A little something to BBQ, Drink, Tan, and Enjoy your "Summer Time" too. New Joint From Azian Black "Summer Time" get it at SoundCloud or BandCamp Check it out! Oh Yeah, The Download Is free! Our gift to say thanks for listening! Have a great summer!
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My friend Jason Gatewood wrote a post about his feelings on the new iPad. Just as I was thinking what to write about it, I read his post and realized he pretty much summed it up. So, here is his post. Read it and love it!
Some people are very excited about the Fruity Computer Company's latest bit of kit that'll hit in 2 months, unveiled today... Some are just so non-plussed... Me? Well I think like the iPod, and iPhone before it, it'll take about 1~2 generations to crush all takers... Even quicker than that if ya think about it... Here's my take.
, I just )With tie-ups with 5 major publishers, I guess my niece will be saying this about buying books too right? Also some are kinda miffed that this thing isn't a big-@$$ed iPhone. Meaning limited 3G connectivity, no camera... Uhh, yeah, I already have an iPhone yo. Why would I need a BIGGER one? What I want is the ability for my iPhone, iPad, iMac, and MacBook Pro to TALK to each other... WIRELESSLY! That's what Bonjour is for... F getting the version of the iPad with the 3G connection inside; ALL iPads have WiFi. So does my (very jailbroken) iPhone...that I can convert to use as a WiFi Router with this thing... The following is what life with my new iPad will be like maybe this time next year....
I wake up like always in the morning... Put a pot of coffee on, walk over to my iPad that's been charging in it's dock. I check the Japan Times first. (if they don't make an app soon, they'll miss the boat!) Then the Atlanta Journal (hometown newspaper) There's a pretty interesting story back home about the mayor-- I save the interview in the "dropbox"--an area that will funnel the same content in the form of a bookmark over to my iPhone, or MacBook; I wanna listen to this interview on the subway during my commute. I check my email... Pencil in some appointments, cancel others, then I throw the ipad in my bag... Grab the iPhone, and my MacBook, and I'm out the door.
During my 25 minute train ride into work, I listen to the interview on my iPhone via bluetooth headphones, and I read some other articles in the AJC and the JT on it. No need to pull an iPad out of my bag--everyone is standing shoulder to shoulder here and I can't even see my bag at my feet, let alone touch it!
Once in the office, I plug my macbook into the cinema display and the external hard drive on my desk. I break out the iPad and plug it in as well... Creating the ultimate portable creator's workstation. It seems Wacom created an app that turns the iPad into a digitizer for your computer! Just like it's most expensive product, it has the capability of video overlay, so you can create custom icon sheets and keys. But remember, it's capacitive multitouch--finger friendly, so that capacitive stylus is only needed when precision is a must! Certainly has made my job as multimedia designer that much easier! I plug my iphone into another dock on the desk and it begins to auto-update my podcasts. I remember I was watching an episode of "Better Off Ted" on it yesterday and got interrupted, so I go onto iTunes on the Mac and pick up where I left off, using the 13" display of the macbook to see it, while working on the 21" Cinema Display.
Lunch hits, and I bounce out the door, iPhone and iPad in hand to grab a coke and a smile... While eating, surf the web on the iPad. Since there's no WiFi in this place (Why?!) I put my iPhone into tether mode and connect the iPad via bluetooth. A buddy of mine recommended a new book, so I click the link he put in his email-- He's gonna loan it to me for a read, cool! He has a Kindle, and Amazon will let you loan books out to other Kindles (and devices that run the Kindle reader) for up to 2 weeks. I download the book and start reading a few pages when I get a Skype call from home. It's my brother calling from the States! The new version of Skype can tell when you have both iPad and iPhone connected-- so it gives the option to open main app on the iPad, and use the iPhone's camera as a webcam! (to all the pundits that are knocking the iPad's lack of camera) So I set it up this way and give my brother a little look around the cafe, then talk to him... I share a few pix off my iPhone with him, and tell him I'll be home in a month for a visit.
Back on the job, and this time I'm out in the field shooting video and snapping pix for an upcoming RANmagazine article. Yeah, I made sure our mag would be ready for digital publishing already, so when you read the magazine in your iPad or whatever reader you use, multimedia content like video and audio will also be at your disposal. I'm using an Eye-Fi SD card in my DSLR, but instead of beaming the shots and video back to my laptop; I have an app that beams them to either my iPhone or iPad. I take the iPad with me because the bigger screen is easier to use with the updated version of Photoshop mobile (Adobe are you listening?) Photos and video are automagically GPS tagged, given a filename that's easy to correspond to this story and ready to be shown, sent, or edited. After taking some shots of the restaurant, I locate the head chef, and interview him on camera, then catch a train back across town. Since its early afternoon, there aren't many people on the train, so I break out the ipad, and start making a few rough cuts in Adobe Premiere Mobile on the iPad.
At my second stop, I am able to catch a WiFi signal and with my iPad using the iPhone camera in tether mode, I live stream a little bit of a gallery opening onto our website. Being a mobile journalist is much easier than it used to be...
