new project freakpelican.com

gini and i are about to drop our new studio's site.

stay tuned.

-christopher

learning never stops(for a devigner like me)

With the recent departure of my macbook pro, i have become a "PC". I always knew which side of the "i'm a mac - i'm a PC" ad's. My website applepirate has turned into a moniker at this point. I have even been called Captain Apple by a brunette or two.

But now im back to square one. I'm learning my a$$ off about linux and a bunch of programming languages that i never wanted to learn. I was a die hard mac user that used Adobe and Macromedia(RIP) products. Now.... im using Quanta Plus to edit text files on a copy of the gOS.

Free.... ALL FREE!!! I have always been a fan of the Open Source concept and all the app's it creates for the world wide blob. Now im actually making money building HTML websites off of a 5 year old Sony VAIO that has a busted video card and a free operating system.

Torrenting e-books like a mad man is fun stuff. I have collected 6.8gigs of ebook goodness in a matter of two days. Kinda makes me want a special ebook reader.

so... enough blogging for now, back to "PHP & MYSQL for dummies"

loving this

this has been a fun one.

rE-cycle

rE-cycle



10 dollars a month to drop off and pick up up.



3 bins



1st bin is for compost.



2nd bin is for metal and plastics



3rd bin is for non compostable -trash (including biohazard and e-waste)

rEnt a mac----2009

12 macs..


3 intel macbook's

3 intel macbook pro's

3 mac pro's with 30" screens

3 24" imac with 20"


macbook 10 dollars a day or 200 per month.

macbook pro 15 dollars a day or 250 per month

mac pro 20 dollars a day or 400 per month

iMac 15 dollars a day or 300 per month

ambdiagnostic.com

new site in the works.

getting paid to make people happy is a great thing in life.

fuck AS3 finally makes sense

this is rad!

Blogged with the Flock Browser

gettting there!

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Blogged with the Flock Browser

well well well...

There seems to be a new site in town. And this new site is where i am supposed to be spending my time updating and monitoring. But there is just something about the site that feels like its "not mine".

So im doing a shitty job of doing what im supposed to be doing.

who says work cant be fun!

community workspace open house today

stop on by the hat factory today before 7pm for their open house!

801 Minnesota St at 20th St. #08.

check their site for more info and directions...

"The Hat Factory is community office space for geeks and media hackers. We're a group of open sourcers, video bloggers, Drupal developers, and more who are tired of working from coffee shops and home every day."
-hatfactory.net

AIR App For CuredCollab

If anyone has a project we can add it to a "wish list" for dev/art/production/idea help. As you load your small flex based AIR app that allows to create "job" or "idea" postings.

A job would be a gig that actually has a budget and has some room for people to be brought in at a later decided rate. A idea is something that a collaborater has and would love help with, hopefully the golden rule can kick in and collaboraters will excel at taking on "ideas" from fellow collab members as they see that their really is an equal and opposite reaction to every action.

If a collab member could simply see and idea in a AIR app it would kill all the pitch time between members. The team could generate singular brainstorm sessions that would later save time when the first meeting about the job or idea finally happens. With an AIR app running all of this would happen as easy as gmail. They would just appear at your desktop waiting for you to have a free second. Hopefully we will kill the pressure of having to respond to a direct email or the pressure of "not doing your part" if you never have time for idea's and can only actively seek Jobs.

The interface would be a simple cloud based concept the ideas are at the base(_y = 0)of your desktop(e-wall) as they appear on the server the longer they are on the server the higher _y property is. This will allow for a new idea to not be a top level need or annoyance. As an idea or job is formed it's base level creation will be represented by the place on screen. We all know that we build on great ideas and they become amazing ideas... we then take those amazing ideas and hopefully with the right level of collab interaction will develop something revolutionary.

The team/members is what drive this application. A member would have to actively take ideas and jobs no matter what the scale is directly to the AIR app b/c with a team of involvement we will always have a larger collaborative effect. The fear of you idea being to lame or the job not paying enough is exactly what we have to steer clear of.

The Z axis can be combined to show activity of the community. The more hits the idea gets and the more activity it recieves the closer to the screen it appears. If an idea is never touched it will be back in the background waiting for someone to realize it has been almost forgotten.

cured collab benefits
For out of towners. you get a space to work with fast macs and a raid of fonts photos video audio and collaborative code librarys

OS code would be published on monday mornings giving the public a look at what the collab has been up to. saturday and sunday would be code revision and project validation days. lt will start out as the end of the week uploading of iniitial products for the website between initial collaboraters as it builds it will be a rating day(s) for projects fromt that week that should be displayed inside of the collab site.

Collaboraters will all recieve:
a) user profile
b) an email address at curedcollaborative.com
c)hosting for their site and sites
d)the web app that will control all of this from the desktop as well as display all collaborations that are not public yet or possibly even ever.

Pay options are as follows:
a) Space in a collaboration location
1. may just be meeting and communal space for the initial 30 a month fee. Thats an Meeting office and a kitchen in tokyo dallas san francisco new york and LA For a dollar a day.
2. a minimal 10x10 office for work of your chosing for 300 a month a 10x exponential growth from your initial introduction of 30 a month.
3. a 10x10 space added to your location of chosing for an additional 100 a month.

b) Maintenance of ongoing task
1.Shipping management
2. Accounting
3. Secratarial Services
4. Mailing list and Mail collection (Snail and Ground) Email digitiing for all incoming snail mail documents.
5. Growth of servers and Backups

This shit is banana's

Here we go. ben is finally on board like whoa. Today ben sent out an email starting my ass on this blog. He seems excited about what is about to happen. Its nice to finally have someone on board.

The idea is simple. Make a place for everyone to work alone together.

It should work if the right team is assembled. Who knows maybe we can really go worldwide like i dream of. We'll see.

-Christopher Martin