Creative Vibrations ®

A Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space

We are conceived in sound
we grow
and emerge in its wake
Our history is a collection
of sound sensations,
experiences, emotions
All uniting into an aural identity.
It is this ocean
of recollections, sound images,
dreams, memories
We share.

Stan Shaff, Composer

Fri. and Sat. at 8:30 (no late admittance)
Adm. $15

1616 Bush St.
San Francisco, CA 94109

(415)-771-1616

Equipment Design by Doug McEachern
Compositions and Performance by Stan Shaff

http://www.audium.org/

I attended WordCamp this year in San Francisco, CA. The all-day event took place at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Then there was a cool party at Pier 38 on the Embarcadero where I was lucky enough to meet the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg.

http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/

The interweb brought this to my attention today and it’s too good not to share. Credit goes to Creative Director Rhett Dashwood.

http://rhettdashwood.com.au/filter/identity#16575

Today I’ve landed on a huge feature that seems to be missing from major internet search engines. What if I want to search a keyword and be given results for only the past 5 years… 10 years… 2 days? To Google’s credit, under their Advanced Search options, you can filter by date up to a year. I’m pitching this idea to the interwebs in hopes that the major search engines will add this feature.

What do you think?

I had a fun evening tonight at the FB Dev Garage in the San Francisco Hyatt Regency near the Embarcadero. You know you’re in the right place when a Ukrainian sits down in the seat next to you and you happen to sell Ukrainian Folk Music! It’s true!

Overall, it was a great event and networking opportunity. I’m really excited about Facebook Connect now that I now what it’s all about and I’m going to start using social analytic service Kontagent first thing tomorrow at work! Here’s a full list of speakers from the night. It would be interesting to take a class with Andreas Weigend in the future. He “gets it”.

• Albert Lai (Kontagent,co-founder/CEO), Intros
• Andreas Weigend (Data Mining Professor at Stanford and Former Chief Scientist at Amazon) - Keynote
• Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkers, co-founder IMVU) - Metrics for Social Engagement
• Jia Shen (co-founder/CTO RockYou) - Metrics of notifications
• Jeffrey Tseng & Fredric Newberg (Kontagent co-founder/CTO & VP engineering) - Viral tuning beyond conversion + insights across applications
• Josh Elman (Facebook) - fbConnect on Web & iPhone and others
• Justin Smith (InsideFacebook, Former Head of Products at Watercooler) - Social Gaming trends
• Andrew Mayer (Media Shifters) - Casual gaming metrics applied to social gaming
• Vikas Gupta (co-founder Jambool) - Virtual Economy Optimization
• Michael Hart (Netflix) - Netflix Facebook Connect Metrics

This is not a blog post about my thoughts, emotions, places I’ve been, things I’m doing, drugs, wine, beer, hopes, dreams, fears, weather, situations, sensations, love, sex, politics, computer screens, fonts, blue jeans, flying, crying, breaking-up, shut-up… THIS IS MY PRODUCT.

Creative Vibrations has teamed up with iStock Audio & Audio Jungle to offer some truly unique and amazing audio files for use in your very own projects today! New files will be added weekly, so check back often!

This past week during my routine eye exam, I had the opportunity to have Optomap retina images taken of my eyes to make sure they’re healthy. Well needless to say, they were healthy… albeit mostly blind and healthy. The machine that takes the images looks like something straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey with a little HAL-esque lens and straight-up green laser scan that washes over your retina. Notice the eye lashes in the bottom of each image.

Although I passed on making a 12-month calendar out of my Optomaps, I was so impressed with the results that I had to post them for the world to see on my blog. Psychedelic 60’s? Alien planets? Let me know what you think.

Let me start by saying, “Do not take apart your Apple Mighty Mouse! It will break!” Why did I do this? My scroll-ball stopped working properly and I knew all it needed was a good cleaning. I thought I had skills just because I completed a few lessons in one of those RadioShack electronics learning labs. In reality, I was quickly reminded how electronics illiterate I am. Actually, some might remember a time where you could actually remove the scroll-ball in a computer mouse to clean it. You wouldn’t believe all of the little components, chips, and other parts that go into making your web browsing experience possible! Anyway, I hope someone out there can learn from my mistake… or possibly even be inspired by it. Why not?

Update: I bought a new mouse by Targus that incorporates a touch-scroll wheel.

Here’s the latest single from Creative Vibrations, titled: “Fun With Martin”. Martin is an obvious reference to the guitar maker. This instrumental track reminds me of something from Leo Kottke or Michael Hedges, and definitely echoes Led Zeppelin à la Jimmy Page.