Danilo Markov
Created By: nocebo
Last Modified: 12/21/05
Summary: This is just to let the jeteye community know a little bit about myself. Like the title above reads, my name is indeed Danilo Markov. I'm 23 years old, born and raised up to the age of seven in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since 1990, I've been living in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of that time spent in the Richmond District of SF, with some brief stints in Redwood City and Berkeley. I've actually just moved back to SF from the latter city, where I spent 3 years working on my BA, finishing my last class this August (I double-majored in Linguistics and Mass Communications, with a minor in Geography). Though I love the East Bay and go back to Berkeley and Oakland all the time, I can't say the same for my native country -- that is, I'm sure I'll love it, but I haven't gotten the chance to go back and find out. One of my goals in the next year is to do just that.
My biggest obsession in the last few years has been music of all kinds, whether it's listening to it, dancing to it, playing it, DJing, reading about it, anything. It's gotten to be a bit overwhelming, but as far as obsessions go, it's a safe one, I think. Aside from playing music alone and in bands, I've been a DJ at KALX 90.7FM, my alma mater's campus station. On the side, I write freelance for a number of music publications, most frequently for West Coast Performer magazine. The DJing is great fun, but music criticism might not be my cup of tea (should anyone out there need a writer, though, write me!).
Outside of music, my interests are much more scattershot, not so neatly tied up in themes. In this way, I truly am a child of the Web, as research in one thing I'm curious about will lead to the discovery of something amazing I had no idea existed, and then to something else, and so forth. I always was kind of a library rat from as far as I can remember. I end up getting a bit lost sometimes, so to speak, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Anyway, to try and sum everything up in one little jetpak wouldn't do any of it justice, so hopefully I'll get the chance to spread out and share all of the amazing knowledge I find with all the jeteye users out there!
That's quite enough for now, I think... let me drop some of my most visited links, as well as some images related to myself, where I've been, and what I like. Thanks for reading!Berkeley, CA
Summary: This is an aerial shot of my main stomping grounds from 2002 to 2005.
Berkeley, Oakland and the surrounding towns are really completely
unique in almost every way, even more so than San Francisco at times. Should circumstances push me back in that direction for a while
again, I won't hesitate to go. I used to live at 2237 Roosevelt at
Allston, at the very bottom right of this image. It was kind of a dump,
but oh, the memories...
From: 
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/AerialPhotos/kav3511.htmlThe Richmond District
Summary: My home since Fall of 1990, San Francisco's Richmond District has definitely claimed a large part of me. A tight blend of Irish, Russian, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and American cultures packed in a roughly 45-by-8-block radius, this is really the City's most underrated neighborhood, but I can already see signs of people catching on. This shot here is way in the Outer Richmond, farther out than I usually go, at Geary & 37th Avenue.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_BoulevardCrimea
Summary: Markov isn't a common Brazilian last name. My father's family
originally comes from Russia, the Crimean Peninsula specifically. My
grandfather, an official in the White (i.e. Imperial) Russian Army, was
exiled in 1921 after the Bolshevik Revolution with my grandmother and some of my oldest aunts and uncles. My
father, the youngest of 10, was born in 1937 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
In any case, here's a shot of Crimea taken from space. My family comes
from the Bay of Theodosia, on the southern tip.
From: http://www.mit.edu/~chuvpilo/crimea/Sao Paulo FC
Summary: This is the logo for my soccer team back in Brazil (FC stands for Football Club). The image is a little old - it reads "Two-time world champions", but they've taken the title once more since.
From: http://www.saopaulofc.netLink: TV ARK The Television Museum
Summary: A great way to maximize your time-wasting by watching TV and goofing off online at the same time, TV ARK is a vast online collection of TV ephemera from the dawn of television to the present day. Featuring clips from all sorts of forgotten shows, PSAs, intros, bumpers, and much more, with new stuff coming in regularly, this is quite a fun place to get immersed in and lose track of time.
Link: Foundphotos
Summary: Foundphotos is an ever-expanding collection of digital photos downloaded from users of file-sharing software unaware that they are sharing more than just their Britney and 50 Cent collections. The curators at 10Eastern have a knack for finding the poetic and sublime in these photos, as well as the hilarious and the disturbing. It's gonna sound cheesy, but nowhere else on the Web have I found such sheer humanity shining through. There are 119 volumes so far, so you can definitely take your time here. I'd say start somewhere near the middle and work your way out.
Link: GreenCine
Summary: Though I live close to Le Video, perhaps the best video store in the Bay Area and beyond, I still rely on GreenCine to feed me with quality films. Their website is what sold me, as their incredibly deep selection combined with all of their primers and other info on movies both classic and forgotten made me want to watch all of it at once. Living in the City, the movies get here very very fast, too, which is another big plus on their favor.
Link: wfmu.org
Summary: The homepage for East Orange, NJ's pride of the airwaves, WFMU 91.1 FM, this is another incredible place for music junkies seeking an online fix. Not only is FMU likely the best free-form radio station in America, they've also got almost all of their broadcasting since about 1998 or so available for RealAudio (or sometimes MP3!) streaming online, all of it neatly catalogued and easily accessible. Their blog is also too good to be true, with new posts every few hours highlighting all sorts of seriously mindblowing media. Never a dull moment.
Link: Tofu Hut
Summary: mp3blogs consumed a lot of my time in the last year, and I know I'm not alone. I'm not ashamed of it, either. Featuring better writing than most magazines and a direct, contagious enthusiasm for what's covered, these sites have turned me on to amazing music I wouldn't have thought of seeking out even in my wildest dreams, much of which has permanently replaced whatever it was I was excited about before. There are mp3blogs of all varieties, but Tofu Hut is a consistently top-notch provider of quality music and excellent reading. It's also got the most comprehensive links frame of any mp3blog out there, so this is a fabulous place to start. Oh, and is it all illegal? Less so than taping a song off the radio, I'd say.
Link: Greasemonkey
Summary: As of now, Mozilla Firefox seems to be the top browser for various reasons, and this is a big one. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which allows you to reconfigure the browser and certain web pages by adding many really useful features. For example, there are several Greasemonkey scripts out there that wipe out ads in popular websites, and others which provide automatic price comparisons when you visit a popular online merchant. My favorite so far is a script that allows you, by highlighting some text and pressing 'w', to instantly jump to the Wikipedia article of whatever it is you highlighted. There's so much more, and it's very very easy to use. Check it out!
