Garden Party
Image by Nieve44/Luz
This past weekend, I went to a Garden Party-my own! Another phase in the projects list is done. My house has been transformed again complete with new landscape including bricks, new plants, mulch and more mulch. I went for the exotic look to include bamboo, bird of paradise, pineapple guava, plumeria, and philodendron just to name a few of the many plants added. Thanks again to Dan for his landscape design and three days of backbreaking work in 100+ degree weather in order to make my dream a reality.
arne jacobsen, erhardt's house, charlottenlund 1934
Image by seier+seier
erhardt's house, hegelsvej, charlottenlund, denmark 1934.
architect: arne jacobsen, 1902-1971.
north facade.
one of the pleasures of walking down hegelsvej where so many of jacobsen's houses are found, is to follow his development as an architect from the twenties through the thirties - the advent of modernism and his own selfdiscovery.
erhardt's house is only three years older than steinthal's house in the previous frame. its asymmetrical volume has a powerful presence from the street, but also less of the assured elegance that would characterise jacobsen's later work.
as one of his former employees have noted, the air of assured elegance was in fact the result of a deep self doubt that would lead to sketch proposals being developed very far before jacobsen committed to them.
jacobsen himself said that before he met asplund, he had believed he could dream up architecture on the couch. the houses we are looking at here are from the very years when jacobsen came under asplund's influence.
but why don't you take a walk down hegelsvej - who needs photography when we have google street view?
try this... the white house on the left is jacobsen's own villa from 1928-29. he soon outgrew the "white style". the red house to the right is also to his design, if I remember correctly.
here is the lovely munck's house from 1933. (think I'll skip my upload of that one now).
and this is the steinthal's house - smaller than in my photo, but that is what you get when you place your camera on top of a van...
in here - at once huge and discreet - a very english looking house for an english client, jacobsen 1929.
there are plenty more, I'll just show you this early essay across the street from erhardt's house - the early steensen's house from 1927. turn around to see more.
more jacobsen on flickr.
My History with Apple (Computer) Inc.
Image by Adam Kuban
Edwin Tofslie created this visual. On his site, he says, "A visual I created to show the evolution of most all Apple products created over the past 30 years. This was created to show the evolution of the form factor and industrial design of the products, not to show every single model or upgrade Apple has launched."
I grabbed it and thought I'd use it to make a history of my Apple purchases. From left to right, top to bottom:
The Apple ][c I must have gotten this in 1985 or '86 (when I was 10 or 11). I remember wanting this computer *so bad* after using the Apple ][e in grade school. I remember going to the Apple dealer (er, excuse me, the Apple authorized reseller) in Olathe, Kansas—The Bottom Line—and drooling over the computers there. I was an overweight kid, so my parents made me a deal: Lose X many pounds, and they would buy the computer. I lost a little weight, but not the specified amount. Still, I think my parents were swayed by my argument that it was an educational tool and an investment in my future. I learned to type on this machine, using a program with a little wizard who did magic according to how well you did. I also discovered Zork (never did finish) and Wishbringer (finished, 'cause it was easier). A couple years later, I got into the Bard's Tale series. This was supposed to be a "portable" computer, hence the "c" for "compact." The machine itself had a handle on the back that folded down to prop up the computer or folded away into the body. You could carry the computer around, but the monitor was one heavy summbitch. Consequently, it never left the living room, where it sat on the desk toward the back of the room. I loved this little machine! I used it until about 9th grade (1989) and then didn't do much with computers at all in high school. By the time I got another computer, see below, they had (OMG!) something new called a hard drive. Hmm...
Macintosh Performa 6220CD: OK, the one pictured here is from the Performa series. I had a 6220CD, which was a pizza-box configuration. My parents helped me buy it, and we got it from Best Buy, of all places. Best Buy! Can you believe that? That was in, oh, 1995, maybe '96, during the dark Gil Amelio years. Anyway, at that time, I think Apple had a glut of products, and the 6220CD was one of the machines Apple made for the casual market—hence the Best Buy thing. It had a 75 MHz PowerPC 603 processor, 16 MB of RAM, a 1 GB hard drive, and a TV/Video card. It came with a little remote, and you could run cable or a broadcast antenna into the thing.
