Comments on: 31: The Big Picture

31: The Big Picture

mathowie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:07:38 -0800

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)

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:09:56 -0800

(I had to make a censorship beep using the fake synth in GarageBand)

By: roger ackroyd

roger ackroyd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:00:14 -0800

Great interview with kokogiak.

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

By: pjern

pjern — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:05:44 -0800

Where the hell is all the italicized punctuation?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:10:16 -0800

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.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:10:29 -0800

You know, I'm getting a little Astro Zombie fatigue at this point. Not a lot, mind you; just a little.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:07:03 -0800

Hooray for [k]!

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:19:58 -0800

Matt talked about a Lenin video - he was talking about this post, of supplementing video with high res photos.

By: chillmost

chillmost — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:33:10 -0800

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?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:38:25 -0800

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.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:26:23 -0800

All the jokes about "the site that shall not be named" are less than clever than annoying.

By: majick

majick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:29:25 -0800

"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.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:56:24 -0800

hey the levels came out okay on that one!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:02:07 -0800

Don't thank me, thank levelator!

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:05:36 -0800

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.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:19:52 -0800

Yay for volume!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:45:53 -0800

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.

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:01:43 -0800

ok. now I've seen the front page of the site that shall not be named. what's inside?

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:32:47 -0800

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.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:32:21 -0800

Yeah, I find that incredibly annoying.

Not as annoying as people complaining about how annoying they find it! HAH!

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:51:25 -0800

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.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:06:30 -0800

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

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:45:27 -0800

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

Um.... I didn't read the manual?

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:02:53 -0800

I don't think it comes with one :)

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:55:04 -0800

I've known women with clit-mouses to come with Manuel.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:54:31 -0800

I don't think this is allowed.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:44:23 -0800

Dang. I guess I'll reset the clit-mouse clock. Again.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:24:46 -0800

Rats. Mine eyes shall never see the glory of the coming of the Cooter.

By: anildash

anildash — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:59:02 -0800

Alan Taylor is my hero!

By: web-goddess

web-goddess — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:29:18 -0800

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.