My day ends and I'm back at home... Time to finally watch something good...But I don't watch TV anymore--and I haven't really for about 2 years now! I fire up the iMac to find that Boxee has some new documentarys I wanna watch. I break out the iPad once again-- this time to use it as a remote control for the Boxee app, and drone out... Just another day with tech...
So my take on the iPad is simple. Remember Palm's attempt at a mobile companion device called the Folio? This is the bigger, simpler, smarter, faster, stronger, Apple-goodness-foritified take on that concept... You want it... ESPECIALLY if you already have an iPod, iPhone, Mac, etc. You just don't know it yet.
- Jason Gatewood
Ok there you have it. By the 2nd or 3rd gen of the iPad I think it will start to make sense but, for now I t's not a bad product but it's hard not to focus on the things it doesn't have - no USB port, no ability to use Flash, can't do multitasking and, most of all, no cup holder
The pictures say it all!
Get some Bitches!!!!!!!!
Once a Marine always a Marine! HOORAH!!!!
Oh Yeah, and too my SEAL homeyz!
Just Kidding……
I dedicate this blog to the memory of J. Dilla aka James Dewitt Yancey
THREE YEARS AFTER HIS UNTIMELY DEATH, J DILLA'S BEATS AND REPUTATION LOOM EVER LARGER OVER HIP HOP. BUT FOR HIS MOTHER - WHO NURSED THE VISIONARY PRODUCER THROUGH A CHRONIC ILLNESS AND HAS WATCHED HIS ESTATE LANGUISH IN LIMBO - THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.
DILLA REALIZED SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH HIS HEALTH IN JANUARY OF 2002. He'd just returned from Europe and thought he had a bad flu. Sick to his stomach and complaining of chills, Ma Dukes took him to the emergency room at Bon Secours hospital in suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. His blood platelet count should have been above 150, but it was below 10. Doctors told his mother they were surprised he was still walking around.
He tested positive for lupus, an autoimmune disease that can be fatal. To make matters worse, Detroit doctors diagnosed him with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, aka TTP, a rare disorder that causes blood clots to form in the body's blood vessels.
At summer's end, 2005, Dilla found himself in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, the same hospital where The Notorious B.I.G. and Eazy-E died. He'd lost the ability to walk and could barely talk. His own body was killing him, and there was little to be done about it.
Sensing that death was coming, he told his mother he needed his equipment in the hospital with him. Ma Dukes asked his friends from the L.A.-based label Stones Throw Records to lug his turntables, mixer, crates of records, MPC, and computer into his room. When his hands were too swollen, Ma Dukes would massage his stiffened fingers so Dilla could work on the tracks, letting his doctors listen to the beats through his headphones.
Sometimes he'd wake Ma Dukes up in the middle of the night, asking her to help move him from his bed to a reclining chair so he could work a bit more comfortably. His only focus was finishing the album. Donuts was released on Stones Throw on February 7, 2006, his 32nd birthday. Dilla died three days later.
Such a tragic story for a man who left so much good in the world. Big Up To the whole Dilla Family.
R.I.P J. Dilla you will be remembered forever!
P.S.
His younger brother is doing things with some of the beats that J Dilla made.
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I am watching this cool short film called Akira's Hip Hop Shop! A film about cultures clashing, mashing and meshing in Los Angeles. Great casting and characters (e.g., Jason Yorrick as a brother with a taste for Asian culture, cuisine and women), and the leads, James Kyson Lee (Akira) and Emayatzy Corinealdi (Daphne), have a chemistry and heat that is rare and believable. Complete with subtitles when the film goes into Japanese, "Akira's Hip Hop Shop" serves up a funky bowl of soulful rice that bridges cultures and puts the mix in the mixing pot that is L.A. I would tell you more about the film but, seeing as how it is only 22 minutes long, Go check it out when you get a chance!
http://en.con-can.com/watch/preview.php?mode=high&id=20081206
私はこのクールなショートフィルムAkiraのショップと呼ばれるヒップホップを見てよ！文化の衝突についての映画、 mashing 、ロサンゼルスにメッシュ。素晴らしいキャストと文字（例えば、Jason Yorrickアジアの文化、料理、女性の趣味を持つ兄として）、そして、James Kyson Lee（Akira）とEmayatzy Corinealdi （ダフネ）は、化学、熱は、まれですがリード信じられない。完了時には映画の字幕を日本語、 "明のヒップホップショップ"は、橋の文化との混合のミックス鍋には、ルイジアナ私はフィルムを置くことについてもっと話すのだが、魂のこもった目にしているコメのファンキーボウルを提供しに行くどのようにわずか22分長く、チャンスがあればそれをチェックアウト移動です！
ラップをこよなく愛するアキラは、日本を抜け出しアメリカでレコード店を営む。店で新たに働くことになった、同じくラップ好きの黒人の女の子と恋に落ちる。人種の違い、二つの異なる文化、家族や友達の偏見が渦巻く。二人の恋の行方は？
http://jp.con-can.com/watch/preview.php?id=20081206&mode=high&start=10
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