I got this either during my junior year or first senior year of college (I had two senior years because I switched majors), after I discovered the internet in the auxiliary computer center in Strong Hall at KU. I remember bringing this thing home and having one of my roommates kinda freak out a little bit—"Oh man, Adam. I can't believe there's a computer in our house." He wasn't excited; he was a bit disdainful. At the time, he was kind of a hippie in a very minor way, and I think he saw computers as something evil. Sometimes, I think he was right; but mostly, I love computers. That roommate now is totally into computers and has a pretty nice top-of-the-line Powerbook.
Anyway, I got on the internet and thought it was the coolest thing ever! "Oh my god! You can look up Beastie Boys trivia on the web! This is *so* cool!" I discovered MUDs and MOOs with this machine and made my first webpage that probably had a URL like cc.ukans.edu/falcon/~tomodell. Tomodell was my username (self-chosen) and was after my old high-school history teacher, Tom O'Dell.
In May 1997, I brought this machine with me to Oregon, where I used it to keep in touch with friends back in Kansas and in Japan. It was on this machine that I created a short-lived collaborative humor site (now defunct) called lusciousjackass.com and also had a sort of short-lived group blog that some friends and I did. They'd send me emails, and I'd sit there in the common space of our loft, drinking PBR, and post them in reverse chronological order. I also took out the domain www.hatchback.net/ in '98 and have had it since.
This was also the machine that I created the proto version of Slice on. It was originally going to be a photocopied 'zine, and I laid out the mock-up pages in QuarkXPress on this computer.
iMac Rev B: After convincing my parents to buy an iMac Rev A, I liked theirs so much I bought the Rev B. This must have been in late '98 or so. I don't remember doing anything remarkable on this machine. I replaced it rather quickly with an ...
iBook (clamshell, in Tangerine): I bought this one in 2000, shortly before moving to New York City. I didn't want to lug the iMac cross-country, and I left it with my girlfriend at the time, who didn't have a computer. She used it so we could keep in touch as we tried the whole long-distance dating thing. That didn't work out, and the iMac made its way out east. I sold the iMac on eBay and continued to use the iBook. I remember doing freelance copy-editing on it in my Bay Ridge apartment, sitting on an inflatable mattress because I had no furniture and couldn't afford to buy any. Later, when I got a crappy chair from IKEA, I would sit and work at this lame console table–cum-desk that the previous tenant left in the apartment. I kept this this machine until 2003, when I bought my ...
iBook G3: I bought this one in late August or early September of 2003, shortly before creating Slice. I didn't buy it to build Slice, though. I bought it because I had recently gotten cable broadband and wanted a new machine that took full advantage of the fast connection! Little did I know I was getting a piece of shit. I got the last of the G3 Dual USB iBooks, the ones with the faulty logic board problem. I still own it, and it's on its fourth logic board(!!!!) and second hard drive. Apple was good enough to replace all my logic boards for free under a special program, but I had to eat the cost of a new HD for it. I'm letting a friend borrow this computer right now.
I have a certain fondness for this machine, as it fostered the creation of Slice and A Hamburger Today. It's been to San Francisco, where it left its cold machine heart; Kansas; Florida; the Jersey Shore; and Amsterdam, where it visited the Red Light District and picked up a virus (just kidding). It also has a cool In-N-Out sticker on it. I used it until February 2005, when its first hard drive crashed. After four logic boards, I gave up and bought an ...
iMac G5 (17-inch): Unfortunately, this was the first generation of the flat-screen stand iMacs, and it had a problem: excessive fan noise. This machine worked like a dream at first, but after a firmware update pretty early on, the HD cooling fan started running at top speed under the lightest of processor loads. Because of a lame fan design, the thing sounds like a DustBuster. It is highly unpleasant to work in front of for any length of time. I appreciated the large screen and the speed, but when it came time for me to visit Kansas for Christmas 2005, I had the iBook G3's HD repaired and went back to using it. But the iBook G3 was getting mighty sluggish, so it was great when I joined Serious Eats in October 2006 and the company provided me with a ...
MacBook 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo: I'm typing this history on this machine now. It's loaded with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive—basically, it's maxed out. It's been a good little machine, except the white keyboard and casing get dirty. I would have liked the black MacBook, but the advisers setting us up with machines said they cost extra, so my boss, Ed, and I both got white machines. This one is missing the cool In-N-Out sticker, mostly because I don't want to gum up company property.
