So last night I got the chance to finally see Diggnation at a live shoot here in Tempe at the Tempe Center for the Preforming Arts. I showed up at 3PM and ended up getting front row seats! I met some awesome people from all over the place including a guy who flew in from New Jersey to see the show. I took tons of pics over and put them up on my Flickr account. Some of them aren’t the greatest thanks to the stock flash on my Digital Rebel but they work. Below are some of my favorites from the show.
The logo etched into some stainless steel for the Tempe Center for the Arts
Kevin Rose.
A local wine maker gave them some 8 Bit wine.
Doing their usual chugging that the crowd get’s them to do.
Not one for poetry and performance art it’s actually quite surprising that I found the work of Rives as riveting and thought provoking as I did. That being said, I’m posting three videos on my site about him. There isn’t a whole lot to say other than this is the first performance artist/poet to really catch my eye, even through all those years as an art major at Northern Michigan University I was never able to really grasp the art of spoken word outside of music. The following has changed that.
Rives remixes TED 2006
The first comes from TED Conference 2006 in February of 2006. It’s an amazing imagery of what the TEDers will do once they leave the conference, and what we should all do when we have the spark of a new or life changing idea…share it.
I love using Twitter. That being said, I’m SICK of the redundancy! Raise your hand if you are with me in saying that you are a bit tired of seeing the same tweets between all your devices. I’ve got UberTwitter on my Blackberry, the Web Interface, Tweetie for my Mac…I just want to TWEET! I don’t care what others are doing, I just want to get my thoughts out! Finally there is an AMAZING way to do this, using Quicksilver. Check out what codahale (blog.codahale.com) has done with Applescript. Drop his script into your ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/ folder, re-start Quicksilver, and you are in action.
Tweeting from Quicksilver is fun!
You can get the whole story and the easy installation instructions over at blog.codahale.com.
All you have to do is engage Quicksilver, hit ‘.’ to enter the text mode, then type your tweet, hit tab, then select ‘Tweet’ as the action. It’s easy, quick, and you don’t have to be constantly bothered by what other people are doing at the moment, which helps you get more work done
Version 2.0 of the Updated Today Plugin has been pushed live. You can get it over at WordPress.org. Some noticeable updates are a new ‘Settings’ page that allow you to change the image, location, and pngfix settings from within the WordPress Administration area. Let me know what you think!
I have been working on the Updated Today Plugin and adding features. I decided to give you all a little preview of the progress. I have added a ‘Settings’ page for the plugin which can allow additional features. Some of them that you see already are the ability to move the image to the left or right of the page, the ability to turn off the pngfix javascript, and an image choosing feature that allows you to choose any image in the plugin directory. The next features will be the ability to upload your own image as well as a few other small things I think you will all like.
This is still in a rough development state and isn’t ready just yet for public use. Keep your eyes open for the public release very soon though! Leave some comments if you have feedback. So without further delay…screenshots!
The ability to choose some settings
The plugin now allows you to put the banner on the left or right.
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