Yesterday when I went to take pictures of Gary Siebel's art car (see below), I had to look about to find him. My search took me up onto Kite Hill, where I spent several minutes ogling a fancy gadget attached to a kite and wondering what on earth it was. I scampered up the hill to find Bre Pettis wrangling with a remote control. The contraption was his weekly project he'd built for Make Magazine and his weekly video podcast (also see the accompanying blog post. Since I had all my camera gear with me, I slapped on my polarizing filter and took a few pictures before running back to apologize for my tardiness.
This morning, I raved to Llama friends about my adventure meeting Bre, and linked them to his blog post about it. Bre's a fabulous guy and I liked him immediately upon meeting him. The Llamas thought he was hipster-tastic (which is probably true, but they were ribbing nevertheless) even though some of them are quite the Indie Rock Petes themselves. :D
In the afternoon, we were geeked to see that Bre's invention was Boing Boing'd! For those who don't know, Boing Boing is a "Directory of Wonderful Things," a very popular, interesting and time-wasting blog that is worth a LOT of attention and link love. I'm happy for Bre and also excited for myself... since Bre linked to my blog and to my pictures (thanks, dude!) it's like getting a second-hand Boing Boing! And since none of my posts at the SEOmoz blog have ever been Dugg, Slashdotted, or del.iciou.us...ed, I feel special. OK, I lied, The Web 2.0 Awards are "Internet Famous" up the wazoo. But that wasn't a completely solo project.
Anyhoo, be sure to take a look at the spiffy camera-vention and its photos of Gasworks Park, which is only three blocks from my apartment!
Posted on July 28, 2006 @ 5:58 PM | 2 comments
Comments:
Llama friends = animals or reborn Tibetans?
That was fun, you took great pictures and made me look good, thanks!
I heart the polarizing filter!
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bre, at
10:35 AM, July 29, 2006
The Llamas are my friends in Eugene, Oregon (where I went to school). They're geeks who sort of came together in real life via work in tech support, Counterstrike gaming, IRC, et cetera, to form a big nerdy "clan." For the origin of the term, see this post in Sept 2004 on my old blog. Most of the central Llamas lived together last year in a triplex/duplex facing across an alley (The Llama District) and most of us spend all day on an IRC channel chatting. :)
Glad you like the photos! Awesome project and congrats on being Boing Boing'd (though I suspect it's not the first time)!
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Kat, at
1:12 PM, July 29, 2006