That's it for the Apple computers. But I also purchased ...
iPod 3rd Generation: Actually, my dad bought this one for me when he came to visit. (Thanks, Dad!) This is the one with the four buttons at top and fixed touch wheel. It worked well and I even developed "piPod" for it, a little set of files that rested in the Notes folder that told you where to get good pizza in NYC. That little "app" brought Slice a lot of attention. This iPod served me well until the day I was visiting my friend Janice, sitting up on her apartment rooftop on a weak chair. The leg broke, and I fell, cracking the LCD display. The pod still worked—I just couldn't see what it was playing. I got by for a while, then did without, then bought a ...
iPod Photo (60GB): This was the top-of-the-line iPod for, oh, about 2 months. Then the damn iPod video model came out. Ugh! Apple made such a big deal about how, with mine, they were all going to have color screens!!! Woo-dee-fucking-doo. They were probably just trying to get rid of all their small color screens before switching to the video iPod. Anyway, this is my iPod today. I haven't upgraded to video iPod or the iPhone—yet. I'm sure I'll move to the iPhone one day, but not until after the first generation. I've learned my lesson.
And, I forgot the peripherals! ...
Pro Mouse (White): Purchased pretty soon after it became available, to make laptop computing easier when using my iBook G3 at home. This mouse served me fine until the Mighty Mouse came out.
Mighty Mouse: I was lured by the 360° scroll wheel. The scroll wheel worked like a charm while it lasted. Unfortunately, it gums up with dirt pretty easily, and despite the suggested cleaning routine, mine never started working again. I liked the added two-button feature (finally, Apple! Took you fucking long enough to bow your head and admit that MS had something here). But it didn't work well. It never really did sense when I was applying pressure to the left or right sides of the mouse. I replaced it with a non-Apple product. A Microsoft Intellimouse. My MS mouse is AWESOME.
Airport Express: Works like magic! I love being wireless anywhere in my apartment and out in my garden on nice days. I like that I can stream music to my stereo. I only wish it could stream regular non-iTunes sound to the stereo as well.
Claire says I should now "add up all the money [I've] given to Steve Jobs throughout the years," but I just can't. I don't remember the retail price of some of these machines, plus, I'd be too depressed :(
[July 19]
UPDATE (In honor of Steve's leaving Apple) - 8/25/2011
Since I first posted this -- my most popular image on Flickr by a landslide -- I have used/owned even more Apple products...
Macbook Mid-2010: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo, 2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM I can't remember exactly when I started using this one. It was probably shortly before or after my wedding. I think I had been complaining loud enough at Serious Eats about my previous MacBook's slowness and crashiness. One day a shipment of new laptops showed up and I got one. This machine served fairly faithfully and well but did get a bit slow before I finally left Serious Eats in May 2011. I've always had the experience that Macs work very well for a while but then seem to begin to slow down. Maybe because I gum them up with too much crap. Anyway, I turned this computer back in to the company on leaving and bought myself a ...
MacBook Air 11-inch, 1.6Ghz/4GB RAM/156GB SSD: The smallest MacBook Air maxed out on processor, RAM, and solid state drive. This machine is beautiful. When I look back at my old iBook, I can't believe the same company made both these machines -- or that that iBook itself was considered great design at one point. Frankly, I don't know how Apple can improve on the aesthetics of the current MacBook Air line. I suppose in minor ways, but as is, it seems almost perfect. So far, fingers crossed, I've had no problems with this machine. It's a little sluggish editing RAW photos, but that's to be expected. I bought it knowing I wouldn't be able to do HARDCORE photo- or video-editing. And that's fine. That's about all I need for the blogging I do these days.
iPod Nano, 3rd generation: I don't even remember why I bought this. At some point my iPod Photo must have died. I don't even remember how or why or what I did with its carcass. I loved the size and format of this Nano -- it's the squat one with the color screen. Before they switched back to the long, narrow stick. I still have it but don't use it. That's because in August 2009 I finally broke down and bought an ...
iPhone 3Gs: And, holy crap, did it change my life. For the better, for the worse. I love having all the information a truly smart smartphone provides at my fingertips. But I do have to admit that I am addicted to it. I'm not even making light there. I truly have a hard time not futzing with the device. I know it's rude to do so during dinner with my wife or out at the bar with friends, but I cannot help it. That is how it has changed my life for the worse. For the better, I absolutely love the GPS navigation app I downloaded for it, which I can't imagine driving without again. And I like being able to look up restaurant advice on the go. At some point, I got caught in the rain with this one, and that began its demise. I killed it the rest of the way by leaving it on the windowsill in the shower and then forgetting about it while turning on the water. (I was listening to NPR while trimming my beard in front of the grooming mirror in the shower ... then stepped out to put the trimmer away and clean up the tub before turning on the faucet... D'OH!) ... Even that didn't kill this iPhone dead, though. I was able to do the rice trick and revive it, but it slowly deteriorated until it started shutting off and asking for full restores. After restoring it 7 times in 2 days, it died.... NEXT!
