Hoboken and Jersey City have given me all they can, and I’m looking to move to either Manhattan, Brooklyn, or possibly Queens/Astoria although I know nothing about it.
Anybody know of anything or need a roommate? I’m clean, have a small cat, pay my bills, am not a sociopath, etc.
Contrary to what you may have seen on this web site, I’m a normal human being. These videos are only one piece of the jigsaw puzzle, ya know. I’m not sure why I’m defending my sanity, but I have the feeling people are whispering about the crazy guy with the gun in the bathtub.
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We’ll be talking about NYC startups, personalities, and events. We’re not going to compare ourselves to anyone else… we’re going to promote ourselves just as every other good startup should.
I’m looking forward to contributing to this. My posts will be related to the world of online video in NYC, specifically the startups and companies based here, which is a fairly small family right now, but getting bigger every day.
Those of you in NYC, join us on our mailing list, then if you like what you see maybe you’ll want to contribute to the blog too.
We have some lofty aspirations for the blog, with talk of being competitive with some of the top tech blogs (which I don’t read). My personal goal is just to share my knowledge and theories about online video.
I like to write, and for whatever reason I’ve never felt like this (Bullemhead) was the place to do it. I’ve recently started using Evilvlog as a barf bag for all the meandering thoughts that pour out of my mind between the hours of 1:30am and 4:30am, but I haven’t had a venue to talk about my field until now.
So, please go check it out and subscribe. If nothing else, it’ll be interesting to see it develop in the next few weeks.
My first post is scheduled for about 2 weeks from now.
Today we start a shorter format for The PAN. Roundabout 4 minutes.
Lots of NYC footage in there today. Nick, this was the stuff I was going to give you for your Koyaanisqatsi redux, so maybe you can just pull it from this?
PAN Fan and fellow video maker Bruce (of Brucine) made this video for a friend of his that was trying to quit smoking. He used some footage from this PAN episode.
I was interested in the hypnosis tape that he sampled. I used to smoke quite a bit (pack a day) when I worked in the restaurant industry. Then I quit altogether for a couple years. Then I picked it back up, but much less than before. Now I smoke a few cigarettes per week, and only when drinking alcohol. I can’t separate the two habits in my head. A gin and tonic just isn’t the same without a cigarette.
So anyway, I asked Bruce where I could find the original hypnosis tape, and he was nice enough to MP3 it and upload it to Blip.
This is a dub of a quit-smoking (audio) tape that the American Lung Association of Wisconsin put out sometime in the 1970’s. I helped me to quit. I’m putting it up here for the use of anybody who wants to give it a try. Probably best not to listen to this while driving.
Recently, a number — one billion — in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. According to a report commissioned by the foundation charged with building Reflecting Absence, the memorial to the dead in the attack on the World Trade Center, its projected cost is now estimated at about a billion dollars and still rising. According to Oliver Burkeman of the British Guardian, “Taking inflation into account, $1bn would be more than a quarter of the original cost of the twin towers that were destroyed in 2001.”
Sometime in the coming week or two, the number of American soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghan Wars will exceed the 2,752 people who died in or around the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 (including those on the two hijacked jets that rammed into the towers). With a combined death toll of 2,739, the war dead have already crept within 13 of that day’s casualties in New York. Here’s a question then: Who thinks that the United States will ever spend $500 million, no less $1 billion, on a memorial to the ever-growing numbers of war dead from those two wars?
Those of you in NYC, come down to Slainte tomorrow night for a meetup. We’re going to be talking about the tech scene in NY and how we are shaping it. Plus, I’m bringing my iPod full of PAN episodes to show on the big screens around the bar. Then later there’s some olde-time bluegrassy music.
Tuesday night, nextNY will be gathering after work at Slainte at 304 Bowery between Houston and Bleeker.
You should come… In fact, if you come to any of our events, I’ll put it out there that this is the single most important event to be at in the short history of this burgeoning group.
Why?
Because, now, we’re over the hump of trying to come into existance. We exist. We’re 140 on our listserv. We have a real website. Now its not about, “Will this work?” as it is about “Now that this works, what do you want to do with it?”
So some of us will be meeting at 6PM on the dot to go over some ideas we have for public discussions, like a Startup 101 with some of the most successful area entrepreneurs. But really, everybody there should be talking about “what next” because the larger this group gets, the less its about nextNY and the more its about the up and coming members of the NYC digitial community. What do we want to be as a whole? What’s the message we want to broadcast?
One selfish reason I want this group to succeed: If New York is seen as a power in the digital tech and new media arena, those of us that are based here get extra streed cred!
I’m excited about the possibilities that this nextNY group brings. I have a feeling that no matter what we’re looking for while building The PAN, we’ll be able to find someone in the group to help us with it. Tons of talent.
This is from a series of headless, fully-feathered chickens I’ve seen in the gutter on Congress Street here in the Jersey City Heights. I told my friend Daniel about it, he lives in Manhattan, and he says he has seen them there as well. The Cuban people practice this form of Catholicism called Santeria, and one of the rituals is to sacrifice live chickens.
This is from a couple weeks ago when I went out for drinks and pool with Christian and Melissa. It rained all night so we stayed inside the bar until 2am. When we left for the diner, it had stopped raining, and we found some transportation.
Rolling down 2nd Avenue in New York City at two in the morning in a discarded office chair is surprisingly safe.
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