There is a new media technology convergence going on right now that is so epic in scale, I figured I would blog it. Perhaps only to track this strange realm of hyper learning and research I'm experiencing. Seriously, the knowledge gained in the past few days is astonishing.
But let me start with a simple test of my Google Earth broad casting system...

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Minneapolis City Hall.

If you hadn't much experience with Google Earth, you've been missing some fun! But I can understand. After all, it's only 3.5 years old.
Well just recently, they made it possible to embed a Google Earth window, right inside a browser. SO wow!~ Very cool. You can show people 3d places, just as you would show a photo. And the program itself is not required to load. It's just a super fast plug-in. Great!
(I'm still learning how to use the api, so thanks to GoogleEarthHacks, for enabling the code)

Street View is also able to be embedded in a page. They made this available last Chistmas. I really should have been doing cool stuff with it all summer, but other work was being done. Anyhow, you're getting neat directory type sites showing you all sorts of list of Street View locations, as follows...

There was something very interesting we Minnesotans found when street view came out. We found that the Google Driver had been mapping before and after the I35w Bridge collapse. The the extent that you can simulate a drive over the bridge the day before it fell. Apparently, they were spraying chem trails that day too, but thats another post.

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Click the arrows and pan to navigate across the old bridge. Notice all the construction vehicles and process.

So I'll put up more posts exploring other new visualizations and media tech with I'm finding amazing. Check back. In the mean time, Don't let the packs of "entertainment" robots hunt you down!
PEACE.

I've been writing on the Internet for 13 years! But lately, I'm serving content through YouTube more often then anything else. So this embedded player should keep things on this page fresher then a forgotten old post could.

Spring is trying to come through. It was 50 degrees for the first time this year. It was a short lived novelty as it's chilly again today, but at least it's not deadly anymore. This is the sort of weather I can live with.

I took a bike ride to French park on the north shore of Medicine lake. I was very disappointed. The city of Plymouth needs to re-think that whole area. First, you can't get there by simply riding around the lake because just when you think you've arrived, there are all these privatively owned rehab facilities. They own massive lake front and put up a bunch of fences so you can't continue through! You have to go way AROUND.

So once I finally DID get down into French park, I'm met with signs saying there are park rangers with riffles shooting dear. A "dear reduction" program. They tell you say on the designated trails. (Or the park rangers will SHOOT you and say they thought you were a dear!)
We'll pleasantly, there were no such rangers in the "wildlife district". All there were was closed trails and blocked playgrounds. Looks like they don't have money to maintain the area. They shouldn't hire people to play dear hunter either. I'd love to go walking in there and have it be a cool wildlife sanctuary. Sheez, I'd even volunteer to park the RV and provide night security. ;)

Anyhow, medicine lake is extremely unbikeable because of all the halfway houses and federal regulation on the north shore. But then the whole west shore is privet homes.. I guess it's not Minneapolis.. I just wanted to do a lap, ya know? Like a Minneapolis biker would.

Chip In?

I just got a "chipin"! I'm experimenting to see if I can raise enough funding for a house. For Real.

I've read stories wherein the homeless guy on the side of the highway is making amazing amounts of money, just to blow it on booze or whatever. Well, I've never had the humility to stand out with a sign, even when starving, but a Chip In seems reasonable.

I've also read stories about "E-beggars". Save Karyn, for example raised $20,000 to pay off debt.
And you'll remember the guy who traded a paper clip for a house.

So this is my homeless art experiment. Can I raise enough to buy a house on the Minneapolis foreclosure market? I have the feeling I will be my own first investor. But if I can gain some momentum, I'll be sitting home making art for the foreseeable future. It'll be great to be in a position to help other artists struggling with poverty as well.

I truly appreciate investor level chip ins, but even a single dollar would be infinitely cool. Every dollar will dedicated to buying a house. Please chip in now.

ICE AND FIRE!
I went to the bunny hop at art shanty city. Took a bunch of photos. Blowing snow made it an interesting environment. ASP was an oasis mirage on the blizzards horizon.

It was fun and I'll let the fotos do the talking later.

Thing is, when I got back to the apartment complex I'm currently stationed at, IT WAS BURNING DOWN!

As we rolled in, I saw the smoke, but thought it was blowing snow. I took as many pictures as i could, but the camera was out of power.

Bright orange walls of flame, pouring out into the ice clouds created from fire hose into -20 wind chill.

