Best of my blog - March

A Teachers Last Lecture
Snake Robot
Giant Smoke Ring Cannon
Wonder Years TV show without narration
About the robots that run our country
Geometry of Music
Death Metal Puppy
Polyphonic Pitch/Time correction
History of piracy and why we need it
Migraine Art
Strange Candy Egg Commercial
Astronomy Picture of the Day
David Lee Roth on American Idol
Dark Hurdy Gurdy
Monkey on a mini bike

Borat Baywatch

Marijuana - Threat or Menace? (Documentary)

Scientology (South Park)

Modular Prosthetic Arm (Dean Kamen)

My Art - Adam Glazier

I just added a lot of my artwork to flickr.
Check it out »

Short: Typography Animation

Space Shuttle Roadkill

Amaizing Bike Skills

Elephant Paints Self Portrait

Monkey on a mini bike

motorcycle

Quantum Sleeper (Stupid Invention)

This is one of the most ridiculous inventions. If I had to be trapped in a box, it might help if you could stand up. I can hardly believe this is real and especially how they sell it as protection against stalkers. If I was dumb enough to live in a tornado path, I may think about getting one.

Protection:
- Bullet Proof
- Keeps stalkers and kidnappers out
- Protection from destructive forces of nature such as tornado's, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods.

Options:
- CD player,
- DVD Screen with PC hookup,
- Microwave and Refrigerator
- Cellular Phones
- CB and Short-wave Radios

Don't believe it's real? See for your self and get yours today.
Product Page »

Musical Dinner Table

Every restaurant and home should have one of these. Prices range from $800-2900 and come in various sizes.
Musical Furnishings - Learn More »

A crappy demo of what you could do with a musical table:


Highlights for each instrument in the table:

Video Camera Karate

It's only funny if you watch the whole way through.

Improve your memory

I have been looking into ways to improve my memory. I have to face the fact that it's just not as good as I want it to be. Here are a few tips I have gathered from articles and videos. To save you from having to listen to all the waist I give you the list:

• Don't Multi-task, focus on one thing at a time
• Meditate five minutes or more a day
• Eat less sugar, you get enough from regular meals
• Drink lots of water
• Try new things
• Drink one glass of wine occasionally
• Get a decent amount of sleep
• Don't smoke
• Reduce stress
• Reduce depression
• Talk & Gossip
• Eat lots of fish, the amino acids help the brain
• Avoid eating lots of fish, because of mercury
• Avoid cooking in aluminum pans, because it's known to cause alzheimer's
• Try to remember some things that you normally let other things remember for you.
• Try to engage a crossword puzzle, solitaire type game, or book, etc. for 15 minutes a day.

Slo Mo Slap

Slow motion

Interface Animation

This video is a concept for Microsoft's vision of personal health. That aside, the animations are nice.



IA / UX / Interface / Kisok

Star Wars Stop Motion / Live Action

Tron Stop Motion

Dark Hurdy Gurdy

I want one of these so bad! So old, so folk, so dark, so authentic...I love that sound.

This looks like the Bosch model which was reconstructed from a 15th century painting, since none exist from back then. In the painting it is in hell, the painter thought music was sinful! This model has a diatonic scale.


Artist: Andrey Vinogradov
Album: Russian Hurdy-gurdy Tunes
Buy/download album »

Buy a Hurdy Gurdy:
Gotschy (affordable and well made) »
Olympic Musical Instruments »
Lark In The Morning »

Guy driving a wrecked car down the road

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Rather Good Stuff

Favorites from RatherGoodStuff:
Watch: Hippo Girl »
Watch: Soluble »
Watch: Winners »
Watch: Bannanas »
Watch: I love you pants »

Jelly:

Robot: BigDog Quadraped

The Beta Version:


The Final Version:

Photos: Africa from the Air

See the full collection of photos »

Courtroom Smackdown

What a big fake baby this grown woman is.


Carson City

Fast Robotic arm

Can pickup 150+ things per minute.

Code: The difference between multidimensional vectors

I often forget the formula for finding the difference between two multidimensional vectors. So here it is for you and me in Flash ActionScript :)

//=====================================================
// vector a
ax = 6;
ay = 2;
az = 3;

// vector b
bx = 7;
by = 2;
bz = 4;

// number of axis in each vectors
axis = 3;

// calculate difference between vector a and b
diff = Math.abs(( (ax - bx) + (ay - by) + (az - bz) ) / axis);

// output result
trace( diff );

// trace output: 0.666666666666667

Patriot Act Steels Human Rights

If you make your self a note on a stickie, the government will not read it unless they have damn good reason to break into your house and grab it. It's much different story if you write on a blog, email, or other service.

