augiemania that swagger I got it I wear it like a coat

Today i attended a taping of maury. Despite the needless waiting and technical difficulties, i had a great time.

Normally when i think of the show, i think of paternity tests and trannies. Something struck me today. Maury celebrates responsible men.

In a television world that, i feel, demonizes men, the maury staff makes distinct choices to celebrate the men who decide to be responsible.

We all know that the most entertaining part of the show is the deadbeats and jerks, but the directions given to the audience are really the reason the show works. Tv, even talk shows, are productions. As a live audience member, you are setting the tone for how the home viewer will understand the story. When the “bad guy” comes out, you know he is the villain because the studio audience boos. When the victim of infidelity enters, you sympathize because he is cheered for.

It’s kind of like a film’s score. Only the mood isn’t set with music, it’s told to you by a room full of your peers, which creates your attitude. If we booed the single mother, struggling to make ends meet, the home viewer would understand her to be the villain. Whether or not it fit with their opinion.

Thus, the magic of tv, and film too. The viewers experience is shaped, not catered too. Remember that.

I just met timmy from the whitest kids you know. Jealous?

I told him he ruled!

The mock-up or whatever of the RNC is really good looking. Who ever did it should be applauded. The pixel detail is stunning.

I think the shading/lighting is my favorite part. Working in pixels also makes sense when you see the rigid and stern feel of the stage.

I wonder how they will shoot this… That flag has got to look great behind anyone. Patton anyone?

Pixel art also suggests a more progressive stance on the internet (unlike obama’s veep, biden).

It has also been noted that the stage looks fascist, but i think it will translate better IRL.

Take a look:

On the 27th i’ll be headed to italy untill the 4th of september.

I plan on taking some pics and just relaxing (lord knows i need it).

As far as posting is concerned, i’ll post pics when i get back because i am not bringing my laptop. But i can post cell phone pics and text based posts. Gotta love ipod touch!

Ciao!

I see this EVERYWHERE

UPDATE: I ended up baleeting all my posted items stuff and the feed. Sorry charlie! It’ll be on the DAPS site this week though (hopefully).

Because I post a lot of items on facebook’s “Posted Item” feature.

Some days I find 20 really cool things that I wanna share. I find facebook to be the easiest. (I never got into delicious, digg, or any other bookmarking site.) The personal feel of facebook really allows me to be comfortable sharing my findings. (Which all come from RSS feeds.)

For the past month I have been trying to pull my facebook posted items feed into this site, which is obviously wordpress. I tried a few Plugins, but facebook has a funny feed url or something. FeedWordpress is the one that finally worked.

Today, as stevie and porknbomb pointed out, I had a lot of posts today. BUuuuuuuuut they were mostly all from facebook. (except the cell phone pic, that came from flickr from my phone, and this post.)

I dunno if I like it.

I mean on one hand, it’s more posts, more stuff, more of what I do during my day.

On the other, it feels cheap, it feels rushed, it buries all the vids and pics and stuff i make.

Am I more important than the stuff I take pride in, or is the stuff I take pride in more important than me? Tough question.

I learned a lot about the internet today. I usually put more value in the exchange of information when on the internet. I tend to undervalue the actual person to person communication that really does happen in every exchange of information. Grrrrrrr I’m a robot again.

Big blue broken sign in times square

I made a yearbook picture on some shopping portal site. Pretty fun.

they always do this…

download the hi-res, it’s a doozy!