First Issue of Rolling Stone Magazine (November 9, 1967)
For some I feel more comfortable posting to this blog than the main blog. i feel a bit more free here... it's almost like i can take the liberty to freewrite and write blah blah blah and post up whatever and people wont mind...
anyway, this past week has been quite busy here. i've been somewhat caught up in this digg.com thing, trying to figure out how it all works, how articles make it to the front page, becoming extremely addicted to it. "digging" articles left and right. at some later point I want to talk about my experience with this... it was fun in the beginning, but things are starting to get annoying...
also, blog surfing and dropping entrecards, i've noticed, seems to be taking up a lot of my time. i dont know why, but i just have to drop my 300 for the main blog and 300 for this blog... and i'm not quite sure how other people do it, how they can visit 600 to 900 blogs a day and be able to continue and have the time to update their own blogs. they're quite amazing those bloggers!
i'm going to have to make some adjustments, since the projects that i'm working on are video related, and video, i've come to a realization is extremely time consuming!
I had a few things I wanted to post on the main blog but decided to scratch them... I guess they weren't "ready" enough. and i'd rather not post anything all that I dont feel is ready...
Here are few things that I wanted to post about:
- 1) Rolling Stone Cover to Cover DVD purchase
- 2) Olympics and Synchronized Springboard Diving.
- 3) Colbert's Green Screen Challenge
- 4) Review of the Celtx Software
This past wednesday I finally received my copy of The Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years. It's listed for about $79.00 on Amazon.com, but I got it for much cheaper than that, more than half the price off. Aint I cool now?
Honestly, I've never read a single issue of the Rolling Stone magazine before. All I know is that it once used to be a hip magazine for all things music...
Really, the only reason for getting it was so I could be able to browse the issue with Annie Lebowitz's famous photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. You know the one with John Lennon in the nude, in the fetal position lying next to Yoko Ono? And the only reason I know about this photo was from a photography class I took awhile back and we studied Annie Lebowitz.
The January 22st, 1981 Issue of the Rolling Stone. $1.50.
The image is definitely in high resolution, and I'm quite happy about this purchase. That image alone for me was worth the money I paid. Here's the cropped screenshot of that issue:
And I've been pretty much preoccupied with this Rolling Stone magazine, browsing through 40 years of music.
The other thing that happened this past week was the Olympics. After a wonderful and spectacular Opening Ceremony, some crazed man had to kill an American tourist... My heart goes out to the American killed in Beijing. Todd Bachman. I really don't know what to say about this. It is extremely sad and I really cant find the words to express and its really affecting my mood... I just hope there isnt any more tragedies like this... and everything goes smoothly for the Olympics here on out.
My original post regarding the Olympics had to do with Synchronized Diving. It was interesting to watch this event last night. But I wondered why there werent any twins competing in general, wondered if there was some rule against it... because twins would definitely have a clear advantage in these synchronized events. And so I started to brainstorm about it, but eventually just scratched the whole idea. Here's what was started:
Now you can pretty much see why I scratched it. Alright, it's time for me to sleep. Good night everyone.
