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benita on TV {again}

djp7214/7/2008

while out walking this morning my wonderful wife Benita had a channel 9 TV crew swoop past her and grab a sound bite about a very stupid “current affairs” story. it played tonight on that great bastion of TV journalism “A Current Affair”. the story is the usual fluff stupidity that gives rich americans such a great name around the world… so without any further ado, watch away, be careful if you blink you’ll miss benita’s insightful; “i guess it’s a matter of hygiene standards”

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in love with: part five: vimeo

djp729/1/2008

part five of the endless love i have for the coolest of the cool on the web…
so far in 2008 we’ve seen my love for:
a new music discovery adventure.
a cool new way to socially interact with flickr.
a spazzy way to use the amazing twitter.com.
a new way to experience live music.
but now for some serious love and devotion…

for those that know me and my web loving ways, or you’ve listened to the mustard flava podcast before, you know that i have a major “thing” for the video sharing and storage site VIMEO.

i’ve been a dedicated vimeo user {or vimeonatti} since October 2005 at which point vimeo was just turning one year old. hard to believe now, but back then {october ‘05} YouTube was just beginning to get going and was only 6 months old. sad to see the far superior vimeo get “beaten” even though it had such a massive head start… but then again, it’s a totally different animal. after i had been using it and doing research for nearly 3 months i wrote my colossal {and most popular entry} “the flickr of video” back in january 2006… interesting to read it now and see that {as usual} i was dead on the money. after all my research vimeo was the place to be.
and that’s where i’ve camped ever since.

now according to wikipedia:
“Vimeo is a video-centric social network site. The site supports embedding, sharing, long-term video storage, and allows user-commenting on each video page.
The main difference between the site and other competing video sharing services such as YouTube is that Vimeo allows only user-created videos, of a “friends and family” nature. No pornography, TV shows, music videos, movies or anything not created by the user can be uploaded. Vimeo has gained a reputation[1] as catering to a high end, artistic crowd because of its higher bitrate, resolution and HD support.”

my low down about it:
vimeo is in it’s 5th version now and it is a marvel of modern science.
first to remember is that - at the moment it’s all free. a “pro” version is supposed to emerge sometime this year… we’ll see…
let’s have a wander through some screen shots and see what all the fuss is about.
here is the vimeo homepage you will see if you are not logged in / new. YES it’s a bit cutesy/smug with it’s “you’re new aren’t you?” line- and it has the little video from a very talented lady explaining why she loves it. but, if you don’t mind that design and vibe, cool - sign up. if it turns your stomach, move along…

here is the welcome screen once you log in- the major stats are all reported to you in the opening statement, including how much space you have left for the week & some news {i should mention every user get’s 250MB a week to upload, because i was part of a special beta tester group i got a stack more space} - there is new welcome screen coming soon… more about that later- so you have all the latest info at your finger tips there…

next is the profile page, here is a snap of mine - you can put as much or as little personal info as you like, and the “love and kisses” section on the left under my logo is totally customisable {more about that later too}

ok so below is a video’s page- you get a nice clean interface, nice big video, clean comments and credits under it and in the lower right all the stats - too awesome. - note this is another brilliant video from my favourite jake & amir…

and lastly here is one of the coolest new features “channels” - these are totally customisable by the creators, and anyone can make unlimited channels, the screenshot below is one i made for all my blackstump music festival videos.

this also leads me nicely to all the whole “customisable” aspect to vimeo and also the amazing amount of innovative new features and tweaks they are constantly rolling out. they are really trying to create the BEST video storage and sharing site and every aspect of the site, from the community to the technology is super positive and advanced… - here is a shot of how you can tweak parts of your own channel-

on a side note-
the founder and pretty much creator of Vimeo back in 2004 was the very talented Jakob Lodwick, here’s his profile page on vimeo:

you can check jakob’s tumble log &his flickr account too, i’ve always found jakob to be a cool guy, up until recently he has always responded to my emails, messages and notes in a really friendly personable manner, i even sent him a thankyou card last year to which he responded to in a very friendly way, as always. jakob really has been the face and driving personality of vimeo, he has been vimeo’s Don Quixote ragtag champion… hey he might come across a spoilt rich kid in new york that is a little crazy and a little too self aware, but he’s our Jakob!
anyway, november 2007, jakob left/was booted from the company behind Vimeo and he is now starting something new with the dude from Tumblr that has something to do with music.
he’s also had a very public relationship with a new york “internet celeb” Julia Allison, very much in love and everywhere and then a big messy online break up… they had a blog together: jakobandjulia.com and it’s a weird world they live in…
if you want to really sink your teeth into the strangeness that has become Jakob & Julia’s life smeared all over the internet you can check out - valleywag’s take on it - gawker’s lapping it up - or even 1938 media’s crazy spin… but i warn you, you will probably need a wash in a mountain stream far away from a computer by the end of it….
i say all of that to bring me to this point-
to a bunch of us “old school” vimeo users Jakob = Vimeo, and we are really starting out 2008 with a whole new vimeo! it is awesome! use it!

