“A veces me pierdo” = new EP!

Spacebarman, my solo musical project, just released a new EP titled “A veces me pierdo”. After finishing it, I’d like to share a couple of short stories that happened behind the scenes. Continue reading

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Meanings of music (1/n)

Photo: Rolling Stone Magazine

Some random thoughts about music making. Continue reading

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A new main page



I designed a new web page to better welcome visitors and to navigate in a more straightforward way through my content. I tried to keep the design as simple as possible, emphasizing the main sections, which use to be a bit hidden. I also made small changes to my blog for it to better match the main page. Nothing special to tell about, it’s mainly a cosmetic change. But I think it makes my website look cooler!

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Simple text Bicing query updated… again.

Yes, I had to update it once again. Once again the Bicing web page changed, and I took some time before realizing it. Fortunately, the guys from citibik.es are always alert to those changes, so I decided to use their API instead and save myself some headaches. It’s also faster than scrapping the Bicing web page, so if you used the service before, you will notice a speed boost. There’s a delay of around 1 minute with respect to the actual time, but in practice it doesn’t matter much. Visit it here (and once again, if you like it, please consider listening to my music at spacebarman.com).

Some improvements

  • As I mentioned, search is now quicker, thanks to CityBikes API
  • The list of bikes is now sorted by distance. Closest station appears first.
  • You can click the link to display a static map with the stations found
  • TIP: bookmark the results if you use them often!

CityBikes

If you live in a city with a bike sharing system, I strongly recommend checking citibik.es. They have a very cool app for Android (and an iPhone version is in the make), as well as APIs and easy to embed pages of bike sharing systems from all around the world!

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Yo no soy

“Yo no soy” is the most recent EP released by Fabricamusic, which is my band in Colombia. It can be downloaded from here: http://fabricamusic.com/audio/eps/yo_no_soy.php

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Creating a mashup music web page.

www.spacebarman.com

I’m trying to create a cool, strong web presence for my one-man musical project. I basically wanted to make use of my already existing online content, using a minimum amount of hosting storage, but without sacrifying “style”. Or in other words, using the posibilities of social media.
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România, 10 – 2011

Cluj-Napoca:


Sibiu:

Sighișoara

Bran:

București (Bucarest):

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Simple text Bicing query updated!

The guys at Bicing have recently updated their system. Unfortunately, that change affected search apps which use to depend on the older system. Some months ago I published a simple text query for Bicing, and today I updated it to work with the changes… just before the Bicing guys updated their official iPhone app! Well, a day is not too much, but if you can’t wait (or don’t have an iPhone, or want to query the bicing from a computer), the Simple Bicing Text Query is ready!

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Stickers!


I have always been a fan of stickers. However, I tend to keep them in store waiting for “the right place” to put them on. Unfortunately, this time never comes and they get lost or spoiled. But this time I have promised myself this is not going to happen. I have a 50-pack of Moo’s Sticky Labels, and I’m reeeeally going to use them. As a proof, here’s my first one:
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