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Here are a few more free iPhone wallpapers that I've made.
I think my favorite one out of this set is nicholaspatten44.jpg
Download: here (2.3MB) or you can save the below images directly to your iPhone.
Check out my other iPhone wallpaper sets Let me know what you think.
This is one of my favorite jerseys that I still have of when I played soccer in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
I just noticed this post with a lot of great people to follow in the design world. Have a look. It's categorized differently than the usual lists. I appreciate the inclusion in this list.
This is a 2nd version of the song Ias. Feel free to download, sample, and then use for whatever you'd like.
Let me know what you think.
Track: Ias Dos
Software Used:
Final Cut Pro
WavePad
Albeton Live
Took this picture back in May at the Tigers vs Redsox game in Detroit.
1. When did you know you wanted to direct videos?
In high school I used to make snowboard videos, and that was basically just editing footage to music, I also had a great digital media teacher by the name of Steve Sitz who taught me a lot! As far as getting into music videos it wasnt until about four years ago when I had a introductory class at NYU film school where my teacher, Darrell Wilson would show us some great music videos to get us inspired. After doing some research, I then learned that it was a key stepping stone in a lot of feature directors careers ie. Brett Ratner, David Fincher, and Spike Jonze among many others. After realizing this could be my path into features as well, I was focused on becoming a music video director.
2. What is your favorite video that you've directed so far?
Do you ask a mother to choose her favorite child? Haha. I get a lot of compliments on my video for The Kid Daytona and Bun B “Air Born”, but I cant pick one video as my favorite, I did have a lot of fun on my most recent video shoot for Warner Music Group’s artist Outasight for his single “Better Late than Never”. We basically threw a party on a rooftop in Brooklyn.
3. How do you prepare your treatments?
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Last year I had to take an internship for school so I picked a commercial/music video production company here in NYC. After weeks of fruit basket runs, and going to post offices to mail out other directors reels, I decided that none of this was benefiting me and I needed to take matters into my own hands. I got on one of the computers and searched for their directors treatments, found a few and emailed them to myself. When I got back to my dorm later that night I took a look at all of them and picked what I thought were the best attributes of each of them and eventually came up with the format I use today. As far as the process of writing them, I generally listen to the song on repeat all night before I go to bed and I just try to visualize the entire video, if something sticks I write it down. The next morning, if that idea still seems legit I will send it off to the label.
4. What's next that you'd like to accomplish?
There is so much. I don’t even feel like I accomplished anything yet, I've barely even scratched the surface of my to do list. In the very near future I definitely would like to direct bigger music videos with larger budgets, and with the artists that frequent TMZ you know like John Mayer, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, even Justin Bieber ha! I also want to start doing more commercial work, and video work overseas such as London or even Japan. I think a goal of mine this summer is to get some sort of representation in London, that would be great. I also would like to focus on my feature scriptwriting, in school I wrote a lot but now music videos are taking up most of the time I could dedicate to writing features.
Links:
Twitter: @derekpike
Facebook: derekpike
Derekpike.com
The Kid Daytona & Bun B - Air Born (Behind The Scenes, Music Video Shoot)
Below are some screenshots from his previous videos that he's directed.
Here is another twitter background design I just created.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop
Size: 1900 x 1440
Download:
50% JPG - Here (388kb - Right click and Save-as)
100% JPG - Here (2.5mb - Right click and Save-as)
The Case for Curiosity by Itai Palti addresses the notion of curiosity as a moral virtue, and as the primary device in imagining the other. A film studio and public square run parallel, linking Jewish Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa. A common alien ground is marked out in an undefined zone between two urban and cultural entities. An architectural language of permeability, physical and visual, fragment the space into a series of catalytic views encouraging imagination of new narrative (See Palti's Permeascope ). Used film sets slowly clog up the street facade (waiting to be cleared and recycled) whilst patterned screens distort, conceal, and reveal spaces within the square. The public is challenged by it's own curiosity to explore and interact, to reinterpret, and debate, or to quietly watch the scene unfold. The Case for Curiosity is a celebration of stories, the ability of the human imagination to displace oneself into another world, or into the world of an other.
Below is a permeability map of the Case for Curiosity developed by Palti, it highlights the physical and visual links made by the intervention between Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
You can see more of The Case for Curiosity on Palti's website, along with some other intriguing projects.
Step 1: Go to Backupify.com and under the "Basic" signup click "Sign Up Now" - This is free
Step 4: Click the "Connect with Facebook" button and allow Backupify access to your information.