iPhone 4, 16GB: Even though I had the 32GB 3Gs, I stepped it down to the 16GB for my current (8/24/2011) iPhone. It wasn't worth the extra money for the extra memory. I hadn't maxed out my previous iPhone anyway. LOVE the Retina display and the massively improved camera on this one. Other than that, not much of a difference over the 3Gs.
Thanks, Steve Jobs, for designing all these amazing products. Even though I have had some issues with some of them, they are beautiful, elegant machines that are intuitive and a pleasure to work with. I can't imagine having to use the alternatives (er, actually I can, because I use a shitastic PC at work).
ten - tagged - #2
Image by the|G|™
TEN [tagged].
recently tagged by two lovely contacts:
10v10
www.flickr.com/photos/39041977@N03/
t.e.s.s.e.a.
www.flickr.com/photos/tess-e-a/
TEN [tagged] - a portrait and ten facts.
i don't particularly like self portraits.
'I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.'
however, i will try to do some this year, bear with me.
if you do wish to see half of me. feel free to go and look at my first TEN:
www.flickr.com/photos/the-g-uk/3831461514/
with respect to this ten, i offer some 'facts' and some 'opinion'.
rules are for bending.
and sometimes, breaking.
are you sitting comfortably?
then i'll begin......
[caveat] this may well end as a novella size piece of work.
forgive me :o occasionally, i like to write.
on we go.
TEN
1. relationhip [aka 'giving too much away']:
i have recently been shot out of a [sometimes wonderful] cannon that was a decade long relationship.
where to begin.
i give too much of myself away far too often. this is sometimes exceptionally detrimental, more often than not to my psychological wellbeing. i like people to be happy.
emerging from this lengthy relationship, i began to understand exactly how much i had changed. i stopped creating. no music. no art. very little writing, and that writing which i did produce i have now seen as a coded plea for change.
very often, we cannot see how damaged situations have become because we are inside the situations themselves.
i had moved much much too far toward my partner, and left the most important parts of me behind, those parts of me became hostages to my relationship.
i will never do this again. even if it may mean i spend the rest of my days alone.
being oneself is paramount.
if not, then what is?
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2. illness [aka 'fate is an evil motherfucker']
if you had told me five years ago that:
i would be taking prescription medication every day for a mental illness.
i would be doing the above for three years [and ongoing].
i would be hospitalised five times, all emergency calls, the longest stay being seven days.
i would undergo a severe nervous breakdown.
i would very seriously contemplate taking my life on three occasions [i do not reveal this for dramatic effect].
i would be living alone [very happily as it happens - see #1]
i would be considering every day a kind of battle, a fight.
if you had told me these things five years ago, i would have thought you a raving lunatic.
such is fate.
never, ever accede to a decision made by another when you consider that decision to be flawed.
you may well pay an exceptionally high price.
once again, i gave too much precious ground.
i should have stood that ground.
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3. comedy is beneficial [aka 'LMAO']
enough seriousness for the moment.
contrary to what some may think, i love to laugh.
i laugh at that which may well leave some puzzled [i have been an ardent fan of monty python since early childhood, my father used to take me to see the very early films].
i have a left-field sense of humour.
luckily, i do seem to find it relatively easy to make other people laugh, with special reference to the female of the species. this is useful. when you don't have the looks of johnny depp or the physique of brad pitt, you need all the weaponry you can muster :)
i enjoy making others laugh enormously.
here are some people who make me laugh [and think]. for me, the hallmark of great comedy is you laugh, then you begin thinking:
bill hicks [a genius all to soon lost to us].
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqBOMBSDQsI
christopher morris.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO6GP9NMY&feature=related
lenny bruce
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXw7dmo9Co
spike milligan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgontSmBwv4&feature=related
chris rock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcqJDDhoUlc
steven wright
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1HYUyhujl4&feature=related
george carlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o
george bush jnr
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKD_BSMXVjg&feature=related
i am aware there are no women in the list above, and i'm not about to get pc and shoehorn one in. they just don't make me laugh as much as male comedians.
