This is our own pig lovingly photoshopped by Psychlura (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26307767@N08/) one of the Artists who has been heavily involved in the King Bladuds Pig Project and the creator of Piguana and Anubis.
This now has pride of place on the Mantelpiece in the Wavey Household (its only about 20cm long)
Monday 25 August 2008
Mr and Mrs Waveys Pig
Thursday 7 August 2008
Thursday 24 July 2008
The Best Thing I've Ever Seen - Number 1
Number 1 in a random series of... um well when I can be bothered really (I'm Pretty Lazy/Busy as you can probably see).
Ok I used to think Blogger Play was really great. This shows random photos/graphics as they are uploaded to Blogger which can be played at various speeds. Some of the photos are obviously personal, some swiped from elsewhere and some graphics. If anything takes your fancy you can click on it and it takes you directly to the blog in question. I believe it was developed as an internal toy for blogger staff to play with.
Go on try it its cool.
However between them Mario Klingemann and Oleg Marakov have created something so awesome that I've officially titled it "The Best Thing I've Ever Seen (until I find the next thing)".
Take Flickr photos that are random, but not completely, as each additional photo shares a tag with the previous one. Do clever flash things so that they fade and warp into each other, as well as other effects such as zooming and scanning. Add a random Ambient soundtrack made up of a series of clever samples that work together to create a never ending song.
What you are left with is an 'Art House' style continuous film which is quite hypnotic in style.
Its called "Islands of Conciousness" and it can be enjoyed by clicking here
Thursday 3 April 2008
Nokia N95 one year on - An assessment (Part 1)
Whilst rifling through my things yesterday, trying desperately to find some misplaced tickets, I stumbled upon my N95 documentation. Much to my surprise I discovered that today, "3rd April", is a year to the day since I first purchased the N95. I remember reading a preview of it in the Gadget Porn magazine Stuff, (it could have been T3), at the tail end of the previous year. Immediately I lusted after it as a replacement for my Sony K750i.
Without signing up to some ridiculous contract, I knew that I wanted one as soon as possible after it came out. I didn't expect it to take quite as long for it to emerge. I knew it would be a special phone, but I didn't quite realise it would change the way I use technology, and how much. The marketing term "Its what computers have become" was more than just marketing.
So looking at its features and how I've used them
Phoning
The obvious one, but it wasn't actually explained how to make a phone call until Page 93 of the manual (something at the time I described in a forum as the N95s hidden feature). I honestly probably make phone calls the least. I don't use VoIP (but don't have many foreign contacts or anything that might make me want to do this). I've never used Video calls and I'm not sure that I can try Push to Talk, nor have I ever heard of anyone doing so. I've made my own ring tones, assigned personal ring tones and played with the 3D settings etc.
Features 10/10 (not sure what else I would want)
Usage 4/10 (Indispensable but not used as much as other things)
Texting
Used a lot. Pretty good but no smileys (surprisingly). Easy to send texts to groups of people as well. A download from Nokia (Conversation) allows texts to be followed as conversations (a bit like a threaded forum). Multimedia Texts are easy as well and photos will be re-sized as needed. I also tried out an animated message application called Yoyap. Fun but most of my mates phones come from another era.
Features 8/10 (wot no smileys)
Usage 6/10 (could do more with Multimedia but I'm too lazy)
I also tried push email (I used emoze but there are others). Brilliant, but battery again is the problem.
I've settled on using more web based email services now, and the Gmail app is excellent, Yahoo Go is OK, and I also tried a Windows Live app. I tend to avoid windows. (so the Windows Live app may be good but only lasted a week).
Funnily enough you can also "just" log on to your web based email sites using the browser, but hey that would be too simple wouldn't it?
Features 7/10 (Headers/Battery)
usage 7/10 (Would beat blackberry to a pulp if the battery lasted)
Part 2 etc coming soon Happy Birthday My Little N95
Thursday 21 February 2008
Jogku (or Run Fat Boy Run)
Phones can get you into trouble.
