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Photo of the day

Roger — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:10:08 +0000

Today’s photo is a combo of two. Shot and edited on my phone.
Before:

After:

Flowcharts for Big Answers

Roger — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:28:51 +0000

344 Illustrated Flowcharts to Find Lifes Big Answers | Brain Pickings.

I want this book, and for $10 I will have this book.

Where’s the beef? 2012(Update)

Roger — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:02:02 +0000

The flaw in the report is that it treats American consumers as passive actors who are victims of diminishing supplies, rising costs and government bias against the meat industry. Nowhere does it mention that we’re eating less meat because we want to eat less meat.

via Were Eating Less Meat. Why? – NYTimes.com.

Interesting article on American’s trend of eating less meat. I can attest that Kate and I are eating less meat mainly from a weight loss perspective, but the economics are impossible to ignore. Add to it the fact that meat is heavily subsidized and uses up a lot of oil to move around and our house is easily following this trend.

Best of all is that Kate has really jumped on board with things and is making some amazing recipes. Check out these books:

[UPDATE] – Kate has chimed in with the following:

I BEGAN eating less meat mainly from a weight loss perspective.

I CONTINUE to eat less meat due to aforementioned reasons.

NGC 6357 Nebula Original Modern Abstract by MelissaSherowski

Roger — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:55:00 +0000

My good friend Melissa Sherowski is not just a well adjusted listener of drum and bass, she is also a darn fine painter. Here I am linking to one of her acrylic paintings from her Expansion and Flux series. I was able to attend the premiere of this series in fancy dancy Vail Colorado, its was mos def.

You should click below to purchase this fine painting and help support a rad individual.
NGC 6357 Nebula Original Modern Abstract by MelissaSherowski.

This is why Apple doesn’t have a popular Social Media Network in Ping

Roger — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:44:00 +0000

What an awesome day today! Had a great lunch with an old pal and made a number of connections that are going to be highly productive.

Then I am home jamming to some jammy jams with my lady and I go to ‘Like’ an old DJ Shadow song on Ping and I get this:

Why Apple's Ping is not going to be a big Social Network

For my Kate – Lifetime by Shapeshifter

Roger — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:27:42 +0000

“Oh, hey, with you anything is possible.”
Yup that sums it up baby!

Support good music buy this song here:

Video: Year 0001 – Pictures Katie and Me took set to Rock It by Sub Focus

Roger — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:35:53 +0000

So Kate and I met in December of 2009 and proceeded to have one hell of an awesome year. We took a few thousand pictures and I have been trying to figure out what to do with them all. Here are 315 of them set to one of my favorite Drum and Bass tracks – Rock It by Sub Focus (I hope they dont sue us, its a great song and we arent making any money from this. You should buy the track from iTunes cause its that good.) We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it!

Here is the HD Version(Double click on the screen to go Full Screen and give it a bit to fully load):

There will be more, be ready!

Electronic Music Festival in Phoenix this Weekend – Colossal!

Roger — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:50:02 +0000

Colossal Phoenix Electronic Music Festival April 2011

Sometimes its good to have a friend like my man Tim. Mostly its an antagonistic situation where we are closer to pushing each other into oncoming traffic, but thats probably what makes hanging out worth while. Mostly he is trying to get me arrested and I am mostly making fun of how pale he is. The good news is that he is very impressionable and after 7 years of work has learned to appreciate Drum and Bass. Which brings us to The Colossal Event featuring DnB headliners Chase and Status.

Its going down this Friday April 22nd and Saturday April 23rd at The Madison Event Center which is right next to the Ice House in downtown Phoenix(Google Link). Tickets are $47 for General Admission for both days or VIP for $120 and then you get the OPEN Bar. I plan on attending and expect to be hard of hearing for at least the following 7 days or so. Are you gonna be there?

In typical Phoenix fashion there does not appear to be a dedicated website for the event making definite information difficult to find via Google. I want to support the Phoenix music scene but its hard to find it most of the time.

Here are the details as stolen from other websites:

3 Areas of music, with over 60 performers over two days!! Arizona’s first 2 Day Electronic Music Festival is here.

APRIL 22-23 // 6pm-2am Friday// 5pm-2am Saturday // 2 Day Event
…

Friday – April 22

Chase & Status DJ Set – www.facebook.com/chaseandstatus
Aly & Fila – www.facebook.com/alyandfila
Max Graham www.facebook.com/maxgraham
Jakes – www.facebook.com/jakeshench
TV Rock – www.facebook.com/tvrockonline
Space Rockerz – www.facebook.com/SpaceRockerz
HavocNdeeD – www.facebook.com/havocndeedsound
Jordan Stevens – www.facebook.com/djjordanstevens
Radar – www.facebook.com/djradar
Louder – www.facebook.com/djlouder
Mike Saga – www.facebook.com/mightymikesaga
Sean Essex www.facebook.com/djseanessex
DJ Lujan www.facebook.com/djlujan

