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Washington Post: Red, White and Golden Arches: The Star-Spangled Banner Ad
|| 7/4/2004 || 5:23 pm || Comments Off on Washington Post: Red, White and Golden Arches: The Star-Spangled Banner Ad || ||

This photograph & article appeared on the front page of the Style section July 4th, 2004

Red, White and Golden Arches: The Star-Spangled Banner Ad

By Tommy Nguyen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 4, 2004; Page D01

As waves of stars and stripes flood the city’s Fourth of July celebrations, Nikolas Schiller knows that the subtle redesign of his American flag will appear only as a tiny ripple on the sea, if it isn’t swallowed up completely. Doesn’t matter, he says. Schiller plans to be on the Mall today, by himself, with his makeshift flagpole and his skinny, 5-foot-9 vegetarian frame planted firmly against the tide.

“When people see all these corporate symbols, it sparks conversation, and that’s the beauty of this flag,” says Schiller, 23, a recent graduate of George Washington University. He’s talking about the swoosh of Nike, the beast of burden of Camel, the great eye of CBS, and 27 other corporate logos that, in Schiller’s world, have replaced the stars on America’s great tapestry in more ways than one.

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911 F
|| 6/25/2004 || 9:51 am || Comments Off on 911 F || ||

Today Fahrenheit 9-11 opens. I can’t wait to see it!

I finished rendering another satellite image of the Hajj in Mecca. For just one image, this render took longer than any other rendering I’ve made because each pixel was checked for 256 different rays. Normally its set at like 8 rays per pixel, and I get roughly same result… Also there is a random white circle in the middle that I don’t like much. But I am still happy with it. I wonder if I should make another rendering with Mecca or with a different satellite image . We’ll see.

Adam 4 Shadow
|| 6/9/2004 || 3:34 pm || Comments Off on Adam 4 Shadow || ||

I am almost done putting the finishing touches the Adam 4 Shadow website. I am very happy with how it is looking.

E St. Risk Analysis
|| 5/9/2004 || 9:51 pm || Comments Off on E St. Risk Analysis || ||

“E Street Risk Analysis”
Created for a GWU Geography class
Flash presentation uses video, satellite
imagery, and risk analysis to show security laspses in downtown Washington,
DC.

“Bad Santa”
|| 12/16/2003 || 6:15 am || Comments Off on “Bad Santa” || ||

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Created a short newsicvideo called “Bad Santa Saddam” mocking both the search for WMD, the capture of Saddam, and CNN.

In Adbusters Magazine Issue #51 – The Buy Nothing Day Blackspot
|| 12/4/2003 || 6:32 am || Comments Off on In Adbusters Magazine Issue #51 – The Buy Nothing Day Blackspot || ||

My Buy Nothing Day Blackspot was featured in Adbusters Magazine issue #51.

Buy Nothing Day 2003
|| 11/30/2003 || 6:35 am || Comments Off on Buy Nothing Day 2003 || ||

::Repost from old blog::

I celebrated Buy Nothing Day alone this year, but I wrote about on it on DC Indymedia.

=UPDATE=
Cape mentioned in the Washington Post

By Tommy Nguyen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 4, 2004; Page D01
….
“People scoff at it, or say mean things to me, but they all understand the idea of the flag: that America has been bought by the corporate system,” says Schiller, who, at other protest opportunities, has used his corporate flag as a cape. After showing on his home computer some footage of his activist adventures, he admits that wearing the flag that way was “stylistically dorky.”

Bush’s Veteran’s Day Speech – Tweaked
|| 11/17/2003 || 6:40 am || Comments Off on Bush’s Veteran’s Day Speech – Tweaked || ||

::Repost from old website::

I tweaked CNN’s footage of George Bush’s Veterans Day speech using Final Cut Pro with some photographs that I supplied.

This video can also be found on my video player.
(scroll down)

AOL News
|| 7/18/2003 || 11:30 pm || Comments Off on AOL News || ||

This design was made using OS X’s screen capture at AOL’s welcome menu.
Note the titles.

Critical Mass – “Cars”
|| 4/11/2003 || 11:03 am || Comments Off on Critical Mass – “Cars” || ||

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Using Gary Numan’s 80’s tune “Cars,” I made a Newsicvideo documenting a Critical Mass ride through DC. This was sooo much fun :-)

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Nikolas Schiller is a second-class American citizen living in America's last colony, Washington, DC. This blog is my on-line repository of what I have created or found on-line since May of 2004. If you have any questions or comments, please contact: