Danny Palmer

The next time you get frustrated trying to perfect something on the first try, take a look at this very early version of Twitter.

5 years ago, Cassie and I bought dannyandcassie.com as our wedding web site. Since then it’s really only displayed Flickr photos that anyone who was at the wedding can add to our group on Flickr.

Cassie and I decided to make the site a little more current. (Sorry other Danny and Cassie’s getting married out there: it’s ours.) Check it out to learn everything you have wanted to about Danny and Cassie. Wedding nostalgia (from back when Movable Type was en vogue) is forever right here.

compoundshaw:

Middle Lith

obsessivelyhuman:

Dodge is talking Obsessively Human: We love our screens, but they’re not real. We crave real, physical, connected experiences.

I worked with Eric Kanagy at RedPost to come up with Obsessively Human. Dodge has our idea spot on.

rachelmercer:

Relief

An Elixir of Reminding | booktwo.org (via porcupineschool)

I tend to agree when it comes to things like Instagram.

These fine people stopped to get beer and let me talk to them about Freak Bike Fall.

rickyv:

I did a video interview to support Intel’s new Innovators Program. Clicked the link this morning and laughed out loud when I saw the advertising positioned above.

I have a lot of respect for CollegeHumor, but much more for Ricky Van Veen.

I feel 100% stupid doing this, but you can now subscribe to me on Facebook. Just follow the link below, or follow me on Twitter. I promise to feed your snarky advertising/media/Portland -related needs.

Subscribe to Danny Palmer on Facebook.

I just got done visiting a client’s booth at Indulge PDX, and decided to come home and continue to play around with the developer preview of Facebook’s biggest announcement at F8 today: the timeline.

This is, no doubt, the most simultaneously simple and ambitious project Facebook has put out since it’s creation. Simple because it reflects the ways we organize our tangible and physical lives. Ambitious because it refutes the way we have described, on the internet, our tangible and physical lives.

We spent a great deal of the Aughts talking, online, about things that were most certainly not online with us. Only online by extension. An event, at least the vast majority of events, happen in real places, with real people, at real venues. The documentation, the cultural analysis which we rely on; the sharing, of small moments and small glances, of things which should be preserved for friends whom are absent; the analysis of who showed up and whom did not: all this happens online (or, now in rare cases, in the moment, via text if you’re over 20, via KIK if you’re less than 20). 

But we spent a great deal of our online time talking about, since 2000, things that are very real. Tangibly present. Things we witnessed and held and laughed about face-to-face. And finally an online social network represents that, while failing at it entirely.

Failing, only because it’s the first attempt, the 1.0, of trying to really represent that tangibility on the internet. To do so takes more than simple assimilation and reproduction: it takes an inherent, automatic analysis of the tangible. And that is, exactly, the first step Facebook has taken.

Well, for developers. Facebook will take it for the rest of the world on September 29th. And people will complain. Relentlessly. They will threaten to leave “FOR GOOGLE +”.

There is a reason I have never heard, even among my developer friends, “Google +” me. It’s not because it’s a bad service (it isn’t - it’s really good at what it is good at). Part of what made us all flock to Facebook (in waves, in case you don’t recall) was it’s difference from what the “internet” was at the time, at least in case of social sharing. It was okay developing the way we all talk about our “tangible,” albeit little bit differently from the rest.

And that’s what they are doing now. Not perfectly; never perfectly. 1.0. But they’re laying down the innovation that’ll set the tone for the next 2 years. And they are doing in in a way that, for the medium they’re in, finally, accurately, recognizes the values of where, what and whom we value every day.

ericjaffe:

Jump (v.) to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort.

I have had two great loves in my life. One that I left, and one that left me. Both of these loves have manifested themselves into songs on the album, but lets start with the one I left. It was my very…

Eric on recording the first track of “Damask”

I would also add “watch” and “listen”.

ericjaffe:

About a year ago Danny Palmer and I drank a little too much wine and decided that it would be a good idea to record music in the living room of his apartment. We got a bunch of our friends involved and spent a good amount of time singing into the couch, shaking tambo’s and making silly videos….

An awesome recap about a story of turning off one’s internal sound engineer and just making work. That, and not caring how an industry “works.”

Eric Jaffe and I have been working on ‘Damask Sessions’ for almost a year, and we just got the rough cuts from our actual (and awesome) sound engineer. It sounds a little incredible, and not like it was recorded in my apartment.

Released on Fen Songs later this year!

rickyv:

“I think I threw up in my mouth a little.”

“Uh, I liked it better when it was called ___________.”

“That’s just how I roll.”

”____________ is the new ____________.”

“Uhhh… random?”

”____________ called, it wants its ____________ back.”

“Because if we don’t, the terrorists will win.”

“I…

Taken with instagram

MDWR: I saw lots of these. (Taken with instagram)

jefferyharrell:

We don’t use ink to express our opinions any more, which is a shame. If we did, I could start this out by talking about the ocean of ink that’s been spilled on Final Cut Pro X over the past couple of days, and how hardly a drop of it has been positive, and how Apple deserves every last speck and…