SML Universe = See-ming Lee + Universe
SML Universe (http://smlUniverse.com) is a content portal created by See-ming Lee using Google Apps to aggregate news and information related to things that are important to him: design, technology, marketing, technology, visualization, inspiration.
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SML Network = See-ming Lee + Network
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- SML8 / 2009 / SML /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
SML Universe would like to thank Daniel J. O'Neil, Queen of Bleu Jeanna, HRH (Facebook / LinkedIn / SML Wiki) for first suggesting this genius idea to SML back in 2007 while SML was on a domain shopping / poetry writing craze.
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SML Thank You!!!
See SML8 + SML8ed (Flickr set)
- SML8ed Forms in Yellow and Magenta / 20091121.7D.00410.P1.L1.SQ / SML /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Architectural facade + reflection of the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station at Times Square, New York City, SML8ed by SML Brands color. Everything looks better this way!!!
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- NotAllCrazyIsGood / 2009-11-24 / SML /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
friendfeed.com/notallcrazyisgood
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aka when crazy is not good
In contrast to...
+ friendfeed.com/crazyisgood
+ twitter.com/crazy_is_good
+ flickr.com/groups/crazyisgood
- Yahoo Pipes: SML Universe Twitter RT Mentions: Output / 2009-11-24 / SML Pipes /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/smluniversetwitterrtmentions
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There are many Twitter tools now that allow you to access multiple Twitter accounts at once but there is no tool available that I know of that give you an at-a-glance overview of Twitter RT mentions across multiple Twitter accounts. This pipe is created specifically to serve this purpose.
It uses the Twitter Search API to look for Twitter mentions of @smluniverse @smlbw @smlfineart @smlgfxdesign @sml_photography @seeminglee @crazy_is_good @smlmen @smlviz @lifecelebrates.
Tada! No more going into multiple Twitter accounts just to look at them. :)
- Yahoo Pipes: SML Universe Twitter RT Mentions: Source / 2009-11-24 / SML Pipes /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/smluniversetwitterrtmentions
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There are many Twitter tools now that allow you to access multiple Twitter accounts at once but there is no tool available that I know of that give you an at-a-glance overview of Twitter RT mentions across multiple Twitter accounts. This pipe is created specifically to serve this purpose.
It uses the Twitter Search API to look for Twitter mentions of @smluniverse @smlbw @smlfineart @smlgfxdesign @sml_photography @seeminglee @crazy_is_good @smlmen @smlviz @lifecelebrates.
Tada! No more going into multiple Twitter accounts just to look at them. :)
- Facebook + Flickr + Vimeo + YouTube: Simulcasting videos on multiple social networks / I usually simulcast my videos on multiple video social networks: Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube. Many people ask me why I do this, so I thought that I would give give an analysis of these video networks, the pros + cons of posting to them, and the audience that they tend to attract. Facebook Sc ... / 1258915620|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
- James A. Reeves (KinoSport) talks about his new book: The Awful Making of an Optimist / 2009-11-18 / SML /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a video:
The Awful Making of an Optimist is a book by American designer, photographer and writer James A. Reeves (Flickr). James drove around America and documented what he saw in the book through writing and photography.
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The back cover reads:
"There was a time when the road to manhood was clear: go to war, find a job with a big company, wear a tie, and start a family. Then the wars got strange and companies changed. What does it take to be a man in America today? Here is an answer as sprawling and chaotic as the country itself…
One day James realized he no longer understood his country or what he should be doing in it. He decided to go for a drive to clear his head. The Awful Making of an Optimist is a scattershot journey through the neon corridors and dark corners of America. Cattle auctions in Texahoma. Oil fires burning across the Venice Jump Basin. Kids collecting cosmic rays in the desert. Subway preachers in Brooklyn and security concerns along the Mississippi. Staring at Mexicali through a chain link fence in Calexico. Thirty thousand miles, twelve speeding tickets, and several moments of unexpected kindness, all set to the nervous chatter of talk radio and 24-hour diners as James drives along the back roads taking pictures and looking for answers — and drifts towards a slow reckoning with his own compulsions and unexpected loss."
To get a quick preview of the photography included in the book, check out America (KinoSport's Flickr Set)
You can read more about the book on his blog at kinosport.tv/projects/i-made-a-book/
James on the Web:
+ kinosport.tv
+ facebook.com/kinosport
+ flickr.com/kinosport
+ twitter.com/kinosport
+ www.linkedin.com/in/kinosport
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SML 720p HD Simulcast
+ www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=206445508034
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4123370189/
+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtF3DMvWGtw
+ www.vimeo.com/7755918
Still photography used in the video
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4121192390/
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4123024329/
CC-BY-SA 2009 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
- Wedding360 web site (Timeline as wedding invitation) / 2005 / SML /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a video:
SML Wiki: Wedding 360
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The major historical events of the bride and groom is visualized in a timeline where you can see interesting tidbits of their life as well as intervals where they overlap around the world. It provides a different way to outlining their stories as just text and images. The actual date of the wedding + reception as well as today's date is highlighted so visitors can visually get a sense of when the different events are happening.
