Snapped in a grocery store in the Bronx

AOL Blogger event drink-BLOG IT TO ME!

vision vodka, liimoncello, fresh basil, fresh muddled lemons, a hint of sugar

Used Jailbreakme.com to free my Iphone 3GS

Diesel Kick Ass Party

More hilarity can be found at The Oatmeal by Matthew Inman

Last weekend I attended The Next Hope (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference, held at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC. It is held every 2 years and this is the 4th time I attended since 1998.

This is the badge-

this is the schematic for the badge designed by Travis Goodspeed-

“These badges are active RFID tags which beacon the position of each attendee a few times a second, so that the god damned devil army of lies–by which I mean the Next HOPE badge committee–can track each attendee around the Hotel Pennsylvania.”

There were alot of other cool things to check out such as this USB Typewriter setup and a working EASY button

Here are some topics to some of the talks I attended-

• Circuitbending
• Keeping Your Job While Being a Hacker
• Examining Costs, Benefits, and Economics in Malware and Carding Markets
• Arse Elektronika: Sex, Tech, and the Future of Screw-It-Yourself
• How Hacking is Both the Death and Future of Traditional and Interactive Publishing, Journalism, and the Media
• Reach Out And Touch Face: A Rant About Failing
• Sita Sings the Blues: A Free Culture Success Story

A keynote was scheduled to be given by Julian Assange of Wikileaks , he did not show for obvious reasons, but his partner Jacob Appelbaum and developer of TOR gave a great talk,cover past, present and future developments of the project and showed the much talked about a videotape showing a U.S. Army Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff. for more information check out CollateralMurder.com

I got to ride a Segway (video on that later) and got put on to Etherape!-is a packet sniffer/network traffic monitoring tool, developed for Unix (thank you AngelXIII!)

I met threat analyst and journalist, known as a former grey hat hacker, Adrian Lamo  (we now follow each other on foursquare)

He also informed the authorities of the identity of a US Army Intelligence Specialist who is alleged to be the source of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike video leak to Wikileaks.

Which shows guts and balls and I am in his corner no matter what his reputation may now be in the hacker community.

I also enjoyed 2 greats talk and got a pic with Johannes Grenzfurthner

(No-I do not work for @cafebustelo)

He is the founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group.

I shot an interview with a teacher from The Hacktory, a Philidelphia-based group that promotes the use of technolog in the arts.

(look for that video to be posted soon)

Overall, it was a good time of learning and unlearning.

Note: Most of the videos of the talks can be downloaded at Hattorents.com

On Saturday I attended Creators Project at MILK Studios in NYC, it’s  is a joint venture between Vice and  Intel.

The purpose is to launch a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media all around the world.

xx: A Sculpture of the Album -a unique audio-visual collaboration with video director Saam Farahmand, creates “a 3D physical interpretation” of the band’s debut album, xx,

The sculpture utilises film, light and sound via three specially created audio-visual units (each unit representing one member of the band with a mix of exclusively filmed footage and mixed sound), and every visitor  enjoys  a totally unique experience of xx.

Last week I stopped by the Comixology HQ and met  creators Steve Ellis and David Gallaher, Jake and Taylor from comiXology’s  to celebrate the release of the Red 5 Comics’ graphic novel!
Refreshments were  served, including Dan Holiday’s favorite drink!

(Vodka, Cran and Ginger Ale)

Overall a pretty good time, I even met comic book legend Jim Lee!

I downloaded the digital version of the comic on my Iphone and enjoyed the story and artwork-it is loosely based on 1947 radio show of the same name.

Click here to download the first chapter on Iphone

There were some surprises as you can see from the pic-Stay tuned!

If you don’t have an Iphone-you can check out the entire first chapter online here-

http://www.comixology.com/digital/561/Box-13-1

The complete 124 page Graphic Novel is in stores now!