Craig Ferguson has done a voice in the upcoming new Dreamworks film, How To Train Your Dragon. Also, he’s announced that despite his aversion in the past, he’s joined Twitter. I was about his 600th follower, and over the next 30 minutes I watched it grow to over 5800.
He’s promised that once he gets enough followers, he’s going to lead us to a hollowed-out volcano. I guess I won’t be needing college after all…
Now that it’s back on the air for another season, Greg and I are committing to hanging every Thursday night to watch Important Things with Demetri Martin. This week’s important thing was Attention — how to hold it, how to get rid of it if you don’t want it, and much more.
What may you have missed? Check out the video above.
Graphic Designer Stefan Sagmeister has partnered with HP to bring to life what has come to be known as the Darwin Chair — A chair that is a huge pad of paper, filled with various designs, that you can rip off at will to suit your mood or office. The designs are evidently all glimpses of work he’s done over his incredible 30 year career in design.
This week, I teach you everything you need to know about vinyl in these modern times. EVERYTHING. You’re welcome, before you ask, just check it out on page 9 at: http://bit.ly/92R0oH.
Our workshop in Photography this week was to experiment with lighting; here are a couple of photos I took of Andrew. He and I shot each other for quite some time yesterday evening, playing with various lighting equipment in the lab — and at one point using an old projector in an empty classroom as our only source of light.
Are we not innovative? WE ARE DEVO. Or wait, no.
Checked out my bit.ly statistics on a whim, and for a nobody I admit I’m a little impressed; I started the account with bit.ly to provide link shortcuts to my columns with the student paper at Fanshawe College, and I think it’s very cool to see it laid out.
So far in 2010, I’ve had 95 clicks to my various links… a number not terribly impressive, but the breakdown is very, very cool: Canada, 42 clicks; United States, 24 clicks; Other, 20 clicks; Republic of Korea, 6 clicks; Turkey, 2 clicks; and Taiwan, 1 click.
I write about random things a lot. I write a lot about random things. Worldwide.
My latest column in Interrobang, Fanshawe’s student voice newspaper, talks about one of the benefits of playing a musical instrument. Which one? Read to find out, page 9: http://bit.ly/9ycDoz.
Saw this great video in Communications the other day, I like the perspective provided on the concept of intangible value and how to actually improve user experiences. Very amusing while informing.
The result of a quick workshop in photography class, manipulating the shutter speed on a camera while shooting the same subject in action. Enter my friend Levon Cross and his circus-like jumping abilities, and voila! Workshop ovah.
Happy Robbie Burns Day, everyone. I wonder if his friends ever made him three birthday cakes?? Hmm.
