So I’ve been hard at work gathering everything to launch my new website. It will contain all the work I do, photography, web design, retouching and video lighting as opposed to just photography. When it comes to web design I love simplicity, I always try to adhere to the Less is more ideology. I decided [...]

It’s very strange when you see a connection with the media around you, a cohesive theme or pattern that seems to be underlying in the world around you. This is the case with two videos I’ve watched recently with one theme in particular, “Why?”. Realizing this pattern has made me change the way I see [...]

Time.com has a great little piece on the top 10 famous college dropouts. It’s interesting to know how a lot of times college education does not always equal success. The list consists of: Bill Gates Steve Jobs Frank Lloyd Wright Buckminster Fuller James Cameron Mark Zuckerberg Tom Hanks Harrison Ford Lady Gagga Tiger Woods See, [...]

Last night riding my bike home from a party proved to be a fun and challenging task. I was accompanied by my friend Jordan R. as we traversed the dark and lonely roads from Harrison to Mamaroneck at 2:30 AM. As I took a sharp turn, the front wheel betrayed me and decided to turn [...]

Watch this logo saturated and impressive academy award winning animated short by French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short. Worth watching several [...]

New York is well known for its plethora of curious and strange characters and this man is no exception. I present to you the Human carpet. I literally bumped onto ‘Georgio’ at a party in Brooklyn. It was a rusty and dirty auditorium annexed to what seemed to be a church or chapel. Hundreds of [...]

Do you often find yourself having nightmares about: Holding down the space bar and not being able to drag when you’re surfing the web? Trying to explaining for the millionth time what CMYK stands for? Loosing your custom collection of filters and brushes? Lined paper not having rulers on the top and side? CTRL+Z not [...]

So I sit in front of my computer playing around with ideas for my new business card and I’m really debating adding one of those scannable “Quick Response” codes, similar to the ones on prescription drugs and postage. The advantage of doing this, is clients and friends with compatible phones will be able to quickly scan [...]

I few days ago I joined Okcupid out of mere curiosity. I’ve heard about it from people and decided to use it as ‘research’ tool. One of it’s best features, their blog. They have in-depth studies about their user’s trends when it comes to dating and attracting each other. Take a look for yourself: Hello, [...]

  To the people of the world, from OK Go: This week we released a new album, and it’s our best yet. We also released a new video – the second for this record – for a song called This Too Shall Pass, and you can watch it here. We hope you’ll like it and [...]

Ok, so I almost stopped myself from posting this one as I realized the irony of the story being in an ALL CAPS blog. But it was too damn funny to pass up. Sibuna comments: BREAKING NEWS WE BROKE THE SHIFT KEY. MORE NEWS AT !! via Gizmodo

Episode nine is out from The Third Age, a friend’s online series that I worked on. These are the guys behind the upcoming Grant Morrison documentary. The Third Age is a psychedelic remix of classic mythology, telling the story of ordinary people caught up in an eternal war between gods waged on the streets of [...]

These Japanese researchers HAVE to stop making their robots look like humans. It’s just too damn creepy. Just take a look at their latest creation, Diego-san, the extremely disproportionate 1 year old. Built to imitate a human child, this robot is apparently helping them learn more about human child development. This creature from hell has [...]

It was extremely satisfying, finding that first hidden cache behind the grave of Alithea Gedney. There was 3 of us as we searched through what are the remains of an old stone wall that encircles the Gedney Cemetery near I95. Geocaching is a high tech treasure hunt where using GPS devices you must find hidden [...]

Following the very popular trending topic on Twitter, here is my musical suggestion for this glorious Monday. Max Tundra Imagine yourself in a toy store full of kids banging on toy instruments and playing 8bit games. Keyboards, drums, guitars, old school Nintendos, all coming together into an organized chaos titled ‘Orphaned’. That’s exactly what Max [...]

A large family takes in an orphan. The house is already crowded so the orphan must share an attic room with a child too weak to protest the intrusion. The parents give each of the two children half of the room but ask each child to share a beautiful cabinet, treasured by both. The parents [...]

