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21 Seconds of Fischerspooner

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Short video from my digital camera of Fischerspooner tonight at the SF Fashion Week party at Mezzanine. They were amazing.

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Chinatown, San Francisco

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Summer afternoon in Chinatown.

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eHub Web 2.0 Software

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

eHub is my constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.

I launched eHub on Sept 12 and within three days, it had shot up to del.icio.us popular and received global traffic. Here’s a round-up of news from last week.

Sept 17, 2005
eHub in The Social Software Weblog
Barb Dybwad from The Social Sofware Weblog writes about eHub in her post, eHub and wsFinder: Web 2.0 applications and web services.

September 16, 2005
eHub cited by Stowe Boyd in Corante
In today’s Get Real column at Corante, Stowe Boyd, President/COO of Corante, the world’s first blog media company, writes about discovering new web apps at eHub, a new resource by co-founder and Ideacodes principal Emily Chang. See Stowe Boyd’s post, Mapstats and Ajax apps at Corante.

September 15, 2005
eHub Ranked in Del.icio.us and Blogged Around the World
Emily Chang’s eHub web 2.0 software resource has risen to the delicious popular page since Tuesday, Sept 13 with over 460 bookmarks, has been blogged and linked by bloggers in the United States, Spain, Germany, Japan, China, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, and Portugal, and has received over 5000 unique global visitors to the site since its launch on Monday, September 12.

Posted by emily chang on 09.20.05
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New bits

Monday, August 22, 2005

Bonjour. I’ve put up a couple of collections of photos and miscellaneous digital material that I’ll be adding to regularly. Check out city bits (photos of words, numbers, signs, symbols, stickers, flyers, receipts, posters, graffiti, paper, and other bits seen in San Francisco) and digital bits (collected from the web).

Posted by emily chang on 08.22.05
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Symbols and synchronicity

Sunday, August 21, 2005

I mentioned how I like it when synchronicities pop up at different times in an earlier post last week, but I have to mention another odd coincidence because 1) it’s cool and 2) I need your help to find out what this symbol is.

I’d already been thinking about starting a small project to take photos of signs and symbols seen around San Francisco. Yesterday, I took two photos of this symbol on the back of our building. I’d seen it many times before as things like this always catch my eye.

Then as we walked down Harrison to Whole Foods, I took another photo of the great Qube autobody shop from across the street instead of under it as I did in this photo from last Wednesday. When I got home and uploaded the photos to my laptop and saw the shot at full screen, there was the symbol again on the door under the number 765.

Today, I got up and checked a few of my blog readers, made a post about gVisit, the visitor mapping site using Google maps, went to Technorati to search for “gVisit” see if my tagging worked out, and there, just a few entries down in the search results was a variation of the symbol - this time as Dan Cameron’s icon. It has a green square, slightly different shades, and isn’t turned on a point, but it’s pretty close.

Compelled to find out what this symbol is, I googled for all sorts of words and phrases but couldn’t quite find the words to describe it:

symbols seen on buildings = rather general but surprisingly, this yields all sorts of returns having to do with the occult - freaky.

graphical symbols seen on buildings = thought I might have found it with electrical and electronic symbols but those were all line symbols in black and white; health and safety symbols.. nope

graphic signage on buildings = all university signage programs

graphic mechanical symbols = logs of CAD symbols for architecture

graphic safety symbols = warmer? Lots of safety symbols.

It’s interesting with all the power of Google, it’s still of course a language-based search, making it difficult to search for a visual topic. I wish Google had the “find topic by uploading an image” feature that some font services have. Anyway, I tend to think it’s an electrical symbol of some kind, but I’m not sure. I’ll have to ask the building owner if I see him this week. Or, maybe you know?

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Posted by emily chang on 08.21.05
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Blog comments on

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

I’ve resisted turning comments on in my blog for some time. It’s not that I haven’t wanted feedback from you or to know what you think. It probably has more to do with my art past and how I saw this site as my online database of ideas, creations, and influences. For me, blogging began as an evolution of art-web experiments I was already doing.

In 1996, I started a personal site/art site called ADD (analog digital diary) which was essentially an early hand-made HTML version of a blog. The site was based on a grid calendar that contained dates with links to view the photos, words, graphics, ideas or sculptures I was working on every day; a listing page with the most current post at the top; ways to view by category (sculpture, multimedia, scan, recording, text) or view by date, theme, or any other views that I wanted to include. The main page was minimal - the latest post and side links to the various ways to view. Navigation was also pared down to “view by date”, “view by media type”, “view by theme”, and an archives and calendar link. The design was equally reduced and mostly HTML text or links with the actual content of the piece as the central focus. When I use the current version of flickr, I’m reminded of what I was trying to make in many ways, particularly with the calendar view option in interestingness (screenshot pop-up).

The purpose of the site was to give myself a place to post anything and everything that I was doing while an art student in graduate school and to create a website like none that I had seen or used. Whether I drew a large viewership wasn’t really a concern or a goal, and as far as feedback, I was getting plenty of daily feedback and critique in grad school (to say the least!).

When blogging came around, it was mostly the tools that invigorated me at first. Suddenly, here were flexible, free, and extensible web-based systems that did everything I wanted to do with a database-driven site but didn’t have the time or know-how to write myself. But the next wave of excitement was the speed with which blogs erupted online. Suddenly, everyone was a writer, photographer, documentarian, journalist, thought leader, critic, artist - blogger. People posting opinions, reviews, photos, art, intimate details of our lives, carefully crafted HTML worlds of how we each want to be perceived. From an artistic perspective, that has been a thrill to see.

