Unconventional Time
It’s been a while since I’ve put together any design-related posts, so I thought now would be as good a time as any to get back into that. Come to think of it, I haven’t done one since the blog re-launch way back in November. Getting on with it, there always seems to be a lot of innovation going on in the areas that are most conventional, especially with clocks.
The Tubular Time clock uses words to describe the time, rather than numbers, and amazingly does so with just a double-A battery. Maybe a comment on society’s tendency to eliminate the smallest of nuisances or delays, in this case, having to spend a few microseconds figuring out how to vocalize, “It’s 8:55.” [via technabob]
Magnetosphere iTunes Visualizer
I touched on Magnetosphere during the last IBM Web 2.0 TIC meeting while discussing Processing, the open-source programming language for artistic apps. They’ve now made it into a really beautiful iTunes visualization, available for Mac and PC. [via NOTCOT]
Mini-review/Summary: AIR and Kate Havnevik
So if I haven’t gushed enough about this to everyone already, here’s my thoughts on last night’s show by AIR and Kate Havnevik at the Kool Haus in Toronto, ripped from my last.fm profile:
I’ll admit I had some reservations going in to this; I’ve always just had AIR’s music playing while I’m doing something else to help me chill out a bit. That didn’t exactly come to mind as the best kind of live performance, but thankfully I was wrong!
Kate Havnevik opened up with six tracks from her debut album, and because I’d never heard of her when I bought tix to see AIR originally, I listened to her stuff a little while before the show and was really impressed! She’s just as good live, if not better. I love the wide variety of instruments she puts into each set. New Day was chilling in many ways, and Kaleidoscope was great too, but I really loved the whole performance.
AIR seemed to bring a whole different crowd along, and after the first few songs people *really* started getting into it. Heard lots of languages I couldn’t specifically identify, but sounded Eastern European, so I’m assuming these guys are AIR’s hardcore fans, they sure jumped around like it
Didn’t quite expect that I guess. Sexy Boy and La Femme d’argent sounded great, as did Once Upon A Time.
I had fun with their stuff, but somehow it felt almost too refined, too well done. They didn’t seem to really get into the music at all with the exception of a few songs. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed the show, but Kate seemed to put more passion into her music than AIR did.
I never used to be big on live shows, but I’m hoping to change that this summer. With any luck, I hope to be able to catch LCD Soundsystem and Feist still this month.
LASIK posts resurrected
I’ve been seeing some hits coming through a post I made on Digg over a year and a half ago about my experience with LASIK that brought over 20,000 unique visitors over here. So I’ve decided to migrate the posts that were lost when I changed domains, you can find them under the LASIK category.
Grindhouse Tunes
I picked up both soundtracks to Grindhouse over the weekend, and I’ve listened to Death Proof more than Planet Terror, mostly because the Smith version of Baby it’s You is damn near a perfect song. They are, however, both magnificent, and highly recommended.
Yes! Tracks by T Rex, and of course, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch also make the cut.
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Adam lives in Toronto, Canada and likes to make cool stuff. He sometimes even gets paid to make things for the Web.
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