*and to Jakob- you are cool man, thank you so much for vimeo, you can be proud you created one of the greatest websites ever. i just hope you continue to be a part of it all! and come down under here for a break, get away from the circus that is new york!

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in love with: part four: deeprock drive

djp728/1/2008

moving right along to the fourth stop on this super love highway…
let me introduce you to DeepRockDrive!

here’s what they say about themselves on their website:
DeepRockDrive is a new music experience… Fans help create setlists of songs that’ll be played, create their own version of the show with an assortment of camera angles and feeds, and beam feedback directly to the stage during the show… fans vote in artists, create their own calendar of live performances, partner with artists to virally promote shows, and decide what songs are performed…. Every single fan enjoys the same access to their favorite artists. The smallest of garage bands has exactly the same ability to create and reach a community of fans as a mega-group. All shows at DeepRockDrive are the same low price for everyone and because DeepRockDrive harnesses the power of the Internet, every seat is even better than the front row.

the skinny:
Live Music + Social Website.
these dudes have an incredible live stage/studio set up out in Las Vegas, they invite bands to come and play live at their HQ, often to a pretty empty studio, and they film it with 4 or more cameras and stream the show LIVE to their website. as you watch the show you can send shout outs/messages that display LIVE on a massive screen that the band can see. you can also switch to different camera angles live too. the picture quality is really good and the sound has been spot on.
on the website end this is a slightly socially interactive site where you create an account and then find artists you like or ones that sound interesting, and vote on them. if you have a favourite artist and they are not listed on the site, you create a artist profile and a petition to get people to vote, once an artist get’s around 1000 votes- the team behind DRD goes to them and convinces them to play live in their funky set up in Las Vegas…
tickets are around $7 bucks USD for the shows, so it’s nice and cheap to see your favourite artist “live”…

here is the main welcome screen - simple and clean interface with the standard all about us video:

below is what you’ll see when you sign in- all the stats and news.

“my petitions” next are the current four petitions that i have going… {more on that coming below}

here is the page you will see to create a petition- all the steps you go through-

here is a petition to see the one and only king of pop- {i love the fact that the picture is from the “BAD” era of Michael Jackson, which is my favourite Michael}

and here is a page displaying an upcoming show, and for all my aussie friends, yes, seriously shannon noll will be the first aussie to rock out on deep rock drive! {rolling eyes}

here we have the “DIGIPOSTERS” that you can create to promote your petition for your favourite artists- you can create different sized posters {as you can see below} you can also create desktops for your computer {?} - these digiposters are embedable and also downloadable as a jpeg, the embedded ones are links back to the artist page…
so here is my petition for everyones favourite Texan rapper: {3×2 horizontal}

my petition to see Tracy Chapman: {2×3 vertical}

my banner style {they call it “leaderboard”} petition for Robert Smith & the cure:

and my most popular petition- the greatest living artist today; Bjork.

so what are you waiting for?? go ahead and click one of those digiposters above and sign up and vote for my artists on DeepRockDrive!!

*** note - my much loved homeboy Jon Madison is one of the programmers for this start up, he got me on to this ages ago in the beta and thanks to him i’ve had the privilege of seeing a bunch of free live test shows…. but seriously, even though my man works for these guys, and the company’s success will feed his beautiful family, this has not influenced my take on the site at all… if i didn’t love it, i would never have mentioned it…. so if you wanna be a hater to new awesome ideas in live music, go ahead, and while you are at it, why don’y you snatch the food off the table from jon’s gorgeous little children!!

{i kid! i kid! - DeepRockDrive friggin rocks}

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djp podcast 10: crappy harmonica

djp725/10/2007

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on this exciting episode - which is now in double figures! - i tell you about drummond’s horrible showbag harmonica…. and how it triggered many memories about a wasted youth in front of the TV…
to see the Wikipedia entry of the entity i end up talking about.

and as promised - check out the crazy lyrics.

stay tuned for episode 11… they are gonna come thick and fast now!

the dj paine show

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djp podcast 10: crappy harmonica