Instead of using username and password to gain entry to the site, visitors simply user their first name and last name to gain access to the site — they are on the guest list, they will gain access promptly.
No-click IxD. Almost all interaction requires no clicks (limiting clicks is part of my interaction design philosophy: interface should require clicks only where necessary as it requires much more efforts for the users than rollovers)
SML 720p HD Simulcast
+ www.vimeo.com/7709420
See also Wedding 360 (Flickr set)
- edushi: 3D Map of Hong Kong (E都市: 香港地图|三维地图|电子地图|公交查询) / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: hongkong.edushi.com
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Can I just say that this is the coolest thing ever created using the Google Maps API?!
At first you would think that this was Simcity but it's not. This is a map of Hong Kong in its full 3d glory. I had wished for something like this for a long time but I was surprised to see that the Chinese developers did it first. Kudos!!!
Edushi E都市
1. 3D Map of Hong Kong (with UI)
2. 3D Map of Hong Kong
3. 3D Map of Beijing (with labels)
via Google Maps API по-русски: Невероятная трехмерная карта Гонгконга
- Twitter: Retweet to share tweets (BETA): Now working!!! / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: twitter.com
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Interesting. Ok I now see what's so interesting about this user experience enhancement. Twitter is doing second-degree networking. Kudos!!!
- Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 5 of 5: Ideas I commented / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: brainstorm.ubuntu.com/contributor/seeminglee/ideas_commen...
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Ubuntu Brainstorm Dashboard
1. My Ideas
2. My Solutions
3. Ideas I promoted
4. Ideas I demoted
5. Ideas I commented
- Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 4 of 5: Ideas I demoted / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: brainstorm.ubuntu.com/contributor/seeminglee/ideas_demoted/
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Ubuntu Brainstorm Dashboard
1. My Ideas
2. My Solutions
3. Ideas I promoted
4. Ideas I demoted
5. Ideas I commented
- Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 3 of 5: Ideas I promoted / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: brainstorm.ubuntu.com/contributor/seeminglee/ideas_promoted/
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Ubuntu Brainstorm Dashboard
1. My Ideas
2. My Solutions
3. Ideas I promoted
4. Ideas I demoted
5. Ideas I commented
- Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 2 of 5: My solutions / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: brainstorm.ubuntu.com/contributor/seeminglee/solutions/
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Ubuntu Brainstorm Dashboard
1. My Ideas
2. My Solutions
3. Ideas I promoted
4. Ideas I demoted
5. Ideas I commented
- SML SilverGlass Ubuntu Desktop Theme: 5 of 5: Blender Radiosity UI / 2009-03-04 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 custom theme.
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Blender blender.org is my preferred 3d design environment. I use it on all platforms. It's free and once you get a hang of it you would never go back. Together with the abundance of python extensions written for it you can do magic. You can render things with insanely fabulous and super-fast results using the nVidia gelato engine blogs.nvidia.com/gelato/ which uses your nVidia video hardware as a hardware accelerator. Uber cool + free as well!!!
SML SilverGlass
01 gedit (dark tango theme)
02 Tilda overlay
03 Tilda over BBC in Firefox
04 GIMP
05 Blender Radiosity UI
- SML SilverGlass Ubuntu Desktop Theme: 4 of 5: GIMP / 2009-03-04 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 custom theme.
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GIMP was designed to be a Photoshop replacement. It has many improvement now since I first played with it back in 1999. Things are tidied up quite a bit, as is many crazy things you can do by writing your own extensions.
SML SilverGlass
01 gedit (dark tango theme)
02 Tilda overlay
03 Tilda over BBC in Firefox
04 GIMP
05 Blender Radiosity UI
- SML SilverGlass Ubuntu Desktop Theme: 3 of 5: Tilda over BBC / 2009-03-04 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 custom theme.
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Tilda is the best darn thing for a geek's life. I really wish there's something similar in Windows + Mac but there's none. You can't beat a transparent overlay with a single-key open/close access. Here I use Compiz to blur the content behind the background to make things easier to read even in super-transparent mode.
SML SilverGlass
01 gedit (dark tango theme)
02 Tilda overlay
03 Tilda over BBC in Firefox
04 GIMP
05 Blender Radiosity UI
- SML SilverGlass Ubuntu Desktop Theme: 2 of 5: Tilda overlay / 2009-03-04 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 custom theme.
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Tilda is the best darn thing for a geek's life. I really wish there's something similar in Windows + Mac but there's none. You can't beat a transparent overlay with a single-key open/close access. Here I use Compiz to blur the content behind the background to make things easier to read even in super-transparent mode.
SML SilverGlass
01 gedit (dark tango theme)
02 Tilda overlay
03 Tilda over BBC in Firefox
04 GIMP
05 Blender Radiosity UI
- SML SilverGlass Ubuntu Desktop Theme: 1 of 5: gedit in dark tango theme / 2009-03-04 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 custom theme.
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gedit in dark tango theme. Best development environment IMHO. Somehow things are easier to edit against black background. Don't know why.
