Podcast Hotel - Best Photo So Far

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Originally uploaded by Eric Rice.

i mean, seriously.

food, glorious food

day one at Podcast Hotel was quite the success. only thing i keep forgetting to do is eat a meal. I don't recall a meal at all yesterday (got too busy) so the last time i ate was over a day ago, not including the $5 cookie i ate last night in my hotel room. do they have restaurants in seattle? i'm hoping to find out before i take off tomorrow.
meanwhile, it's back to business...


Update 3/4/06 - indeed there are places to eat in Seattle. photos of restaurant experience are right here

Hungover In Seattle

Hello from Seattle and Podcast Hotel. For my less 'cast savvy friends - the podcast hotel is not an actual hotel. The actual hotel where I am staying thinks it's in New York, but in NYC it wouldn't be nearly this cool or have any of these ammenities. I'll explain - with a list. When i woke up this morning, these were my thoughts, in this exact order:

1) why are the lights on
2) this down comforter is nice
3) so are these down pillows
4) why am i sleeping diagonal
5) where is fletch
6) did i really drink beer or was that cider?
7) oh shit, who did i call and what did i say
8) what did i say and who did i call
9) wow this is nice, there are 8 down pillows on this phat bed
10) do i have to be somewhere at 8am?
11) what did i say and who did i call
12) can't i just stay in bed?
13) Let's have a cd listening party in second life

Now i am off to start the day, already running late at 7am. This event is already proving to jar my thoughts beyond the mostly trite list above. Last night ER told me his son recognizes his avatar as "cartoon daddy." I can't get this out of my head. the neurobiological & cognitive implications - a dissertation waiting to happen.

Digital recognition of human attributes in pre pubescent youth

or something like that.

And now i'm off to blow off any memories of my drunken self and hang with more of the 'sphere i love so dear.

Stop by the ioda lounge today at the triple door in seattle and say hi. I'll be the one with the hangover yapping about changing the world. I'll have t-shirts, swag and ideas.

Stay Tuned.

Seattle Bound... The Podcast Hotel, Feb 23 - 26, 2006

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Originally uploaded by crazywanda.

I'm off to Seattle in the morning to attend the Podcast Hotel. And why the napkin? you'll have to go to the site & figure it out. Til then, if you are in the Seattle area 2/25, I'll be w/ the philosophs at the 1pm panel on Podcasting & Digital Distribution (music). Join us & ask smart questions.

The napkin entry you see here on my blog is the first of many. Who doesn't draw ideas on napkins? It was the birthplace of my thesis. We meet again, paper napkin. we meet again...

Ambulance Ltd in Promonet

this is pretty exciting...I've been smitten by this band since this time last year when they caught us all by surprise at SxSW05. This new EP is not yet released (coming March 14) yet here it is....straight outta Promonet.

New English EP

Ambulance LTD
TVT Records
Download the mp3 of "New English"

Digital Hippie Strikes Back

i've heard the term "digital hippie" and "cyber hippie" (because it was a term used for me) and while i fully understand the direct connotation I disagree with this assessment of my person. I'm not offended. But annoyed i be.

you're a zealot, missWanda, they'll say

you talk about wiki and tagging and new media in terms of revolution, missWanda, they'll say

Well, that's true. Not the zealot part, but the rest, maybe. I've spent a large portion of my still-short life observing and analyzing communication. I'd be dr. wanda, psycholinguist now if i hadn't received an offer to enter the one industry i'd been aiming for (on the side) for....ever. (music). i digress.

Communication has been an obsession of mine since I was a child. the first word i learned to spell with alphabet magnets was "Annapolis" (the maryland state capitol) and by the time i was 3 i knew that "polis" meant city. Turned the age of 4 and i was making jr podcasts (sorta) - i started recording myself singing as soon as my dad told me what buttons to push. within a year i had my own show and was interviewing family members, the mail carrier, the lifeguard - I wanted to know what they had to say. I wanted to record it and play it back and think about it. Communication has always been my game. Diagraming sentences was fun in 5th grade. And the advanced class at hopkins was even more fun. Diagramming sentences turns language into math. I never stopped, took my love of breaking down sentences into all sorts of shapes, parts and sizes all the way to college and beyond. Does that make me a cyber hippie? to recognize communication for what it is?

Communication is also more than parts and shapes and numeric value. In sociological and anthropological terms, It is the fuel of revolution, it is the impetus of mass hysteria in all its varied degrees. It proved to be the death of Grizzly Man.

Communication was what i saw as the future of my 1st computer, the commodore Vic20. I couldn't wait to use a modem. I was obsessed with the phone jack in the 5 lb brick of a modem i first owned. i kept asking my grandma if i could use it to call someone else. But back then, well, we didn't have skype, or even IRC. just a vic20, and deep knowledge of BASIC. a language by its own right.

Where do i begin. it's not that i truly take offense to the term "hippie" - name calling is a bore. It's more the semantics of the term - the perception created by the use of "hippie." the name "digital hippie" implies that my obsession with communication is a nuance. Fleeting. Short-lived. it's negated to some level of Trippy man. Hippies never made a goddamned difference. I cannot relate.

In college, i became fascinated by Phineas Gage. Phineas had a hole in his skull from a tamping iron accident, got up and walked away (with the tamping iron still sticking through his skull) and his brain injury only affected his communication skills. He's the first documented case of aphasia. I went on to build a database of Broca's Aphasia at the University of South Carolina. The first of it's kind in the ENTIRE field of psycholinguistics! I read more books about brain injury and its effect on communicative skills than any normal person would ever want to, trust me. Wernicke's aphasia is neat, but it's no Broca's.

So you see, the natural event of having a gal who is fascinated with communication lost in a world of wiki, and obsessed with the consequences of every shift in communication - and how these shifts relate to music (also a form of communication by it's own right) is not the making of a digital hippie.

it's sexy.

ok, maybe it's not sexy to you.

but someone out there finds it sexy. Dwight, Hartigan and Marv from Sin City definitely worship it.

and just you wait, i haven't even begun to address entropy or string theory. talk about arousing.

OH Audi OH

Valentine's day has never been my scene, not because it is a day for lovers and i'm just a tough bad ass girl...but because it's so entirely fabricated and rooted in consumption rather than, well, love. it's a faux holiday, a day reserved for spending and missionary sex. It's the closest american culture has gotten to open sexuality which doesn't say much. But once again, thanks to technology, some nerdy (tough?) girls have a chance at enjoying February 14th. I mean, how can i opt out on hearts day when two of my favorite things have finally been digitized and realized in physical form...
As Seen In Playboy.
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