Become the architect of your future

Posted by Neal Campbell on Aug 6, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Instagram Wishlist

Posted by Neal Campbell on Aug 5, 2011 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Instagram is my favorite iPhone App and social network. It’s the last thing I check before bed and the first thing I check when I wake up in the morning. The reason I love it is simple. It helps people quickly make beautiful art.

Eventually there will be an iPad App and changes to the iPhone App and hopefully changes to the Instagram website. These are 5 things on my Instagram wishlist…

5. Re-shares. Sometimes there’s a photo I love so much, I’d like to re-share it. The only way I can find to do share someone else’s photo is to take a screenshot, crop it and post it from my library. I don’t do that because the photographer wouldn’t get credit.

4. Google+ Integration. My guess is G+ integration can’t happen until Google releases an API, but I’d like it to happen soon.

3. User pages on the Instagram website. I’m sure it’s a conscious decision by the Instagram team to save bandwidth cost, or something, but it’s a quirky choice not to have user gallery pages. I’d like a user page (instagram.com/nealcampbell) where I can see all my photos and browse other people’s pages to find new photographers to follow.

2. Swipe to flip through photos. I’m a little picky about who I follow on Instagram. I want to see pretty pictures, so before I follow someone new, I look through their photos for an abundance of prettiness. The way it works now, I have to click a photo, let it load, hit the back button, and repeat that again and again. I’d like to just flick through photos like I can in the Photo App and the Facebook App.

1. Slide Show. I’d like a slide show option that would cycle through photos I’ve liked, commented on, shared, photos from my feed or photos shared by a particular Instagram photographer.

iPad Head Girl Gimmick

Posted by Neal Campbell on Aug 1, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

iPad Head Girl is a a gimmick designed by the super creative kiddos at Thinkmodo. The goal is to promote Hearst’s first iPad only magazine, Cosmo for Men. Thinkmodo worked with Clockwork Apple to fabricate a cube that a model would wear over her head. Inside the cube, she’s wearing video glasses connected to a camera in her purse so she can see where she’s walking.

Under Over

Posted by Neal Campbell on Jul 27, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

People encourage me and tell me I’ll get over it. Maybe everyone who says that knows what they’re talking about, but what if I don’t want to get over it. I didn’t want to get under it. I go to bed questioning how this happened and I wake up every morning begging God to let me die.

Here’s the problem now though. I don’t want to die any more. Last winter I wanted to die and I survived by wanting to want to live. I’m just not sure how to live, though.

It’s like I pointed my life in one direction like a rocket. Now everyone says I can’t go in that direction anymore.

I don’t enjoy starting over. It’s not right that I have to.

I’ve been in the process of starting a new show, but I’m not sure it’s going to happen. Sometimes I just want to work for someone else on building their dream because my dreams are broken.

Things in Order

Posted by Neal Campbell on Jul 26, 2011 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

A big part of dealing with the robbery of divorce for me has just been not caring. Despite the fact I’ve had no place to live or a desire to live, I’ve had these contracts with tech services that I haven’t been able to use. All I cared about was the love. The rest was bullshit.

One was with TiVo. TiVo sent us a box because they wanted GeekBrief.TV on TiVo. Luria didn’t take it because she only took intellectual property … the stuff with real value. She left the crap I’d have to pay to store.

In the last year, as I’ve tried to deal with Beaker (plural wife guy) taking control of the company I built, I gave up trying to deal with the practical little stuff.

I have lots of little accounts charging me money for this or that, and because of the divorce, I don’t have the money to pay them. Getting beyond wanting to end my life, I have to turn those costs off.

Tonight I called TiVo. It’s $13 a month service . It is totally worth it, IF! you have the money and the facility to use it. I don’t. I have no income and live in a borrowed camper.

I’m working on starting something new, but after all I had to pay to fight the divorce, it’s not easy financially.

So when I called TiVo and they told me I’d have to pay $200+ to cancel. I freaked out. It wasn’t like I signed up with some agreement that would give me a TiVo console for free. I just signed up to use it.

I told the customer service guy I loved him, but I cussed out the policy. I got turned over to a supervisor and she waved the stupid fee. That was very important because I don’t plan to continue to be homeless and I want to be a TiVo customer again.

But how much does it suck that a scumbag like Beaker can take a person’s life?

I don’t want anyone to have to go through what I’ve gone through. A Wealthy man saw the value in what I created and he worked to take it from me. That might be okay if it was just business, but he destroyed a marriage. I shouldn’t have to pay for that.

In Memory of Amy Winehouse

Posted by Neal Campbell on Jul 23, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I’ve had a rough week. Just very overwhelmed by all there is to do by myself. Today I heard we lost Amy Winehouse. I know her pain and her desire to do whatever she could to escape it. I hope she finally has peace. I recorded this on my iPhone while I was installing Lion on the Mac Pro using an App called 8mm. It’s in memory of Amy.

I always have a tendency to over-mourn after I hit Publish, I’m going to focus on tech stuff. :/