31: The Big Picture

August 28, 2008 10:07 PM

This podcast was recorded on August 25th and features an interview with kokogiak about his Big Picture project. Interview runs about 30 minutes of the hour long show.

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MeFi Music

You Need More MeFi In Your Life by davejay

Dub Dub by god particle

Young Devin Funck by cortex (some background on it)

Take Five by danb


kokogiak interview

kokogiak's profile

Alan's personal site (flickr account)

"Tunnel Town" Whittier, Alaska thread

Big Picture at Boston.com (Big Picture thread on MeFi)

The New King of Tonga at the Big Picture

Firefighting photos at the Big Picture

Similar (copycat?) big picture sites: Denver Post, Sacramento Bee, and Wall Street Journal (WSJ's weak 404 on the old URL).

kokogiak in the National Geographic (from this post on his blog)

Other projects mentioned: large bodies in the Solar System and Megapenny Project


Music mentions

MusicTalk area (throat singing!)


MeFi links

Greaser Gangs post

The Shire in Foreclosure

US Presidential Campaigns videos

Literary Voyeurism

Every single MST3k Episode

Worst Colleges in America

Emily out of the Uncanny Valley


Ask MeFi threads

Help me cut costs and live cheaply

What item do you use all the time and couldn't live without?

Share your favorite photography hacks

Help me track down beautiful science/math posters

Is the act of your parents unpacking your apartment without asking first a privacy/boundary violation?

Extroverts help an introvert out.

Should I learn to flirt and be more of a party girl?


MetaTalk

What's your all-time favorite comment? (dong_resin gets the pixies)

posted by mathowie to MeFi Podcast at 10:07 PM (29 comments total)

(I had to make a censorship beep using the fake synth in GarageBand)
posted by mathowie at 10:09 PM on August 28, 2008 [1 favorite]

Great interview with kokogiak.

What's that Lenin video fakery thing? I'm curious now.
posted by roger ackroyd at 11:00 PM on August 28, 2008

Where the hell is all the italicized punctuation?
posted by pjern at 11:05 PM on August 28, 2008

What's that Lenin video fakery thing? I'm curious now.

I couldn't find it on mefi, but I swear I saw it here, as well as a million jillion other blogs a few weeks ago.
posted by mathowie at 11:10 PM on August 28, 2008

You know, I'm getting a little Astro Zombie fatigue at this point. Not a lot, mind you; just a little.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:10 PM on August 28, 2008 [3 favorites]

Hooray for [k]!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:07 AM on August 29, 2008

Matt talked about a Lenin video - he was talking about this post, of supplementing video with high res photos.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:19 AM on August 29, 2008

What is the site that shall not be named? Can you allude to it without naming it, so thick headed people like me can figure it out?
posted by chillmost at 2:33 AM on August 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

No.

Oh, it's so lame to tease people like this: I am made of pure faux-elitist shit, a big pile of it. I'm piling up so much poop, I'm gonna have to come up with some sort of filing system or something.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:38 AM on August 29, 2008

All the jokes about "the site that shall not be named" are less than clever than annoying.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:26 AM on August 29, 2008 [2 favorites]

"What is the site that shall not be named? Can you allude to it without naming it, so thick headed people like me can figure it out?"

They're talking about FilePile, which for some reason got this huge half-joking conspiracy of silence about it after it turned into an account-only system. Which is peculiar, because of course everybody had heard of it already in the days before you had to make accounts.

I guess the selection of various warez is supposed to be fancier now than it was in those days, or something. HTTP file sharing has sort of gone the way of the dodo with the advent of TBP and isohunt anyway.
posted by majick at 7:29 AM on August 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

hey the levels came out okay on that one!
posted by jessamyn at 7:56 AM on August 29, 2008

Don't thank me, thank levelator!
posted by mathowie at 9:02 AM on August 29, 2008

Don't thank me, thank levelator!

Yay! Speaking of, I think I know my way around Garageband well enough to walk you through an easy-as-pie per-track compression setup on this sucker now, though if the results from Levelator are satisfying enough that may be a moot point.
posted by cortex at 9:05 AM on August 29, 2008

Yay for volume!
posted by Pronoiac at 9:19 AM on August 29, 2008

They're talking about FilePile, which for some reason got this huge half-joking conspiracy of silence about it

Yeah, I find that incredibly annoying. Even Wikipedia is part of the conspiracy; on the talk page for FilePile.com, I asked "Why is there no mention of Filepile.org on Wikipedia?" and got the smirking answer "Perhaps it lacks notability." Sure, asshole.
posted by languagehat at 9:45 AM on August 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

ok. now I've seen the front page of the site that shall not be named. what's inside?
posted by anotherpanacea at 8:01 PM on August 29, 2008

Don't thank me, thank levelator!

Thanks levelator! Made listening a lot easier and even when Jessamyn was yelling at cortex (totally justified by the way) it didn't hurt my eardrums. So much better.
posted by shelleycat at 8:32 PM on August 29, 2008

Yeah, I find that incredibly annoying.

Not as annoying as people complaining about how annoying they find it! HAH!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:32 PM on August 29, 2008

even when Jessamyn was yelling at cortex (totally justified by the way)

I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but I guess I have to now.
posted by cortex at 10:51 PM on August 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

Jessamyn, how could you be so ignorant as to the operation of your clit-mouse?
posted by blasdelf at 4:06 AM on August 30, 2008

Jessamyn, how could you be so ignorant as to the operation of your clit-mouse?

Um.... I didn't read the manual?
posted by jessamyn at 6:45 AM on August 30, 2008

I don't think it comes with one :)
posted by blasdelf at 7:02 AM on August 30, 2008

I've known women with clit-mouses to come with Manuel.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:55 AM on August 30, 2008

I don't think this is allowed.
posted by Meatbomb at 8:54 AM on August 30, 2008

Dang. I guess I'll reset the clit-mouse clock. Again.
posted by mathowie at 10:44 AM on August 30, 2008

Rats. Mine eyes shall never see the glory of the coming of the Cooter.
posted by blasdelf at 9:24 PM on August 30, 2008

Alan Taylor is my hero!
posted by anildash at 7:59 PM on September 7, 2008

Ahhh, I KNEW there was something different about the volume levels! I already sent through an email on the contact form saying that this was the first episode I could actually hear on my daily commute, and to keep doing whatever it was you did differently. I'm relieved to know there actually *was *some technological solution, and I don't have a weird hearing problem where I'm unable to distinguish mathowie's vocal frequency from the din of traffic.
posted by web-goddess at 5:29 AM on September 10, 2008