Watain – Malfeitor. Great song, with an amazing melody at the end.
More photos from the Joel Meyerowitz retrospective and finissage at the NRW Forum Düsseldorf.
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Joel Meyerowitz is doing his own 365-project!
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Local metal band from Düsseldorf and Ratingen getting bigger and bigger.
Another great Metal Evolution episode: Progressive Metal. (Although, it’s a mystery to me how they could not mention Opeth.)
Seth's Blog: You are what you share
Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better. The culture we will live in next month is a direct result of what people like us share today. The things we share and don’t share determine what happens next. As we move away from the top-down regime of promoted movies, well-shelved books and all sorts of hype, the recommendation from person to person is now the most powerful way we have to change things.
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Drumming
Nicole got me this e-drumkit for my birthday last year. It’s a Roland HD-3 V-Drums Lite and it’s absolutely fantastic. Playing it almost every day.
We watched this yesterday night.
For many metal fans, Extreme Metal is heavy metal.
Yep!
My first iOS app
After 6 months of iterations and spending the preceding 2 months learning about Objective-C and Cocoa, I’m proud to have shipped my first iOS app: Out East, NZ.
It went live just before Christmas and it’s an universal app for iPhones, iPads and iPods. It’s a tourism app, where travellers can get infos and reviews on things to do and see, places to eat and sleep etc. for the Eastland region of New Zealand.
The app has been developed for Tourism Eastland in collaboration between myself, Cymen Crick and Mike Howe of Rankers and Aaron Innes of Broker Brothers.
It’s a great team. The others provided most of the requirements, the vision, the ideas and the design. They also provided great feedback along the way and made sure the actual data for this app was present and ready. While I was involved in some of the things mentioned above, my main responsibility was all of the implementation: coding the actual iOS app in Objective-C and Cocoa, creating a custom map with TileMill, and writing the server-side API with Ruby and Rails. And it all had to be available offline (while still downloading updates from the server periodically).
It was a great and fun project to work on. I think mostly, because there was a great deal of respect and trust involved and I had lots of freedom to develop my own ideas and make my own suggestions. But also because the whole collaboration and communication was excellent. It was open, constructive and clear. And that’s not something I take for granted. It also proves that distributed teams can work very productively (not that I needed another proof): We had Cymen and Aaron in Gisborne on New Zealand’s North Island, Mike in Golden Bay on the South Island, and myself in Düsseldorf, Germany and everything was smoothly managed via Basecamp and Skype.
Despite being fun, it was also challenging. I had to learn so much new stuff (and I am still learning): Objective-C, Cocoa, additional libraries, developing a custom map, and all the tools involved – Xcode, TestFlight, provisioning profiles, iTunes Connect and the whole app-review thing, TileMill etc. Sometimes – or maybe even often – it was really frustrating to implement even basic things, because everything was so new to me and I had to consult the documentation for every little bit. But it has nevertheless been a very rewarding and inspiring journey and it feels a lot less frustrating by now.
While we wish we had been able to include more features in this first version, everybody involved is still very happy with the end result.
Try the app for yourself. It’s free. And feedback is always welcome.
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A postcard from NY. Thanks, Andre! Excellent taste. :-)
What our desks look like - 2015 edition by Dan Kim of Basecamp
These pictures give you just a small glimpse into our team—one built on a wonderful mix of cultures, interests, and personalities. Having such a diverse team is one of the greatest benefits of being a 100% remote company, and it’s a privilege to work with such incredible people.
Good stuff. The workplace in the Airstream is my favourite.
France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration - The Intercept
Report-turned-rant by Glenn Greenwald:
Think about the “defending terrorism” criminal offense for which Dieudonné has been arrested. Should it really be a criminal offense – causing someone to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned – to say something along these lines: western countries like France have been bringing violence for so long to Muslims in their countries that I now believe it’s justifiable to bring violence to France as a means of making them stop? If you want “terrorism defenses” like that to be criminally prosecuted (as opposed to societally shunned), how about those who justify, cheer for and glorify the invasion and destruction of Iraq, with its “Shock and Awe” slogan signifying an intent to terrorize the civilian population into submission and its monstrous tactics in Fallujah? Or how about the psychotic calls from a Fox News host, when discussing Muslims radicals, to “kill them ALL.” Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred – other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?
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Selfie with Sandra at DUS.
Humans Need Not Apply:
That’s why it’s important to emphasize again this stuff isn’t science fiction. The robots are here right now. There is a terrifying amount of working automation in labs and warehouses that is proof of concept.
We have been through economic revolutions before, but the robot revolution is different.
Horses aren’t unemployed now because they got lazy as a species, they’re unemployable. There’s little work a horse can do that pays for its housing and hay.
And many bright, perfectly capable humans will find themselves the new horse: unemployable through no fault of their own.