 20050228 The Oscars
My thoughts exactly.
Vimeo
Jakob and I will be presenting Vimeo, a site we made together in our spare time, tomorrow night at the New York Tech Meetup. Please join us!Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing personal video clips. You can assemble any variety of clips together to make Automatic Movies. For instance, here is an Automatic Movie about funny things. Our system gathers all clips which users have tagged as funny, and plays them for you. This one shows all clips I have shared. Additionally, Nick uploaded some great clips from his recent travels to India. We are presently in closed beta, so you can't add your own clips yet. During this time we are just working out the kinks. Play with it for a bit, and let me know what you think and experience. P.S. Vimeo was a Yahoo! New and Notable site today! Snowboarding
It has been nearly three months since I left the city. But yesterday, finally, I snapped my city-seclusion streak and rented a car with my pal Paul and a gang of his friends to go snowboarding on Hunter Mountain. I had a great time; my entire body is sore with the good kind of aching that reminds you that you just had a complete workout. I lament that it was my first time out this season. Hopefully there are a few more weeks left of decent slope conditions to make further daytrips possible. Anyone else in?I posted a two minute clip that Paul captured featuring a few of us riding down a pass. It is unedited, perhaps a bit boring, but interesting to some nonetheless.
Human Clock. Neat, fun to watch.
Listening to...
They Might be Giants' When Tornadoes Take Over the World.Labels: Listening Stuffed Robots
 My friends Jessie, Bill, and Patrick just launched a retail website for their new venture Stuffed Robots. It is by far the most creative student startup I have seen in awhile. The three are college freshmen. Bill and Jess are art students at Wake Forest, and Patrick studies new media at RIT -- and all are surely on track to own the stuffed robot empire. I placed an order for the blue one. Listening to...
The Blankket's cover of Hey Ya! featuring Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy.
HST, RIP.
My friend Nancy Nall recalls Hunter S. Thompson.
A girl I knew.
Probably for every man is one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. I just read J.D. Salinger's short story, A girl I knew. It broke my heart. In my limited traveling, I too have had relationships that subsisted only on 12-word shared vocabularies, and attractions that are unexplainable save for the warm, fond static you feel for someone after a few moments of quiet observation. I sympathize with Salinger. I envy his love for her, and desperately wish this boy-meets-girl story wasn't his true tragedy. Fight The Shark Jump!
New OC Drinking Game via Jessica.
Party Crash
The guys and I were at Odea last night, mooching free glasses of merlot at Nerve's Bordeaux wine-tasting party. Nikola Tamindzic was there snapping party shots, and this afternoon I wound up on Gawker looking like a space cadet. But look at his other shots. Simply fantastic.
Get ready for RAZRberry: New smartphone that’s just as thin and has the same styling as their RAZR V3 cellphone, but is wide enough to fit a QWERTY mini-keyboard.
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The Second Amendment
I like this new shirt of ours.
Video Interview
Jakob was interviewed on Rocketboom about Vimeo, a website he invented and we made together.I especially enjoyed the scene when some unexplainable gravity pulls Jakob out the door during the Q and A. Josh, Ricky, and I make guest appearances. Hearts
Fantastic friend Jen Dunlap sent me a special valentine.
Revenge of the Right Brain
From Wired: Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
Mellowdrone
Mellowdrone is a rarity in that his music is incredible and is decent enough to make all of it available free to download. The EPs are right here. *Pretty Boy and Bonemarrow are my favs.
466453 = Google
Google can be accessed by the domain alias 466453.com, which is how one would type out Google on a phone keypad -- memorizing this might make browsing on your mobile's mini-browser easier.
Oh boy, I love skinnyCorp.
I bookmarked 15 Megs of Fame, a fun-to-use site for finding and rating new music, all courtesy of the clever guys at skinnyCorp. via Simon.
My mix, as of late ...
Added Saul Williams' List of Demands to round out my top 20 of the week.More on Audioscrobbler. Shading, Depth and Faces
Rotating face mask. via Ricky.
flickrGraph
Marcos Weskamp's flickrGraph is pretty neat. I am especially intrigued because I hope to do something similar with mososo ... Oh, the scent of collaboration is in the air! via Mareen.
Independent Music Awards
Upon hearing that Sufjan Stevens had suddenly joined the Independent Music Awards lineup, I rushed to get tickets last night. The show was stacked with the likes of RJD2, Aesop Rock, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. I left most impressed with Saul Williams, whose track Coded Language knocked me off my feet.
Sufjan only played two songs. And, although he was poignant, the crowd chattered through his set and was sadly not interested in his ballad offerings. I still sang along, and I even remembered to take a picture. Verizon Debuting New Broadband Product
Fort Wayne will become the first Midwest market to get the new fiber-optic system.
Corporate Culture
The Gore Company (makers of Gore-Tex) have a really neat corporate culture. Some of the more interesting points include:
Associates (not employees) are hired for general work areas. With the guidance of their sponsors (not bosses) and a growing understanding of opportunities and team objectives, associates commit to projects that match their skills. It's About Time!
I just heard about HopStop from Jeff. It provides door-to-door subway directions for New York.
Architecture of Density
Hong Kong photos by Michael Wolf. via Ricky.
Repairing Kabul International Airport
Photos from the British Royal Engineers.
Gunner Palace
Must see this. Opens March 4th.
Whoa, Lagos!
Growth in Megacities. Via Nick.
The pancake rabbit.
I don't want to get in the habit of mentioning things like this, but I really can get enough. Apparently the rabbit, named Oolong, can balance more than pancakes on his head. The Internet is sooo funny.
Update: The rabbit died. Good Music Alert
There's an Oh Mandy! music video! Performed by the Spinto Band, directed by Thomas Hughes. Via Intern Jeff.
Auditions make 'Idol' a joke
Friend Chris Wylde appeared on American Idol last night. He rapped his way into the last round of auditions before being cut -- and his trial appeared on television last night! The clip is hilarious.
Now Andy Dehnart at MSNBC is wondering how Chris, a professional comedian, overacted his way through the auditions. Long article here. The Arcade Fire
I have been waiting since last September, and finally I saw The Arcade Fire last night at Webster Hall. I even toted my cumbersome camerabag along for what I expected to be a great night of shooting -- and it should have been! -- but unfortunately I didn't realize until too late that the body of my camera wasn't inside my bag. :( I was stuck lugging around my lens all night.
I didn't get any pics, but others did. I really enjoyed myself. Singing outloud in unison with everyone else at a show never seemed as fun. The Arcade Fire's music is conducive for spontaneous audience choirs with their vareity of soprano "Wooo wooo's" and "Ahhhh ahhhh's". I was also very impressed with the openers Man Man and Final Fantasy. I am desperately seeking the latter's EP, but I can't find much about him online. Any leads would be appreciated. The music was great, but really, the only thing I can't stop thinking about is Webster Hall's light kit. They provided the most visually arresting display and are unlike any other stage lights I have ever seen. I am wondering whether they are proprietary, because I would like to find their source and perhaps get a set for our living room. I would never leave the house. Again, any details would be helpful. |
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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) |
