Everyone knows that we’re supposed to learn from our mistakes, but it’s tough to remember to look back at your day/week/month and figure out what those mistakes actually were. I’ve been trying to keep track of things in iCal (with limited success) so I can see where my week went drastically off-course.

Productivity blogger Andre Kibbe has the same kind of idea - he talks about looking back at day-to-day forks in the road and figuring out what you might want to do differently next time. Worth reading.

Link: Upgrade an Unproductive Day by Mentally Rehearsing a Better One

(via Lifehacker)

Lost at E-minor is constantly putting good stuff in my inbox when most of it is crap. And the guy from Liars has started writing for them lately, making them that much more awesome.

One of their newest featured artists is Brittanie Pendleton, a 20 year-old photographer from California whose subjects crackle with emotion and sexuality, even though (because?) she captures them through a washed out, almost bored lens. I’m especially struck by the cohesiveness of Pendleton’s work - shots of dust collecting on the floor, lazy girls in their underwear and scenes from nature all share the same distinct mood. There’s something about her aesthetic that makes me feel like I’m 17 and haven’t slept in two days.

Beautiful stuff.

Link: Hairplay Photography

Sorry I haven’t been good with the blog lately - I went home last weekend to hang out with my dad and I’ve been recording and editing nonstop. One last track to go before my record is done and I can have a life again.

Here’s the sixth track - kind of an interlude.
It’s made completely with snippets of home video of me singing when I was like 11-13:

Corbu - 667 (mp3)

The Notwist is a glitchy, breathy rock-ish band from Germany that I quite like. Supposedly they were a metal band at some point, but their last record, Neon Golden, had an almost Beatles-ish pop air to it. Stately electronic pop music.

They have a new record out called the Devil, You and Me. Here’s “Alphabet” - not the most immediate track on the album, the beat that comes around the 1:07 mark is ridiculous.

The Notwist : Alphabet

Behance just featured my portfolio on the front of the site, and also featured the other sound design ad I did for Sony Bravia.

This is what my email looked like today:

Sandi’s beautiful new design portfolio is finished and online at:

HEYSANDI.com

I want to make her a cake that looks like that logo.

Woo!

Design supersite Behance has started a portfolio site, and my (imaginary) clip for BMW was picked as a featured project today.

They say: “Our editorial team features a small number of projects every day. With hundreds of options, we only pick a few that promote new thinking.”

There’s a lot of great stuff up there - look quick while I’m still on the front page.

Behance Network : Gallery
Jonathan on Behance

I’m a big fan of the Grand Theft Auto games - over and over again, I’m surprised at all the little ways in which they mimic real life. 

For instance, your character freely walks/drives from one location to another, meets up with specific friends or business partners and then does things with them (your “missions”). Those people appear as symbols on your map, and hover over the screen as a heads-up display while you’re walking around. Then you meet more people through those initial contacts, and their symbols are added to your radar. It all ends up looking like this:

Now that free mapping software (like Google Earth) has become so advanced that a custom satellite map can be used from a cell phone, anyone can have a working, helpful Grand Theft Auto map of their life right now.

This is a shot of my Google Earth map, pointed at the East Village:

I’ve set up categories that correspond to different parts of my life, like friends, tech resources, bars/restaurants, music venues, art venues, memories, etc. Then I assign a custom icons to the categories (friends are stormtroopers) and go from there. It’s nice to see a visual representation of everything around you as it relates to you, especially when you’re trying to figure out what you want to do for the day.

I wonder if the GEarth .kmz files are accessible from an iPhone?

Vinyl toy-inspired designers Friends With You have just released a new line called “Wish Come True Wishing Toys,” and I found their animation reel from ‘07 when I visited their site.

So much of what I love about Brooklyn is right here:

Link: Friends With You

Posting a new beat I came up with last night.
I like it a lot.

MP3/ Corbu : Girls (demo beat)