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EDC - The Electric Daisy Carnival, Los Angeles

Jasdev — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:25:00 +0000

The Electric Daisy Carnival.

This Saturday June 28th, Los Angeles.

See you there.

Comic Life awesome mac app

Jasdev — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:34:22 +0000

There is very very neat app on the Mac that I just discovered could be a whole lot more useful than mere comic strip-ing.

I think most Intel Mac’s have Comic Life preinstalled. So anyway whats neat about it could be an awesome storyboarding tool, but the best thing is the multiple pictures per page idea, that would take a fair amout of effort in photoshop(or microsoft paint). Its gonna be pretty neat to tell a picture essay or story.

Imagining all the emails to home would now be in a single file, with neat little bubbles at an unobtrusive corner. Graphic novels now would be neat little picture stories. Anyway heres an example :

A squirrel in America that took a public bus.

Maybe that could be a pickup line.

Mac Tip : Ever wanted to take screenshots of your Mac? There is a shortcut for it : apple+shift+3 for the whole screen and apple+shift+4 for selected area.

Gotta love the distractions.

Jasdev — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:05:31 +0000

I’ve been incredibly busy these few days. Edited a video for a would-be teacher, going crazy on the transferring tapes and vinyl’s to cd’s, general chaos of work. and just keeping up with the joneses in summer class(but its easy).

Anyway, Mac’s either you love em or hate em. I use both extensively and sometimes you wonder what those fellas at interface design were thinking(or not thinking).

Re-work on this site

Jasdev — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:59:38 +0000

Hi, Im reconstructing some portions of this blog, to make it easier to post and search to categories, revamping of the links and a few other stuff.

To do :

-Converting videos on the mac primer with MPEG Streamclip
_playing WMV’s for mac, screenshots with VLC on mac,
-kl seeks to expand lrt line http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/16/nation/21562570&sec=nation
-some junky fancy maps
-why rail is better than bus, but bus has its uses too
-bus riders union irony
-suburbia and sprawl, with videos
-oil, hubbard’s peak, wars of natural resource, population boom, enviromental justice

Los Angeles Film Festival June 19-29

Jasdev — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:35:26 +0000

Los Angeles Film Festival 2008

June 19-29 @ Westwood Village

Definitely worth checking out.

Los Angeles Transit lifestyle intro

Jasdev — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:29:33 +0000

The LA metro trains are undergoing a surge in ridership. Not too much, just about 6 percent, but enough to turn heads in the city built for the automobile.

“The cost of a gallon of gas now is only slightly less than a $5 Metro Day Pass, good for unlimited rides day and night on Metro buses and trains,” said Metro CEO Roger Snoble. “When you factor in the cost of fuel, vehicle depreciation, maintenance, insurance and parking, hard-pressed consumers can easily save well over $6,000 a year by going Metro and getting rid of one of the average family’s 2.5 cars and trucks

I remember when I first got unto the Red Line subway I was thinking “Where the hell are the people”. One would think there would be a rush or something , especially since goes right through Hollywood and some other cool ass areas. Heck, I was even shocked to notice that people could come in and out without ever buying a ticket.

So anyway, as I found out later from an Urban Studies class that the LA Metro Red Line is the most expensive subway line ever built. The worst thing is that the expected ridership was less than a quarter until recently, when gas prices are really hitting the fan. Los Angeles, with its sprawling suburbs and a presumption that having a car is the most natural thing in the world, is also choking with enviromental pollution and crazy traffic gridlocks. There was a book I had to review that mentioned its strange to see a person walking. Pedestrians are endangered enough that anyone seen ‘walking’ around after dark is suspicious.

I will be writing more on this topic, firstly because I thought ‘hey Los Angeles is a world city its public transportation infrastructure must be better than Kuala Lumpur’ ( hint: its not), and also to share what I have learned from my Urban Studies class. Since Im also the poor international student, I have no choice but to take public transit, but the fact is its just gona get more expensive to drive. I’ve also picked up urban biking, which I incorporate with my transit trips, and it makes a world’s difference than just walking and whining. More to come!

Goodbye Malaysia Hello USA

Jasdev — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:22:27 +0000

Word up.

There has been a deliberate hiatus on this blog.

Im sick of talking about the small things. I have plans for the big things but there is just no way I could keep it going on a regular basis.

The things that I really would like to talk about, are just not something for the public to consume. Friends and family perhaps, but I should have done that from the beginning. Photo or video blog, which what Ive been doing seems ‘koo’, but now that I have the dslr I’ve been saving for a long ass time, pretty pictures seem hella good idea now.

Anyway, lots of things have changed. Im in Los Angeles now, studying televison/film production at Cal State University Northridge. Its in the San Fernando Valley portion of Los Angeles, which is by itself a sprawling city. Better known as ‘The Valley’, it is where suburbia was practically invented. Hoping to learn some mad skills, have the exposure, but most importantly experience life like never before. Its bit of a tourist adventurer scholar mindset but, whatever, Im here to do and give my best.

You wanna know something? Ive only been on a plane like, thrice, from Penang to KL, and even then only in the last few years. So when I sat on that 13 hour flight from Taipei to Los Angeles, it was like jail. I had to sit-sleep most of the time, with very little room, and swear had a butt and neckache after that. A bus ride was even better. Even with the food and cute stewardesses, it was torture. And then I hear people say Malaysian Airlines is one of the best aha that was the cincher.

Im the only Malaysian I know on college, and in Los Angeles, save for family members.

So, hello blog, with all the facebook and myspace and kiddy diddy fads going in and out - I’ll prolly have something significant when I write. Differences, observations, funny things, life and leftovers. All there in your 3 minute instant dinner, USA style.

Jasdev — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:10:40 +0000

Re: Cat Talking, Translation

Cats with a dialogue out of Seinfeld

Jasdev — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:44:53 +0000

Re: Jesus loves you

The funny grey bloke asks a simple question about Jesus.

Jasdev — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:08:01 +0000

Office is Closed: Due to Zombies

A anime mashup to a neat zombie ‘anthem’ by Jonathan Coulton.