About
My name is Adam Benjamin Varga.
You can get in touch with me by email.
Pictures I've taken via flickr
What I'm doing right now via twitter
just met with some fine folks to help out with the bushwick open studios website. now off to queens for yo mama day.
@chrissieb you should check out the kook's take away show. its on http://www.takeawayshows.com somewhere
@chrissieb non-free beer. I did see an great band. They hypnotized the crowd with their music. http://tinyurl.com/5bplvb
saw music at don pedros & biked home
drink, dog walk, uncoffee
@DavidLublin Veggie Duck?
@jasonvo i just came across a really awesome one, and can't find it now... arg... maybe it was http://www.spinvox.com can't remember
i like rain rhythm
gonna do that bottomless cup thing at wycoff star today.
at the magical brooklyn blog fest
Upcoming via gcal
Show and tell via delicious
Slicing.us | Slicing.us is a procrastination tool for people who love design, photography, etc. I made this website as an excuse to experiment with drupal, blueprint, image processing, and ascii fonts.
News Groper | A humor news website in the form of fake parody blogs. Experience current events as seen through the eyes of celebrities, politicians, and world leaders. I'm COO and one of the site's co-founders. If you want to learn more about News Groper, just holler.
TrailPhone.net | TrailPhone.net lets Appalachian Trail hikers share their journeys. Hikers record audio updates from telephones and map their progress online. I built the site to improve upon up my coding skills and give something back to the trail community.
The Somnium | A 35 minute long audio story I produced in 2003 about things that are forever until they are explored. This was originally played for an audience in a dark planetarium. You can download the MP3 and listen online. It helps to turn off all the lights.
Okay To Play | Helpful wiki-based comparison charts for podcasters. If you're a podcaster looking for help navigating the many tools and services available to you, check the site out. I created Okay To Play back when I ran a little podcast called Dailysonic.
Wishlist via amazon
Recommendations via amazon
Recent blog post via my blog
Oh hi there, can I write an IN RAINBOWS review?
My Radiohead fan status definitely faded post Kid A. At its peak, I used to get as close the the speaker as possible when the album played — and just stand there and sing back into the speaker. (Something like “Is this really happening? happening? happening?”). As if my voice could travel through the speaker’s diaphragm into the stereo and then somehow form a Thom Yorke mirror in the living room of my apartment. After that… I mean the music was still good, but it ceased to resonate with me the same way. I ceased trying to form Thom Yorke mirrors. It was no longer the music I listened to on long night time bus rides through New York State. I used weird adjectives to describe Amnesiac and HTTT like summery and speakery
I wasn’t expecting that sweeping feeling. Alas, I’ve been swept. I was expecting to download it and listen to it and have it get me through my day. I wasn’t expecting choice lyrics to latch on to the part of my brain that repeats things over and over when I go sleeping. (Aside: This part of my brain is usually reserved for to-do lists and regrets). But it is. (Something like “A videotape, A videotape”)