I’ve had a great weekend with friends, a party with lots of happy people, some Fringe stuff, a flying monkey and for tonight’s finale a meal and Paprika Balkanicus. Life is good – thank you everyone!
August 20, 2007
Weekend of fun
Song of the day #6
Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey
There are loads of music videos for this song as Jonathan Coulton had a competition for his listeners/fans to make their own ones. The Warcraft based one is pretty sweet but I just like the effort that this guy has gone to with the lip syncing. (If you like the second video then you should probably check out the clip of the Simpsons in World of Warcraft – the ending is a bit weird but I love the idea of Grog Lite – not enough bars sell Grog Lite).
August 17, 2007
LEGO Indiana Jones!
Hot on the heels of their success with the Lego Star Wars games LucasArts.com have announced that they are going to make LEGO Indiana Jones! Check out the trailer. It’s going to be great!
August 16, 2007
August 15, 2007
Graphic tutorials and tools
I sometimes do stuff with images for the Clanen website etc. The following are just some random tutorials and tools that I came across that are all useful or fun:
- Creating Web 2.0 Graphics In Gimp: buttons, badges, reflections & shadows.
- Your image in a museum
- Beard maker
- Web 2.0 Jaggy Header
- ʇxÇʇ uÊop Çpısdn
Cool home decorating ideas
Surrealien.de make funky custom wallpaper. Trippy!
David Graas makes cool slot together cardboard furniture. Kidsafe!- Heat reactive shower tiles. Sexy!
- Carpet sample chair. Comfy!
- Click for art have some great bits of art that they print on the material of your choice and to the size that you want. Handy!
- Or you could create your own abstract art using your tv. Memorizing!
- If you feel like making something then you could try to make a Lego salt and pepper shaker. Sprinkly!
Buddha
A cool and also quite random image from one of the travel sites I was looking at today. It made me smile because it was looks out of place against the rest of the slick looking site.
Song of the day #3
The Killers – Everything Will Be Alright
I love the “no copyright infringement intended” comment after almost 6 minutes of stealing clips from the Harry Potter films! This is such a great song in a slightly shivery kind of way.
On a Harry Potter note… having finished the last book (and been happy that the story has been all wrapped up and that the last two films will probably kick ass) I am glad to hear that JK (not Jay Kay) has promised more from the land of wizards. She mentioned in an interview that there will be at least one more book with short stories and backgrounds to characters and wizarding families. More information here.
Invisible art in Edinburgh
The AI department at Edinburgh University and the Edinburgh College of Art have a combined project involving mobile phones, image recognition, an element of gaming/geocaching and some pretty cool looking invisible graffiti. The project website tells of a project that sounds like lots of fun in the way that they are mixing it all together and I feel is really motivated by a deep down want to graffiti on a big scale!
Click here for more info…
In a similar way the Murmur project brings gives an audio tour of Leith either online or at these locations. When you follow the map you will find a green ear sign attached to the lamppost with a local phone number – call it up to hear a location specific historical fact. Both projects are adding something extra to Edinburgh without being invasive; making great use of existing mobile phones features without needing them to do loads of processing. I think that the idea of Murmur could be put to great use across the wider city as a kind of giant tour guide that would be able to give a personalised tour of the city without time or route constrains.