I was actually watching the show when he announced his (fake) intentions to run for President. There is actually a facebook group titled "1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert". Apparently there is a similar group for Obama. It took his group eight month to gain 380,000 members. It took Colbert two weeks to gain over a million.
It'a pretty good indication of the state of politics in the U.S. of A.
I also like this one. American's giving other countries advice on Dams. Go figure.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
The world of Kim Keever
Here's a bio I grabbed off a website and some photo's of a wicked photographer. I thought you guys might like these.
Kim Keever's mysterious and painterly large-scale photographs represent a continuation of the landscape tradition, as well as an evolution of the genre. Referencing the Romanticism of the Hudson River School and 19th-century photography of the American West, they are imbued with a sense of the sublime; however, they also show a subversive side that deliberately acknowledges their contemporary contrivance and conceptual artifice. These images reflect none of the concerns with authenticity for which photography has historically been used; yet, they retain the inherent efficacy and rigor of their medium.
Keever's pictures appear to be of other worlds and times--a primordial past or post-apocalyptic future. A combination of the real and the imaginary, they document places that never were. He creates his panoramic universes and controls their fictitious environments by constructing miniature topographies out of materials such as plaster and reflective Mylar in a 100-gallon aquarium, which is then filled with water. The desolate dream-like dioramas are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera.
Keever's staged scenery is characterized by a psychology of time and timelessness. Simulated meteorological gradations, suspended in vivid hues, map dramatic shifts in mood and trace conditions that move from somber darkness to twilit evanescence to the incandescence of morning.
The symbolic qualities he achieves result from his understanding of the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, Keever fabricates an illusion to conjure the realms of our imagination.
Kim Keever lives in New York City, and has exhibited extensively in galleries throughout the United States and abroad.
Kim Keever's mysterious and painterly large-scale photographs represent a continuation of the landscape tradition, as well as an evolution of the genre. Referencing the Romanticism of the Hudson River School and 19th-century photography of the American West, they are imbued with a sense of the sublime; however, they also show a subversive side that deliberately acknowledges their contemporary contrivance and conceptual artifice. These images reflect none of the concerns with authenticity for which photography has historically been used; yet, they retain the inherent efficacy and rigor of their medium.
Keever's pictures appear to be of other worlds and times--a primordial past or post-apocalyptic future. A combination of the real and the imaginary, they document places that never were. He creates his panoramic universes and controls their fictitious environments by constructing miniature topographies out of materials such as plaster and reflective Mylar in a 100-gallon aquarium, which is then filled with water. The desolate dream-like dioramas are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera.
Keever's staged scenery is characterized by a psychology of time and timelessness. Simulated meteorological gradations, suspended in vivid hues, map dramatic shifts in mood and trace conditions that move from somber darkness to twilit evanescence to the incandescence of morning.
The symbolic qualities he achieves result from his understanding of the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, Keever fabricates an illusion to conjure the realms of our imagination.
Kim Keever lives in New York City, and has exhibited extensively in galleries throughout the United States and abroad.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Server Update #2
I got a 500GB hard drive for my brithday from my parents. Installed this into the server, sat back and basked in the 1.16 Terabytes of storage I have in the system. Well, not exactly, 160GB is from the 'dead' (more on this later) disk, and 500 GB is actually going to be 250, as one 250 GB disk will be used as a mirror so I don't go through this down time again.
After installing the new drive, and rearranging all the other disks to sit in front of a new case fan, i decided to boot up the system with the old 'dead' disk to see if time off made it work again. Well, what do you know, it booted just fine. I was able to backup everybodys home accounts and the databases/websites that I figured would be lost. Since I don't trust the disk at all, it'll be a while still to have the system completely back up, but recovering the websites and peoples home dirs. is definately a plus.
So, I think th plan will be, 2x250GB disks (as a raid 1 array, so 250GB total storage) as the system disk, and the new 500 GB disk as movie/tv storage for mythtv. The most important data (music) will be on the raid array for protection.
After installing the new drive, and rearranging all the other disks to sit in front of a new case fan, i decided to boot up the system with the old 'dead' disk to see if time off made it work again. Well, what do you know, it booted just fine. I was able to backup everybodys home accounts and the databases/websites that I figured would be lost. Since I don't trust the disk at all, it'll be a while still to have the system completely back up, but recovering the websites and peoples home dirs. is definately a plus.
So, I think th plan will be, 2x250GB disks (as a raid 1 array, so 250GB total storage) as the system disk, and the new 500 GB disk as movie/tv storage for mythtv. The most important data (music) will be on the raid array for protection.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Rocket-Powered 21-Foot-Long X-Wing Model Actually Flies
The death start better look out, if this baby flies, there's no stopping the rebel alliance.
Of course, there doesn't appear to be any videos yet, but I'm sure there will be soon.
Of course, there doesn't appear to be any videos yet, but I'm sure there will be soon.
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