“Companies spend millions trying to differentiate their brand from the others. Yet a quick look at the logos of major corporations reveals that in color as in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. The result is an ever more frantic competition for the best neighborhood. Here’s a look at the new blue bloods” [...]

It’s Tuesday, one of the most boring days of the week. But not anymore, here are a few of my favorite latests tracks: Chromeo has been a staple in my dance mixes for a while now. This Canadian act can make even white people shake their ass. A mix of funk, disco and dance this [...]

It seems like whenever I go out I spend half the time trying to communicate with friends, cutting down my partying time. This Halloween, I was overburdened trying to give directions to friends, comparing parties and trying to tweet for those far away (ahem, Jordan). It was the first time where I had half the [...]

Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled “The Berlin Reunion”. Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a [...]

Not having actually grown up in the States and immersing myself in the book, I had no idea what ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ was. It was not until seeing the breathtaking trailer with music by the Arcade Fire that I began to understand how deeply embedded the story was with my generation. So I’ve [...]

Google takes a stab at reinventing the e-mail: what is Google Wave? http://bit.ly/1AghED #googlewave # Watching hockey over beers with @QuasiDeLuca and @EricRudolph at Landsdowne Road bar, so not me, yet having a good time. # ESPN pilot shoot done at 2am. Now keeping our fingers crossed. # Filming a pilot for possible ESPN comedy [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to laugh your asses off. This is a hilarious PSA brought to you by SIIA about software piracy in 1992. Watch in amazement how ridiculous we used to dress and more importantly the use of floppy disks, where we had the capability of storing a whopping 1.4 megabytes! The PSA [...]

Vampire Weekend have announced their sophomore album titled “Contra” to be released on January 12, 2010. The pop superstars created quite a buzz with their viral marketing campaign by releasing images of mystery girl in music blogs linking to ithinkuracontra.com. Now we know the site redirects to Vampire Weekend’s site. Here is the track listing: [...]

1. Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters. 2. There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down. 3. Televised contests gave cash prizes to whoever could store the most data in their head. 4. Well, the screens were [...]

Just in time for last summer, new MGMT video for their single ‘Kids’. Watch as they scare a poor baby with monsters and then explode to a psychedelic animation orchestrated by the likes of Wonder Showzen. Perhaps they should have just given the kid this monster head kiddie car, this is one scare you can’t [...]

Phoenix’s song is no more than 2 weeks old and it’s already poised to become the jam of this summer. Fan made videos have already sparked on YouTube here and there and the blogs can’t stop writing about them. The Following video is a tribute of a tribute from Bratpack’s mashup: The Original Bratpack video:

Face it, music is part of our daily lives whether we like it or not. But some people just have bad taste in music, here are some of my favorite recent albums that will enhance your palate. 1. Kitsun̩ Maison Compilation 7 (Electronic, indie, compilation) Fringe Element (Short Like me edit) РBeni [audio:fringe.mp3] This [...]

This bad boy of a gadget projects an image from a retrofitted camera at the exact moment another camera snaps a picture with flash. This creates an invisible illusion to the human eye only seen after the picture is taken. This is the brain child of Julius von Bismarck from Germany. In a recent interview [...]

Oh man, what a crazy friday night. I haven’t had one like this in a while. Chance encounters with all old friends and making new ones. First party was a friend’s birthday party. The theme, a Masquerade ball Brooklyn style. Live band performances, art and DJs. All of this bundled in a large and impressive [...]

The highly anticipated Fox film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked to bittorrent sites a few days ago and has already reached millions of downloads. About a week ago 20th Century Fox’s unfinished film was released to the online masses via an unknown leak. In just over a week it has reached over a million downloads. [...]

Tune in tonight to NY’s independent free form station WMFU (91.1 FM in New York, at 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley) where they will be broadcasting completely by solar power. The show will feature live performances from the best of the best in the 8-bit / video gaming music world such as Glomag, Bubblyfish, [...]

