Happy holidays
Tim and Lilian wishing you happy holidays and a fantastic new year!
Thanksgiving at Aedhmar’s and Kelvin’s!!! Mmmmm, Mmmmm, good!
Berklee Today cover story about my career in the digital music industry — Berklee College of Music’s quarterly magazine.
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Our July 2010 trip to Fortaleza, Cumbuco, Jericoacoara, and Fleixeiras, Brazil. Made with iMovie on the iPhone 4.
More endless Brazillian beaches. Jericoacoara, Ceara, Brazil. On the right, our little rental car. On the left, my 12m North Vegas Kite waiting to be put to the test in 22+ knots of wind.
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Cumbuco, Brazil. Kite surfing paradise of endless empty beaches.
Status Board “InfoWall”
Like many, I thought Panic’s status board was a great idea. Sony Music’s D2C group produces countless artist web sites, runs over 70 90 artist stores, and has lots of data, sites, and screenshots to share with staff and visitors.
Inspired by Panic’s single display view, our execution of the status board is comprised of this hardware:
- 3 47” Sony FWDS47H1 pro displays with a super thin bezel and DVI input, rotated 90 degrees
- 1 Mac Mini
- A USB to DVI converter to add 1 more DVI out to the Mac Mini’s existing 2 video ports
Software: I wrote a rails app that our staff has access to which enables posting of new “slides”. Each slide is comprised of the individual 3 screens. Each screen can have:
- An uploaded image (of a full resolution of 1080 x 1920)
- HTML, to load URLs via an iframe — such as live feed RSS pages, stats, charts, web sites, etc.
- Or provide a URL that takes an automatic screenshot at the full resolution. This feature is powered by a separate screenshot web service we have for other reasons.
The server-side app lets you create new slides, edit existing slides, move slides to the playlist, re-order the playlist, specify how long each slide displays for, etc. The Mac Mini runs a main Chrome window that loads a JS app which loads the JSON data for the playlist, checks if the playlist updated or not, opens 3 new browser windows, and manages the slide transitions and timers. To hide the mouse pointer, we use Doomlaser’s Cursorcerer.
This execution is a hybrid slide show app as well as a live data dash board for stats, a map for where our last sale occurred in real-time, our most recent artist web sites (live), etc.
Here are some screenshots for the RoR app.
New D2C “InfoWall”. 3 Sony Pro screens using a Chrome browser and Rails app to show screen shots, images, and web pages.
NYTimes: Apple to Shut Down Lala Music Site http://nyti.ms/c2m0Cm
Toco in the wind on Westend Ave.
