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Thri-Polar Audiblized
Charlie Sheen might have declared “I’m not bipolar, I’m bi Winning” but I have come to the conclusion that I’m thri-polar and will proceed to demonstrate this audibly using my favorite song as a control. For the last several years that song is Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. They aren’t my favorite band and it’s not my favorite album, or even the genre of music I listen to the most. But down to the pure beauty of the song, the meaning of the lyrics, and because of that x-factor of whatever was going through my mind when I…
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Helmet baby
When Jackson was a baby he had plagiocephaly, which is the medical term for flat head. It wasn’t obvious to the naked eye at first, but about 6 weeks in it started to develop, and about four months into his sweet little life you couldn’t miss it, even though it was a fairly mild case. You can read all the scientific hows and whys here…, in his case it seems that it initially developed due to his fetal position in the womb combined with a soft skull.
His pediatrician said that it was purely cosmetic and advised against any -
Violent Torpedo of Detroit
I was excited to be at the opening night of Charlie Sheen’s “Violent Torpedo of Truth Defeat is Not an Option Tour 2011″. The whole thing turned out to be a bizarre mess and in the end, even though it wasn’t an option Detroit made it one, and unfortunately he was defeated by this city. I don’t know if Detroiters felt like he had challenged them, this city hustles harder than any other and we never back down from a fight. For some reason the crowd was antsy from the off and looking to destroy the show, the boos came…
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Music within music
I’ve been hearing whispers about this around the web for a few weeks now and finally had a listen. It’s really just freaking amazing. They’ve taken the Jurassic Park movie theme song, which is pretty great to begin with, and slowed it down 1000%. What we’re left with is almost an hours worth of something eerily cosmic. This shit is just blowing my fucking mind right now. It’s probably a case of me being in the exact right mood for this kinda thing, but the sensation it’s giving me is that whilst I’m just a humble gathering of atoms on…
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Sid did it his way
Call me a twisted freak but there’s something I’ve always respected about the idea of a skag-head, who ends up killing his girlfriend before dying of an overdose, singing “I did it my way”. Put your headphones on, crank up the volume, and hit play. The whole thing’s just perfect, not just what it is, but also the idea of what it is. From around 27 seconds in when he grabs the mike so hard he ends up smacking himself in his own face, then into the raw power his whole being exudes as he bellows out the tale of…
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Evil Beaver
A while back I posted about a TV commercial… that had plagued my mind with wonder since I was young. I’ve pondered exploring the moral implications of what we are doing to ourselves, to our kids, by targeting them with bizarre surreal TV spots just to get a cheap rise out of them and make a quick buck. I’m sure there have been many qualified over-opinionated psychologists that have written book after book on the subject and I daren’t bother to compete with them. I wasn’t sure of what side of the fence I sat on with the argument but
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The creative age paradigm
Earlier in the year we were looking at designers to bring in on our project. We really wanted to push the envelope on what was possible within the digital space, take it somewhere new even. We looked at a lot of portfolios and talked to a bunch of different professionals. And the process reminded me a lot about last year when I was looking for developers for a similarly cutting edge project. And to be honest what I found is that the more experience a person has the more closed-minded they are. Then it sort of hit me:
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Introducing Pixels From The Edge Version 3.0
I’m proud to say my blog finally grew up! It’s gone from an ugly duckling to a swan (or was it a swan the whole time? I forget how that story goes).
Version 1.0…
This humble blog started one random February afternoon just over two years ago after I’d spent a great deal of time digging up the solution for what I believed to be a common problem. When I finally figured out the answer I felt that it was so simple and so important that I wanted to do the next developers that came along a favor and leave -
a Dog & Panther show
I’d like to introduce you to a band I recently discovered that has been giving me no end of pleasure these last few weeks. Whether I’m driving home from work down Woodward Avenue, am on a transatlantic flight halfway across the ocean in the dead of night, or strolling down Brick Lane soaking up the inspiring creative atmosphere in the East End of London, I can’t but help turn to the magic of their music. Loving every moment of their perfectly composed sound-waves seeping out my headphones, through my ears and into my brain, before eventually piercing the very essence…