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Update: Sadly Brave Blackey was struck and killed by a car on November 8th (2009-11-08), NIne days after I took this photo.

Took a short walk to clear my head, it was a grayish autumn day, but if you look closer, happiness is everywhere.

Fooling around with the idea - of portraits not being people at their best, but of people at their worst - much more honest, far more interesting…the anguish I’m experiencing in these images is real, so much more personal that a fake smile.

…from top to bottom - head in the clouds, face made for radio, pockets full of kryptonite, fists of fury, and feets don’t fail me now..

I’ve been working my way through the 6GB’s of emerging artists from this years SXSW conference, maybe it’s just me being nostalgic but so far my favorite is this strange electronica band ‘ear pwr’

ear_pwr on myspace

Guilty Pleasures as of 2009-03-27

Movies: I’m conceptually obligated to watch these movies to conclusion when ever I find them on TV, I dont think I need to qualify them in any way, they’re not fine cinema, but for some reason I just love them.

• Under Siege 2- Dark Territory: Steven Segal, Eric Bogosian
• Hudson Hawk: Danny Aielo, Bruce Willis
• Rocky 5:  Sylvester Stallone and it really doesn’t matter
• MallRats: Jason Lee and the Brilliant writing of Kevin Smith

Music: Not only do I listen to these songs, I’m usually singing along, badly. Again no apologies.

• Fragile Heart: Jewel
• Walk This Way: Aerosmith
• Toxic: Britney Spears
• Walking on Sunshine: Katrina and the Waves
• Before He Cheats: Carrie Underwood

Food: I know they’re horrible for me, I know the better alternatives, I eat these anyway, and before you jump all over me for including Hershey’s Chocolate- I think we all agree it’s not the best quality chocolate, but it IS what my brain thinks chocolate should taste like.

• Vendor Pretzels: Are these fresh?
• Velvetta Cheese: I’m sure that yellow color is 100% natural
• Hershey’s Chocolate
• Peanut M&M’s, In my opinion the finest, most perfect candy on the planet.

The usefulness of JQuery never fails to amaze me - everytime I use it I feel I should be cutting John Resig (and all the JQuery community folks) a check.

John
JQuery

Tagged: webdev

I’ve obviously been neglecting this blog - don’t blame me, blame twitter - a lot my ideas get blasted out in 140 characters 15-25 times a day - so if you don’t already follow sauldraws on twitter - perhaps you should.

sauldraws on twitter.

I have a LOT of media - I listen to music 19 hours a day, and I’m a frequent purchaser on the Apple iTunes Store - I’ve never had an issue with Apple’s DRM, I understand the need for it, it’s never caused me any pain - until today.

I’ve been reorganizing my iTunes libraries onto a large (locally attached) external drive, that gets sync’d to my studio server - works flawlessly, except that this morning I realized that even though both of my machines are authorized to play DRM’d content, neither of them could, kind of a scary thought since I have 1000’s of dollars worth of DRM’d music.

On a hunch I relaunched itunes (with the option key down) and reverted back to my original iTunes library (local to my internal drive) and tried playing the same album - played fine, following the same hunch, I relaunched iTunes went back to the new library and used iTunes to import the DRM’d music from the old library to the new library - it plays, cursory examination of the files shows they’re the same, same size, creation dates, modified dates - yet the manually copied files don’t play.

I’ll add it to the list of things I hate about iTunes (coming to this blog very soon)

Tagged: apple, drm, itunes