“You have summoned the fail-whale!” The sad thing about it, I still like to consider myself a Twitter….sigh.

Remember those days of watching scrambled porn and under-buffered online videos? Well, those days are over. But you can still relive them with Kanye West’s new video for “Welcome to Heartbreak” Can’t get enough of this vid. Wonder how much production went into this (or how little).

I photographed Gabe back in 2008 amidst the hot summer weather. We were covered in mosquito bites and probably a tick or two by the end but it was all worth it. Here are two of my favorite shots.

One of my favorite sites, Last.fm is getting ready to roll out a new redesigned website. The new beta version of the site is looking very fresh. Imagine if Facebook and Last.fm got married and had kids, that is what the new site looks like. There is more emphasis in the music player and sharing [...]

You’ve heard right. Music pioneers, Radiohead are at it again. This time they’re not giving away free albums but making music videos without the use of video cameras. Their newest video for “House of Card’s” from the album “In Rainbows” was captured utilizing new multimedia technologies, Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. Geowhat?! That’s what I [...]

Here’s a funny image as to what would happen on Twitter during a zombie outbrake.

And this is why I hate mainstream media…

Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they ’ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. But now an increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail. It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it. read [...]

This shocking video shows the negligence at a Brooklyn’s hospital as doctors, nurses and guards walk by a dying woman and do nothing to help her. According to the Daily News: Green, 49, taken to the unit for “agitation,” keels over out of her chair at 5:32a.m., according to the time stamp on the video. [...]

The much anticipated sequel has finally arrived. Diablo III was unveiled this weekend at the Porte de Versailles Exposition Center in Paris. An estimated 11,000 people were the first to get a glance of the game and many of its new features. This game consumed a whole summer of my life, and I don’t regret [...]

Looks like Toronto is stepping up its marketing schemes. They are now hiring real people to display clothes infront of stores. Standing for hours at a time without moving. I wonder if they get bathroom breaks? Via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvs/2619716473/

It’s incredible how much of our underwater world we have yet to explore. Thousands of species unclassified or yet to be discovered, it’s like another planet. Watch David Gallo as he narrates this nice clip about incredible underwater creatures.

Another year, another Bonnaroo excursion. It seems like I’m much less physically prepared this time but definitely mentally there. It’s going to be a wet one this year with expected thunderstorms on all 4 days! I’m hoping to come back like this: Has anyone noticed how the Bonnaroo line up has been shifting from hippie-esc [...]

A few days ago I received a message on Flickr about one of my pictures. It was from an aspiring artist showing me some of his work inspired by one of my photographs. It’s great to see my work influencing other artists!

Every Thursday I will be post 2 videos of opposite genres. These are songs and artists I really enjoy and think everyone should be exposed. Peace. The first one is by Death from Above 1979, the new defunct duo from Canada. Seriously these guys should have never broken up, after several EPs, LPs and one [...]

We are truly living in an exciting period. We are about to experience a major transition that will shake the very foundation of all music labels, music consumers and sharers around the globe. I am talking about the dawn of Music 2.0 as coined by Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey. Music 2.0 refers to the [...]

Thursdays are the new fridays did you know?! Geez where have you been? living under a rock?! Well here are some pictures from last night’s excursion.

Stereogum has put together an amazing compilation in tribute to Björk’s album Post. They have asked the bands Liars, Dirty Projectors, No Age, High Places, Atlas Sound, El Guincho, Final Fantasy & Ed Droste, Evangelicals, Xiu Xiu, Pattern Is Movement, Bell, White Hinterland to create their own renditions of Björk’s tracks. These are all original [...]

The odds seem to be in our favor when it comes to meeting girls here in the East Coast. According to this map by Richard Florida, there are 210,820 more single women than men in the New York and northern New Jersey area. Single women seem to be concentrated in large metropolitan cities around the [...]

(Click to launch gallery) God, what a night! Started out with a little pregaming at Seth’s with some beer and Vodka. Arrived at the Delancey around 10:30 and it was already packed. About an hour later, they closed the roof because it was too crowded, a lot of people were not able to get in [...]

