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Linking off to Jonathan Coulton’s blog post reply about the NY Times Magazine article discussing musicians, culture, fame, and how the internet changes the relationship between artist and audience. Coulton is featured as one of a new wave of musicians embodying who represent this trend. His post about making it up as he goes along and taking advantage of the situations he finds himself in is really inspiring.

I’m also linking off to it because he mentions my boy Dave Slusher. Yay! I’m still recovering from the bachelor party of one Brendan Gramer. I hope he’s still breathing.

Yup, I pulled down the ‘kuniform is dead’ page even though the new version is not up yet. I had to! It was time to announce the launch of kuneshdesign.com, the presence of my new consulting gig.

I’ll be posting here again shortly to talk about some of the decision-making and technology that went into creating kuneshdesign.com, including some thoughts about why I’m launching a contracting business, plans for the biz, and a bit of the technical tricks behind the portfolio section.

I said I would be working diligently on a redesign for this site. That was a fairly big lie. Instead, I joined a startup, that I then left to pursue a passion of mine: organic, local, sustainable food. I’ll be updating this blog on occasion, but it will be fairly rare, I’m afraid, as I blog about gardening, organics, and sustainable living at the YumLocal site.

Wowza. First, Happy New Year! Now that we got that out of the way, here’s a time-lapse video of Picasso on Google video. Metafilter has the backstory and comments on it. It’s amazing to see how the end product looks little like the picture he began. I think there were a few different points in the painting where I thought it could be done. Anyhoo, thanks for the links, Brendan, including the Jackson Pollock short film on YouTube, the other Google video.

Wouldn’t that be pagan? They’re worshipping Gaia! Ahhhh! Not at all. This article about the environmental interests of Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenical Patriach Bartholomew is a thought provoking read. Either these guys are becoming more liberal, I’m becoming more conservative, or people from stripes of life are putting aside their differences to realize our role as stewards of the ecosphere.

I found this link via Andrew Sullivan, who recently wrote Green Conservatism at the Times Online. And since we’re on the topic of Mr. Sullivan and religion, this quote he’s got from Oscar Romero rocks.

I was at this fantastic party my cousin and his gal pal threw on Saturday, fresh after teaching two 3 hour lectures back to back at the Art Institute. My brain was fairly fuzzy, got home, changed, paid the sitter, kissed the kid, grabbed the wife, got to the party.

We began talking with a gal who had lost her grandfather the previous week. I tried to recall the prayer from Romero in that post. I called him Cesar Romero instead of Oscar. The gal correct me, which made me say, “Wait, Cesar… didn’t he paint his moustache white along with his face to play the Joker? Sorry..” I think that inadvertent joke consoled her better than the prayer.