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KZSC Santa Cruz Rickrolled 3 Counties
Like today really needed more rickrolling, I got KZSC to play everyone’s favorite song, “Never Gonna Give You Up” to its tri-county audience of the Monterey Bay area. Sadly, the DJ cut the song off after about 40 seconds, but I suppose we can forgive him for that. It’s not…
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iphone wallpaper
Maybe it’s just me, but I really do hate the clutter of adding wallpapers to an iPhone the traditional way – you have to add photos to iPhoto, make a new album, have things be a mess… Anyone else? No? Just me? Well, fine then. On the off chance that…
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open studios
Yesterday was open studios here at UCSC, meaning that as as Art major, I’m just about done with this quarter. Rock. I’ve been working on two big projects – the photo series that I’ve already posted images from, and a computer-art piece that’s slightly hard to explain. I made a…
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busy busy
The general lack of attention paid to this blog can pretty much be blamed on two art classes. As one of them results in something I can’t really put online, here’s some recent pictures from the other. planes! cars! ducks!
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self portraits
For my digital photo class. I like these: https://www.flickr.com/photos/maxelman/2211788410/
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birthday birthday
After having a pretty rad birthday in Boulder, CO with my family (slaying dragons, raiding bookstores, afternoon tea…), there was of course need to have a gathering back at home. Phones were dialed, people were gathered, and there was a great sushi dinner at Masako. Sushi boats, champagne, and all…
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Christmas in Oz
No, not the HBO prison series, but the magical one where houses fall onto evil witches. This holiday-time brought snow, barking puppies, and a little portal to Oz, right on our kitchen table. A portal made out of gingerbread. The general idea was to abandon the instructions and make a…
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mini game review – portal
The whole package is called the Orange Box and it’s Valve’s latest 5-pack with all sorts of Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 goodness. The game that is getting all the attention though? Portal. A short, two or so hour game, the premise is simple – you’re an unwilling…
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missing: one fish
It would seem that my turtle trio was hungry. Or Brown Fish #2 perfected his jumping skills and is now living in a puddle outside. Either way, my pet count is now -1. And he didn’t even say goodbye. How rude.
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content management systems! hooray!
So, in an effort to replace the Zope/Plone craziness of kzsc.org, I’ve been looking into CMS alternatives. I know – exciting, right? It’s been a whole lot of uploading files, changing permissions and using the wonderful new tabbed terminal in Leopard. I’ve set up a few on this site so…
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Goodbye OiNK. You’ll be missed!
Well that stinks. Guess we’ll all have to go back to the old way of doing things.. For now at least. It was sure fun while it lasted though. Update: this is a useful page about the situation
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Da Daaaa, Da Da Da da da da da
Hell yes. You might have noticed that I love Katamari Damacy (the little guy on the bottom of the page). And there’s a new game! New Katamari Damacy! This time with more beauty! And on the Xbox?!? Yep – Beautiful Katamari was finally released, and it rocks. It’s high-def, adds…
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in rainbows
While this is probably the #1 blog post today in the blogosphere, I thought I’d pitch in as well. At about 10:30pm PST yesterday, I received an email I had been hoping to get for quite some time. (er, 10 days..) w.a.s.t.e sent me a download link, and within a…
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Look Around You
Fun new program on the BBC: also, this is worth reading.
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it’s finally official
As of today, I’m a double art/film digital media major. Awesome. Quite the ordeal, I have to say. College 8 was a bit of a punk about it, and the film department was just plain silly at times. All and all, the Art department rocked, and was strangely efficient. Weird.…
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Ya No Sé Que Hacer Conmigo
Watch an awesome typographical music video sung by Cuarteto de Nos.
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Star Wars + Transformers = ?
So, in something that probably should not ever happen, the two worlds of Star Wars and Transformers have been brought together. No, this doesn’t mean Megatron with a lightsaber, it means a transforming Darth Vader. Into the freaking Death Star. That’s right. The completed Death Star, on top of that.…
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9,246,050!
Yeah! Alexa ranks maxelman.com at 9,246,050! That’s only 9,246,047 spots behind google! Alright, so it’s absurd, but it’s a start, right? Edit (28 August 2007): 7,082,312, take that! up by two million! Edit (30 August, 2007): 2,425,454, ha! another five million! Edit (2 September 2007): 1,888,110! Edit (11 September 2007):…
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lifehacked bag
Inspired by lifehacker and this post, I put together a picture and listing of the contents of my everyday bag. Took a lot longer than I thought, but here it is: Here’s what goes most everywhere with me around college and town, much of that by bike. Chrome Mini Metro…
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way to go amazon.com
I ordered something for a special someone’s birthday, and after the order online was marked as delivered, and UPS told me to contact the shipper (because only they can start a “trace”?), I was a bit frustrated when there was no phone number to be found for Amazon. However, I…
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quit hitting the tornado button!
Remember Sim City 2000? your “board of advisors”? Who all were really just CRAZY? Well, maybe not entirely crazy, but I came across this page today that shows exactly what would happen if they were as crazy as I remember. Check it out, it’s hilarious. And speaking of Sim City,…
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Vitalic – Birds
as made by plex with the song Poney by Vitalic.
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the real world is for losers
next up, my final for art 119.
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10 unpleasant ways to die
A short film created for art 119 starring a bunch of balloons. poor, poor balloons
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the girl with the bubbles
Some recent art – a narrative starring Kristan. Responses have been good so far – ranging from “Hey, I want to buy that”, to the TA for my section: “whimsical-yet-slightly-uneasy-like-you-are-in-a-dream-that-might-get-a-little- weird-but-not-scary-weird-just-your-head-turns-into-a-watermelon-weird-and- you-float-away-in-a-bubble-weird-to-go-to-a-robot-wedding-weird” I’d say that’s a good thing.
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tamm the warlock
Looks like I play WoW now, and that over there is my kick-ass gnome warlock engineer. His name is Tamm and he’s happy to meet you (on the Azuremyst server, that is). On a more productive note, go listen to the Klaxons. Their new album, Myths of the Near Future is great.
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Twitter?
Looks like I’m on Twitter now! Darth Vader is following me, so that means it’s official, right? Find me @razorfrog
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my scary fort
my latest art project, this one for art 118 – advanced computer art and such. created in jitter and max/msp, the video installation lives inside a fort, and makes it quite interactive and scary. the included films include: the birds, jaws, and the silence of the lambs. below is a…
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choose your own blog post
this is great – a flash based choose your own adventure game with so many endings and so many deaths it’s hard to keep track. try to get eaten by a zombie, have hitler steal your time-travel machine, kill shakespeare, or just have some fish sticks. A Triangle Morning’s Which…
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pictures in the dark
In another strange course of events – I wasn’t able to swing a photo class this quarter, so instead I’m in a film class. which has me taking pictures. It’s seemingly unavoidable, and i’m totally okay with that. I love photography, and i’ll take any chance to get credit for…