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4. politicians [aka, you know me].
i detest this particular species of human.
wholeheartedly, with a passion.
in so many ways, these people are not in any way part of the solution, though they do offer an important case study with regard to the causes of our many problems.
and you at the back there, please don't start yelling barack!.
give him time, he'll pull a clinton.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst. Are full of passionate intensity
w b yeats [from 'the second coming']
politicians were invented solely to illustrate the absolute truth of these wonderful lines.
imagine a world without politicians?
some would say that constituted secular heaven. i would offer little argument.
nb - there are exceptions. though i will not list them here.
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4. three random facts about me [aka 'you don't know me'] #1.
i sleep downstairs, on a sofa, in the living room.
have done for over a year.
i no longer like sleeping in bedrooms.
it's part of the behaviour patterns related to my illness.
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5. normal people [aka 'what is normal?'].
i have to admit, i really do find most 'normal' people quite boring.
i don't really know what motivates them , i don't understand their conversations at all, i don't understand their deep desire to be exactly like the other 'normal' people who surround them [well actually, i do understand that last one, it's fundamentally fear based].
i know that there are those who maintain that there is no such thing as a 'normal' person.
i humbly beg to differ.
i have worked with them. and regretted it. deeply.
they are often petty, hideous and ignorant cretins.
i want no part of their wretched lives.
and i fervently hope they would want no part of mine.
rest assured, there are billions of square pegs that fit very comfortably indeed into the very squarest of holes.
after all, what purpose does mainstream television serve other than entertaining the 'normal' majority with a constant stream of vacuous piffle?
please don't misunderstand, i do not automatically dislike 'normal' people. i'm just puzzled.
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5. it's not what you have, it's what you do [aka 'pissing contest?'].
another thing i don't quite understand.
the pissing contest.
i have an old cooker. it works. i can cook my food.
why would i want to buy a £1000 miele?
i have a 28" 'old skool' crt television [widescreen].
i like the picture. it is a great picture.
why would i want to get one bigger?
and then bigger?
and then bigger still?
the pissing contest is another blatant example of fear based behaviours [of course there is also a reproductive element].
my owned objects reflect my status as a human being.
therefore i must always seek to spend more money on my owned objects than my peers.
as a result, my peers will deem me a worthy human being.
the more money i expend, the worthier i become in their eyes.
thankfully, i have no peers who behave this way.
and i truly pity those people who do [i do mean pity]. it must be an entirely terrible way to live.
constant envy.
constant dissatisfaction.
constant competition.
constant disappointment.
of course, to have nice things is a nice thing in itself.
that is not the same as engaging in the pissing contest.
i should have done some recent flash animation work for a major company who were holding a competition. the winner would receive a 'designer' [isn't every product designed?] leather bag. this bag would cost £750 to purchase.
i didn't complete the work in time.
in fact, i didn't do the work at all.
in fact, i don't do that kind of work anymore.
i find i can't. it is too difficult conceptually. for all the right reasons.
i am glad i no longer do this type of work. it is part of the problem
the only time this bag [and all 'designer' products] is 'useful' as a social hierarchy tool, is when the idiot wearing it meets another vapid idiot who also knows how much it costs.
to everybody else, it's a leather bag.
of course, this is exactly why we have recently had a veritable explosion with respect to 'labels'.
what better way to advertise your social standing than by being a human billboard for your own pointless expenditure!!
as [the quite brilliant] jonathan meades states whilst standing next to a high price mercedes for his wonderful series 'Magnetic North':
'of course this is not a car, it's a boast'
wonderfully put.
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6. three random facts about me [aka 'you don't know me'] #2.
i dislike small pieces of coal.
[nb - those with open fires and stoves may well have the same opinion.]
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7. art is medicinal [aka 'what is art?'] #1.
this seems a self evident fact to me.
music plays an immense part in my life, both the making of it, and the listening to it.
it has helped me struggle through some exceptionally difficult times.
and continues to help me on a daily basis.
as do literature, painting, documentary film, photography, poetry, sculpture and a host of other artforms.
the arts themselves [as varied as they may be] are a medicine. healing, teaching, supporting and sometimes simply pleasing. they are essential to me.
and those artists who produce work [here on flickr and elsewhere] which i enjoy are like an elixir for me. they provide visual, audio, psychological and philosophical nourishment.
long may they continue to do so.
art is food that you don't eat. water that you don't drink. air that you don't breathe.
