My friends from 702sportbikes hauled my bike down to Santa Monica today so we could ride in the area. I’ve got a few more pictures on Flickr… and some poor video of Paul doing a carnival game in full race leathers. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve moved from Las Vegas to Santa Monica. I’ll let you know more when I can. I hope you enjoy my first test with Flickr Video embedded above. I used this trick to do the speed up. The music is Daedelus - Hrs:Mins:Secs.
Paul Robertson, the genius who brought you Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Streetfight 2006 (which is also my favorite t-shirt), has just released his latest film. Kings of Power 4 Billion % makes even less sense, but is just as fun as the first film. There aren’t any mirrors up yet, so ping me if you’d like to use mine.
I’ll be in Nebraska through March 23rd. Let me know if you want to meet up.
Nothing like a “I’m headed to SXSW” post to shake the rust off of a stagnant blog. I’ll be in Austin for 6 days with various awesome crews: Propeller, Blogsmith, Weblogs, and Team Black plus an assortment of nerd assholes. Then I’ll be in Nebraska for 10 days visiting my family and hopefully seeing old friends coming in from Portland and Germany. My photos will be uploading automatically to Flickr (with GPS tags). You can also follow me, sweetums, on twitter. Thanks to Twibble those can have GPS coordinates too.
SitesCollide - Hack-A-Day - Eliot Phillips
I think my interview about Hack-A-Day went really well and I suggest you have a listen if you’ve ever wondered what we’re all about. (Yes, “I’m feeling lucky” for the word hack has been bumped by Wikipedia yet again)
UPDATE: Link fixed.
I was a bit heart broken because my HMD dreams didn’t work out, but I thought of something else to do with my goggles: build a sound and light machine. I already had an extra MiniPOV3 kit so it wasn’t too much trouble to put together. I’ve got photos from the assembly on Flickr. I decided to take a modular approach. The two wire pairs were salvaged from an old computer a while ago. They worked out really well since the connectors on one end of the wires easily hold the LEDs without soldering.
Still wondering what it does? It does some sort of electro-hippie entrainment crap that forces your brain into certain brain wave states. I guess you can use it for relaxation, meditation, etc. All I know is you put the goggles on and your brain starts showing you light patterns that aren’t actually there. It’s a neat trick.
A couple months ago a post circulated about how you could get a cheap head mounted display (HMD) from Wild Planet’s Spycar toy. It was an RC car with a video transmitter. Replacement headsets for the toy could be purchased for $25 and that would get you a 300×225 monochrome display. It has a stereo minijack for a composite video signal and power. Bre gave me one of these and a pair of welding goggles. I tried to stuff the HMD inside the goggles, but it didn’t work out… Nevertheless, i did learn exactly how tiny this gear is. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s my first test of Seesmic. I signed up after they announced a client for the N95… but it hasn’t been released yet. I guess some stoners cared enough to reply to me.
I’ve yet to really get into the MacHeist bundle I purchased. I was investigating Pixelmator when I found a pretty good overview video from ScreenCastsOnline. I looked around and found a few more covering the software in the bundle:
Eliot Phillips claims to hate people and writing, but somehow succeeds with both. You can catch him as Lead Blogger on the hardware hacking empire: Hack-A-Day.
