
I'm a computer technologist / artist / composer in the Los Angeles area. I blog about my various projects at krazydad.com.
I've done a lot of mosaic art using the Flickr APIs, and co-authored Flickr Hacks, from O'Reilly, with Paul Bausch.
I'm a little obsessed with circles, radial symmetry and mechanical instruments.
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I work amongst an awesome collective of nerd/hipsters at Topspin in Santa Monica.
I did some mosaic posters for squared circle, and a day in the life, here on Flickr:

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One of the first things I did on Flickr was to make a number of fun-to-use Flickr Colr Pickrs. Check 'em out!
I also made the world's first Flickr Chia Pet, an experiment in collaborative defacement.
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coverpop.com
jbum.com
I'm Male and Taken.
Krazydad
Burbank, USA
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A bit more about krazydad / jbum...
| Hometown: |
Los Angeles |
| Occupation: |
Programmer, Technologist, Teacher, Composer |
| Interests: |
Computer-aided graphics & music,
Advanced programming,
Books,
Movies,
Music Making,
Kaleidoscopes,
Op-art,
the 19th Century,
Information Theory.
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| Favorite Books & Authors: |
Umberto Eco,
Tom Stoppard,
Edward Tufte,
Shakespeare,
Jane Austen,
Rex Stout,
Patrick O'Brian,
Tolkien,
Philip K. Dick,
Alan Moore,
Connie Willis.
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| Favorite Movies, Stars & Directors: |
Charlie Kaufman,
Jean Jeunet,
Terry Gilliam,
Orson Welles,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Ray Harryhausen,
Buster Keaton,
John and James Whitney
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| Favorite Music & Artists: |
Radiohead,
Beck,
Bjork,
Elliot Smith,
Aimee Mann,
Cat Power,
Yann Tiersen,
Palestrina,
J.S. Bach,
John Cage,
Henryk Gorecki,
Louis & Bebe Barron,
Vaughan Williams,
The Beatles,
Pink Floyd,
Terry Riley,
Steve Reich,
Conlon Nancarrow
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Testimonials
OpheliaChong says:
"jim is the guru of it all. he has the magic touch and makes
nervous people (like me) all calm. great coverpops genius!!!!"
van swearingen says:
"Me three! Jim's the best.
FlickrHacks is awesome, the posters are magnificent, and Hipbot is the coolest square."
cobalt123 says:
"Ah, I was beaten to the punch of writing a testimonial for jbum, who is really one Krazydad! Seriously, jbum is one of the real-deal folks on flickr who make this community so awesome! The sense of community is evident in all the loving work he does to make the "Squared Circle" posters and help with others like GustavoG to make the graphs, hacks and poster projects happen. Look at his websites for a great deal of fun. This guy always has something good going on!"
matt.ohara says:
"I can't believe i'm the first to write a testimonial to this guy. He's hooking up the squared_circle group with some fantastic poster possibilities and making some of the coolest collaborative projects on Flickr! possible.
He's got all the right skills to take Flickr! to the next level. He's taking great pics and doing amazing things with them. He's the first to pull these really collaborative ideas into a bigger-picture schemata. He's all over Flickr!
Thanks for all your really rad work Krazydad."
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