 20041031 Happy Halloween!
 I'm an AWAY MESSAGE today! .jpg) My pal Nick just arrived in India for a 3 month stay. This is the first photo he sent back to me ...
(busy week).
20041025
Gen Art Shopping Spree tonight.
To Buffalo and Back.
I went to Buffalo for the weekend for business, and came away pleasured! My older brother Justin and most of my mother's family live just 30 minutes east of the city in Wyoming County -- centered around the town of North Java. On Sunday, I took a break from work, and toured the countryside finding much to be found.
 New windmills on Weathersfield Road, North Java, NY.  Letchworth State Park, Middle Falls.  Walking over Norfolk-Southern train trestle.  Letchworth State Park, Upper Falls.  Justin's backyard view.  Justin.  North on Route 19 to Attica.
Dear friend Chris Wylde premieres his new show Film Fakers on AMC next Wednesday, Oct 27, at 10pm! Check out this clip.
20041021
Picked the Finest
Ricky says: You know what? I say: What Rick? He replies: I like these bowls.
 Last week, demolition crews started tearing up a grimey parking lot across the street from my building. In place, they will construct a 17-story apartment building. I am excited for the development, but 6 A.M. jackhammer wake-up calls are getting old real quick.
Google's Burden Grows Heavier via Pete.
20041020
 Ok, good story.
 So! When we were at the TSHIRT FACTORY last week, we looked over our stock of t-shirts and realized how poorly one of our shirts was selling. It was wonderfully intended, but Ricky's shirt, "Bitchin' Summer" (a reference to the popular teen drama, The O.C.) had only sold 19 out of a few hundred over the period of 3 months. With pursuits of hilarity in mind, we pulled all the shirts from our warehouse and discontinued selling the shirt online. Josh and Ricky then packaged the shirts neatly into LARGE shopping bags and drove them over to a local mall. They carried the bags inside and cooly walked into OUR FAV store, Abercrombie. Casually, they plodded around the store before finding their way to the HILARIOUS TSHIRTS table. Within moments, they had cleared space on the table by moving the shirts that were already there, and replacing the space with dozens of our duds! Trying hard to keep a straight face, Josh and Ricky high-fived and walked out of the store. In the picture above (taken by Ricky's cameraphone), you will notice our light-blue shirts in the top left, and bottom right. Aces, boys ... Aces! Skype
It's free and I love it!
Joining the Mob
My friend Toby is getting some press for his MusicMobs startup.
Andy Katz posted a good write-up on Justin Gray and the Deacs.
20041018
Oh no!
Henry's, Fort Wayne's favorite hangout, caught fire today.
A Draining Week in the Indie-Music Spotlight
The Arcade Fire outshines CMJ, says NY Times.
I knew they could do it! Dolce and Gabbana Sample Sale
October 23-26th. 123 W. 18th St (Metropolitan Pavilion) between 6th & 7th Ave. Notice courtesy of Top Button, via Nick Denton.
Satellite smashes Chinese house
BBC NEWS: "The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year," the tenant of the wrecked apartment was quoted as saying.
Currently tracking ...
Audiovox 5600
Motorola MPx 220 Motorola MPx *I am really only following Windows-based smartphones, because I am interested in Outlook Exchange syncability. Even with this new crop of devices, I can't help but feel disappointed by the current pace of technology being introduced in America. Camera phone ARE neat, but let's move on! How long before a googleOS device?
Finally signed up for a Netflix account.
Tonight, listening to...
Mirah.
Love the thought of...
Nick Gray WFU: I need a Prius.
Source of it all.
Thursday and Friday: Jakob, Josh, Ricky, and I took a train down to Baltimore to visit the facility where our t-shirts are made. The experience deserves a photo essay, but another day, when it isn't so fresh outside. Right now, I just really want to go take a book, wrapped up in a scarf, and sit on the steps of some grand building.
Here's a random three from the embroidery room: 
  I Suggest ...
Go see The Motorcycle Diaries
Looking for...
Sponges. Not the yellow or blue kind -- and not necessarily raw sea sponges either. I need natural-looking (brown, tan, khaki) rectangular ones, and I need about 100 of them. Any help/advice appreciated.
Today's Playlist: FALL
Search your own computer.
Google Desktop launched today.
Location Scouting
Yesterday was a SUPER FUN DAY of location scouting with Chris and Ryan in Lower Manhattan. Next week we will be shooting a whole new generation of images for the upcoming redesign of bustedtees.com.
 Chris and Stranger #27, near red construction facade on the corner of Church and Duane Streets.  A sweet old barber taking a strand of my hair as toll for sitting on her stoop.  The Digital Life shirt, near my street corner.  Ryan arranging an interview with a Japanese camera crew. They graciously denied his request.  Smooching out kisses to strangers. Southland Tales
Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, is behind a new film called Southland Tales set to be released in 2005. IMDB details the plotline:
A musical/comedy set in 2008 where a three-day heatwave in Los Angeles culminates in a huge Fourth of July party.Stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, and Jason Lee. I only take of the film because of its most stellar poster tagline: The internet is the future. Favorite thing lately...
The Discovery Channel's HD programming.
 Oh, Taipei -- someday! via Josh. Favorite Google Image Search of the Day
Unicorns.
Oh, Mr Postman!
Really clever civil disobedience. Passed along by Patrick.
Interesting trivia about this clip: the post office featured is my local post office, on Canal and West Broadway. Small world. Mareen's Fotoblog.
Ahh Mareen's Fotoblog is too cool! She beat me to it. The chase is on!
I (Heart) Huckabees was pretty good. Mark Wahlberg's character was clutch.
20041006
iTunes is bogus?
With iTunes I don't feel guilty when I download music-- Apple and the record labels handle the screw job for me.
What a great day...
They have sweet potatoes downstairs in the deli!
B to the E?
Anheuser-Busch cooks up sweeter brew for club goers: "The new beer B(E) -- read as 'B to the E power' -- will roll out in several phases starting in November. " Via Ricksterbot.
 To mix up the work day a little bit, Jake, Josh, Rick and I got dressed up in our finest Fall hiking garb and worked our way up to Times Square complete with camping gear. We like to change our surroundings, to sit quietly, observe people, and toss around the clickings in our clickers. Along the way, a camera crew stopped to interview us about a possible Draft for the Iraqi situation.  We crashed Planet Hollywood for lunch. It was a very depressing place.  We saw our friend Jeff, who plays Pick Boy on Nickelodeon's U Pick Live. He was filming skits and invited the four of us to submit entries to his talent show. Jake and I performed the water pump. I moved Jake's arm, and he spit water. The judges' responses varied. Next?
Founder Evan Williams is leaving Blogger, and asks himself, "What's next?"
I remembered to check Jeff Bridges' blog this morning.
They Won!
SpaceShipOne captures X Prize
Great Press
Busted Tees mentioned on ESPN. Check the bottom of the page.
Ollabelle
Ollabelle opened for Ryan Adams last night. Really enjoyed them.
Ryan's show was fantastic, though he was obviously too stoned/drunk -- but it made for endearing chit-chat inbetween songs. ie. He went off on a tangent about how he can only eat sushi after a bong hit, because it becomes less weird and better resembles 'space food.' He also got lost on the subway on his way to the show. He played a new song that I really felt good about, called "I Will Learn to Love." He said he expects to release two albums simultaneously. One acoustic, one with backup. He surprised everyone with a cover of the Strokes' "Last Night'. It struck me how versatile a single song is, and how differently it can be performed and consequently provide different meaning. His encore was much appreciated, coming back to play "New York" and my favorite, "Come Pick Me Up." |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt  June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007  Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |
