Tilt-Shift!

I really enjoy things that challenge our perception of scale... We are very tiny, and we are also huge. It depends on your perspective. Like the Doozers of Fraggle Rock... Or that solar system thing in my last post... Or this video of New York City using the tilt-shift technique for making everything look really, really tiny...

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

I just wasted an hour!

I find most of my interesting links through neatorama.com or geekologie.com

Today, neatorama presented me with this nifty little appllication to explore planetary orbits...

It made me rethink the orbit of our moon. I think of the moon as traveling in circles around the Earth... But this application made it clear that, much like a spirograph, the moon travels in a squiggly orbit... FUN!

Tinker with mass, direction, and velocity and see how long your solar system can survive!

http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system_en.html

Welcome to Procrasti-Nation! (The Video)

I did not make this video. This video was not made for me.

However, I think this shall be the official video of my blog...

...if not, of my life.

Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

I took Bleep-it out for a spin the other day...

Every Saturday at noon, I meet up with a bunch of circuit benders in a bar and we exchange ideas and take apart toys and solder things. We've recently gained the ability to record video as well as audio of any impromptu 'open mic' performances that may occur.

The video below was taken on 02/13/2010... It shows me tinkering with my new toy for the first time, some minor fine-tuning by Michael Una, and at some point I even stop to help secure the camera with a piece of wire. Eventually Jason Drexler, aka Drexltron, plugs his new device into the audio board and begins a sonic siege on the tiny town which I made as an LED accessory for my Bleep-it...

The video ends when the music starts to get interesting, but that's when the higher quality audio recording begins...

City Under Siege

Bleep-it modification.

Today I added a 9-pin connector to my Bleep-it device. This connector allows me to quickly and easily swap out accessories to be controlled by the Bleep-it...

Bleep-It!

I have finally received my Bleep-It device, designed and built by Michael Una. He's much better than I am at explaining the technical aspects of his sound-generating sequencing device, but I commissioned the device to have outputs to power LEDs on interchangeable external devices that will be built by myself. Shown in this video is the first LED mini-city that I completed as well as the device itself, inside-and-out.

Flash-back

While scouring my hard drive, I found an old video I had filmed to demonstrate the modifications I made to the tail lights of my 1986 Buick Skyhawk purchased from my grandmother.

I had to convert the center bulb on each side to a dual-filament bulb so it would light up with the brake lights. Then I added the circuitry which was purchased over the internet and painted elements of the bezel to give a striped, black-out effect. It was a fun car, and it was clean, but it was so under-powered.

Please pardon the old-school fonts and fades in my video... lol

Unhappy Hipsters make me smile...

I found a website that has been putting a smile on my face recently...
It's called Unhappy Hipsters.
They take photos from Dwell magazine, (a magazine about pretentious living), and add captions to the photos that put the image into real-world context...
Enjoy!

Organic Art via Google Maps

I was exploring Taos, NM in Google Maps satellite view today when I realized how close it was to the Colorado border. When I scrolled up past the border I saw this strange, circular-pixelated area... Zoom in, zoom out, and explore!

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Thoughts on Technology...

I never realized how much I have in common with Patrick Stewart...

We have very similar opinions on Twitter... iPhones... Phone conversations...

Writing letters... Information retrieval via the internet... 

...and his reason for avoiding video games. 

This is also partially the same reason I avoid television. Except for The Joy of Painting.

Back to life... Back to geometry...

Why not start things off with a link to information about the Noösphere?

Hi.

Welcome! I have been feeling like I'm posting too many things to my Facebook wall,

so I finally started a blog...

My own personal little soapbox...

But I'll probably just share interesting links that I come across

and other things that I find to make me happy.

Enjoy!