Category Archives: Personal

If you find bad links on my site referencing my old archive.org account…

Just FYI, often if you hit a bad link from my old archive.org account, like this:
http://ftp.archive.org/movies/lisarein/radio/kqed/crowdestimation.html
just replace “http://ftp.archive.org/movies/lisarein” with:
http://www.lisarein.com/videos/
So this:
http://ftp.archive.org/movies/lisarein/radio/kqed/crowdestimation.html
would become this:
http://www.lisarein.com/videos/radio/kqed/crowdestimation.html
but please do email me and let me know to fix the page itself
(as you always do)

Ready For A New Blogging Start In 2006

Hey guys.
I know I’ve said this in the past, but I’m really going to try to stick with it this time and start blogging more regularly again. Lord knows there’s a ton of stuff going on — personally in my own life, and in the world at large — that I mean to keep a record of, and this is the only way I know how to do it.
I think this last year, in 2005, I probably got more information from you than I ever gave out!
Thanks again for your continued interest and support. It really means a lot to me.
Ok…let’s get this party started…

Slinging Hash Day Of Catch-up Linking

So this is the first day I’ve had in months to try to get organized, and man, oh man, is my stuff all over the place.
As a result, I’m going to be posting a bit of “backlog” today — stuff from the last 6 months I never got around to linking to, even though I had already uploaded it. (Doh!)
Please let me know if any links don’t work, etc.
thanks!

What’s The Best Video Camera For Under 500 Bucks?

Well it’s time for another family purchase, and, as always, I’m depending on you to help me make the right decision.
We need something with either firewire and rca outputs, if possible — so they can hook it in through their VCR or download to a computer.
Good sound is important too — of course 🙂
thanks in advance for the usual great advice!
remember my email is:
lisa@lisarein.com

Help Me Find The New Presidents Of The United States All Camera Phone-Video

Update 9/27/05 – video can be found here.
Beware that it requires Quicktime 7.
Or dispell the myth that it exists.
thanks!!
Here’s what I have on it:

Camera phone enters new creative territory
That record’s been out for a year already, so I guess it’s a new video for the old song? Help me out here…

NEW YORK–Billboard magazine has learned that rock band the Presidents of the United States of America shot its latest video using only mobile phone cameras. The video for the track “Some Postman,” culled from the band’s last studio album, “Love Everybody,” was filmed in Seattle in just one day using a variety of Sony-Ericsson mobile video phones.
Director Grant Marshall of Film Headquarters said he had spent 18 months looking for a band willing to go along with the mobile-only film concept. The band currently is playing limited U.S. dates and is planning to tour in Australia in October.

Check Out dissent’s Primal Deconstruction


So one of the reasons why I’ve been so bad about blogging lately is that I’m quite obsessed with learning everything there is to know about running a record label — in this case, the everluvin’ Wide Hive Records.
It’s part of my graduate research at SFSU, and my experience will also supplement a couple books I’m in the process of writing…
Anyhoo, our latest release is dissent‘s

Primal Deconstruction.
There are three different tracks you can check out in MP3 format.
It has been our experience during the course of my research that our downloads only increase as we increase the number of free mp3 tracks samples we give away on our website. (just to be clear, these are complete versions of these songs 🙂
Also, our number one and number two itunes downloads for the month of May 2005, were the two we’ve been giving away for free for almost a year. Interesting.
Anyway, more on all that later…just give it a listen for now, and tell me what cha think.
interested peeps: I’d be happy to send you an advance cd. Email me at lisa@widehive.com

I’m Back — Guess I Took A Blogging Vacation…

Well, I didn’t plan it that way, but July was a month off for me and my blog.
Well I’m back. I’ll be blogging more regularly and podcasting in a week or so. I’m real excited to be back.
For the first time in my life, I had to rearrange things so I could spend more time in front of the computer!
I see all hell has broken loose in the mean time – with Bolton’s confirmation as UN leader and Roberts up for a Supreme Court spot, so it’s not like I don’t have anything to talk about…
But I’m also getting back in to one of my previous missions of helping Americans understand how they are being cheated out of their side of “the copyright bargain.” I’ve decided that we need to be more aggressive about this issue. Instead of just stopping the term from being increased, we need to start rolling it back to something reasonable, like 50 years or something.
I’ll also be publishing some of my research papers from school that I’ve been working on this summer (the other reason I went A.W.O.L. last month.)
ok talk soon!
lisa

How Do You Create French Accents In Illustrator?

Hey I’m wondering if anyone knows how to generate special characters in Adobe Illustrator.
thanks!
Update 7/7/05 9:53 pm — you guys are the greatest – by 1:51 am this morning – I had the answer to this. (Thanks Carl and Bill!):