While I’m satisfied with the cheap wood laminate flooring that I inherited when I bought my home, I’ve been waiting for the time when I’ve got the extra change needed to get some real hardwood floors installed. And being, a tree-hugging liberal, the first thing that came to mind was, of course, bamboo.
Sure, bamboo, unlike [...]
Filed under: business, design, environment, living on June 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Either that, or I’m just on to something here. A year and a half ago, I decided to paint my living room green—not just any green, mind you, but a green color-matched to the green used in all Xbox branding, packaging, logos, etc. Let’s call it Xbox Green.
Then, a few months back, I came across [...]
Filed under: design, living on June 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Filed under: photography on June 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
While driving home one night, I encountered a lot of road construction, and noticed that the various flashing lights were vaguely in sync with the beat of the music. Music: “Beat Connection” by LCD Soundsystem.
Filed under: advertising, music, video on June 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m limited in my video capabilities by the fact that I don’t have an actual video camera, so I have to rely on the video function on my still camera. So, I started shooting some short clips of scenery and adding clips of music and ended up with “blips”.
After creating a few of them, I [...]
Filed under: artwork on June 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
Some Waves, originally uploaded by ASurroca.
This one has a simple story. I was working on putting up some new product for my job, and really dug the purple/green color scheme of this bike seat.
This one’s got tons of the screen door effect and pretty much requires viewing at full size to appreciate.
Filed under: artwork on June 10th, 2008 | No Comments »
You might (or not) remember Chevrolet’s concept car from a few years back, the Nomad. It never made it to production, but a similar car might thanks to Murat Günak, former design boss of the Volkswagen Group.
Günak co-founded a new auto company, Mindset and made the Six50, whose purpose is to buck the trend toward [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, business, design, technology on June 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, at this year’s WWDC, the Apple folks announced that .Mac is being replaced with a new service called Mobile Me. They’re still charging $99 a year for 20 GB storage, push e-mail, and and over-the-air syncing between iPhone and Mac or (gasp) Windows PCs…you know, mostly the stuff that Windows Mobile and BlackBerry [...]
Filed under: advertising, business, technology on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
Moody, originally uploaded by ASurroca.
I finally managed to take a shot that belies the humble point-and-shoot camera I used. Texture, lighting, colors, all worked. I had to keep steady as a sniper and not even breath to get this. Sheesh.
Filed under: photography on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
What began more than a decade ago with Florida’s landmark $11.3 billion tobacco settlement and subsequent (and successful) TRUTH anti-smoking campaign has become the Tobacco-Free Florida initiative.
Like the nation-wide spin-off of Florida’s TRUTH campaign, TheTruth, this new initiative is all about targeting teens, and therefore all about keeping up to date with social networking. [...]
Filed under: advertising, politics, technology on June 8th, 2008 | No Comments »