Save the internet is something you should have heard about and you will keep hearing out about more and more. What does that mean? save the internet. It means to keep the internet neutrality. What these companies want to do is cable’ize the internet. Meaning who has money will be in front and blogs/websites like these will not even have a chance. So urge you to educate yourself and go to http://www.savetheinternet.com/.

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

“Thank You Jason Wood for allowing us this moment.
Oden’s struggle with cancer finally came to an end.
May he rest in peace and his memory be eternal.

A story from the 8 LIVES Documentary.
For more of Jason Wood’s story from 3 years ago
see http://vimeo.com/14047489 “

Would you stand in line for this? I wouldn’t. Where does an artist go from here? I know I should be keen to keep on making better art but maybe all of this networking business that I feel like I have to do is ultimately stopping my creativity. I remember a time where I could sit down and not worry to much and just let the process happen. I feel like I’m close to getting back there but I’m not quite there. You put in so much with little return. Other than putting up sites and networking them with this site and with each other how do you let people know you exist? Do I want everyone to know I exist? It’s a really odd situation I find myself thinking back and forth. Oh this track/print is good I should not share it just in case for something and that something I have no idea.

I have been watching Moby interviews and music videos tonight and he brings up a point of being free of the idea of your art for something. It reminded me of something I saw on TV I think it was Bono from U2 saying along the lines ‘if you don’t want to have your art in other peoples hands why are you even an artist? isn’t that the whole point is to have your tunes be heard?’. And I completely agree with that, thats why let people listen to full tracks and download them.

I feel this way I think because I’m reaching a point of my little check list of things I know I should get done is getting near the end and I’m uncertain where things go from there. From what I have been listening to from Moby he doesn’t know and he still doesn’t everything has happen by surprise.

I been thinking about this topic for a while now and how I feel about the situation of possible future of the internet with this plug-in and what would replace it.

I have been messing with Flash a bit here and there since version 4. I guess that is quite a long time and still not knowing much about it. I’ve always found it to be such a painful experience to work with, it’s like pulling teeth. When I have an idea I don’t want to deal with hours and hours of programming I just want it to do what I want it to do. But I’ve manage to learn the basics and for the most part I get Flash to do what I want it to do.

I’ve always have heard from people ‘Flash is the best thing ever man!’ or ‘I want to rape Flash so it’s broken forever’. And I have felt both of those arguments but with learning about the development of HTML5 I’m not sure how much Flash we’ll see in the future.

Everything Flash does right now is be a music player, video player, annoy the fuck out of you with ghey ads and stupid long loading over the top Flash web sites. What HTML5 does is remove the need of Flash to do the first two I’ve mention. That right there pretty much removes Flash from what you care about on the internet. I have a couple of places on my website where I use Flash and I’m looking forward to being able to remove it when all browsers support mp3 streaming with HTML5. (Has anyone else notice my music player cuts off songs before they are done?)

I don’t feel Flash is going to completely disappear from the internet, it’s going to not have such a strong market share. With Apple deciding to not support Flash for their iPhone/iPod/iPad products ultimately really hurts the future of Flash. As a web designer I know that I don’t like the idea of my web site not fully working the way I designed it if someone visits on one of those Apple products.

So taking my last point and an earlier point I made, (I’m not big into actionscript) the option of HTML5 with some Javascript doing what my Flash is doing is exciting to me. Only time will tell if everything I just said really becomes a reality, it relies on what the main browsers decide to support but it looks promising.

So the next couple of months I will be heading a cross the country. Just because I can. I can’t promise how much I’ll be updating here on the site because I don’t know how much internet access I will have. All I know is that I’ll be working on the album. And I promise a post about my trip when I get back.

Custom keyboards, covers and stickers.

I stumbled pond keyboard covers and stickers for basically all the popular audio and visual creative programs. I think it’s a pretty good idea but I’m not sure if it truly increases your editing time by 40% as they claim. You can find custom keyboards, covers and stickers for which ever program your interested on google easily.

Woo Hah

Whoa.

Rez HD is one of my favorite games of all time. It was originally released on the Dreamcast and the game was ported to PS2 as well. The game is a on-rail shooter which is very familar to Star Fox 64 single player. Combine that gameplay with trippy visuals, cool themes and electronic dance music and we have a winner. I didn’t truly get to enjoy this game until it was remade into HD and released on Xbox Live where I finally bought a copy. I think a lot people don’t know about this game and its a shame as it’s one of the better ones out there. I highly recommend it.