other than not being able to write quickly while driving is.. NO SEARCH for your email? I did some reasearch and confirmed that THERE IS NO SEARCH FUNCTION ON THE IPHONE! what the fuck steve? hook a brother up.. how am I gonna find an email from a client when I need it most? what if i want to pull up a airline reservation?

and why no flash player? trippin

about my trip to greece and london in july 2007

so I just got back from a lovely vacation in Crete, greece. I stayed with my old friend Pat kerigans family, who owns a travel company and has a nice set of properties.. We stayed in hersonsis, and heraklion. I also spent some time in merry old england. I had alot of fun in Camden, and Portobello rd.





the view from my balcony..










foam!




clubbin'


















buy one get 4 free.. plus free shots, and the bartender gave us frozen drinks for free too.. nuts.












notting hill







check the rest of the pics

about No End In Sight - opens July 27th

Sundance 2007
Winner - Special
Jury Prize: Documentary

More info here

posted by: Leslie

about my iphone

I got an 8gig. :)

about Wieden + Kennedy circa 1992

about a modern da vinci

I saw this and was kind of inspired.. check it out

about the kwiki mart

for the new simpsons movie opening this summer. fox decided to turn real 7 elevens across the country into a mock Kwiki Mart. check the photos below.

there is one in the dc area!!!

4199 Kenilworth Ave, Bladensburg, MD 20710, USA

Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.

It's all part of a campaign to hype the July 27 opening of "The Simpsons Movie,

about an amazing collection of design inspiration

flickr is a great source for inspiration.. every once and a while ill come across a nice collection of scanned images or web design screens.. but user Alki1 has an amazing archive of graphic work from different sources, take a look if you can.

about smashing pumpkins at the 930 club

tickets go on sale tomorrow. get em while you still can.

Smashing Pumpkins @ 9:30 Club • Washington, DC

Tickets on sale Friday, July 6 @ 10am. Ticket Limit- 2 ticket limit for this event per household, customer, credit card number and email address.

If you wanted to see the Smashing Pumpkins at the Virgin Festival but don't feel like paying $97.50 to see the band on a huge stage in the middle of a racetrack, here's some amazing news: The band is playing a surprise show at the 9:30 Club next Tuesday, July 10.

Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. through Tickets.com for 30bucks.

This is the band's sixth time playing the venue: There were two shows in fall 1993, when it was still the WUST Music Hall, two shows in January 1996 to mark the opening of the 9:30 club, and another show in the spring of 1999.

quote: Washington Post

about the fireworks in dc

leslie and I bbqed at my parents place.. and we passed out on the sofa before the fireworks.. but we still appreciate the moment!

by Flickr user cyaneyed.

about pownce

My public POWNCE account is http://pownce.com/jess3/

pownce takes a few web product concepts and mashes them into one. It takes the facebook feed, and yousendits notification functionality to the next level with a dash of user experience inspiration from flickr.. its also got some inspiration from slideshare.

pownce goes a little something like this, I can upload a mp3 and share it with all or some of my network. People can comment on the file or upload a file in retort. This becomes really useful if you are in a design team and want to share stuff with ppl outside of your group.. or if you are a freelancer- you could use it to share your work with clients and colleagues.. or a student- you could use this to upload notes and research files and get feedback from your class and teacher?.. etc

Its got a really nice interface, and alot of sweet touches.. This is from kevin rose (of digg fame, and if you are a 20-something nerd like me, you might remember Kevin from techtv!!!) The founding team of the company also includes Leah Culver, Daniel Burka, and Shawn Allen.


the spaced out rose..

Pownce uses adobe AIR technology, which is the public version of what was known as Adobe APOLLO.. very sweet stuff if you havent checked out what it is.. imagine the power of software (no crashes), but with the rapid development of web design (and sexyness of ajax/flash)... the app you download is very sweet and I want to see lots more apps like this. yousendit should make one of these...and the flickr uploadr should use Adobe AIR. I have been using my pownce account to share pdfs and mp3s, and when I upload an mp3, I can play it right there on the page with one of those sexy little flash mp3 players. (like del.icio has been offering forever now)

GMail also lets you play MP3 files right inside the GMail interface without having to download the MP3 or open an external media player.

When you receive an audio file as an email attachment, click the play button and Google will play the audio file for you in a popup window. Very neat implementation (see screenshot)

Now digging into the GMail Mp3 player code, I discovered that it's actually the Google video player that's playing the audio file. Infact, you can play any MP3 files from the embedded Google Video player without even having to login to GMail. Here's the secret URL (works perfect in Firefox)

http://mail.google.com/mail/html/audio.swf?audioUrl=MP3_URL

Replace the MP3_URL with the actual location of the MP3 file on the web and play it inside Google Video. Odeo, take note. Google is entering your territory.


http://pownce.com/download/

I got an invite for pownce from my main man Peter Corbett who writes a terrific blog at http://advercation.com/. but I have a couple left if anyone wants one?

kevin is offering a paid version also.. so for 20$ a year you get no ads and larger file size.. well see how this pans out. google can you just start offering free file storage so the yousendits of the world can die, please?

about myAOL

Frank Gruber, my brother in arms at AOL has posted a video about myAOL.. check it!

about Blurb and Flickr are teaming up!

Blurb and Flickr have partnered to make it even easier to create fantastic, bookstore-quality books from your Flickr sets and photo streams. Use the Flickr Slurper to automatically import the high-resolution version of your sets or streams directly into Blurbs software. You can make hardcover books (with custom dust jackets) and softcover books in multiple book sizes, starting with as few as 20 pages up to 440 pages. Prices start at $12.95.