I flipped on the news today (yes, my actual television, not sure why) and the big story was Craigslist gone wrong. Someone placed an ad on Craigslist saying that anything at a home in Jacksonville, Oregon was up for grabs. People responded, and carted away most of the belongings of resident Robert Salisbury. He arrived [...]

…when Bonnaroo announces the lineup for this year’s festival. There were many rumors circulating that Led Zeppelin will be headlining the festival this year but I guess that won’t be happening but Lez Zeppelin will be there. Instead Pearl Jam and Metallica (yuck) will be the big names this year. I could careless, there plenty [...]

Hey, just shot with this beautiful german girl, Theresa from Major Models who loves Daft Punk, here are some of the pics from the shoot: Check out more shots on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/gp/21202617@N00/VA1fgT

Thank you for welcoming me from a long day at work with such joy. You thought no one would hear you. You thought no one would see you, but I was present and truly, it scared the shit out of me. Thank you for letting out the biggest fart out your window as you searched [...]

As if x-mas wasn’t close enough, office Max has a pretty damn cool game where you put your face on a dancing elf and watch it dance. Great time waster for those lame afternoons at work: www.elfyourself.com

Watch as this amazing duo play their instruments creating an amazing mix thats just incredible. If these guys ever come out with an album, I’ll be there to buy it! Hip Hip Violin And DJ – Click here for more blooper videos

The guys over at Sounds Familyre are putting together a nice compilation of Christmas songs. The songs are remakes of classics as-well as originals played by Sufjan Stevens, Danielson and Soul-Junk, just to name a few. They will be releasing 1 song each day for 13 days, so make sure to go back for your [...]

What the heck is a Keepon you may ask? Keepon is a small yellow japanese robot designed by Hideki Kozima to study social interaction mainly amongst kids but also adults. This small cute yellow robot has been recently featured in Spoon’s newest music video for “Don’t You Evah” as a Japanese scientist takes the robot [...]

Just today Flickr, one of the best online photo sharing sites, has introduced online photo editing capabilities. They partnered with Picnik to provide the tools necessary to make simple yet handy and fun changes to your pictures. [zoomer]125|400|0|Power Thumbnail|0|0[/zoomer] Once you click on the ‘Edit Photo’ button on top of any image you will be [...]

My friend’s band just recently released their new album “The Musician” and they have used one of my pictures for the cover. The band, Looking Glass Wars is an alternative indie rock band from Westchester NY. Brandon, their singer is a good friend of mine that I met years ago while designing a website for [...]

I’ve been meaning to update my blog for months now and finally got around to it. As you can see I changed the header image to match the season better. That picture was taken back 2003-04 I can’t quite remember, it’s a street near where I live. I added a music player dubbed “Potatoine Player”, [...]

Is it just me or is Facebook getting a bit too crowded? Ever since they opened its doors the public and with the addition of their 3rd party apps it seems like flocks of MySpacers and migrating to Facebook. It’s great but the site but I feel like MySpacers and Facebookians come from two different [...]

The New York Times said it best: It’s a little embarrassing to watch the New York art world “discovering” Latin American modernist art year after year, as if forever only half-aware of its existence. It’s a little surprising to see the NYC art world not paying much attention to the Latin American artists. There are [...]

Listening to Richard Cheese a while I was trying to find other funny/ridiculous song covers by other artists, here are the best 3: The first one is by Avril Lavigne covering “Chop Suey” by System of a Down. It’s not really funny, more like…pathetic. Second one is by Alanis Morissette covering Fergie’s “My Humps”. Saved [...]

I decided to start a continuos series of entries all relating to technology which we may have seen or thought to only exists in sci-fi movies, books or cartoons. I have always been a Sci-Fi buff, always interested in anything with robots and lasers to say the least. One of my favorite series of all [...]

I was trying to think about what I enjoyed the most about a cold morning on my way to work. Here are a few things that just popped into my mind: Holding that warm coffee cup, steaming endlessly while I wait on the station for the train. Watching strangers awkwardly huddle together without touching or [...]