The only way to keep those darn pests from spying on you is to not use services that they can access virtually.

Google along with many other companies have recently launched several tools that allow users to write papers, create spreadsheets etc. And tech companies refuse to use the services for fear of being snooped.

That's just the tip of the iceberg when you see things like cameras being installed in TV's or computers controlled by your brain. All these new technologies have great potential uses, but if the Patriot Act & out service providers keep caving to the government, theres nothing stopping them from keeping an eye on you.

Things like RFID tags, cameras, brain controlled devices, etc have all been accepted for serious things like keeping your kids safe, protecting against predators, or boosting advertisings accuracy etc. The day we use these devices like kids show their public life on myspace, we're screwed unless these issues get squashed.

I'm not going to adopt this sort of stuff until I know I'm safe from those bastards in the sky that think it's ok to peer into our homes without right. Give me back my privacy.

Near-miss accidents

Literal Navigation

This portfolio site uses literal navigation. For viewing video, it takes you to YouTube or Flickr for pictures all in an iFrame.

Brilliant & Simple idea.

This allows a regular joe to use several different sites like Flickr, YouTube, Fun Blog, Separate Serious Blog, etc. and bind them all together into one page.

You do this by creating a global navigation bar and serving up all your content sites into an iFrame.

Little Wing - Acoustic Tapping

A little foofie and decorative, but inspiring.

Airless Bicycle Tires

I'm sick of getting flats so I decide to try out some airless tires. I purchased the Air Free brand, because I don't wanna mess with glue. We'll see how it goes.

Air Free - As simple as putting on a regular tire
See Products »
Installation »

No Tubes - Requires Glue (lame!)
See Products »
Installation »

Stange Candy Egg Commercial

Melting Chocolate Bunnies

Synthetic sound predictions in 1662

Read the expert from Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" »
[via Gizmodo]

Hello Darth Bunny

[Bunny via Boing Boing]
[Darth via Boing Boing]

Astronomy Picture of the Day

This cool site has been serving up the best images of space since 1995. If your new too the web, 1995 is ancient. Subscribe to the feed or just use the Netvibes widget to get a new picture every day :)

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Some of my favorites:
Sand Dunes Thawing on Mars »
Cat's Eye »
M104 »
Avalanche on Mars »
NGC 4676 »
Moon Slide Slim »
Vela Supernova Remnant »
Star Forming Region »

How to turn a sphere inside out

David Lee Roth on American Idol

[via Riscanto Domingo]

Dean Kamen's Water Distiller (Colbert)

Segway inventor Dean Kamen presented his Vapor Compression Distiller on last night's Colbert Report. The distiller is a chemical-, membrane-, and filter-free water purifier. Kamen claims the box draws pure drinkable water from oceans, poisons—even a 50-gallon drum of urine. He has reportedly worked on the contraption for five years, but early prototypes were pretty ugly. This one looks ready for mass production, and with enough, Kamen says we could "wipe out 50% of human disease." [via Gizmodo]

Steven Colbert Interviewing Dean Kamen:


Bonus Video: Setting water on fire:

Microscope mobile phone attachment

The total cost of the first prototype, built from off-the-shelf components, was $75. The current version provides its own sample illumination from cheap, low-power LEDs. The device comes in two versions: with a magnification of about 5 times, for taking images of moles and rashes, and with a magnification of about 60 times, for capturing the details of blood cells and parasites.



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Electronic performances lack visual feedback

Most laptop or electronic performances these days lack visual connection with the audience. There's usually no way to tell if everything you hear is coming from an mp3 player or being amazingly improvised in front of you. Example: If you hear a bonk sound, you have no idea where it came from or how it was made. Gimmie a fucking break! At that point, I'm only staring at the stage, because I don't want to look at the person next to me and the sound system is siting that way.

Weather it's analyzing dance moves or creating new instruments, the audience could benefit from some visual aids. But the only visuals you can expect from electronic performances are psychedelic DVDs playing on the back wall or VJ performers with custom software. Either way, the visual content is either:
1. Really really cool, timed to the beat and super repetitive.
2. Really low-fi, disconnected from the music and diverse.

