Bathroom Walls

02011-01-27 | Photos

Downtown Subscription installed blackboards in their bathrooms. The banter, not surprisingly, is about the same quality as comments on YouTube. I was moved to add something to the conversation. I added too much time.

Wednesday

02011-01-26 | Photos

Drumkit rental #2, Palm Beach:

Images from the Duncan Theater:

Facebook’s ‘Sponsored Stories’ Turns Your News Feed Activity Into Ads
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Here’s how it works: If one of your Page updates, Likes, app interactions or Place check-ins mention a participating brand, that story will appear in the column that appears at the right of your friends’ News Feeds. “For example,” writes Advertising Age, “if Starbucks buys a ‘sponsored story’ ad, the status of a user’s friends who check into or ‘like’ Starbucks will run twice: once in the user’s news feed, and again as a paid ad for Starbucks.”

Sponsored Stories are seen only by your friends that would normally see your stories in their News Feeds. However, according to the product’s help page , there is no op-out option for Sponsored Stories.

…there is no op-out option for Sponsored Stories. Ha Ha!!

From the latest Upaya newsletter:

Lately this economic success is starting to affect the culture — our dating lives, our marriages, how we raise our children. The phrase “first-born son” is so deeply ingrained in our culture that this statistic alone opened my eyes: In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls.

Here is a little humor for you: The State of the Web

Toy Thailand, a tilt-shift video. (Vimeo)

Cell Phones the new cigarettes?

Florida

02011-01-24 | Photos

This time we set up the drumkit and percussion so that Michael and Houman would face each other and could see Jon and I easily. It also reduced the sound of the drumkit to the audience (((drumkits are designed to spread maximum sound forward, not side-ways))) and I was told that the balance sounded better than last year with the plastic shield around the drums:

Shadow on Houman’s cajon:

Chairs backstage at the Duncan Theatre.

This was our second performance together and one of our best concerts in quite a while, Jon and I thought. Everything came together. The grooves were very good and musically we stepped into nice territory. We were all thrilled and elated afterwards. Jaren made a recording, but the CD is with him at the moment. As soon as I get it in the mail I will upload a few songs for you to hear.

You can view cell phone snapshots from this tour here.