The band is Thousands of One. My brother is the drummer and they are based out of Ithaca, NY.

Thousands of One – Hidden Treasure from Christopher Blizzard on Vimeo.

The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostered ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property.  — Unknown

Another great example of how technology often changes how we exchange information.  Fun talk, worth watching.

David Carson was also interviewed in Helvetica. It’s a movie worth watching if you haven’t seen it yet.

I thought I would collect some of my favorites from the past:

Some big questions for the week: will the Euro survive as a currency? Will the rush into the U.S. dollar continue even as the U.S. financial system dematerializes in a Fibonacci fever of accelerating de-leveraged infinitude? Will the remaining Big Boyz, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan succumb to the counter-party hemorrhagic fever? Will great rows of lesser banking dominoes now start clacking onto their faces? Will all fifty states follow the leads of California and Massachusetts and line up at the U.S. Treasury’s hand-out window. Will the entity that calls itself the civilized world be left at week’s end with anything resembling money?

I’m certainly don’t believe all that Mr. Kunstler says, but I always enjoy the way he says it.

And now, because you’ve been so patient, here’s Mr. Kunstler talking at TED a few years ago. Some really great commentary on the American landscape. And it’s really funny.

Note: his first book, The Geography of Nowhere is actually a really wonderful read. He wasn’t quite as cranky back then.

I’ve been browsing around for a few days now, not really happy with of the ones I came across but I finally found one I really like. It’s the Tarski theme. It’s reasonably configurable, seems to work pretty well with most of my plugins (reCAPTCHA required some minor changes) and I’m overall pretty happy with it how it looks and feels. Great job, guys!

It’s great to see storytelling mixed with the live web. A very neat idea and can really reset expectations about what presentations could and should be. I’ve already professed my love for visual storytelling and this is right up my alley.

(And I’m sad that a lot of it is written in flash, but don’t worry – audio and video are coming to a browser near you.)

The entire episode is full of awesome. Go watch it. His feeds are pretty awesome, too. (Thanks go to Jonathan Zittrain who set up the moment.)