I realize how difficult connecting the two is and am by no means ragging on people for trying. I'm merely unsatisfied with the tangible results.

Here are a few articles from CTheory.net that barely touch the subject, but never the less talk a bit about it. It's not a simple problem, so consider this is a good start.

The Microsound Scene - An Interview with Kim Cascone »
Loving the Ghost in the Machine

Hitler's Private Home Movies

Ignite Saltwater

Man ignites saltwater that burns at 3000 degrees Fahrenheit.

A Generic Western Relationship

Migraine Art

See more and read the article [Ny Times] »

Literal depictions of what it may look like through the eyes of a migraine sufferer.

1930s prediction of 2000s clothes

Some of the guesses in this are accurate. Nutty.
View Video »

Wii Cat & Dog Battle

Study: Logos distored reality

Researchers at Duke University subjected participants to subliminal images of the iconic Apple and IBM logos (during what subjects thought was a visual acuity test), and those who were shown the Apple logo generated more creative ideas after the test than did those who were shown the IBM logo. In a second test, subjects exposed to the Disney logo acted more honestly than those who saw an E! Channel logo.
Read the Study PDF »

[via Slashdot]

Awareness Test for Drivers

History of piracy and why we need it

The video starts slow, but accelerates into showing how many of the industries we have now were formed with piracy. It highlights everything from the music industry, fashion, open source software to downloading 3d files of Nike shoes and making your own at home.


Matt Mason's book »

Coffee office prank

Houdini Was the First Person to Fight a Robot on Film

[via Gizmodo »]

Personal Emotional / Physical Monitor

Exmocare's released emotion-monitoring watches before, but this BT2 model seems to be directed at the service industry, meaning that bosses can use these wristbands to monitor their employee's emotional states. The control panel (screenshot after the jump) displays a summary of each person's heart rate, location, body temperature and skin moisture levels reported by an individual's device.

On the other hand, I could see it being extremely useful for people that have physical problems and would like to monitor there state at and make there own assumptions or share the data with their doctor.

Product Page >
[via Gizmodo >]

Data Art: The Sheep Market

Artist Aaron Koblin's phalanx of 10,000 sheep, all drawn by random strangers through Amazon's labor distribution mechanism, The Mechanical Turk. Koblin's goal was to raise questions about the emergence of new labor systems in the information age.

How to fix the web...for real!!!!!

This demonstrates how we the people can take back the web and prevent being soliceted nonsense that we just don't care about. I love the idea. If we all work together, we can make a script for every page on the web. Next we just need a browser where you can adjust settings to your liking and the AI does the rest.

Example: No ads or sports related material? Done in a charm! Okay, maybe that's a few years off, but if we stick together we can make it happen :)

For now, view the video to see step one: Scripts that remove unwanted elements.



Firefox Grease Monkey Plugin »
Firefox Firebug Plugin »
UserScripts.org »
Script - Myspace for unsocial fascist bastards »

Clean Glass Prank

Longest Ear Hair

Japanese Hot Girl Math Formula

The Japanese think they've discovered a mathematical formula to find the hottest chicks ever... find a regular chick on the street, ask her to introduce you to her hottest friend. Then ask this chick to introduce you to HER hottest friend... and so on and so on. They test out the formula in, where else? Italy!

Watch Now »

5,200 year old animation

A 5,200 year old animation on a clay pot was discovered. Watch now »

Polyphonic Pitch/Time Correction

Up until now, pitch correction has been limited to single notes or the entire mix. This opens up so many possibilities.
Celemony - Direct Note Access Melodyne website »

The Adaptive Use Instruments Project

This project introduces software designed to be used in therapy sessions to give children with limited motor skills the opportunity to participate in music, and offer them an outlet for musical expression. The software is still not public, but it looks like it won't be long before it is.
Adaptive Use Instruments site »
Interview with the creator »

My mother has been teaching music therapy for a few years. I told her about some software I was designing and she suggested that it would be great for children with limited movement or disabilities. I really like the idea and hope to find time in the future to work in that direction.

Death Metal Puppy

Dancing Walrus

Michael Jackson

Internet Commenters at a Funneral

Sick roman emperor, El Gabal

A friend sent me an email saying that he has been studying history and came across this nutty emperor. I have to share his thoughts..

