Current Music

Seven Nation Army                     on                    Elephant                       by                  The White Stripes

Bart                                                                         VS                                                The White Stripes

Green Drinks and BAM!

Maarten De Ceullaer's Colour Lights are on the right path, but I really think he needs to take it a little farther.

I'm thinking less clinical containers, beautify it - add flowers.

If your going to just add color to the water. Give it a reason. Dye the flowers, and don't use just one color, separate the inside or add test tubes and have multiple colors.

Current Music

Do Your Thing                                               on The Singles                                             by Basement Jaxx

Lost Music

Pandora, I love you

SteamPunk Robots

stephane halleux

has an amazing collection of SteamPunk robots, I love the inclusion of leather and ragged stitching.

Mike Libby

Has a unique way to include gears and industrial design with beautiful Insects.

MMMMM BEEEER

all credit to "The oatmeal"

Virtual Sculpting

Very Cool Free sculpting program

Whiskey stones

Whiskey Stones
I wonder if they would add an Earthy Taste?

The Cajun Crawler

What do you get when you cross this

Segway






with this

Theo Jansen's walking sculptures






You get

The Cajun Crawler

This was all possibly inspired by this walking table.

Very cool Scupltures, constructs

Theo Jansen has created some magnificent works of walking art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KkGFuRLew&feature=player_embedded

Arcade Video Games

If there was any reason to ever have an iPad this is it right here.

iCade

Why lawyers and sarcasm don't mix

In the famous words of our bestest neighbor
Seriously?, I mean, SERIOUSLY?
CEASE AND DESIST!!!

One Facepalm is not enough,
calling on Double FacePalm

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Man I LOVE Chipotle,
or more correctly called, Chipotle Mexican Grill. I've been a fan since '95 back in Denver. Many of my friends were the architects for the original restaurants, but when you get down to it, I love the Colorado / Mexican style burrito and the ability to have a beer at a fast food restaurant. Zteca was always a big competitor for me as they had a full bar, and we would hit it in the evening.

The servings are huge for the day you are famished, I used to eat half and save the other half for later as it's to much for one meal.

The best is a Chicken Fajita Burrito with black beans, mild salsea, sour cream and cheese.  All for $6.50.






I've never had a bad experience at a Chipotle, until last week, the cashier was in the back for 5 min while we were waiting to pay. Not a deal breaker, but until then, they had a perfect record for me. I left full, but sullen. Never Fear, I had, as always, put my card in the fishbowl, and won a free lunch for myself and 4 friends the next week. I guess the Chipotle gods had a visit from the Karmic Burrito.
I never thought they could improve their burritos, but 5 free burritos for me and select coworkers made me positively giddy!  

Thank you Steve Ells!!

The Duce

The duce is a great place to grab a bite to eaton in downtownPhoenix.
A very eclectic joint that includes among other things; a workout area, stadium seating with a projector showing older cartoons for the kids, alieza full line of clothing with custom embroidery, soda pop bar, and the kitchen is outside in a refurbished airstream trailer.


I am excited to catch the night life, as we can let the kid watch some toons on the big screen and play with friends.

As usual, for a more in depth look go to Jargonatrix

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Photoshop replacement

If anyone has used photoshop, this is a great lite replacement for the expensive product.

It's cloud based, not for the saving of files, but the execution.

pixlr

It has everything you ever need in photoshop, for the average user.

Phoenix art scene

After forcing the family through a furniture design review last weekend, we thought an art visit would fit. A work associate commented on the Roosevelt streetart walk. So we checked it out.

The first gallery we wandered into was perihelion arts and the art was definitely not your southwest turquoise art scene. I recomm

end stopping by and saying hi to Amy.

Upcycle living had a installation of their boxcar houses, which is not for hobo's. The inside

looks great, but the outside leaves a little to be desired.

Right across the street was five15, an artist run collective. Currently Henry Bellavia of manshed studios is showing his new collection.

It is a Dali esque rendition inspired by the current financial fallout. I appreciated the faceless bankers, with their top hats, and indifference to the world. My favorite was several faceless bankers around a desert campfire, in an all jug band. They all had a certain stiffness you would see of a BP CEO trying to show himself as a common man.

Down the street half another block was Eye Lounge

Danielle D'Aleo in the west room provided "We could be dangerous" an on the wall, vinyl stencil that was fun. A bit Aeon Flux and Dr Suess.

In the east room Kristin Bauer was showing her collection "White Noise".

Which at first seemed mildly interesting, faded shades of white stenciled letters and words. But Kristin was on hand to answer questions, and not letting on that she was the artist, explained a few of the works in both rooms.

After discovering she was the artist, and most of the painting were about "interviews" with people where she collected the "background noise of their subconscious" and then placed it on the canvas as such, the works took on a much deeper meaning. Especially one where the words stood out "If you can hit it every time, you can make it!" I still wonder who this cognitive portrait was extracted from.

Through the heat and the driving, not to mention getting the whole family together that morning, we were all ready for food, Amy Young from had told us about a great new local scene, "The Duce" Which is next.