Once again this year, I am attending the Internet World at Earls Court London. Although last years exhibition did not have the best reviews, I still think that if you manage to look beyond some of the sales pitch you will be able to find some very useful conferences worth listening to. I am specially looking forward to BBC’s Kym Niblock regarding the “Commercialising of Content Propositions” and “Network Entry Point Expansion” by Dan Cohen of MSN.

London will be once again invaded by the loads of Irish residents most of them coming from Google, Double Click and MSN. Hopefully I will be seeing lots of familiar faces in the venue and at the nearby pubs!

My uncle stumbled upon some of my grandpa’s impressionist paintings on E-bay. His original name was Hans Mertins but he used to sign his paintings under his artistic name: Juan Mertins. He was a known artist in the San Francisco area during the 1920’s, he used to paint backgrounds for films back in Hollywood’s golden age.

The piece has all the characteristics of his early paintings and his name on the back. This specific painting was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) 1939, which was held on San Francisco’s Treasure Island in order to celebrate the opening of the city’s two new bridges. The Fair ran from February 18 through October 29 in 1939, and from May 25 through September 29 in 1940.

He explores the beautiful complexity of nature creating miniature elusive worlds and fantastic landscapes using natural surreal forms. Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze perfectly uses abstract forms and delicate lines but maintains a very minimalist structure. A few of his of his etchings are now being exhibited in the TATE Modern. The etchings are located in the third floor in the 4^th room within the Dream and Poetry exhibition. I try to visit them twice per month, hoping they stay here longer.

The classic UK label Warpmart just revamped their website. I have been buying records here since the beginning of the 90’s. Their website has been created by the guys at Fail a small creative studio in the UK. It is strange to know that they did not use the services of Kleber, one of my all time favorite web design studios. They developed the famous Bleep.com download music site for Warp Records in collaboration with The Designers Republic.What could have happen?

Talking about online record stores, I must admit that I prefer the Boomkat website because of their great online cataloge, from Morr Music to Rephlex. I think they are one of the best user friendly online music stores around and believe me I tried a few, but this one is just straight to the point… they have nice functionality and some really rare compilations in MP3 and FLAC which is great!

The SMX is coming to London! The conference and exhibition will be held at the Hilton Metropole in paddington. The link above was provided by Imran Kanji from SEO Tutorials, thanks mate. Hope to have some photos of the event later this week.

David Lynch and Donovan discuss the creative process and how meditation has informed their work respectively in film and music. Sadly I could not book the tickets early but I plan to visit the festival this weekend. Especially interested in the Experimeta - Cutting edge cinema, artists’ film and video and the avant-garde. And Yes, of course I will be attending the panel event: “Is the Internet Killing the Film Critic?” - A thought-provoking discussion on the power of internet, film criticism and globalisation - looking forward for this…

Just returned from Ad-tech london online-marketing show. The event was in the Olimpia 2 Hall near Kensington train station. Spend most of the time in the Double Click stand hearing about their DART for publishers platform. MSN has added some new solutions focousing on Gaming and Hotmail in the UK. Yahoo introduced their brand new interface with some new features such as the Block Domain. Well in summary the exhibition had all of the major exhibitors and I can say the freebies were really cool!

After more than a decade of buying their records last weekend I finally got to see Plaid (electronica’s all time heavyweights former Black Dog) live at Ginglik. Thank you Ross (Dj Resident) for the brief introduction to the place!

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Finalmente Google ha actualizado los mapas de Latinoamerica y el caribe. He comenzado a utilizar Google maps para algunas de mis paginas en latinoamerica hace un par de meses. Los mapas de la ciudad de Guatemala estan funcionando perfectamente, los mapas de antigua todavia no an sido modificados esperemos que en unos meses ya Google los tenga actualizados.