Performance Art from Ms. Easy and Team EZ

Saturday – April 23

Steve Aoki – www.steveaoki.com
Jack Beats – www.facebook.com/jackbeatsmusic
Nero – www.facebook.com/nerouk
Felguk – www.facebook.com/felguk
Felix Cartal – www.facebook.com/felixcartal
Liquid Stranger – www.facebook.com/liquidstranger
Style of Eye – www.facebook.com/styleofeyeofficial
Turner & Heit – www.facebook.com/turnerandheit
Tranzit – www.facebook.com/djtranzit
Michael James www.facebook.com/djmichaeljames
Jared Alan

Performance Art from Ms. Easy and Team EZ

With support from:

Spyder
Brook B
Sean Android
Dooz
DJ Casper
Ms. Sparks
Freightrain
Mara Vs Disko Da
Matt Dunn
Johnny Jam
CIK
Constantine
Schwasted
Sam Groove
Ebomb
Cameron Graham
Nemo
Squarzan vs. Whiteboi
Thomas James
Feed me Techno vs Ozone Ace
Kasmira
DirtyTricks
Funkefeller
Crit
Audio Intervention
Dan Lunsford
Marija Dunn
DJ Moonfire

TICKETS :

LIMITED 2 DAY GA TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 45.00 at the following locations:

-Online: https://www.eventvibe.com/events//CO…ction=purchase
- www.groovetickets.com
- www.wantickets.com

Hard Tickets:
-Graffiti Shop on Mill

-All Zia Record Locations:
–Tempe – 105 W University
–Phoenix – 1940 W Indian School Rd & 2510 W Thunderbird Rd
–Chandler – 1940 W Chandler Blvd
–Tucson – 3370 E Speedway Blvd & 3655 N Oracle

-Delivery: Text your name + I Need tickets to Colossal to 602-300-1556

Wanna Win Tickets? Text your full name to 602-284-2842 for details

16+ Event // 21+ Drinking Area w/ ID

The VIP Experience (21+ only)

Your VIP Experience ticket will include:
- Separate VIP Express Ticket Pick up
- Exclusive VIP Fast Pass Entrance
- OPEN Vodka and Beer VIP Area Bar …. ([/SIZE]yes I said OPEN)
- Private DJ’s and Sound System and lighting in your area
- Special VIP front of stage viewing areas
- Complimentary water

Beer sponsored by Coors Light

Is Phoenix Graffiti the problem or are we just stifling Artists?

Roger — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:42:36 +0000

Phoenix Anti Graffiti Programs

Recently a City of Phoenix representative came by my house and gave me consent form to setup a camera behind our property. The problem at hand is Graffiti. Our house backs up to the Canal and the side of our concrete wall that faces the canal gets tagged every once and a while. The city comes and paints it over and the taggers come back and tag again. Its a really great use of city resources. When I asked the representative how effective the cameras were she said that they hardly ever catch anyone.
Way to go Phoenix! Lets spend money trying to catch kids who are simply expressing themselves in the only form left after we have cut all the Art programs at the schools. Once again we are focused only on punishing the crime rather than eliminating the root cause of the crime.

Untitled Graffiti In Phoenix

Personally I like graffiti, as long as its done well and put in a respectable location. The back side of my wall facing the canal is totally fine with me since I never see it. In fact I would like to welcome some good muralists to put something good on there. This will prevent the scrappy taggers from putting anything else on there as its known that you don’t tag over anything of quality. Also the canal is one of the uglier places in town. Generally full of trash and totally void of any personality I think we should welcome aspiring artists to use the canal as their canvas.
Instead we have “Graffiti Busters” who get my tax dollars to go around and paint over graffiti. Don’t get me wrong I am totally against punk ass kids tagging up someone’s house, car, or personal property. This is disrespectful, but I don’t see how criminalizing and fining anyone for this does anything other than drive them more underground. Instead we should be funding art programs that create a mentorship situation where kids get certain areas where they can paint. This beings the whole situation into the light where good habits can be encouraged and developed. Rather than create criminals we can create artists.
A quick search of the Arizona Commission for the Arts for Graffiti comes up with no results… They have a Twitter and Facebook feed, I suggest we start this discussion for them.
Here is a great article from Jonathan Macnamara of the Phoenix New Times on Graffiti in downtown Phoenix. Its a great example of how Graffiti brings people together and lets the artists find a creative and positive outlet for their angst.
So what do you think about Graffiti? Is it just punk kids who don’t care about anything or are they artists trying to express themselves in the only way available to them? Personally I think Phoenix could use more murals and colors.

Desertstandard TV with Roger and Greg talking Pandas n shit

Roger — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:13:55 +0000

Sometimes your lunch gets ruined by an asshole like my buddy Greg, so I put him on camera and let him show the world how smart he isnt. Seriously though if you get offended by any of this you need to go have a beer or 18.