More BOOGIE. His photography captures life on the fringe of society, a place often overlooked and avoided by the general populous; it's all documented. After the pictures, read his interview.









"When you hear the term, “the American dream,” what does it mean to you?

[The American dream] used to mean something, but now I think it’s dead. Before coming to the U.S., I had this vision of Americans starting their little business and succeeding based on their hard work and good ideas. Nowadays, you open your little coffee shop, you do great, and then Starbucks comes and destroys you. Or you pay your health insurance every month for years, then you get sick and the insurance company won’t cover you, so you go bankrupt. You hear more and more stories of normal, middle-class people struggling to meet ends. Doesn’t sound like a dream any more."

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Living Inside The Speaker - Dubstep Documentary

Living Inside The Speaker from Kievbass on Vimeo.

http://www.rareclips.net/index.php?newsid=78

Check out Moby's home studio in Manhattan:


"Motherboard heads deep into the bowels of Moby’s Manhattan apartment-studio, where he unveils his prized assemblage of rarified gadgets, bizarre synthesizers, and outré drum devices.

if you ever spent even a minute trying to make grooves, you gotta watch this!!
THX Moby, THX Motherboard!"

Here is the first Draft of Suny Ulster's Slate Magazine, I did the design layout of the entire magazine

Open publication - Free publishing - More ulster

Create your own handwriting Font, super easy and super freeeeeeeeeeee!

http://www.yourfonts.com/

Apple goes DRM ( Digital Rights Management) free! (on music at least)

A major victory in the campaign to eliminate DRM -- Apple, the last
major retailer of DRM-encumbered music has announced, live at
MacWorld, that iTunes music will be going DRM-free.

Of course, what this really makes clear is that this was never about
the record companies withholding DRM-free music from Apple, but rather
that Apple was unwilling to concede a tiered pricing structure to the
recording companies. In the end, anti-DRM activists -- including
yourself -- were able to educate the public enough to pressure Apple
to give in.

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Make: Television Show

(Personally, I am super stokered that MAKE has made it's way to television. It is such a great publication and I think making it more accessible is wonderful. Hopefully this means bigger, more interesting projects will be launched as well.)



Premiered Jan. 3 on American Public Television. It celebrates "makers"--the inventors, artists, geeks, and just plain everyday folks who mix new and old
technology to create new-fangled marvels. The series encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each
half-hour.


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Doris Kearns Goodwin: Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball.

Duke Ellington - It don't mean a thing (1943)

My fascination with the eras that predated me, runs incredibly deep. The culture that was the building block of the subterranean, progressive and ultimately, years later where artist drew their inspiration from, inspires me, 60 years later.

Who is General Tso and why are we eating his chicken? Jennifer 8. Lee on TED.com

At the 2008 Taste3 conference, New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine. (Recorded July 2008 in Napa, California. Duration: 16:38.)

"There are more Chinese restaurants than Mcdonolds, Burger King Kentucky Fried Chicken and Wendy's"

"Let let me present this question to you. If the benchmark for Americans is apple pie, you should ask yourselves, how often do you do you eat apple pie versus Chinese food?"

A London Something dis:

This is an interesting documentary on Jungle, made back in 1993. It's been an interesting progression over the past 15 years. Raaaaaaavvvvvve!

MIT OpenCourseWare

As time progresses, the possibility and opportunity to get educated on your own terms has improved. Thanks to the vast and seemingly infinite knowledge floating around in internet land, resources are in abundance. As an example, check out the always progressive, forward thinking of M.I.T.. The make all of their courses available online for both their enrolled students the the general public. Genius. The program is called OpenCourseWork. Even better is the fact that this isonly one example of many OpenCourseWare programs, as you can find more through the OpenCourseWare consortium.Free education, not a new concept but definitely more accessible here in the present.

"OpenCourseWare expresses in an immediate and far-reaching way MIT's goal of advancing education around the world. Through MIT OCW, educators and students everywhere can benefit from the academic activities of our faculty and join a global learning community in which knowledge and ideas are shared openly and freely for the benefit of all."
- Susan Hockfield, President of MIT