There’s no such thing as talent, only lack of talent. The rest is work. Jerzy Grotowsky Quoted in The New Yorker, April 8, 2013
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Kitaro Nishida Quote from McLaren Park
Thinking has its own laws. It functions of its own accord and does not follow our will. To merge with the act of thought – that is, to direct one’s attention to it – is voluntary, but I think perception is the same in this respect: we are able to see what we want to …
The Semantics of HTML and Web Sites – Why Markup Matters
Creating websites for 13 years now, I have seen the evolution of websites from clunky table based layouts that were semantically just a bunch of noise to the current HTML5, semantically charged creations. Of course the leaders in Web Standards and semantic HTML have been people like Jeffery Zeldman and his disciples, great CSS exercise …
How to Create Your Own File-Based Image Galleries with php, ftp, Shadowbox and a Groovy File Structure
or perhaps titled: I don’t trust anyone with my photos, not Flickr, not Google and especially not Mark Zuckerberg! Requirements Linux Hosting Account (php enabled) ftp program for uploading files Implementation Download and unzip files Paul’s Way Groovy Photo Gallery ftp up to your web host. Probably a good idea to create a directory such …
2012 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Highlights
Last year I was in Tennessee at a wedding. This year I was able to check two days of the 2012 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco. Unlike past years, I did not have any known friends who were doing early morning squatting, marking out terrain, so I would be flying solo, moving between …
Toot’s Thielemans Solo on “Don’t Blame Me” – Jazz Harmonica Transcription
We all have all been listening to Toot’s and probably never knew it. Paul Simon records. Film scores like “Midnight Cowboy.” He basically put the modern, chromatic harmonica on the jazz and popular music map. I am presently on a personal project to transcribe a bunch of his solos. In this post, I present his …
Bootstrap Carousel – Two on the Same Page – A Clean Example
See a Complete Example There is really two ways you can find great new platforms and technologies when building websites. You can tirelessly scrape the web, subscribe to podcasts go to blogs, subscribe to twitter feeds. All of this is but one route. Another is just to get a job in the industry and have …
First Glance
I remember a day in about 1989 before I surfed. I had moved to San Francisco from some landlocked state without an ocean. I lived in the Mission on Valencia when you could find phone booths every four blocks or so and traffic was two lanes deep in both directions. Valencia was sort of a …
Our Local Lawn Mowers
Driving on Saturday along Felton by the water reservoir I took in a curious sight. Fifty or so goats on the other side of the fence grazing away. They caused a bit a scene as cars stopped and locals had to check it out.
Monday Nights at The Union Room at Biscuits and Blues – Mike Olmos and Jeff Mars
It is Monday night. You are looking for some great music in San Francisco. Somewhere were you can hear some of the local best tear it up.. Look no further. Mike Olmos and Jeff Mars hold down the Monday night jazz gig at The Union Room at Biscuits and Blues. Starts at 7:30pm. Ends around …