I have tried the many hacks to get Eclipse to do dark backgrounds but it takes a *lot* of work, and still can't quite do it nicely... gedit's shell integration and the python console is awesome. hard to beat for any other tools found in any OS. This is why even when I'm on Vista I still use virtualbox.org to have a Linux desktop open at all times.
SML SilverGlass
01 gedit (dark tango theme)
02 Tilda overlay
03 Tilda over BBC in Firefox
04 GIMP
05 Blender Radiosity UI
- Farmville on Facebook: Stephanie's Farm (Level 21) / 2009-11-15 / SML Screenshots /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a photo:
Screenshot: apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/
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- NYC - Lighting the Way to Equality, Marriage Equality New York / 2009-11-09 / SML /
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML posted a video:
Crowd chanting "Gay Straight Black White, Marriage is a Civil Right" and "What do we want? Marriage Equality. When do we want it? Now."
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Recorded during the NYC Lighting the Way to Equality candle light vigil organized by the Marriage Equality New York, a non-profit all-inclusive organization whose mission is to educate the public by raising awareness of the important right of all persons to enter into legally recognized gender neutral civil marriage with all the benefits and responsibilities that entails.
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SML 720p HD Simulcast
+ www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=198245918034
+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4096148099/?likes_hd=1
+ www.vimeo.com/7561399
+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD51qmWnHhU
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NYC - Light the Way to Equality
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195038779993
Light the way to Equality!: a pre-session vigil--Monday, November 9, 6:00pm (after sunset)
Union Square Park on 14th Street (south side of park)
Bring pro-marriage signs, a candle (a flashlight or non-flame candle works just as good) as we come together to send a unified message to our NY Senate on the eve of the session that can decide marriage equality.
Elected officials and community leaders have been invited to speak and the press has been invited to cover this statewide movement. We have 11 locations, so far, participating across NYS.
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Marriage Equality New York
meny.us
Marriage Equality New York is an all-inclusive organization whose mission is to educate the public by raising awareness of the important right of all persons to enter into legally recognized gender neutral civil marriage with all the benefits and responsibilities that entails.
Without marriage, committed same-sex couples are denied over 1,138 federal rights and obligations including social security, hospital visitation, co-parenting rights, estate tax, and immigration, just to name a few.
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Still photography used in video
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091003245
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091206321
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091243863
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091266539
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091300119
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091735004
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091784236
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091827750
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4091847436
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4092374825
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4092903055
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4093709590
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4096567410
+ flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4096660376
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Soundtrack by SML Music
Download soundtrack source (16 bit 44.1kHz Wav) on Soundcloud:
soundcloud.com/seeminglee/gay-straight-black-white-marria...
Video production by SML Universe
Download video source on Vimeo:
vimeo.com/7561399
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CC-BY-SA 2009 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML (Blog / Gay Blog / Photo Blog / Wiki)
- How to use Gmail filters to maintain sanity with social media / One of the unfortunate side-effects when you belong to many social networks and subscribe to many listserv is the insane amount of emails you get on a daily basis. In this tutorial, I will illustrate how you can track these activities at your own pace and keeping your inbox tidy and maintaining an o ... / 1257110220|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
- Choichun Leung / 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival NYC 2009: Part 10 of 10 / Art + Artists / Choichun Leung ( Facebook / LinkedIn / SML Flickr) is a Chinese American artist living in New York. I met her towards the end of my gallery visits during the 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival in New York this year. When I first saw her paintings I had originally thought that she had a ... / 1256056080|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
- Dean Russo / 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival NYC 2009: Part 9 of 10 / Art + Artists / Dean Russo ( Etsy / Facebook / SML Flickr / Twitter) is an American pop-artist based in Brooklyn. I paid his studio a visit during the 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival in NYC in 2009. Here are some photographs and interview videos shot that day. 1. Process + Methodology. Dean Russo ch ... / 1256050260|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
- Agata Olek / 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival NYC 2009: Part 8 / Art + Artists / The highlight of my DUMBO Art Festival tour was meeting Agata Olek ( Facebook / Flickr / SML Flickr Set) and her 100% Acrylic Art Guards. Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered he ... / 1255728300|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
- The End of the Trail by Fernando Souto at Smack Mellon / 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival NYC 2009: Part 7 / Art + Artists / Also showing at Smack Mellon right now is the series titled The End of the Trail by Fernando Souto. I thought taht it would be odd to photograph someone else's photographs so I decided to do a video of the opening reception instead — you can call this the art + art lovers remix! Opening Reception, T ... / 1255702200|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
- FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 by Ellen Driscoll at Smack Mellon / 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival NYC 2009: Part 6 / Art + Artists / Next we went to Smack Mellon for the artists' reception for two solo exhibitions. The first is Ellen Driscoll's installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2. 1. Installation Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at t ... / 1255585320|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
- J. F. Bautista / 13th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival NYC 2009: Part 5 / Art + Artists / I met J. F. Bautista ( BAP) towards the end of my tour of the Brooklyn Art Project headquarter. Three of his paintings from the series Mutant Organic Architecture were seen at the office (the three black and white paintings on the left): So what are they? Artist description: this project is about th ... / 1255583160|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
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