Hey That’s Me!
My friend Scott just emailed me with the subject line “you’re on TechCrunch”. So of course my heart immediately leapt straight out of my chest. I took a deep breath. I clicked the link…
Turns out it’s an article about new features and applications for the Ning platform, with a screenshot of a page from Brooklyn Art Project’s Ning website. Brooklyn Art Project (BAP) is a social network for artists, of which I am a member. The TechCrunch article has nothing to do with me particularly. But as luck would have it, the screenshot they used was probably a month old, from when BAP had my artwork as the header image for their website.
I am accidentally on TechCrunch today.
And that is better than cupcakes.
XO, dreX
Holy Hell the new "ModBook” Mac Tablet!!!
Well, it looks like all our bitching, moaning and petitioning is finally starting to pay off! I just received a press release in my email last night from Axiotron about the first and only Mac Tablet, now available from Macsales.com. It’s brand new, of course extremely pricey, but it’s made, it uses Wacom technology and runs on OS X. And it looks like this…
Pretty, huh?
technorati tags:modbook, mac, mactablet, macsales, axiotron
Blogged with Flock
Flock RULES
Ok well it took me freaking AGES, but I fiiiiiinally downloaded and started using the Flock browser. I’d wanted to try it for a long time, and started actually feeling guilty about it every time I’d see Will Pate at conferences and talked to him about it. So now it’s done. And I am seriously stoked about it. It’s so much fun to post to a blog or to play around on my social networking sites when I have my flickr pics open. It all goes much quicker and I don’t have to go to like 9 different places for everything. I can see all my new articles, all my flickr pics, all my FRIEND’S flickr pics, upload pics and post blogs all in a click. It’s really the coolest thing ever. You should try it for yourself. DO IT!
technorati tags:flock, willpate, technology, blogging, socialnetworking, flickr, flockstar, browser
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in the presence of GREATNESS
today was extremely special for me because i got to hang out with eddie codel, producer extraordinaire of geekentertainment.tv and just an extremely awesome and fun dude, and eric rice, self-made rockstar and co-founder of Hipcast. that is seriously the abridged version of what those two do, but if you want more go study their blogs, eddie’s and eric’s, and become a fan. you should already be anyway.
we went to barney’s beanery where eddie discovered that marinara sauce tastes just fine with a splash of coffee in it. then off to the rockstar hotel where they’re staying where i did my first-ever video podcast interview for GETV!! (note: i hate bold text but it had to be done.) i was awful and everyone knew it, but they were so cool about it and if they had 1/10th the fun i did then it was a great day all around.
soon this——>
will be my friend. for now i shall practice interviewing all my friends, roommates and coworkers with pens, hairbrushes and chopsticks.
thanks again to eddie, who made this awesome day possible and to eric for humoring me and participating.
love, the stylegoddess. xo
Geek Makeovers
Well, I was dragging my feet but now I’m not. Here’s what’s happening:
Stylegoddess.com will be a video blog VERY soon. I will be doing videoed makeovers and they will appear on these pages. I’m also going to be working with an amazing celebrity in the open-source, bay area, technologically-advanced scene. But I’m going to leave his name and his website’s name out of this until I find out if he’s ok with me plugging his site. Suffice it to say for now that he is a STAR.
So…that said, if you or someone you know falls under the category of “geek” and wants to be featured for one of my makeovers, LET ME KNOW right away. These makeovers will be videoed and professionally edited, then put on Stylegoddess.com and the other soon-to-be-divulged awesome website.
Cheers,
Erica aka The Stylegoddess.
Microsoft people and Linux people
XHTML invalid
This is an illustration I did last night with Corel Painter IX. Pretty much just how I looked trying to get the XHTML 1.0 validator to show zero errors on my site. Yup. Still working on it. Soon perfection shall be achieved…
working out my brand
I got an email today from the amazing Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of Pandora. He mentioned something to me about the brand of my site. He’s right. It’s been the thorn in my side for 2 years. It’s funny, I think of my brand as something that will evolve like a painter’s style, and I’m sure there’s a degree of truth to that. But in reality you have to do it backward. Come up with the logo and slogan and brand the world with it, before anything else. So even if someone doesn’t have a clear understanding of what you do, even YOU, they’ll still recognize your logo.
(Here’s a goofy one I did a couple days ago with one of my employee’s logo creator software applications.)
I do actually have my purpose and intention worked out. My purpose is to merge the two universes of fashion and geek. How exactly this will manifest itself I couldn’t say. I have MANY ideas and plans. And I’m sure I’ll continue to come up with new ways to merge these two industries. In the meantime, suffice it to say that I intend to bring the skills that I have to the best group of people I know…the smartest people on Earth. The people who are responsible for creating an interactive world full of ungodly levels of awesome; the creators of hardware, software, peripherals, tools, programs and apps and tricks and the faithful users of these amazing creations; the creators of web standards and the adherents of them. I love drawing and painting, and I love image consulting and turning people into rockstars, but I love web technologies more. And if I’m going to do this, I’m going to do it for and with my favorite people. With any luck, there will be a couple people who also think it’s a good combination.
In truth, I AM a bit weak on the logo. The slogan is STAYING, because I love it. But when I sit down to sketch out logos, they’re all so random. Here are a couple illustrations I’ve done with “Stylegoddess.com” in mind. Others are on bits of paper at work…my mind wanders.
