This is a little machine, it’s not a robot, it does loosely speaking have: Input: winding. Memory: this little cylinder. And output: sound. But it’s hardly autonomous or capable of adaptive behavior… it plays the theme from Somewhere in Time… that old Christopher Reeve movie… Karen gave it to me for an anniversary years ago… [...]
Dita Pojszta
I was born in Rybnik, Poland in 1979 and attended Urszulańskich high school there. I later attended the University of San Francisco where I received a degree in Business Marketing in 2003. I moved to Austin, TX in 2007 and have been working at South By Southwest since then. I also started doing casting for Bad Avatar in 2011.
Recent blog posts written by Dita Pojszta
Laura’s vlog #2
We learned in school that by the time an Amish girl is twelve years old she knows how to cook a meal for a whole crew of Amish workers, I can’t do that, my cooking skills aren’t for shit, but I can draw the rings of Saturn and I’m working on my novel and [...]
Laura’s vlog #1
Hi! I’m Laura Rider-Williams; I’m twelve years old; I’m in the seventh grade; I like volleyball; I like reading and writing; in fact I’m a “reading scholar,” and I’m working on my novel, or actually my second novel, cause my first one sucked. I like boys, well, I’m not really sure about that, maybe [...]
Inside the Actor’s Studio Apartment
Inside The Actor’s Studio Apartment, hosted by Daniel Bowers, interviews real actors in their real homes. Think Oprah meets Cribs, with fart jokes. They upload a new episode every few weeks. They’re currently running a Kickstarter campaign. We love that. Indy-prod financed by fans. Take the machine out and connect the creatives and the audience! [...]
Mike’s vlog #1
So, there’s this very apocryphal Nils Bohr story: someone goes to visit him, and after their visit, as they’re heading for the door, they look up and see this horseshoe over the door, and the visitor asks Bohr, “what’s that for?” And Bohr says, “well, they say it brings good luck…” The visitor says, [...]
Joi Ito’s Model Release
For his book Freesouls http://freesouls.cc/ Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab and chairman of Creative Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito has written a sort of “Creative Commons Model Release” or a “Creative Commons Friendly” Model Release. Bad Avatar from here forward will license our work Creative Commons Attribution, and we will use Joi Ito’s model release [...]
Karen’s vlog #2
This is a picture of my brain, pretty cool, huh? It’s made with “magnetic resonance imaging” or MRI, it’s a fairly new technology and the technology has given birth to a new science, cognitive neuroscience. The black and white picture is a “structural” MRI, it shows the architecture of my brain, the color picture [...]
Karen’s vlog #1
Hi, my name’s Karen Rider; I’m thirty-six; I’m a neurobiologist. I run a research lab with several colleagues, some post-docs and some grad students. It’s called Ganglionics; it’s in a suburban Palo Alto biotech corridor. Folks in the lab are working on a whole range of vision things: early mammalian vision, machine vision, analog VLSI, [...]
Lonely Girl 15
Summer of 2006. Five years ago. Was she more real if she was fake? Or more fake if she was real. Who cared? What mattered? Coming early in the vlogging timeline it would be interesting to find out how many “real” vloggers, if anything performative is real… or if anything in life isn’t performed… interesting [...]
Natalie Tran
The one, the only, Natalie Tran! It’s amazing to watch the trajectory as she’s built self-confidence, built a personal brand, built an online identity, and ultimately, built a career through her clever, simple, self-deprecating, insightful vlogs.
