Hurricane Relief: DanielsFamilySupport.com

Dear Friends, Family and Colleagues:

On Friday, I learned from my friend Karen Langjahr our mutual friend,
William Daniels extended family lost 7 homes and all their possessions and
are now refugees safe in Atlanta, staying in hotels and a friends home, but
they need the support, money, food, clothing, toiletries and other
necessities.

Having gone through 9/11, Karen and I wanted to do something to help, so I
decided a blog with a donation section would be a great idea to help William
help his family.

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My Thoughts On The Hurricane

As I sit here on dry land, in the safety of my comfortable apartment in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, the news of the disaster has slowly gained strength, jut like Hurrican Katrina that preceded it, in the sphere that shapes my world.

My friend, Dagmara Grajewska, is sitting in a hotel room, 90 miles SW of New Orleans at this very moment. She was visiting her brother who had just arrived from Poland on a Nigerian operated, Greek-owned tanker just a few days before the Hurricane Katrina crossed over Florida. She and her brother are safe. They have food and water, but she reported tonight that the lawlessness has krept from the city's center out into other parts of Louisiana, reaching where she is now.

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DJ Magazine Top 100: Vote For Your Favorite DJ Until 9/30/05

1London's long-running DJ trade-sumer publication, DJ Magazine, has launched it's yearly Top 100 DJ Poll. Click here to add your five favorites.

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Taggin Books

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Taggin Books, originally uploaded by Tony Zeoli.

Here’s another shot from Marc Ecko’s Contents Under Pressure Block Party event. Taggin someone else’s book is common at these events. I have a sketch book and we swap. You tag mine, I tag yours. It’s a viral way of getting your style out, promoting yourself. If I’m in your book, you’re showing it to your friends and I’m building a name for myself.

Plus, it’s fun to see the juxtaposition between different style’s in a graf writers sketch book. You’ll not only see the style that he or she writes with, but you’ll see the styles that will influence them going forward.

Graf from Ecko’s Contents Under Pressure Block Party

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PICT0107, originally uploaded by Tony Zeoli.

On Wednesday, I took over 150 photos and some video from the event. I’m testing my Flickr.com photo integration, and thought this would be good first pic to show.

Flickr is becoming my new favorite toy! Although I love wp-gallery, posting photos using Flick is more advantageous for a variety of reasons.

See the rest of my photos at my Flickr photo site.

IM with Leila Chiquita Post about Ecko's Contents Under Pressure

I just got back from the the event Contents Under Pressure event on 22nd Street...had a quick IM convo with my peeps, Leila...

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Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure

Mayor Bloomberg's thought-police took a hit today when Federal Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that Marc Ecko's planned "Getting Up Block Party" could go on as planned.

I'll be out with camera in tow to take shots of the pieces being put up during the party. From the press release below, it kicks off at 12 noon on 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues until 8:00 PM.

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My First Traktor DJ Mix….Yay!

Finally!

Click to listen to TonyZ's first Traktor DJ Mix. You must have Real Player to listen to the mix.

Or, right-click to download the podcast so you can bring it on the train with you!

On Wednesday night, I got home from work at the AP and decided to just focus and put together my first Traktor DJ mix. This time, I had a slight problem when one of the tracks I began to load in the left channel caused the track playing in the right channel to cut out a few times.

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My Traktor DJ Mix…(sigh)

aturday night, I was all set and ready to rock my first mix using Traktor DJ and a bunch of new MP3's I'd downloaded from Beatport.net, which has to be one of the coolest download site's for dance music in the world. I love the interface, very clean and easy to use. Loading audio using Flash is so much better than going to site's like Vitaminic and having to launch Real Player for every sample.

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Hotel DJs In The News

On June 19, New York Times columnist Daniel Altman offered up a stellar column on one aspect of DJ culture rarely making the mainstream press. In the Travel section of NYTimes.com, under the heading Music, Altman's Never Mind the Concierge, Where's the D.J.? spotlights thriving lounge culture driven by talented DJs spinning a wide variety of electronic, dance, hip hop and international beats at some of the world's coolest hotels. In the days of relentless paparazzi shoving their way into the paths of jet setting young trendsetters, high profile celebrities and well heeled, respected businessmen and women, instead of partying outside the hotel at a city's super hot nightspot, the party is now happening AT the hotel! The paparazzi's camera's shielded from view.

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