Although our apartment is in a wing far from the fire, the entire complex was evacuated by a collaborative slew of agencies arriving soon after we did. They said they were getting buses to take folks to a gym. Total police state. I hope they let people back in tonight.
The fire was out by the time we left. Just smoking. Still there were like 4 full sized fire trucks there and, I'm sure, every other disaster response agency from the area that got word.

*sigh*
Some guy was standing in our stair well looking all depressed saying "i fell asleep on the couch with a cigarette.." A nearby cop heard this and took him away.

METACAFE MILLIONAIRE!

After learning a bit with YouTube and gaining some experience, I'm moving onto MetaCafe. I've discovered they pay for views.
So to begin my testing, here is my most viewed YouTube video, "DO NOT ride this Rollercoaster". It's over 20,000 views.

DO NOT Ride This Rollercoaster! - Click here for more amazing videos

I've seen some fairly simple, yet entertaining videos on there making good money. Their producers earn fair living, by my standards. So I'm all about it.
I'll be posting as much possible. Please enjoy my videos and rate them highly. Thanks.

Hello. It is now January 2008. My birthday is in 2 days.

I never update this blog because I'm usually writing at mnartists.org where there is at least a tiny bit of feedback to work with. Here I'm writing blind. But I thought I would update it today. I have a half years story line to catch you up on...

Lets see... When last I posted, I was working as an independent labor guy for an awesome couple in Saint Louis Park. In my last post, I mentioned having that time lapse video, so here it is!


So anyhow, I had the RV parked there in that very safe spot, working until the end of August. I did a lot of interior painting and on call stuff and made more then a grand.
Of course, I was living the good life in Saint Louis Park. I was spending it well. Eating Lunds/Byerlys sushi for dinner every night, and drinking my Summit Northern Porter when ever I wanted to. I had free electricity and bootlegged wireless internet. It was quite a fine time. I never had a bank account and was carrying hundreds of dollars in twenties on me all the time.

Sure was nice. I could shower in the abandoned side of the duplex we were working on and stay healthy.

So when that job ended, and I bounced the RV between my cousins in Coon Rapids, and my mothers on the northside (Victory/Camden). I was doing some roofing work with my cuz which kept me in the cash. And at my mothers, I had to help her move out.
I had to move my own stuff out of storage, as well. Stuff that has been packed since I was 19. She had finally had enough of her bastard husband being a total loss. He had a jail stay during the summer, due to being a crack head and violating probation for some other offense... She decided to get all her stuff out of there, and move to an apartment.

In the mean time, I'd asked a neighbor down the street if I could park in their driveway and keep an eye on their abandoned house. The owner had fallen sick and was taken to the Anoka county medical facility. Her house went to foreclosure and abandon. I was able to get electricity from the garage. That spot was safe until moving day.
My brother rented a moving truck and we loaded most of my moms things while ex was out pawning shit and being a crackhead. Just as we were about to leave, he comes flying in enraged. He actually DID know my mom was trying to move out, and had changed the locks to lock her out! She had to have a window opened to get in. So he busts up calling 911 saying his wife and her sons are robbing his house. HA! Foolish crack head.
As we were about to drive away, I asked him what happened to my Bass Amp, knowing that he pawned it. I had it ready to move, but then mom was locked out and he stole it. I told him "I'm going to check the pawn shop" and we rolled off. In crack rage, He smashed up an old wooden chest that we did not have time to load.

I was supposed to go help unload at the new place. But I started to think, Is my RV in danger? I jumped out of the moving truck a few blocks later and walked back to my parking spot. Sure enough, when I got there, 2 of my tires were flat!

I couldn't have them repaired because it was a popped with a screwdriver to the sidewalls. Sidewalls can't be sealed. Especially on an RV. Lucky, I did have ONE spare! So, I'd only have to BUY 1 new.
Although I had enough cash to buy a new tire, it was hard luck finding one for a 1971 RV! Admittedly, I took my time. Trying to make my money stretch through the whole winter season.
Being stuck stationary, yet plugged into electricity wasn't the end of the world. I ran a space heater and stayed at freezing (30 to 40 degrees) for the most part. When I finally did find the rare sized tire/wheel, it cost me $170. ouch.
I did some more bouncing around. The roofing work ended cause it's to cold now. And I slowly drained my dollar reserves back to baseline. I've never eaten so well :)

So with my last few bucks, I've moved the RV to Plymouth MN. next to Medicine Lake. Good position to check in on the art shanty projects 2008.
Here is a video from 2004:


I've got some things in the works, but this post is getting LONG. Save me to say, I figured out how to put a shiny new paypal button in the side bar there --->
So I can accept donations!
I've not had much experience with random donation asking in the past. And I've been worse off in suffering before. But if you would like to pad my cell, it's pretty easy now. Please click the paypal button and donate 10 bucks. It will help me get some laundry done. Thanks!

