Home for Christmas

Home for Christmas, NewSpring’s new series, begins this coming weekend.

Convert youtube videos online

Well that’s downright handy. It takes YouTube clips, extracts them for you, and converts to your preferred file format. Head over to Vixy.net/ to give it a try.

Christmas brainstorm

I saw this piece the other week while out at the Dirt Conference. I’m glad it’s online so you can all share in the joy and laughter.

acoustic

Forget electronics, let’s do something like this.

Diego Stocco – Dissonant Echoes from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

Images that inspired me this week

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edison

dang.

edison – tonka truck from edison on Vimeo.

Outdoor projections

I really dug the outdoor projections at Dirt provided by Visual Worshiper. Take a look here.

hazy morning

Originally uploaded by avclub

Here’s a little shot I snapped the other morning on my walk with Pushbutton. Loving those fall leaves.

R2 on the road

When I travel I like to document my journey along the way and email my family (mainly G, who gets into the cool travel sights). This time, I took along a friend of his to keep me company.

Dirty award winning Ben Coleman

At this year’s Dirt Conference I’m proud to have been in the presence of the Dirty-Award-winning Ben Coleman. Here he is accepting his award, and I’ve linked the winning piece below.

iPhone audio organism

You may “get this,” you may not. You may think it’s just plain weird. But it’s quite interesting. The iPhones process an audio signal input, then react off of one another. Musically valid or not, I appreciate concepts that are way out of the box such as this. Fascinating.

Lego remote loader

As Gardner’s getting older he’s starting to really get into Legos. I’m stoked because, next to GI Joe, this was my favorite of all activities as a young fella. The difference with today’s creative model builders is that they’re much, much more advanced than what we used to build. But somehow I think G can handle it. Here’s an example of a recent creation someone built that’s just downright impressive.

Tweetie 2 developer interview

Here’s a great little interview of Loren Brichter about Tweetie 2, my favorite of all the iPhone apps littering my phone. Specifically, he talks about how he landed upon the decision to reload by pulling to the top of the list. Read it here.

Dirt

I just got in from the Dirt Conference. If you’re from there and would like to start communicating, Twitter is my love language. To make sure I catch you all shoot me a comment here with your @ so I’ll know who to start following.

Looking forward to hearing from you all!

Theme park maps

Here’s something a little fun for a Wednesday, lots and lots of theme park maps (link here.

Dub FX – live beatbox mix

In the utmost of live looping and creativity I really dig this track from Dub FX. (head’s up, it is hip-hop and will probably have some NSFW language). But what mastery of beatboxing, looping, effects, and general musical flow.

Wouldn’t you say this is the epitome of white guy hip-hop?

Roland TB-303 Style Synth

Here’s a nice free Roland TB-303 Style Synth plugin. Sorry, this is only for you Windows users out there. (too bad for me).

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iPhone alarm clock app

I know the iPhone already includes a very robost alarm feature… I’m reminded of that every morning… but this alarm clock app by DreamSurface is a tempting thing of beauty. It’s clean, integrated, pulls in web radio and the weather, and is just beautiful.

Now, I’ll say with my stock alarm plugins, but it does provide a tempting alternative.

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Cool things I’ve found cleaning out the garage

I’m taking a few days off. So far it’s been great. I’m spending my week with my family, mostly with G, as we are cleaning out our garage. It’s been a mess 3 years in the making and begging for some serious organization. That’s something I do well. When it’s complete I hope to have (1) a workout space, (2) easy access to all tool, (3) easy access to all kids’ toys, an (4) a place to park at least one car. Bonus would be a spot to create some strange electronic fabrications which will be discussed in another post.

As I’ve dug I have come across quite a few interesting things. Here are two. First is set of safety glasses I dubbed weezer-specs. I got them on a client visit when I was an engineer. I ended up using them most of my time as and engineer, and seriously considered putting tape around the center for laughs. Second… well let’s say my Crocodile Dundee costume would have been much more effective had I found this earlier.

Air Board Personal Hovercraft

I’m going to have to pass on the Segway and go for something a little more, well, practical. Like this Air Board Personal Hovercraft. Think about it, Segways would just sink to the bottom of a pool. Not this guy.

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