http://augiemania.com/love

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Tell someone that you love them

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I’m giving away my entire life’s collection of CDs

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.

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I need your help fixing my address book.

thx @gypsytish for the card!

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

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Today is my birthday

(for the DAPS branded version, please visit http://dogandponyshowwebsite.com/presenting-chatroullete-users-w-themselves to be published Friday, 3/26/10 at 11am.)

Using Manycam, I thought it may be interesting to present the users I encounter with a video of themselves.

I found that there are 2 primary users of chatroullete, those who are looking to “entertain” their “partner” and those who are looking to be “entertained” by their partner. Presenting these users with themselves threw a wrench in their expectations and provided me with some interesting results.

The music is not mine, it was composed by Angelo Badalamenti for Twin Peaks. It was the only music on my laptop (I keep my media on a harddrive that was elsewhere at the time of editing). The music ended up very much shaping the video, making it much more chilling than I originally intended.

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Presenting Chatroullete Users to Themselves

Our focus was to make the site more “bloggy” easier to read, and more interactive. While the interactivity is still in the works, we took a huge step forward.

The theme was created with one thing in mind, easier development between sites. DAPS is now an 8 blog stable, and we wanted to create a uniform layout that was easily customizable for each site to have it’s own flavor.

I’ve added a ton of theme functions that allow for site takeovers, specific stylesheets/images per blog and other cool little function. I’ve also developed a number of widgets catered exactly to DAPS’ needs.

Essentially, when a new blog is needed, the theme and plugins are uploaded and roughly 5 lines of code are added, and a checkbox is clicked. The nessecary artwork obviously needs to be uploaded and a style sheet for each flavor is created to set colors to what they need to be. This cuts my development time per blog by hours. A two day operation is now a 3 hour operation. SWEET!

Concerning the design itself, I based the layout off of the Cleanr theme and made a number of modifications, and rewrote the style sheet. It uses the 960 Grid System so it’s really easy to modify.

I’m really proud of the design as it greatly improves the readability of the posts and all around just looks cleaner.

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DAPS Redesign

check it out: http://www.formspring.me/RealDoctors

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Formspring – RealDoctors

Here is the video:

I also made a booklet for VF_DOS_ containing all of the post-its found in the video. It’s a one-of-a-kind item. Here are some photos:

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Wonder Lock Music Video for VF_DOS_

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Flounder

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Enjoy my carrot…

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Well will it?

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I am War Machine

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Flickr

from blog.mikeshanephotography.com:

Carlo Montagnino, aka @augiemania, is a digital artist, designer, and total jerk. Here he is faking his own death in this collaborative portrait. Carlo is responsible for internet sensations like Homosexuwhales & Dog and Pony Show.

without going into whatever silly BS i could to describe what this is, I’ll just say that I had this idea for an image in my head for a few weeks at the time. Something about asphalt, yellow lines and a head wound… I posed for it, because I like to be hands on, but it obviously added a bit more to it.

the original was made to be wheat pasted onto a 10′ x 8′ piece of plywood and then used as a floorboard. Mike, I may have to get this printed up soon… when do you have time?

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Mike Shane Revisits our Collaboration

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Forza 3 Photograph

click image for the full size.

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Stickers again.

Not because twitter is better, or because facebook sucks. It’s because I want to manage less. Twitter is easy, I say something, chat with people when I feel like it, and ignore it when I want to.

Facebook is different. signing in, I am overloaded with requests, invitations, games, and nonsense that i would never normally care about.

Now I understand many people use facebook as the primary means of connecting and interacting with people, and I think that sucks. If a friend needs to contact me, they can call, text, or email me. I wasn’t  on facebook 24/7, so it’s not very efficient in telling me anything of importance.

“friending” vs. “following”
The terminology seems more selfish for twitter, but twitter is much more than an ego boost, (right). It’s a chat room. and only 1 chat room. not a chat for every mundane piece of information ever.

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I’ve stopped using facebook, here’s why.

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My Rifle Permit Photo

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Seltzer bottle .gif

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new .gif

I’d like to thank The Lobsterman for the heads up on this… I did suspect him at first, but the fact that he revealed that he was in a foot fetish thread on /b/ was so trusting that I no longer think he’s guilty.

We are spending the day trying to figure out the source of the image. All versions of the image are named “me-by-mike-shane.jpg” unless it’s an avatar, which usually get a new filename.

The Lobsterman: its called 1187d720106d1002249f281f9300(…).jpg

smells like facebook………

The Lobsterman: Also, not a facebook icon, they are 50×50, not 70×70.

The Lobsterman: your image was posted at 23:42 (11:42pm) which is funny, cause I didn’t find it till almost 1am. those type of theads last a long time.

If you or anyone you know have ANY info on the blatant and abhorrent attack on my personal reputation and well being, please say it in the comments.

More as it develops.

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SOMEONE FUCKING POSTED MY FACE ON /b/

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.

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The Short Films of Me

Read about it here.

I was so awe-struck by the level of geekdom/dedication, I made a page that will show you the star date.

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Stardate, a PHP function

Read about it here.

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Just Add Cock!!!

check out what happened!

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Davecast #8 How to beat a fatal disease

(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

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17 to Midnight

Update: Pop Tarts Suck Toasted picked it up. He said some nice words.

Update: Fork/Knife just made the song (with video) it’s song of the week.

After hashing out our concept and shooting something completely different, I’m glad the final project is closer to the original idea. I think I’ll put together an alternate video with all the crazy stuff we shot that day.

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Space Terror Music Video

read about it here

So I decided to enter the contest. Please refer to the image.

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I’ve entered a contest to win Joe Jonas’ bed sheet.

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I’m in Tennesse

http://augiemania.com/VF_DOS_/

When we discuss visual style for his stuff, it’s often playful. This last album, he made the cover art and it was pretty fresh. My take for the one-sheet was to K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid) and let VF_DOS_ do all the talking. (also I’ve become obsessively more concerned with figuring out the absolute minimum needed to have a readable website. I think this comes close…)

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New VF_DOS_ Album, and I am helping again