Shoot. It's the end of JUNE 2007. I've got to put up at least on post a month doncha think?

Whats new.. whats new...

Getting paid. Yep, working homeless! I want to make a time laps YouTube video of my art/life house paint deal. Blah yeah, you'll see it and it will be cool if you understand fine + sublime concept art anyway.

Hey that BUNGE building I loved so much this spring is HISTORY. GONE. DEAD. I have videos. Stay tuned to my YouTube.
For some day I will post the ultimate urban exploration videos.

Anyhow, this dude will did me a favor and wrote an interesting article about me... http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=148864

Thats news for now.....*RR

Live for one night only, I am screening an "Urban Exploration" video of the good old BUNGE.

This evening at the Uptown, I will project beautiful images of the BUNGE TOWER, and the graffiti art within,
onto Minneapolis band "They The Down Low" as they play a live soundtrack.

Theres no cover. Drop on by.
3018 Hennepin Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Tel: 612.823.4719

Please also see the GLORIOUS and shocking photos of it's demolished state here.


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WALKER IN GOOGLE EARTH!!

This is so cool. Check it out.

I love it how photography and digital models are converging.

Keep punching Joe... What happened to spring! It's snowing and theres 2 inches on the ground.

What is going on? I've been away from computational communication boxes. My artist friends tell me some critic had talked some smack behind my back then deleted it before I saw... So I still don't know what that was about. Frankly I don't care. I made an amazing video yesterday and thats all that matters to me right now.

Living in Northeast Minneapolis again. Fairwel Coon Rapids, I'll be back when the NorthStar Commuter Rail is up.

Rest in peace BUNGE Silos. (Or more accurately, unrest in pieces)

Housing redevelopment - PPL is planning to remove all of the hazardous materials from the site in March. They will then begin the demolition of the silos parallel to 12th Ave SE in April. This demolition will last for approximately two or three months. The next step will be to start construction on the road, the sewer and the first building in July of 2007. That building will take about one year to complete.

I'm in a limbo. I was bouncing around from Minneapolis to Plymouth to Coon Rapids. Drinking Screwdrivers at the Guthrie and Martinis at Nye's. Wookie Foot at Cabooze. Some girl from Duluth passed me her number. I downloaded Tenacious-D. The idle is good but I need oil. Blah Blah Blog.

The only thing that really matters is that I had enought time to post a new YouTube video. It features memory representations of D.Pitmans truck, and some art from HotHouse04. Look close and see Barron hanging a screen out back for MultiPlex, and Cheri in the entry door. Also glimpse my shoes in the project room.

It just a teaser. And how stinging to use that old Elvis Costello song.

Funny weekend.
Dropped off some cat heads at psycho susie's. Management bought. I'll use the money to buy digital tape for WWFF. One art to pay for the next.
Went to the COSTES show, missed CK-ESP (kids here?) while I was messing around somewhere. Chris was up on a lader, so I gave him the camera for classic footage. Unmentionable acts of a French freaking wonder. Anyway, it was good to see some city folks there.

Came back to C-dogs house and finish off 1 of 3 cases Black Label.
Then THE.357 STRING BAND comes pouring into the Kitchen hot off a gig at Mayslacks. They were on tour and Alysum offered crash pads. They continue to play banjo and guitar, holding an entire second show for our drunk asses in the house. Passed out the rest of the black label to those crazy mofos singin and dancing that bluegrass hippy stuff. Fly away -fly away-oh glory glory. It was weird to hear satan worshipers singing spirituals. But it was also weird that the COSTES act was so tame... (just kidding about the devil, it was a funny thing to write)

Anyway. I'm back in Minneapolis. No regular computer access. Danger all around. Gotta get a bike tire intertube.... gotta get a job.. gotta get my license... I'm going to die, i just know it.
See you at be you for food work.

SPRING!! FINALLY!

