Floozy Speak!

Woooha! Alienware said "sorry 3-4 weeks delivery time..." bah no no, you be sorry cause i got a Sagar instead. Wow, this lap is gorgeous, huge wide flat 17 inches of glory. Very cool. Not really portable but not as massive as I thought it'd be. Its sleeker than the big ass HP's ive seen, and seems to have a better screen.

The musty with its 512mb card captures a mere 1hr and 48mins at 320x240 30fps rez.. yippie! That's awesome! I'm seriously thinking about drilling a hole in my dash or afixing some kind of tripod mount so that i can get good road cam footage with this thing. So far I like the mustekdv4000 alot, especially the auto motion blur abilities.

I need to follow Jon out the skateboarding park again, had alot fun there capturing action on mini cams. Spring and good weather just make me wanna shoot video outside. I suppose i should wrap up some mini music videos etc.

Back on the kick about robots and such, especially ones that auto-blog for ya.. speaking of which... WTF clint whats up with yer robot!??! Give it to Bob or something man, he'll build it. Geeze.. damn clint is sitting on an Evo or something and hasnt built it yet. (were assuming cause we havent heard about it yet).. anyways. I thought about getting a Romba for awhile there, just cause its a robot plus it'd do something useful.

Oh ya and I keep thinking Skype and Flickr should merge ideas.. I keep thinkin Flickr with audio interaction would be really really new.. maybe put it on a teamspeak like level.

I want the Twist Together Lamp from Glide, someone buy it for me, now, hurry!

Oh ya and I joined a Locative Media listserv discusing topics and demos like TagNScan, which is very cool and I think could have huge impacts on design research. Having particpants tag'n'scanning an enviroment and reporting back and then having a focus group session on the results etc, clever unique motivators into exploring a space, i like i like.

On the Japanese front I've been soaking up a few episodes of Platonic Chain. Er, trying to make sense of it. Its comprised of 22, 15min mini episodes of totally 3D animation. Can't place the rendering tech per say but it's in the realm of lightwave3d or 3dStudio etc. The story covers how the moblie tech world has become increasingly networked and 3 girls using their phones tap into something unusual. Its a bit like Serial Experiments Lain so I'm naturally a bit drawn to it. I think smartmobs folk in general would probably get into it.

Lately I've seen a trend of anime concieved ideas in shows take physical shape into real products in Japan. Its been cool to see what I thought was just a cool visual design idea effect etc in Cowboy Bebop actually take shape into a real product. Everything from mobile tech concepts to displays and branding fixtures its.. very cool stuff. We dream the wildest things for our fiction only to then have it manifest into our reality. Japan is a classic example of this and continues to lead the way I think. Often just stumbling fast foward into the darkness of it all at a blinding pace with no real concerns or thought to real world implications of how these ideas transfer from canvas to physical form. Its amazing to see.

Speaking of anime, the new Macross Zero is a FRICKIN amazing animation. This show is golden, from the 3d animation to the beautiful 2d looks and effects of characters, scenery etc.. incredible stuff.

Some interesting links ive been reading.. Neruocognitive Linguistics, no idea how i found it, but its been a good read so far.

I keep seeing Sam the Cat in the my web travels and I'm convinced I need one.

And i'm curious about reinventing what has clearly become the obession of people everywhere on this planet since it has arrived... Email.