Showing posts with label Jackson Street Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jackson Street Books. Show all posts

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Photo Editing FTW

Hi All!

So I've been lost in The GIMP my Absolute favorite Art program. I've made a new banner for the blog here and of course will continue to tweak and play around with it, I'll be making a few more images for public consumption soon. While playing around with a few other projects I have gotten some interesting assets and ideas to play with.

So for now I've been hanging out and listening to music in Second Life with my friends from Wellstone Cafe and Dancing Liberally. Patriotboy, Jackson Street Books and a few others have kept me company and indulged in my antics.

EDIT: so I forgot to set a publish on this, so here it is time travel in the digital age!

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Back to Second Life

Hey All!

So I've been out in Hoquiam since June, while there I spent time working to get my friends over at the Jackson Street Books Blog, open for business. Success! JSB opened it's "doors" last week, they are now open for sales online at their website.

At the going away party for JSB at their old location I found to my great delight that the owners also spent time on grid in Second Life, so while I was down at their house working (see JSB for details, honestly why cover the same ground right?) I spent time on grid more than I had for a long time, I've made friends and found some wonderful things.

I'm not going to go into terribly complex detail here, after all if you want to know you should join us in SL. The time leading up to the election of President Elect Barak Obama was incredibly passionate in the political groups that Bookem and Dano introduced me to, from those roots in political discourse I have recently branched out into the purely social aspects of SL.

Now, I'm home and trying to pick up work up here in Seattle, more fun for me right?


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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Web

YouTube - Tim Berners Lee on the Semantic Web




As a digital artist I find the idea of a semantic web as something only dreamed about, a collaborative greenhouse where ideas can be grow and be shared, freely and securely.


Like an ecosystem of Data, Data-miners and Datavores information moves and develops like a living thing. Evolution of ideas and cross interaction leading to never before seen collaborative efforts leading to philosophical, spiritual, economic, scientific..... Okay so pretty much anywhere you can imagine.

As a science-fiction junkie I am reminded of the interesting Earthweb by: Marc Stiegler




Humanity under attack from aliens, Shiva's massive juggernauts single minded on the destruction of earth. Our greatest weapon is the Web where the collective ideas, observations and interest of the entire human race focus on one thing, survival. The book is an interesting read and a wonderful posit of what the internet could be.

There are of course heroes, tragedy and intrigue, but where the author shines in my opinion is in the intricate detail given to the structure and history and development of the web in it's "current" fictional incarnation.

Through the use of the pressure provided by the impending threat of the looming Shiva's Earth, while still politically, economically and social fragmented, has united in will under a common purpose.


Check out the Jackson Street Books Blog
Or order by Email: info@jacksonst-books.com


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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Real Life

My Friends, Tammy and Dan, have moved their bookstore. I have been at their new location helping with the renovations in preperation for the store opening for online sales.

check out their blog at Jackson Street Books


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