The internet has completely come to revolutionize the music industry from the way we discover new artists to how we acquire their music. Millions of music files are shared back and forward everyday between listeners, most of them shared illegally and freely. The music industry has tried everything from protecting their songs with DRM encoding [...]

It seems like the Bush administration is at it again, what will it take for everyone in this country to open their eyes and do something? He is now trying to grant himself immunity for any possible war crimes committed against detainees. Check out the video:

Here’s a fun link, this small web app measures your body’s wattage output and gives you some real life examples of what you could be powering. So, how much electricity does you body produce? Here are my results:

For the past few months I have been listening to nothing but electronic music. Not your crappy club going electronic, I am talking about the real unheard of albums by the common populous. There’s just something about those computer made beats, chirps, beeps and clanks that has captivated me. I remember watching one of the [...]

Shhh….don’t tell the RIAA but I have been ceaselessly listening to Manu Chao’s newest album La Radiolina, set to come out early in September. The album is a bit watered down and the music has become very repetitive and similar to previous albums except for a few songs that are more rock influenced ala Mano [...]

Anybody can take a polaroid, load film, aim the camera and press the button but not everyone can capture such images as The Polaroid Kidd. Mike Brodie (aka The Polaroid Kidd) has been photographing his tribe of young vagabond friends for the past few years as they travel around the country, capturing a very intimate [...]

Apple just introduced the new redesigned iMacs with a new brushed metal look and a couple of hardware changes. The new design design mirrors the metal look of current Apple displays combined with the glossy screen and black border of the iPhone. Of course the new iMacs are much much slimmer and faster than its [...]

Ahh, the perils of our daily routines.

New York City has proposed new rules that will drastically affect independent film makers and photographers all around the city. Under the new rules proposed on May 25, 2007 by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcast (MOFTB), any group of two or more people using a handheld camera (still or video) for more [...]

The controversial and very hated documentary director Michael Moore has released its latest documentary to the online world, free of charge. Watch it here:

Meet William Kamkwamba. At age 15 he built a windmill entirely from scrap parts, generating enough electricity to power his home in rural Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Africa. His personal blog details the steps day-by-day with pics.read more | digg story

The perpetually shirtless and tattooed Terry Richardson is at it again, with some new ads for the Australian division of Lee Jeans. The model: Marilyn’s gorgeous redheaded, Judith Bedard which I had the luck to meet during last season’s Fashion Week in NYC. Judith Bedard by me, March 2007 NYC Fashion Week. Here are the [...]

Interpol – Pioneer to the Falls (download here) Interpol’s new album is not set to release until July 10th but here at Potatoes and Nicotine we have snatched an early copy. This marks Interpol’s first major label debut, no longer releasing the album with Matador Records but with Capitol instead, is a rather fresh change [...]

Why don’t we get any Japanese channels here in the US?! If all they had was shows like this I would never leave the house.

Those guys over at Coudal Partners have put together a nice little video on how to wash your Apple keyboard with a dishwasher. Perfect for getting rid of all those pizza crumbs and coffee spills.

That’s the same exact question I have been asking myself. It has been way too long since my last post, but the truth is I barely have the time to keep up. I wish I didnt have to sleep in order to do the millions of things I need to get accomplished. In other news, [...]

Now here is a gem of a find. A small collection of creative doodles and answers to test questions. Relive those agonizing hours you spent as a kid taking all those damn tests whose knowledge you never use in your everyday routines.

It has been a while since I’ve heard music live, specially in a small tight room like the one we were in during a recent jam with some friends. Music tends to come alive in such small tight spaces while listening to your friends put together the puzzle pieces to the song. Check out the [...]

Today Apple announced the long awaited Apple iPhone; Microsoft tremble. I cannot stress how exited I am about this product, first of all it is exactly what I’ve been waiting for, an all in one gadget with robust media capabilities. iPod, phone, organizer, camera, email and internet all in one with one cool looking gadget [...]

