Dead Venues Map

Or, “How I Spent The Better Part Of My Weekend”. I spent most of the day yesterday experimenting with the Google Maps API for the Dead Venues project. There’s a lot of power behind this API and it’s a lot of fun to work with. Despite some holes in the Baltimore street view data, this will be a great interactive feature for the site. By clicking a venue marker on the map, it will display a present day street view (where available) and cross link to related articles in the (new) Dead Venues Blog.

Vinylmore 2: Tiny Town

FRIDAY APRIL 3rd
8PM @ Atomic Books
3620 Falls Road
Hampden, Baltimore

This year’s Vinylmore show will run through April at Atomic Books, and will feature more than 60 artists and more than 100 custom toys. A little different than last year, all artists will be submitting toys 2.5″ and smaller, hence the “Tiny Town”. I’m still in the brainstorming stages, trying to up the ante on the Boogans I made last year. More info and details to come!

Vinylmore 2 artists include: Boson Au, Daniel Barojas, Justin Blemly, Stephen Blickenstaff, Sam Bosma, Michael S Bracco, Cathleen Brooks, James Bullough, Aaron Bust, Peter Change, Ben Claassen III, Datek, Alexis De La Rosa, Alex Fine, Cam Floyd, Penny Forester, Ghostfreehood, Josh Griffin, Kate Haberer, Brandon Hill, Tim Hill, Jordan Jeffries, Jereminus, Gregory Johnson, Elena Johnston, Chris Keaton, Daniel Krall, Hawk Krall, Jim Lasher, Sarah Mires, STeve Morris, Carl Nielson, Robby Rackleff (Blue Leader), Marc Raley, Brian Ralph, Ryan Onorato, Stephen John Phillips, Michael Sachse, Erik Jacobus Schmalz, Whitney Sherman, Jim Shae, Kevin Sherry, Dave Sobel, Caleb Stine, Nolen Strals, Scott Sugiuchi, Sara Tomko, Tophat, Trebuchet, Andrea Vitale-Lathe, Erin Womack, Yumi Yasuda, Darcey Young, Jeremy Zombie

Soft Graffiti

Check the refresh on Raven’s blog: Soft Graffiti. I’ve been on a design kick the last couple weeks and felt inspired to give it another pass. I finally got the domain resolved and now I’m learning how to customize the Thematic Theme Framework. Super easy!

http://www.softgraffiti.com

Think About It

You can listen to my band’s new EP Think About It on our new website: http://softcement.com

If you like it, you can pick it up at one of the mentioned locations or at any of our shows.

• Dead Venues is launched. Possible mention of it in the Sun this weekend.
• Had an awesome weekend at the beach house with Raven and the fam.
• Geoff and I settled on Soft Cement as our band name. We’re done recording the EP and only have one more mixing session. Packaging is gonna be tight.
• I launched the super secret Beatbots Digital. Currently hosting the Small Sur album and soon hosting the Soft Cement EP (Think About It).
• At work I’m redesigning the UI for Cellblock and it so far it looks mad sexier. We’ll be launching that some time next week probably.
• Speaking of work. Big things in the haps with NBC / UNIVERSAL.
• In an effort to get more involved with the IRL, I’ve joined up with the kids at the Hexagon Space. I’m real stoked on it. I’ll be working on the space, book shows, web programming, promotions, etc.
• September 8th is my 27th birthday. Feel free to buy me something awesome.
• September 13th I’ll be running a Beatbots booth at Hampdenfest (”MEATROTS”). If you have a tent that you’d like to lend me, holler!

In other news, I was watching the Obama speech tonight and who should I see on the TV in the audience, but sis Caitlin McD. Surreal!

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