Ribbon


Click on above title link and you can distract your mind for hours with Yogu Nakamura’s great web designs. Ribbon is just one example of his work. Here is another one: Clockblock.

ProTools 6.7

The newest ProTools 6.7 upgrade running on Mac OS 10.3.5 allows a Magma chassis, containing DigiDesign HD PCI cards, to work with a laptop again. PT 6.4 did not work on 10.3.5 with the Magma. I upgraded my studio computer to this configuration as well.

esflamenco

Last week I ordered three DVD from esflamenco.com:

Vicente Amigo – En concierto desde Córdoba (Live in Córdoba)

and two great Flamenco movies by Carlos Saura:
El Amor Brujo by Carlos Saura
Bodas de sangre by Carlos Saura/Antonio Gades

They arrived here a couple of days ago and I have already enjoyed the Vicente Amigo DVD on my region-free/code-free DVD player. All three DVDs and shipping from Madrid, Spain, to Santa Fe via DHL cost a total of $79.79. Seems very reasonable.

Here is just one site of many who sell region-free/code-free DVD players that play both PAL and NTSC DVDs on your regular american NTSC TV…

Asphalt Art

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There exists in this city a particular spot that holds a deep interest for me at least for now. You arrive at this spot by traveling North on Sepulveda Blvd. in the left lane about 60 feet before reaching the intersection of Palms Blvd. It’s a dip, or rather a scrape in the asphalt toward the right side of the lane — a dip your right tire will hit if you are correctly in the middle of the lane.

On October 15, I posted an LA Times article on Ed Ruscha in which he speaks about a particular dip in a Los Angeles road and, essentially, what it mean, or may mean, to him. Insert “bump in the road” cliche here. It’s so Ruscha, and so LA, to be talking about the street and the experience of driving. One fabulous abLA reader followed the directions he gave and sent in the above picture for our enjoyment. Probably isn’t as good as driving over it, but it’ll definitely do!
(Via art.blogging.la.)