How to give nightmares to kids:

Metalman

Here is an inspirational video about metalworking on a level I've never witnessed. It's mesmerizing...this guy knows his stuff.


Found @ MAKE

Up...for real.

Seatbelts...Use em.

I thought this was a creative way to make a point.

Free as a bird

Usually footage of flying is taken from a camera mounted to the bottom of a helicopter or plane. It just straight ahead view, watching the landscape go by.

These clever guys added a special panoramic camera...an INTERACTIVE panoramic camera!

INSTRUCTIONS:
Just play the movie, then click on the movie with your mouse and drag around to see the view.


Kelly Kellogg.... This one's for you.



[GIZMODO]

Digital Paint Brush

Nomad Brush for the iPad from Don Lee on Vimeo.

Digital Christmas

Sent to me by my beautiful mother in law:

Getting in the Christmas Mood

My good buddy Dr. Todd sent this to me to get me in the Christmas spirit.

...It did just that, and so much more.

Its entertaining on so many levels, I highy suggest giving it a listen. *Just listen, looking away from the screen if you want to enjoy the music, if you want to smile while listening, watch these guys get their rock on.

The Swiss Santa

The Swiss Santa doesn't use reindeer, he uses a fighter jet.

Google Earth...Skydivng

Disneyworld Trip

Today is a day of mixed emotions (and irony). The final arrangements are being made this morning for our Disneyworld trip that we won from Southwest Airlines last year for our entry to their home video contest to answer the question "What would you do for $100?" (As they marketed their $100 in savings by not paying bag fees...)

Trip for 4 to Disneyworld Orlando, Florida
Rental Car
Hotel
4 day park hopper tickets
Airfare (for all 6 of us actually ;)

Here was our entry for anyone who missed it last year, or for anyone that wants to enjoy it again:




Also, this morning I received word, that Robbins Barstow passed away. He is the grandfather of home video production. A real pioneer to amateur videography. He is noted for many great home video memories, but one most notably, was a Disneyland vacation his family won in 1956.
Enjoy:



I hope we can record our trip as well as he did, to keep the spirit of home movies alive as one door closes, another opens.

-A special thanks goes out to the fantastic people at Southwest Airlines...that really, truly put people first. They don't just say that. They actually go beyond the call of duty, always.

Iphone vs. Android vs. Blackberry

 

Great Costume

At least the Great Wall worked out...

I stumbled upon this exibit the other day...and it left an impression on me. ...That impression was short lived. Or rather, it has changed. My awe, turned into Awww.


For any of you that have ever taken on a project, put your heart and soul into it, only to watch it fail... This story is for you.

Lets say, you are a conceptual artist named Ai Weiwei... and lets pretend for a minute, that you decide you want to make a magnificent art piece.... You want it spectacular, and durable enough to walk on. So you set out to do just that.

The idea:
To carpet a HUGE room, with sunflower seeds. It would be like walking in gravel, the sound, the feel under your shoes... But, it would be sunflower seeds! It would be amazing!

The problem:
Sunflower seeds will crush underfoot, leaving cracked shells and mess everywhere.

The solution:
Employ an entire town, whose only activity has been making and selling porcelain for over 1000 years. Have them cast 100 Million (100,000,000) Sunflower seeds out of porcelain. Then painstakingly hand paint each one. How you might ask?!

"Harnessing traditional craft skills, each seed was moulded, fired, and painted with three or four individual brush strokes, often by women taking the objects home to work on them. 1,600 people were involved in the process."




This "Process" took 2 years to complete. The result was unveiled last week in the main hall of Tate Modern. Everything came out perfectly, and it was quite a feat. Here are some pictures of the exhibit. You should read on before booking your trip to China to walk accross this bed of seeds though.... It will be gone in the next couple of days...



The museum is frantically cleaning up this mess... Apparently, walking on ceramic seeds causes them to give off "noxious ceramic dust".


Great idea...Bad execution. At least the poor Chinese workers that build the Great Wall can rest in peace knowing the wall is standing strong. And until it offends an extra terrestrial, for blocking their view of the dirt... I'm sure we'll get to enjoy that painstakingly glorious piece of Chinese art for many years to come.

I can't change a tire in 4 minutes...

The New Image...

iPad Band

Every instrument you hear in this video, was a "Virtual Instrument". Every sound, came from an iPad (except the vocals).

Here are the apps these guys used:

Real Drums

Pro Keys

Baby Scratch

Guitar Mania

All available in the app store.

Comfy Seat

Who needs a recliner when you can get perfectly comfortable sitting like this?

Rubix Head

iPhone 4 Reception Issues

You may have heard of the iPhone 4 "Reception issues". If you haven't... I might ask if you heard there was an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, or if you knew America is currently fighting in a war in Afghanistan? This issue of the long anticipated iPhone, has wildly been blown out of proportion. The phone is not perfect, sure there is room for improvement, but it's really not all that bad. I love the phone. With that being said. I couldn't help but poke fun at some of the people that expected more. If you want a cell phone that never drops calls... don't get one through AT&T. If the device works 'well enough' as a phone, but blows most point and shoot cameras out of the water, has more calculator apps than ASU's engineering school, and can play games as well as the wii...then why give it a hard time for dropping a call or two. Sure I would have liked to see an improvement from my iPhone 3GS... But everything else improved. They are just trapped on a crappy network.

However, if Apple decided to put function above form in an effort to overcome the flawed network where they reside (AT&T)...Then the new iPhone4 might have looked something like this:

I created this image from scratch. It is not real (before you ask)... it is a completely computer generated model.