Adidas seems to be going strong in the cool video department lately. Perhaps they have a marketing department that believes in the strength of ‘viral’ videos. Well, whatever. It works. Slow motion 3D exploding soccer players set to Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata.’ Who could ask for more.
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Nicholas Galanin has some crazy art that involves cutting paper to the countours of a 3D object and then assembling and binding them as a book whose edges have a sculptural form. Very cool.
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Me and some buddies are thinking of entering the Power Tool Drag Races that are coming to SF again this year. The basic idea is you take a powertool, and convert it into a mini top-fuel drag racer monster. I saw this on tee-vee last year and it’d be such a kick to be able to enter. I’ll just have to be careful not to get an appendage sawed off in the fabrication and testing process!
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Along with the white earbuds, IMHO iTunes is by far one of the most annoying products Apple has produced. I prefer not to use iTunes for listening to music on my iMac, but I’m forced to adhere to the iTunes structure for my iPod. I put new club tracks in a playlist on my iPod and check them out when I’m out and about. I rate the tracks as I listen. So then comes the pain of trying to sort my MP3 files into folders by genre and rating so that I can easily build DJ sets in Traktor. Without bowing to Apple’s imposed structure and syncing my pod to itunes, I have a jolly old time using iPodRip, then an applescript to get the actual files organized. It’s a mess. And that’s just one of the things that annoys the crap outta me with iTunes.
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I got a chance to try out the Canon EOS 20D recently. While great overall, I had a serious issue with OS X support. This was my first time messing around with a high-end digital camera, but my familiarity with the 35mm Canons made it pretty easy to play around with. I was quite impressed by the simple menu system and the simplicity of operation compared to many snapshot digital cameras. The camera was able to take very rapid successive shots which was excellent for bracketing - I had a high-speed write CF card which may have helped a bit. The camera has very little noise, even at 1600 ISO. The only feature I missed vs. 35mm was the ability to do multiple exposures. Though admittedly I don’t use that much. So - to the irritating part. Canon’s support for OS X really sucks. I keep my computer updated with the latest OS version, and apparently that seems to break Canon’s software. This is near unforgivable given that there are so many Apple users these days. I ended up having to pull the CF card and using a card reader. Canon really should get some proper OS X coders working for them - you can tell from their program installers that they are really stuck in Windoze mode. Other than the software issue, great camera.
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