Saturday, August 9, 2008

See you next Tuesday Chris.


It happened!

I got in last night and was just watching a bit of Quizcall before bed and there it was.

'I'll take a call in the next 30 seconds' Chris says.

'18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11..................'

Phone rings.

'Hello, who's this?'

'Steve'

'Hello Steve, what's your guess?'

'You're a c*&t'

'Owwwwwwwwwwww' Chris lets out a little wince, then apologises and moves on.

What a pro.

What a night.

What a game!

Friday, August 8, 2008

The beauty of Life and death.


This is a wonderful piece of work, even if it was from last year.

Jonathan Harris spent 9 days with Inupiat Eskimos in Alaska hunting whales so that the village could eat.

They travelled thousands and thousands of miles across the Arctic trying to find the beasts and thus trying to find food for the Eskimos.

This site documents his photos, but the best thing is that he had a heart rate monitor attached so you can browse the photos based on the speed his heart was going when he took the shots. Amazing, as it truly portrays the many feelings experienced on a hunt.

Its a wonderful site, and even better is it is all about life itself.

Jesus rocks!

Is this, or is this not one of the best things in the world?

Religion is brilliant!!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Small is brilliant!

Check this out!


Shanghai in 2020.

My, how it has shrunk.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Best clock in the world.

Imagine wearing this on your wrist.

Very good indeed, just very good.

Make your own Gondry video.

I was on the train he other day. Infact, I was on one of them Virgin trains that banks when it goes around corners. It was amazing! It feels like you are in a Snow Speeder and you are racing toward the AT-AT's.

Anyway, I was looking out the window and thinking of the Michel Gondry video that he did for the Chemical Brothers.

If you know the video I am talking about you will know that the train track works like a timeline for a music track, in that whenever you see something appear on the right, it coincides with a beat or sound.

Now, watch this clip I shot...

...and put on some music. Perhaps a bit of trance, maybe some house, even some pop. Anything with a beat seems to work. Don't forget to turn the sound down on this clip.

There, you now have your very own Gondry video.

I don’t think the Gondry one is computer generated after all, I think he just found a piece of track with lots of things at the side of the track, and left the rest to the viewers imagination.

I’m done, off I go.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Speed of a pooma, pooma, pooma.


I had a nice little thought for an apllication that sits on your phone and tells you how fast your text messages are travelling.

It simply plots where you are on the planet, then also plots the location of the person you are sending a message too.

It then tells you the speed at which that text moved.

For example, if you had a friend in Australia, and you sent them a text, it would probably travel at something like 7,604,640 mph. That's if you consider Sydney is about 10,562 miles away and it would probably take 5 seconds to get there.

Should you be a bit more local, say across town, a message would travel at roughly 720 miles an hour.

If you were in the same pub, you are probably slowing down to about 2 miles per hour.

You could then have world records, leagues, it would be super.

If you want this idea you will have to fight me for it.