The snow is still a foot deep but it's like 50 degrees for the first time this year. The snow will probably be gone tomorrow at this rate.
I went and shoveled the snow off the top of RV2 to prevent any further water damage.
I'll have to be starting it up and moving on tonight or sometime this weekend.

Since I couldn't get any work, I can't chill at the inn. It sucks to an extreme.
I don't have a license, no tabs, no money, I barley have any gas, no food... All I have is a moment to drop off some art work and collect $20.
I'll probably buy some gas, some oil, and go see COSTES at the Church w/ cockESP.

I won't have Internet access now, so I hope I can get my photography fellowship grant in, and I wnated to work on a video art grant too. Bad timing for me to have no access. I suppose I can work it from my crappy laptop in a coffee shop. Windows 98, Pentium 2, whooo hooo!

But that puts an end to video editing for a while too. I'm screwed.

I went to the Gritty City art exhibition over the weekend. It was a fine experience.

Today though, I finalized an edit of the Caffetto opening from January.
Here it is:

Tonight I'm learning some Navajo language. I'm searching for the correct spellings so i can subtitle some things Armando said. It's kinda challenging though because I can't find in depth resources.
I've found these:
http://www.native-languages.org/navajo.htm
...
um, cut. . to live revelation.
looking to put links in here, I found the Navajo creation story of how the moon (T'éhonaa'éí) and sun (Jíhonaa'éí) were created, and how the Coyote was responsible for the arrangement of the stars as it is today.
http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/countryboy79/yayiighaz.html

I had no idea. I might sound a little strange in the following passage, but I just realized some stuff. I'm curious to experience how I will explain it..

Well, no nevermind, I'll just say I connected it in my mind to some experiences and some songs. One being "Turquoise Boy" by Sonic Youth. Another, being meeting Kim at the Walker Art Center. Another, giving Thurston a cassette tape of my sound arts at Big V's during the End Times Fest... nevermind, here is Turquoise Shaman's Prayer by Jeanette Katoney

Today was more interesting. I've just been editing video all day.
And all those emails from Jaime, er..uh..Coyote were good reading. It was a comprehensive time because I'm editing his Chicano Visions footage.
Then, I talked my brother into getting a blog, (where in I will never mention adsense again) and he gos and names it "Cada loco con su tema" which translates "Every Madman to His Specialty".

I'm trying to figure out how I'll get to SSCA to tape on Friday.

Hey, thanks for the encouraging words guys.

Why is it so difficult to find a job!!
This has been frustrating. I've got a good resume. I can't believe for as many applications as I've filled out, no one calls or hires me. It blows not having enough money to fuckin EAT. I can't even sell any art! It's just worthless even blogging about it.

Art for Sale!

I've not had any luck in asking for help out of the kindness of peoples hearts. so I'm going to try and raise money for food by actually selling something.

As you can see by this website, I am a famous artist!
EDIT. OUTSIDERS AND OTHER DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE.

I was part of a cool exhibition at Outsiders & Others Gallery in Minneapolis. However, I over priced some of the work and it didn't sell.

So for this fun(d) raiser, I will sell the works for only a $10 donation! You will get a pleasing, comical work of pop art, created by a famous artist for only $10! Well, maybe $13 so I can pay postage, but I would accept a crisp ten and just make due. And of course you are welcome to donate more if you feel so kind.

The ones on that page were in an exhibition, so they are special. A collector from the Chicago Museum of Art even bought one.... I SHOULD auction them.

If you are interested, please send me an email with an offer to HOMELESSARTIST at good old YAHOO dizot COM. with "Model Catz Offer" in the subject line and we can make a deal!

The Model Catz Series, Thats what I call them. It's my model for a pop art formula. These ones were specialty made for the gallery show. But I'll make more when they sell out. You can feel free to make a request too. Any celebrity I can find in a magazine is fair game. That reminds me, bald Britney Spears is due. :D

Thats HOMELESSARTIST chilling at yahoo. And "Model Catz Offer" in the subject line.
THANKS!


Photos by either Yuri Arajs or Beth Parkhill have been deleted and their website doesn't exist anymore.

Yep, thats a freaking storm alright!

And look at the warnings! We've got Tornado warnings, blizzards, freezing rain, floods, wind chill, avalanches! It's crazy.

Prepare for weekend winter storms?

Looks like that flow from the south is coming in again.