Now this is my kinda convergence: Quality Marbled Meat + Design Innovation + Social Media Savvy. Thanks to my POKE London partner @hostler for sharing via likecool.com and of course the steak loving artist/photographer/steakshaper himself Dominic Episcopo.
Damn proud to say she’s my “cousin in-law.” She’s at Joe’s Pub—425 Lafayette St.—Feb. 6 @ 9:30pm. From the New Yorker: The evocative singer and violinist Theresa Andersson was born in Sweden, but she’s lived half her life in New Orleans, where she moved when she was eighteen. And like many other musicians from that humid city she’s absorbed a lot of influences. They are not necessarily the ones that first come to mind. She engages in no soul singing, hardly any R. & B., and just a touch of jazz. Instead, the songs on Andersson’s latest album, “Hummingbird, Go!,” are a keen hybrid of spacey folk and psychedelic pop. She recorded the album in her kitchen, playing her regular instrument along with soda bottles and wineglasses full of water. Check her out on YouTube also.
So, I’m officially addicted to Battlestar Gallatica. Hook, line and Cylon sinker. I totally blame my business partner, @neonarcade (a.k.a. Aaron Rutledge), for this guilty pleasure. Interesting thing is, I orginally wanted to catch up with the current season – to get into the real-time flow of the show so to speak. But having had the luxury of watching as much as I can (or want) when I want (or can) I no longer want (or need) my Human +/- Cylon space saga any other way. God(s) bless you DVDs and Xbox Live on-demand downloads for seasons 1-4! Question is, how shall I consume season 5 at my own voracious pace?
OhthePlacesIGo: Personalization Meet Data Visualization
Thanks to @foursquare and some nifty folks over at Where Do You Go, you can now with a few quick clicks create a heatmap of YOU in and around NYC (or whatever city you happen to live and playfoursquare.com in). There’s something to this personalization of data visualization. More to come on this note as I do some free thinking over the holiday break about these converging trends.