"This sick fuck worshiped a black rock and would cart it around town to show it off, he would hold it and walk backwards, also he cut off his junk and had a psycho ritual where he danced around to cymbals and drums playing in front of some of the senators after he did it... in fact, he would prostitute himself, wear loads of makeup and kick out all the other prostitutes so he could get all the business."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

Geometry of Music

I'm a big fan and practitioner of music and visualizing information. Melding of the two camps often creates arbitrary visualizations that remain inherently separate from the music. These arbitrary visual gestures usually focus on the music effecting a minor aspect of the visuals.

Dmitri Tymoczko's implementations are more forms of musical notation than entertaining visualizations. He has combined methods used in quantum physics to map music in different space. Circles, Mobius Strips and Four Dimensions.

These experiments are by no means attempting to visually represent the emotion of music, but the underlying structure and perception of it. The fact that he has three separate systems and an extensive look into what makes music sound good, shows that he's not messing around. He has taken a good whack at the problem and I hope this inspires others to keep looking into it and using these ideas to make sonic visualizations less arbitrary.

I am in search of a similar visualization of music that represents how I personally perceive the interactions of notes through time. To give you a hint: "If a chord is a static melody, then a melody is temporal chord."

Dimitri Tymoczko's Site »
Times article about his musical visualizations »
Slashdot post about it »

Gallery of Unusual Graphic Notation »

About the robots that run our country

The Onion

Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot

Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot
The Onion

Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish For Unlimited Wishes

Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish For Unlimited Wishes
The Onion

Traffic Jams Recreated

Wonder Years TV show without narration

Vocal Accompaniement Software

Microsoft research's project MySong makes musical accompaniment for your singing. It's pretty basic, in that it analyzes your pitch, and plays back the average pitch every quarter measure with a repetition of that chord. The Jazzy and Happy controls, simply change chords that compliment your pitch and alter the type of chord rhythm played.

Interactive History of Religion (Map/Timeline)

Immunity Boosting Powder

The makers of Airborne (a supplement that it boosts the immune system) biomedical engineers are publishing research on a powder that claims to boost TCells 40x. This video explains how the new powder could first be used to help fight cancer.

3 Way Chess

Read more about it at Gizmodo »


Game

Fading Mirror

Sweet fading mirror designed by artist Jean-Marie Massaud for the company GLAS.

Giant Smoke RIng Cannon

Air Vortex

Snake Robot

The modular snake robot is pretty neat. In addition to being able to traverse a wide variety of terrain, the robot can also climb poles, the inside of pipes and conduits, small grooves in walls, and probahttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifbly more. It can also swim. Many robots can do one of those tasks. This one can do them all. That's quite an accomplishment.

Makers site: www.modsnake.com

[via Slashdot]

Don't drink out of hotel glasses :/

The video gets even worse in the second half of the video:

Atheist Life vs. Religious Life

This video by no means applies to all atheist or all religious people, but it is a general message about common lives of both. It's pointing out how religion is very absolute, yet acting absolute in it's delivery. With this in mind, it's easy to still see the beneficial messages in the video.

Textard Saftey Equipment

If the spread of technological culture ever bothered you...or the heavy use of mobile phones, then you will not like this.

England has issued pads be put up on large hard objects due to the high number of accidents occurring from people (Textards) texting on there mobile phones.

Read more at Yahoo! »

A Teachers Last Lecture

Randy Pausch reprising his "Last Lecture" on Oprah

Brass Knuckle Chair

As Gizmodo says, "this chair punches your butt with comfort".



Get yours at FistFire »

Mobile phone macro camera lens

The best $20 bucks I have ever spent. Taking pictures of tiny things rules!


K400 Macro 4x Conversion Lens

The only place I found this lens was on ebay »

Earth murdered by spiral star

It's your lucky day...Scientists found a star that may wipe out earth.

From the article:
"Viewed from Earth, the rotating tail appears to be laid out on the sky in an almost perfect spiral. It could only appear like that if we are looking nearly exactly down on the axis of the binary system," said Tuthill.

This means we are peering down the barrel of the gun, as when binary supernovae go off, all their energy is focussed into a narrow beam of wildly destructive gamma ray radiation that emanates (both up and down) from the poles of the system.

"If such a gamma-ray burst happens, we really do not want Earth to be in the way," he said. "I used to appreciate this spiral just for its beautiful form, but now I can't help a twinge of feeling that it is uncannily like looking down a rifle barrel."
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Crashes, Fumbles, What were they thinking?

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321