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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:

Squared Circle Mosaic: Giant Peach

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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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www.coverpop.com
www.jbum.com

Photos of krazydad / jbum (14)

  • IMG_3392 by TheRealMikeD
  • IMG_3384 by TheRealMikeD
  • by jenna.bee
  • Jim & Janet by courtneyp
  • jbum in his natural state by courtneyp
  • Breakfast with jbum by courtneyp
  • Jim shoots by courtneyp
  • Striatic and JBum Taking Pix of Bubbleman by hexodus...
  • Striatic and JBum by MAKSTER
  • IMG_6271 by hexodus...
  • Makster, Platinum. Bobbo. Striatic. JBum by hexodus...
  • Platinum. Bobbo. Striatic. JBum by hexodus...
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krazydad / jbum's favorite photos from other Flickr members (158)

  • Doomed blog post sketches by vruba
  • IMG_0858.JPG by CRASHSpace
  • Inverted by The Swift
  • @jbum, the man sitting next to me on the plane is playing KrazyDad.com sudoku. He says they're the best (and thx) :) by jonathanhstrauss
  • One Digit / 7 by k.james
  • 3.41CAD red by dmswart
  • Bridges 2009 Zometool sculpture - Equirectangular by dmswart
  • World’s Largest Zometool Construction by Zometool
  • Oh snap! by dmswart
  • Jim's BCLA-7 Presentation by jonathanhstrauss
  • Sand Mandala Day 5-155 by getthebubbles
  • Gorilla Marketing by tarabrown
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Testimonials (4)

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    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!!!!"

    15th October, 2006

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    Van in LA says:

    "Me three! Jim's the best.

    FlickrHacks is awesome, the posters are magnificent, and Hipbot is the coolest square."

    22nd May, 2006

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    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!"

    2nd May, 2005

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    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."

    10th February, 2005

Name:
Jim Bumgardner
Joined:
January 2005
Hometown:
Los Angeles
Currently:
Burbank, USA
I am:
Male and Taken
Occupation:
Programmer, Technologist, Teacher, Composer
Website:
Krazydad