If you didn’t know, the internet is under threat by big corporations planning to split to the internet into two. As it stands, the internet is one big highway with all sorts of traffic with different sized cars all in one road. What these corporations aim to do, is divide this highway of information into [...]

6:30 AM and I am getting ready to leave the house for work, I put on my pea coat, wrap a scarf around my neck and pack some gloves in my bag. It is early January and experience has taught me it is cold around this time of year in NY. I step outside and [...]

To all you Flickrites, make sure to renew those subscriptions.

The Times has a great article on the abrupt changes and troubles that diamonds have brought to the Cinta-Larga tribe in Brazil, exploring the tensions between miners, the government and the tribe’s own greed. “Back then, we had no idea what diamonds were worth,” recalled Roberto Carlos Cinta-Larga, a tribal leader who, following tradition, uses [...]

So lately my blog has be plagued with spammed comments, it got to a point where I had to close the comments completely. So until I fix this you will have to register in order to comment. Annoying yes, I hate it too. Damn spam, it was also crowding my mail accounts.

Well, it has been…what months? since my last post, yeah it’s been a while. I am not going to explain my absence but rather talk about the future. 2007 is a few days away and its time for a new blog, completely redesigned (simplified) and much more content. Ok, well that’s it, I’m gonna keep [...]

I have a weakness for anything Nintendo, old school Nintendo. I grew up with Nintendo games, systems, PJ’s and cartoons. Nintendo’s golden days are over but they are still resonating in people’s hearts. Here are a couple of interesting Nintendo related links: Casa Mario – A room decorated wall to wall with Super Mario World [...]

So I finally got a new camera, after months of photo depravation I got some new hardware. I was really considering a Nikon DSLR but since almost all other photographers that I know shoot with Canons, I went with a Canon. I got the Canon 30D, amazing camera, solidly built, big LCD screen (2.5″) and [...]

For those who don’t know, digg.com is was a technology news website, but unlike other new sites it has no editors to censor and pick out the stories, it is all run by it’s users. It’s a collective community that submits and promotes their own stories. It started as a technology only news site rivaling [...]

New York City – 11:26 P.M. – A pack of 8 to 10 messy looking, somewhat smelly, and hungry humans lurk in an alley behind a restaurant. They are delighting themselves in an all they can eat fest at the garbage dump, they search and ravage through the dumpster like a flock of starving vultures [...]

A hot Saturday in the city and what better way to spend it than at Central Park? Except it wasn’t just any other day at the park. Today the four elements: Sun, Rain, Cloud and Ice battled for “Element of the Year Award”. It was all part of Improv Everywhere, a group of pranksters and [...]

Tokyo’s futuristic image as the world’s most technologically advanced broadband internet-enabled city is under attack from a vicious but decidedly low-tech foe: the crow. read more | digg story

“You Have Not Been Paying Attention”, that’s what I told some idiot at the Radiohead show last night when he confused the date on his ticket for the wrong show. How do you not double check the date on your ticket for an amazing night with Radiohead. Confused by the multitude of people and numbers [...]

So as you can see I have finally begun to customize the blog. It’s been a little slow since there are several CSS files I have juggle between. I got a good understanding of how the site is organized which will help me a lot when making changes to the looks. I am still not [...]

I’ve never seen the Mamaroneck train station so full in my life, thousands of people coming from nearby towns and states to watch the U.S. Open Golf tournament. It’s rather amusing to see the fanatics and aficionados of the game. Just like any other hooligan they all have their trends and demographics. Mostly white males [...]

I couldn’t stop laughing today, my smaller male cousin was sitting on the couch next to me as we played Halo and he started to complain something about his legs “Ouch my legs, OUCH!”. We had just played a rigorous soccer game and his legs were cramping up, both of them. “Ouch! it’s like I’m [...]

Ok, so its been what? 4-6 six months since my last post? 2 blogs later and after hundreds of posts written, I am back with a new blog. Why did I stop? two simple reasons: 1. Lack of time 2. Lack of interest. I had been posting on blogger previously but I found it so [...]