Emotions of Gavin

Our famed Mayor, Gavin Newsom, expresses some emotion:

Thanks for your support of the Arts in SF, Mayor Newsom. Keep up the good work.

This is absolutely BRILLIANT

This is absolutely brilliant. Here is the quick version: Paul Ford created a graphic. Business Week blog used the image, but didn't copy it or even attribute it, just linked in the img src. Paul Ford fucked with them. Hard core.

He could have done A LOT, LOT more. Brilliant.

Flock installation

Twisted
Originally uploaded by thepartycow.

The art installation, titled Flock, from Burning Man was installed at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco. It is a fantastic addition to San Francisco and I am sure I will walk by and see it many times. Congrats and thanks to BRAF.

You can see the entire album here.

Scott Beale's pictures are here.

burning man from space

burning man from space
Originally uploaded by thepartycow.

Click through to get a full size image of BRC. I am absolutely amazed at the size of our dance floor. It seemed big out there (and very crowded in the later parts of the week), but this really puts it in perspective. Damn.

Take me back home.

An Easter story

Yes, I know that we are approaching Thanksgiving, but I have an Easter story to share with you:

I want to see this live

This would be an awesome interactive art piece to see live. Especially if you could modify it so that the main artist could be a starting point for the each of the following artists. You could even fork the picture so that 1 artist starts the piece and 3-4 artists finish it their own way.

If the entire thing was done on large, digital tablets that would track each stroke, you could have the first artist build the basis of the piece. Next, 3-4 artist join in on their own digital tablets and take the piece in their own direction. Large screens around the studio/complex/camp/bar would display each and their differences. You could lay the drawings over each other and morph between. You could start with the single and actually build all 4 on top of each other, and you could show each separate piece going its own direction. There are soooooo many cool, creative applications of this.

Google Analytics

Google has added Google Analytics. Just signed up and added...will be interesting to see th offering...

Laughing Squid 10th Anniversary

I hit the Laughing Squid 10th Anniversary party at the Varnish Gallery on Saturday night. What a GREAT night -- so good to see so many people and meet so many more. I finally met Leila while she was working the gate. I bumped into Elida while she was having a giggling fit over one of the Seemen installations. We took a pretty good photoboof pix together and when Alec publishes them, I will post a copy here. Also had the pleasure of meeting Jacob Applebaum. As expected, his shots kick the shit out of mine.

Thanks to Scott for the 10 years of dedication to the arts and for bringing us all together to celebrate. Very cool!

Baby Ivan

Ivan
Originally uploaded by thepartycow.

I just think my nephew Ivan is an absolute doll. He has been in my thoughts quite a bit lately...I usually come back to this picture to look at his adorable face and deep eyes. He is truly the happiest child I have ever, ever met.

Posting to flickr

Yes.
Originally uploaded by thepartycow.

I am moving my photos from Fotki to flickr and really enjoying the process. Late each night I go through some of the albums that I have posted through the years, select the best pix, and then post them to Flickr. I am trying to be as accurate as possible with titles, comments and TAGS. And it is starting to pay off...

On my Tribe profile, I have pulled three separate rss feeds from flickr: pix of me, favorite portraits, and newest pix.

My friends Ronnie and Jenn both use rss feeds from flickr to populate their profiles with my pictures of them.

Sculpture by the Sea

I think these sculptures are awesome. I am really impressed that Sydney has brough them in for so many years.

San Francisco has recently started bringing in large scale art pieces to the Hayes Valley and Civic center areas and I love it. Most are from Burning Man, so there is an obvious connection with the pieces, but I also love having LARGE scale art added to our community. The scale is what moves me most -- perhaps I am in awe of the ability of the artist to grow a small scale model into a towering structure that reaches out and touches so many people. Tons of respect for that.

I would love to see a living room competition one weekend in the city. At all of the different landmarks and on Ocean Beach, a competition to create the most comfortable, open air living room. Imagine a set of couches, chair, reading lights, coffee tables, and magazine racks in the middle of Golden Gate. You could put your feet up and watch a soccer match. Sitting in an Eames Chair and watching the surf crash on Ocean Beach. Sitting in Dolores Park, soaking in the sun, looking across the Bay Bridge and SF Skyline -- however you are on a comfy couch, wrapped in a soft blanket, hanging with your friends. That would be a great art installation...

The Venture Capital Squeeze

Paul Graham has written another excellent essay regarding the state of VC and startups. A really good read...I have heard of many more Google aquisitions at the very early stages of development and agree. I also believe that one motivation for the Google aquisitions is to continue to hire quality, motivated engineers that will thrive in their flat organizational sturcture. Providing your employees 20% of their time to work on side projects is establishing a trust that their time will be spent working on fruitful initiatives that will benefit the long term. Hiring small groups that already demonstrate their motivation is a shortcut to ensuring that.

New Yahoo Maps

The new Yahoo Maps chose to go the flash route rather than ajax route. It looks like they have really built out the API side...it will be interesting to see the uptake.

Couple of quick notes...
Love being able to use the scroll wheel. That is great for zooming in and out.
It couldn't pick out my address in San Francisco. That is NOT a good sign!
I clicked on the Send Feedback button and it couldn't find the feedback page. The flash interface has frozen up on me multiple times now! :(
Will keep playing with it as it has "Send to Phone" options and Live Traffic functions. I am REALLY hoping the send to phone SMS's line by line directions. Now that would be BAD ASS!

Peanuts - a photoset on Flickr

Now this is damn funny and actually makes me wish I worked in an office again. Well, maybe not so much. But still....