You know, you fancy a really expensive model for no particular reason, you buy it, and then you feel compelled to find a reason to have it.
That's how I found all these blogs
...and that's how you find all these forums
...and that's how you find and try all these amazing free applications
...and thats how I found myself weighing myself and going for a run for the first time in 20+ years.
Firstly over at Nokia Geek Matt was trying an application called Nokia Sports Tracker and came up with the idea that he should undertake Geek Fitness in order to get fit. Willpower being the equivalent of the Nokia N95s battery (short lived) it didn't last very long.
Then over at Symbian Guru Ricky, in view of his impending nuptials, announced Geek Vs Guru thinking that the two of them would spur each other on. It was working, but due to other circumstances Matt is currently unable to partake. Therefore Ricky has opened up the offer to others.
I also have Nokia Sports Tracker (out of curiosity) but thought it was brilliant. Just needed something to use it for. I also have a brilliant little application on the phone, and use via the PC, called Jaiku. This is a brilliant microblogging application (a bit like Twitter) where MunkiMatt and Ricky just happen to hang out. Several guys were talking about also joining Ricky and Matt and thats how Jogku happened.
So I'm in, have taken my first, albeit short, run and it half killed me. Still there should be more to come, if others take up the challenge (come on you know who you are). They should get better and this fattish, nearly 40 year old will either prosper, die or more likely give up.
The Weigh In
This is the bit I hated most
The First Jogku
Click here to see the Route on Sports Tracker
Visions of the future?
This is what I really am
This is what I aspire to
Saturday 2 February 2008
There is a real buzz about this latest Symbian Application
*Warning adult themes*
Well when I said my phone can do 95 things, I never expected this...
..... Hello Kitty indeed.
Oh dear god what will they come up with next.
Sunday 6 January 2008
Poll of Polls - Top Albums 2007 Nos 80 - 61
Part 2 of the top 100 albums of the year Poll of Polls compiled from 19 different sources
Part 3 coming soon
On the Twelfth day of Christmas.......
A graffiti artist gave to me, some Christmas accessorised stencilled graffiti.
Poll of Polls - Top Albums 2007 Nos 100 to 81
Recently to satisfy my idle curiosity I conducted a poll of polls for the top Albums of 2007. I looked across 19 different publications both UK and US, including Music Magazines, websites and newspapers. They are listed in the technorati tags below.
I looked only at the top 30 albums from each site, if there were more they were ignored, if less I started them at a higher number of points to give a closer weighting to critics top choices from each publication.
There were 201 different albums in total. I've only got time to give justice to the top hundered. The lowest scored 16 points out of a possible 570. The highest scored 354. Therefore at the lower end of the 100 you find some strange choices, but they may have come from a particular specialist publication such as Mixmag or Kerrang, but remember they would have come in the top 15 of that publication and might be worth a quick listen.
For those that are interested, scraping in at 101 (with votes from more than one publication), was Britney Spears
Without further ado I present the countdown from 100.
| No# | Artist | Album |
| 100 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Some Loud Thunder |
| 99 | Laub | Deinetwegan |
| 98 | Interpol | Our Love to Admire |
| 97 | Field Music | Tones of Town |
| 96 | Every Time I Die | The Big Dirty |
| 95 | Common | Finding Forever |
| 94 | Calle 13 | Residente O Visitante |
| 93 | Andrew Bird | Armchair Apocrypha |
| 92 | Aesop Rock | None Shall Pass |
| 91 | Strategy | Future Rock |
| 90 | Plan B | Paint It Blacker |
| 89 | Gogol Bordello | Super Taranta |
| 88 | The Hives | The Black and White Album |
| 87 | Oner Ozer | Kashmir |
| 86 | Maps | We Can Create |
| 85 | Machine Head | The Blackening |
| 84 | Kaiser Chiefs | Yours Truly, Angry Mob |
| 83 | The Dream | LoveHate |
| 82 | Prince | Planet Earth |
| 81 | Paul McCartney | Memory Almost Full |
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