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Last night I cleaned up my address book and realized that all of my data is pretty inconsistent. In order to help me organize it, I’m going to “crowd source” the task to you all.

Here’s the info I need:

If you’d like, include a photo with this info and email it to info [at] augiemania.com (obviously fill in the info you want, don’t feel obligated to give me any info you don’t want to share. (alternatively, if you have a vCard, you can just email me that. here’s mine. )

Also, your info is 100% safe. I’m not going to spam you or give out your info w/o asking you first.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

I turned 26.

thx @gypsytish for the card!

Ya’ll should look around the site for my birthday!

Tonight (because you are probably reading this on Wednesday) I will be discussing some of my video work with curator Vin Forte. We will be featuring about 15 of my shorts and discussing all sorts of stuffy sounding concepts and ideas.

If you are around “Downtown” Staten Island, You should come check it out!

Start Time: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 10:00pm
End Time: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:00am
Location: Martini Red
Street: 372 Van Duzer Street
City/Town: Staten Island, NY

From the facebook Invite:

Join Open Film Night as we pay tribute to Staten Island’s Renaissance Man, Carlo Montagnino.

From student films to music videos and every abstract piece of gold in-between.

The night will be filled with Carlo providing commentary on his own work with Q & A discussions led by Carlo’s protege and the night’s curator, Vin Forte.

Featuring a very special solo acoustic performance from Les Vinyl to kick things off.

Samples:
“Hard Work” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRzamppxGc0&feature=player_profilepage
“Space Terror” [VF_DOS_ music video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOk-b27KS6c&feature=channel
“I’m Not Orange” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9pL1xk-lhA&feature=player_profilepage

Hear Les Vinyl at: http://www.myspace.com/lesvinyl

The event also got some press on Dockstreet.com.

In case you didn’t know, I am the Executive Producer of Nick Caccese’s latest film, 17 to Midnight.

(note: Nick took home the Best Screenplay award, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Staten Island Film Festival this past Summer.)

We are shooting this weekend (Sunday) and are rehearsing this Friday (tomorrow) and Saturday. Each day noon – ???.

I am in a bit of a bind, one of our minor roles had to be given up by the actor originally cast due to personal reasons.

I am looking for a male actor, in their 20’s – early 30’s. The role has about 4-6 lines and has room for improving. You will be required on the set during the entire shooting process. (it’s a short, in one take…. yeah, were crazy.)

If you, or anyone you know are interested please feel free to contact me, or my producer Chris.

me: info [at] augiemania.com
Chris: christopherolivieri [at] gmail.com

It’s been a little dead here lately as I’ve been extremely busy with work, DAPS (where all my creative energy has been directed towards), and life in general. Here’s a recap:

I went on Vacation with Kristin to Barbados!
I worked A LOT!
DAPS is gaining all sorts of steam.

Wow, I though I’d have more on that list…

Anyway, I’ve baleeted a ton of shit off my server. Namely, my Twitter impostor thing and my infinite loop thing (that never worked). I’ve also cleared house on my facebook account (for an eventual departure/squat), and changed my blog’s theme. No, I didn’t make it. It’s the “Clean Home” theme and I decided to use it as a spring board for my own new cool theme. (Kristin is using this theme too on kristinwithani.com [don't expect many updates there yet]).

I think I’ve just been spending my time recuperating from a horrific work schedule and some bad news about Canada. (See a few posts prior). ugh ok, this is getting depressing. More this weekend, I promise.

Over the past 2 years, I have been working on a film called Fan Directed by my buddy Nick Caccese. I believe my creits were “Director of Photography” and “Producer”.

A few months ago I found out we got into the Staten Island Film Festival. As it turns out the film is nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Picture. w00t!!!!!!

So That’s where I’ll be tonight, at 9pm, at the College of Staten Island building 1P. Watching Fan. Also, tomorrow at noon. Here is a link to the schedule as a PDF.

I would have loved to added a picture of the Poster, but the website is terrible. That’s what you get when you hire Mindsaw and not NBTechnologies.

because this client is taking too long to wrap up.

lesson learned: never use eZPublish, EVER.

luckily they are cool up at Banff.

I just sent this email out, but figured the news in it should be mentioned here. So I copy/pasted it all for you to read.
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[This is a mass email, heads up.]

Hey everyone,
I have some very exciting news about this summer.
I have been accepted for a residency at The Banff Center in Alberta, Canada. (http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=850) What this means is that I will be living on campus there for the month of June. (June 4th-ish to July 4th).

This is HUGE for me and I am SUPER FUCKING EXCITED.

What the hell are you doing in Canada?
The project I will be working on is a twitter (http://twitter.com)/loopt (http://loopt.com) type website that will display population density trends.

How does it work?
Users will load the page and see a map of themselves and other users within a small radius. They will then click a button to “Shout” (similar to a status update) that will get sent to everyone in their physical vicinity. The next part is the magic. These recipients will acts as transmitters resending the message to people in their own small radius and so on…

Along with the website, I will creating an iPhone application on the new OS to also interact with the service.

What the fuck are you talking about?
If I am downtown, and “shout” it should conceivably get to Harlem and potentially hit every user in Manhattan. Should there be enough users, this “chain reaction” could potentially travel even greater distances. Obviously, the more remote areas will have less interaction with the service. (which is the whole “display population density trends”)

Why?
Because I want to show the internet in direct correlation to the physical world. We can all join “New York City” networks on Facebook, but that has no real bearing on real world location.
From the proposal:

This project is an attempt to de-democratize the concept of social networking with the bias being location. The internet, and more specifically social networking sites, connect users from around the world to one another. Users often share many aspects of theirs lives with whomever is willing to look at their profile page. With this project, if a user is geographically isolated, they are equally isolated within the service. This model also allows for small groups of individuals to exist within the system but completely outside of any other network. There is no search functionality, isolated users are essentially invisible to other users. The use of real life geography as the bias creates many parallels between reality and the service, emphasizing the role that geography still plays in our every day lives.

You can follow my progress by periodically checking out the site (in progress) at http://shout.carlomontagnino.com/ I will also be blogging extensively about the experience on http://augiemania.com

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My job was EXTREMELY generous in not firing me over this. The one stipulation that stands in my way is that I finish all of my job-related duties before June.

What does that mean?
Much longer work days, busier weekends, and overall less free time. May is going to be very hectic for me, and I ask for your understanding and patience. I will be working extra hard to tie up all of my loose ends before June comes around.

I love you all and thank you all for everything.

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- carlo