I try to listen to Indie Rock and I always come back to hip hop. I think hip hop is in my DNA, but Indie Rock is on the surface.
Jon Phillips is an artist and entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience building communities and growing successful media projects. He is currently developing the Open Source project the Open Clip Art Library, works for Creative Commons as Community and Business Development Manager, is growing Overlap.org and Fabricatorz.com.
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- leaving Beijing today August 23, 2008
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- rejon: I tried to convince Chinese LED-maker to give me protocol by giving him software I make. He said: I don't give a shit about copyright.
- rejon: getting cartoon smoke inflatables made for #cantocore ... I just bought huge LED screen for my artonomics project ... sweet!
- rejon: at dimsum in #guangzhou with friends happy to have that email back on the phone
- rejon: I swam today under the sunny (actually blue skies)...pool to myself during day since Chinese folk seem to equate suntan with poor people
- rejon: enough with being tired too often and computer sitting fat, starting my health regimen again with swimming, (running), biking
- rejon: @mlinksva did @paulk just raise the bar for #cc job applicants to have created at least 1 full article rather than just an edit? good job!
- rejon: go #pystar go in your anti-trust lawsuit against #apple ... merry xmas to your anti-competitive business practices ...
- rejon: holy shit @thornet and @evan ... maybe they are trying to take back the name osama bin laden , aka trader bin laden, aka ben kenobi laden
- rejon: damn, that #autonomo.us chat channel is lonely...
- rejon: Eric Steuer's http://sneakmove.com project is blocked in china. Too bad, I want to download their #mmc tracks!
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- Rebecca MacKinnon: motion detection can create alerts when there is rapid or sudden change in normal patterns of motion (via Twitter) August 28, 2008
- Rebecca MacKinnon: unnatended object detection, also triggers alert (via Twitter) August 28, 2008
- Rebecca MacKinnon: color detection matches video images against user-specified color - so if too much of a certain color shows up, that might trigger alert (via Twitter) August 28, 2008
- Rebecca MacKinnon: theyve developed algorithms for video enhancement and video stabilization (via Twitter) August 28, 2008
- Rebecca MacKinnon: "video analytics suite": video enhancement & stabilization, de-interlacing; detection of motion, color, unattended objects, object coun ... (via Twitter) August 27, 2008
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Yo rejon…. I knew you were an emo nerdario listening to indie rock. How many indie rockers does it take to change a lightbulb…
“Oh shit, you dont know…”
Anyways, send me the flyer, for the RMX show. Im going to an opening tonight and i wanna hand em out,….
Did you read my post? I’m saying that basically I’m not that into indie rock and am into hiphop.
I will send out the RMX flier today.
I have tried that many times, ambiance, alternative and even mexican ‘nortenias’ but I always come back to hip hop. Really the whole music culture is very poor they either talk about love or dance. At least hiphop have some much more view on what it wants, or more graphic at least.
Agree completely…hiphop is so interesting from so many different perspectives. In the end it is really about personal taste IMO. I’m glad another OSS hacker out there is into hiphop and has the nick JZA
Hey, where is your front page on your website?