October 2008
20 posts
I’m back. I like this thing.
"Mr. Wilson," the unsettling tennis ball... →
His brass-rimmed black eyes settled over a leering, open crack of a mouth, Mr. Wilson likes nothing better than to hold a towel between his lips as he silently watches you bathe. Mr….
Chanel gun heel →
Seen above, the gun heel from the Chanel Cruise 2009 collection. Chanel Gun Heel (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)
Giant spider eats bird →
A giant Golden Orb Weaver spider caught a chestnut-breasted mannikin bird in its web and made a leisurely lunch on the bird. The photo was snapped in a backyard in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. From…
HOWTO make a brain out of a watermelon →
Here’s a lovely Instructable from Scoochmaroo, explaining how to make an edible (well, more edible) brain out of a watermelon — suitable for vegan zombies.
# Slice off bottom of watermelon so…
Canon: Tripod →
Advertising Agency: Armstrong&Asociados, Santiago, Chile
Creative Director: Marcelo Quintana
Art Director: Nicolás Fracchia
Copywriter: Philip Honeyman
Illustrator: Ricardo…
beta tester
So apparently I am the first person in history to send a text message on Android using the awesome (albeit buggy) ShapeWriter application.
It’s an interesting idea based on IBM Research and they developed it for the iPhone (naturally) and are porting it over to the Android Market for Android powered phones (like my g1).
The thing is instead of tapping each key individually you slide your...
Google CEO Endorses Obama →
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UGH!
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, will begin to campaign on behalf of Barack Obama, reports the Wall Street Journal. He is scheduled to speak Tuesday at a panel on…
I GOT MY G1 Android Phone Today
Review later.
update
So life is going good right now. Staying busy, productive, and sastified.
General:
The clouds recently have been so pretty, I can’t get over it.
Work:
I’m not going to try and hide it, I really love Apple Motion 3, bundled with final cut studio 2. The interface is just amazing and super intuitive. The 3d capabilities are really good, it feels like I am working in google sketch...
Wikipedia-Roll: Search & Browse Wikipedia... →
Wikipedia-Roll is a new mashup application that lets you view wikipedia articles in more broad and interesting way. It organizes article content by items and definitions, and presents them in a…
LG Prada II is ready for the runway →
LG Prada II is ready for the runway and has groovy specs to match. It boasts of 7.2Mbps HSDPA 850 / 2100, WiFi, TV-out, FM radio, and a 5-megapixel camera. The side-slider also hosts a full…
New MGMT video directed by Eric Wareheim →
My wife just ran into the office and excitedly told me about this new video that Eric Wareheim of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show — Great Job!” fame directed and posted on his Facebook page…
Moustache: Studio 37 →
Paris-based Moustache created this ethereal voyage through a glowing world for Studio 37, Orange’s feature film production company.
Credits on the Moustache project page.
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interesting things
points of interest.
I learned today that one of the causes of spikes in gas prices is the need for our goverment to re-fill the military’s fuel. Imagine the amount of fuel that the military needs and then imagine how that would realistically effect the enduser price of gas for the world.
Another reason we should probably finish up these wars and focus on ourselves.
The world as we know...
Photos from the denim distressing factory →
Photographer David Friedman visited a Kentucky “distressing” factory where skilled laborers expertly age denim for the benefit of high-end designers, and produced a sweet little photos essay of…
How to Deal with a Racist Joke at Work [Personal... →
You’re standing around the water cooler chatting with your co-workers, and someone makes a racist (sexist, homophobic, or otherwise stereotype-based) joke. What do you do? Call him or her out on it…
upstairs
i’m excited…….