For the most part with my blog, it’s been one-way communication. Me exhibiting and broadcasting to all of you. I’ve turned comments on with lots of anticipation. Hope we have some good conversations.

Posted by emily chang on 08.16.05
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One year later

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Tonight marks the one year anniversary of moving here to SF and finding ourselves right where we want to be - in the heart of the web world with our own selected clients and projects. We’ve been enjoying a quintessential “night off” for some other web fun (making video snippets, redesigning blog pages, entering and updating posts, searching through my digital photos). Tomorrow, we’re building out a client’s beta-site and work on structural wireframes for an ecommerce site. On Monday, I’m back designing for the next generation of blogging web applications.

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California St.

Sunday, June 05, 2005

California St. where it meets Chinatown. (Photo from March).

Posted by emily chang on 06.05.05
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Lunch in North Beach

Thursday, June 02, 2005

North Beach is fine coffee, fresh italian cuisine, sidewalk cafes, and dreamy summer afternoons. For me, it’s also the rare personal pleasure of spending time in the same neighborhood where Jack Kerouac read and wrote poetry. I love this city.

Posted by emily chang on 06.02.05
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Mini

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Smaller is better. The new Mac Mini is lighter and thinner than my firewire drive.

Posted by emily chang on 05.21.05
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Looking south

Thursday, March 31, 2005

The Transamerica building looking south from Telegraph Hill.

Posted by emily chang on 03.31.05
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Well-behaved women seldom make history

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Received email from misbehaving yesterday and I’m proud to be listed among many of the most influential women in technology today.

misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It’s a celebration of women’s contributions to computing; a place to spotlight women’s contributions as well point out new opportunities and challenges for women in the computing field.

Get a view of the future of technology from the women making it.

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Behold, it's Mavericks

Friday, March 04, 2005

Surfing is one of those things that I’ve always wanted to try but never have. Luckily, my chances of achieving that goal have increased by at least 100% now that I’m not living in snowy New York. Still, it’s been a year here in California and we haven’t ~~found~~ made the time to catch some big waves, man! Or more accurately, to take a lesson. (And they teach surfing every day only an hour away). I get emotional watching Riding Giants and Step into Liquid and the great surf competitions like Hawaii’s Waimea and Triple Crown. Even though I’ve seen footage of Mavericks, the legendary Northern CA surf spot, it wasn’t until I walked into the coffeeshop and saw this crazy photo on the cover of the Chronicle that I realized I need to witness this in person. The photo stopped me in my tracks that morning and I can’t get the image out of my head. See another article, Local surfer wins Mavericks contest off Northern California coast (March 3, 2005) for more photos and story.

Posted by emily chang on 03.04.05
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Ideacodes is born

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Sometimes the least likely event turns out to be a blessing in disguise. That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. I’m no longer working for the “marketing consulting company for higher education” where I’ve been for over two years. While everything was a surprise to me when it happened, in retrospect, I had already felt the shift months ago, and should have believed my own instincts.

If you’re in a position or with a company and feeling that everything is not as it seems, and the people that you work with are not what they say, believe in yourself. I’ve always been a team player, but I’ve also been driven by the need to innovate, to be immersed in the web, and to collaborate to create new solutions. If your colleagues don’t share that passion, there’s not much left to say. Take the plunge. Start your own enterprise. Nothing has ever felt so right.

After nine years in the industry, as freelancers, employees, and consultants of other people’s companies, Max and I have started our own strategic web design company. Visit www.ideacodes.com to see what we’re all about.

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010105e

Sunday, January 02, 2005

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iPod

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

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What's changed in V5

Sunday, October 10, 2004

For those of you that are frequent visitors, you’ll notice some big changes in the site aside from the cosmetic ones (out with the dusty blue and in with the pink!). The gallery is now subsumed into eProjects with categories for medium - flash, photos/stills, video, etc. You can view work and posts in chronological order by following the month archive links. If you’re looking for something specific, try the search. The former gallery project pages are now integrated with the same database backend as the blog. I’ve been waiting for this sweet day since sometime in 1996 when I hand-coded a fake calendar and portfolio “database.” Kudos to Expression Engine, my pick for the most flexible and efficient micro-publishing CMS system out there.

Posted by emily chang on 10.10.04
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Moblogging

Friday, October 08, 2004

Welcome to V5! It’s also the first moblog entry (a photo taken with my camera phone on the corner of 2nd and Mission). Love living in SF. It’s taken a while to get here, both metaphorically and in reality, but some things are worth the wait and worth the effort.

(t-mobile sidekick phone)

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092804 self portrait

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

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First night in SF

Thursday, August 12, 2004

We’ve finally moved from New York to San Francisco. It’s the first night in the loft and we’re soaking in the magic from our eleventh floor view. It’s almost the same view that we used to have when we visited and stayed at the Argent on third street. From here, we can see the bay stretching to the east, the interstate cutting across third and fourth street, Potrero hill, more hills of houses and green in the distance, Mt. Sutro, the capitol, Moscone, Metreon, and the rise of the downtown buildings to the right. Amazing.

The furniture’s not here for another day and I’m basking in the minimalist beauty of a bare two-story concrete loft. The first time I saw a loft in high school, flipping through an issue of Architectural Digest, it made an impression on me that has never left. Even though I’m a small person, I function much better in vast spaces. Ceiling height, combined with modern finishes and sculptural detail and I’m inspired. Here’s to working towards a dream that’s come true.

Posted by emily chang on 08.12.04
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