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8. three random facts about me [aka 'you don't know me'] #3.
i enjoy birdwatching. it is peaceful, the scenery is beautiful, the people are exceptionally friendly and it is genuinely interesting to me.
this in no way precludes from being the ultimate 300mph whacked out rock and roll motherfucker :)
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8. whining fuck [aka 'relativism'].
no matter how terrible my life has been, albeit intermittently, over the last three years, i know full well there are people who endure lives of such desperate bleakness, of such incalculable squalor and horrific deprivation, that it is literally impossible for me [or indeed you] to contemplate their existences in any serious fashion. we are too far removed from their reality to even offer comment.
we are too sleek, too well fed, too wealthy [even when we think we are poor] and too fortunate [even when we think we are unfortunate].
relative to millions [if not billions] of people on this planet, we people in the 'developed' [sic] nations live as kings and queens. there are countless people living on this planet who would be as unable to understand or comprehend the ease and excessive [often ludicrous] richness of our lifestyles, as we are wholly unable, and wholly unsuited, to understand the horror, slavery, torture and deprivation that is their daily lot.
i am not the greatest fan of relativism when used in a social sense, and may argue that fundamentally it serves little useful purpose.
for example:
if 'A' is feeling terrible, and 'B' tells 'A' 'at least you are not blind as 'C' is!', i will often offer the opinion that this simply leads to 'A' continuing to feel terrible, having now been granted the superfluous knowledge that 'C' is blind.
'A' knowing of 'C's blindness cannot affect it, nor will this knowledge necessarily reduce 'A's misery in any way whatsoever.
that said, i often try to think about those [cliche though it may well be] who are far far worse off than i.
and that there are so very very many is an absolute fact.
i can walk, talk, see, hear.
i live in a comfortable house, with [more than enough] food to eat.
i am surrounded by high tech toys, many wonderful books, i have gizmos to entertain me, money [very little, yet enough], i am physically healthy, i can make choices with respect to my life that billions could only dream about.
i live as a relative king to them.
this i must never, never, forget.
nor, and in this i beg your indulgence, should you.
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10. flickr [aka 'we are family'].
as i have mentioned before.
this strikes me as a revolution.
nothing more, nothing less.
a dazzling, wonderful and peaceful revolution.
one which i consider myself blessed to be a part of.
to have connected with such incredible people; such talented artists, such warm, honest and beautiful people scattered across this spinning ball of mud, has been a blessing for me.
flickr is an integral and vital part of my everyday life.
i would be surprised if i watched over three or four hours of television in any given week. i do not buy any newspapers or magazines.
every morning begins exactly the same way.
awake. wash. dress. prepare the stove [at this time of year]. produce coffee. flickr.
unchanging.
i may have told you [yes, i mean you!] this before, but you are important to me.
the friendships [and they are] i have made. the incredible contacts i have developed. the wonderful people who i now communicate with. i thank you all.
you made 2009 all the better for your presence on my flat screens. and thus in my life.
without you, things would have been decidedly worse.
on closing this second TEN, i offer you my very best wishes, love, and heartfelt thanks for being who you are.
let us take 2010 by the scruff of the neck, and rock the fucking shit out of it :)
end of transmission.
11. fuck rules :)
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i have enjoyed producing this TEN very much.
though i do have to warn that i may not take another one on for some time.
though of course.
if you don't ask, you don't get! :)
my thanks to tess and violet.
the|G|™
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Cool Toys Pic of the day - Talk to My Shirt!
Image by rosefirerising
My apologies for the recent lack of consistency on this blog. I was
out recovering from surgery for a while, came back to work, and
promptly caught whooping cough. I'm trying to catch up and get back
into the habit.
Today I'm fascinated by Talk2MyShirt.
Talk2MyShirt:
www.talk2myshirt.com/
This is another project using the Arduino Lilypad to integrate
computing and clothes, from high fashion (well, that is other wearable
tech projects) to garments wearable in a day to day environment.
Talk2MyShirt is a bit of social networking, a bit of fashion design, a
bit of geek & tech, and a lot of dreams and visions and wishes. I have
my own dreams in this area, as a current geek who once tried to major
in textile arts. I could rave about my dreams, but I don't want to
spoil it for you.
Imagine. How do we use computers to control other things around us,
machines, environments, houses, displays? Now, what if we could
control our appearance in a similar way? The colors the textures,
integrating design and display into customized personalized portable
personal environments? Imagine ...
Now go explore, and find the people who are setting the stage for
this. The backstage pass is worth teh price of admission.
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