Step 5: It will then give you check box options of the following: - Check the boxes of what you'd like to save/backup, then hit save.
Step 6: Now click on the "Archives" tab at the top and then on the "Select A Service" drop down menu select "Facebook" 
Step 7: It will now show you all of your information that it pulled from Facebook. This includes your metadata (who your friends are, etc)
Now you have all of your information on Backupify.com and you can easily save the files you want to your computer if needed.Keep in mind that now that you have backed up all your images, and friend list you can now go through Facebook and delete the images. But you will need to untag everyone in the pictures and delete the comments so that these images don't show up on your friends accounts if you delete your Facebook account. If you don't do this it will show up as "Your friend" tagged in Annonymous user's picture and the image will still show up even if you've deleted it.I went through my Facebook account and "right-clicked" and "saved image as" for all of the images I wanted to make sure were backed up. At the same time I untagged and deleted all the comments. As said before, I used Facebook because it "was" secure and private, this is not the case anymore. I strongly suggest you either use Facebook as a public site or not use it all. Hope this helps. Let me know if there are other ways of doing this.
I had some free time today so I watched one of greyscalegorilla's After Effects tutorials:
Fun With Precomping in After Effects
YouTube versionI took it a little further and precomped it one more time, duplicated the layers to make it flow within each border, and added music. If you're just getting into After Effects, or need a refresher, take a look at some of his tutorials.Software Used:
Adobe After Effects CS4
This was shot at the end of Jan. 2010 at Stowe Mountain Resort
Shot & Edited by: Nicholas Patten
So, for the past month Facebook has been trying to make me reconfirm my email address. I've done this about 7 times now. I have a custom email address and I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't use the standard email addresses like yourschool.edu, gmail, hotmail, aol, etc. You'd think Facebook would be able to retain this information after 7 times of reconfirming by email. Just one more annoying thing to add to the list. Do you have a custom email address? And when you log into Facebook do you have this issue too?
Happy Mother's Day Love You.
:)
Software Used:
Adobe Ideas for iPad
Adobe Photoshop Mobile
- From my iPad.
I have Google Alerts set up so anytime my name is mentioned it will email me with a link to where it's located. This morning I got a message saying my name was listed here. (Update, as soon as I was about done with this post they deleted their post - screen capture below). It's a complete copy of my previous post. This isn't that big of a deal and the tutorial is everywhere across the web now. I realized the person was so lazy that he/she didn't even bother to host their own images. Instead they were linking to my images. This is just pure laziness. If you're going to steal content, at least save the images to your own hosting, and take the person's name off your post. Or you can do the correct thing and email the original writer for permission, or do a partial bit about the post and then link to the original post (be the middle-man).
The end result is that I got to have a little fun. :)
I changed each image so that when read vertically it says the following:
And another part of their website:
I'm not going to rant, yet, about how I've started to dislike Facebook. Instead, here is how you can turn off "Instant Personalization."
Step 1: Login to Facebook
Step 3: Click on "Applications and Websites" - highlighted in green.
Step 4: At the bottom where it says "Instant Personalization" click on "Edit Setting" - highlighted in green.
Update: 04/24/10: You also want to edit the "What your friends can share about you" settings. Once you're in there, you want to deselect everything in that section. And also go to these three pages and click on "Block Application" on the top left for each: Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora, Yelp. Or if those links don't work they are also on this page. (Thanks @melfi) 
Step 2: It will automatically display the "recently used" applications, so it looks as if no editing is needed but don't be fooled. Click on the drop down menu where it says "Recently Used" - highlighted in green.
Step 3: Click on "Authorized" - highlighted in green. It will now show the complete list of authorized third party apps that are able to use your information. Delete the third party apps you no longer use. By writing this tutorial I actually found many old apps that I no longer use that were attached to my data still.
Step 4: Delete anything on Facebook you don't want the public to see, read, and/or share about you.Rant: If you're like me, someone who was a college student right when Facebook came out, in fact my school was so small we were using the now defunct "thecollegefacebook.com" or "collegefacebook.com" (Can't remember) because Facebook hadn't added our school yet. Finally they added us and we had to have a school email to even sign up. 6 years later and now Facebook wants to go from a closed environment to an open (closed) environment where the whole world can see anything and everything about you and use that data to profit. One little step at a time, to get you used to the idea.
I've been going through all of my pictures in my iPhone and ran across a few photos of art that my Grandmother created. This is an image of 4 pictures I took of my cousin's African themed room.
