Posted: December 15, 2009 at 11:13 pm | Tags: bing, bing.com, contest, print, tracks
Down the Tracks
So just for kicks, I decided to submit my photo “Down the Tracks” to the Bing.com (picture on the left) facebook contest to see what will be featured on Bing.com (yes, the background of the search area).
Well, to my surprise, I got an email from Microsoft today saying that my picture is one of the finalists! I’m all kinds of excited to be able to get a photo from Mount Clemens shown to worldwide audience.
But I need your help! If you’re on Facebook then you can vote for my picture. Just click here to become a fan on Bing and it will let you vote in the contest.
To show my appreciation for helping me out and being such great supporters I’ll be giving away a couple s 8 x 10 prints of this shot (which I usually sell for $25). Just leave a comment at the bottom of this post (either at http://www.cruzweb.net/2009/12/15/i-need-your-help-down-the-tracks-is-a-finalist-for-bing-com or on the Facebook note) and I’ll draw a couple random names (yes, they will be random) and if you win I’ll send you an email or Facebook message asking for your information.
So pretty please; vote and pass this along to your friends and help me win the Home Sweet Homepage Photo Contest.
Posted: December 12, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Yah, I get the point. Damn, lay off.
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 9:47 pm | Tags: comment, news, picture, Pictures, Samsung, tracks, Twitter, university
Lately, I’ve taken up a strong interest in photography as of late. In doing so I’ve decided to upgrade from my little Samsung NV15 P&S to a Nikon D5000 DSLR so I can get more serious about what I’m doing. I had some great encouragement with my Old Main at Wayne State picture with the University featuring it on their site and twitter feed, and my Down the Tracks shot was a Daily Deviant on DeviantArt last month.
I’ve been quite humbled by the encouragement that people have given me, and it has pushed me to keep pushing myself. I have a lot to learn, but am having a blast doing it.
With that in mind, I’ve found myself in more of a “take pictures” kind of creative mood instead of a “write stuff down” creative mood. So, I realized that before too long I’d end up turning this into a photoblog, which I don’t want to do. So I’m going to launch one sometime in the coming weeks at the start of the new year. The site is currently being developed and it will be a more complete actual place to showcase pictures and allow for comments instead of this place, which really is better for writing than pictures. I’ll have a fully integrated store to order prints, better than the one I’m currently using, and will look great.
More info later. And thanks for your support everyone 
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 9:27 pm | Tags: culture, Detroit, infastructure, transportation, urban villages
So my group for my Thursday night urban planning course finally presented all of our research data on turning Detroit into Urban Villages last night. Keeping in step with making sure data is free to be shared with the masses, here’s what we came up with. The download is in PDF format, I can’t really put a 53 page report with videos into HTML without it taking entirely too much effort. So the PDF is less than 3mb, download, and enjoy. Keep in mind that this is not a recommendation of should we or shouldn’t be, just how the topic is to be explored and what would the best ways to implement a village strategy would be.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 8:44 pm | Tags: Auto, Car, cars, Clinton, country, Election, elections, Government, History, movies, Music, news, Random, space, trash
We started off the new millennium with lots of hopes. The whole “Year 2000″ thing sounded so exciting and futuristic, and we were all expecting great things to come. Instead, this decade has been an awful start that hopefully won’t set the stage for the next 90. While some areas had wild amounts of success and made our lives better (like all these fancy new cell phones), just about every part of our lives has suffered some kind of step backwards in the 2000s.
Here’s why I can’t wait for the month to end and will be welcoming 2010 with open arms.
The Music of the 00’s
It all started off with this and has just gone downhill.
Linkin Park: Pure awful on a disc
In 2000 the #1 album was “The Beatles: 1″, and by 2005 it was a 50 Cent album. That’s how fast things went downhill. The rest is history. Year after year we are treated to another piece of repetitive trash, a new Britney comeback album, or something else that just makes you dumber every time you hear it. It’s gotten so bad that we now consider a song who’se only lyrics are “Tonight’s gunna be a good night” to be perfectly acceptable. Excuse me while I go barf.
It’s ridiculous how much 90’s music I listen to now just because today’s “artists” have driven me in another direction so rapidly.
The music industry as a whole became something we all hated. Nothing like hearing record labels cry poor from piracy only to find out now that they use unauthorized recordings in compilations all the time.
Cars and The Auto Industry
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