Looks like someone clipped a fire hydrant today in Encino. I was driving by around 1045 this morning and traffic was all screwed up. I soon saw why.
Jason Tucker and Megan Enloe (@podcastjunky) at BarCampLA 6 four years ago
L-R: Deborah Shadovitz, Joe Crawford, Steve Riekeberg, Jason Cosper
Looking to get your geek on? What better way than to build you own “third eye” personal proximity detector.
From the Machine Project web site…
Sunday, October 21st
10am to 4pmInstructors: Tim Perkis and Sara Roberts.
Non-Members: $75
Members: $65Register on the Machine Project web site
What if you could see if someone was behind you, feel how close they are to you? Would that change your notion of the borders of your body, change the kind of social interactions you have with people, open up new possibilities for group games and sports?
In the Third_Eye Workshop each participant will build and take home a 3rd_eye, a small device that can be clipped on a headband, hat or cap. The third_eye uses infrared light to sense your proximity to people or objects and buzzes more vigorously the closer they are. (Often people quickly forget they are wearing them and just incorporate them as a new sense, going from thinking “this thing is buzzing on my neck” to simply “someone is behind me” in less than an hour. )
First we’ll build the devices, a relatively simple process in which you’ll learn to solder and do simple electronic assembly. Then we’ll play with these gizmos in group improvisations and games. Participants should bring a headband, hat, or cap so they can wear their 3rd_eye comfortably.
Tim is an electronic musician who has worked for over 25 years with computer networks and improvisation; he is also a filmmaker (Noisy People, 2006)
Sara is into exploring sound and human dynamics with non-expert groups of people. Her best known tool is the “earbies”, a set of 50 handheld loop recorders. She teaches in Experimental Sound Practices at Cal Arts.
third eye ps2020 from tim perkis on Vimeo.
Taken while out watering a few plants in the front garden.
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You’ve got just 2 nights left to catch Comedy of Errors for free with the Independent Shakespeare Company. We have seen all three shows this summer and had a GREAT time! Check them out before you have to wait for another 6 months!.
Can’t see the video about? Watch “Place LA – Independent Shakespeare Company” on YouTube
A timelapse video by Colin Rich I spotted via this Gizmodo post – This Most Amazing Time Lapse Shows The Beautiful Life of a City. Watch it full screen, if you can.
NightFall from Colin Rich on Vimeo.
I am a big fan of mysteries, so when our friend Lisa Seidman came out with her first book (Killer Ratings) I knew I had to take a look. I am just starting to read it now, but I wanted to share it with you. Lisa is a longtime television writer and a great one at that, so I expect the best from Killer Ratings and look forward to new episodes in the series.
You can buy the book directly from the Amazon Kindle store, for the Nook Reader at Barnes and Noble and via Apple’s iBooks store. From the Amazon Kindle store you can download a free sample or give the book as a gift to your favorite mystery lover.
Remember, you can read Kindle books on any computer or smartphone using the free Kindle Reader software or just your web browser.
You can find out more about Lisa Seidman at her personal web site. Look for updates on the Killer Ratings web site and also Like Killer Ratings on the Facebook page.
Here is some more information about Killer Ratings…
Description:
Killer Ratings by Lisa Seidman
Los Angeles is no stranger to glamour, celebrity . . . and murder. When Susan Kaplan moves to L.A. to become a TV writer, she’s thrilled to be hired as a writers’ assistant on the well-regarded but low-rated TV series Babbitt & Brooks. The last thing she expects, however, is that she’d find herself working for the beautiful yet seriously neurotic Rebecca Saunders, the show’s less-than-competent associate producer who may or may not have gotten the job by sleeping with Babbitt & Brooks’ demanding creator and executive producer, Ray Goldfarb.
And Susan definitely doesn’t expect to find murdered Rebecca’s body in her office at the studio early one morning. When the police learn that Rebecca torpedoed Susan’s writing career shortly before her death, Susan becomes their number one suspect. Determined to prove her innocence and find the murderer, Susan discovers that all her colleagues have secrets they would kill to protect.
From producers to writers to stars, it seems that the hopes and dreams of nearly everyone associated with the show were being threatened by Rebecca.
Despite the danger to her own life, Susan remains determined to find Rebecca’s killer and in the process unmasks the dirty little secrets behind the making of a primetime television series. She learns that real life behind the camera is far more dramatic than the fictional one in front of it.
Lisa Seidman draws on her thirty years of experience as a successful television writer to take the reader behind the scenes and show how the struggle to achieve high ratings truly can lead to murder.
What people are saying about Killer Ratings…
“A delightful expose of what goes on behind the glamor, the perfect smiles and the adoring fans. Lisa Seidman’s KILLER RATINGS tells it all. Be prepared to be entertained, thrilled and chilled as Susan realizes her dream to work in a TV production company. It is a dream that soon becomes a nightmare.” – Novelist Claire McNab
“Lisa Seidman weaves together vivid characters, delightful mystery, and the wry wit of a true TV insider to create a delicious tale of reckless ambition and literal and figurative backstabbing that will not only entertain you, but change your relationship with your television forever.” Sheryl J. Anderson, Killer Heels
“Fascinating. Fast-paced. Fun. Emmy winning scriptwriter Lisa Seidman’s debut mystery goes backstage at a TV production company where pride, passion, and peril lead to Killer Ratings. A Killer Mystery.” Carolyn Hart, author of the Death on Demand series
“Take an edgy TV production team, add a sprinkling of fierce ambition and finish off with a large handful of paranoia and you have the perfect setting for murder. TV writer Lisa Seidman, who’s been on that set, skillfully does it all in Killer Ratings. Annette Meyers, author of the Death on Demand series
“In Killer Ratings, Lisa Seidman, a television writer herself, provides a thrill ride through the ambition-ridden and ego saturated world of TV production, where there is more death and drama behind the camera than in front of it.” Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of the Odelia Grey mysteries and the Ghost of Granny Apples mysteries
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