They were $30 each, which is a small price to pay for the amusement of creeping out everyone that comes into (or lives in) my house.
August 22, 2007
Say hello to my little friends
In my quest to perfect my understanding of the human form, I've picked up some mannequin heads so that I can practice drawing the head from every angle without having to use a live model.
They were $30 each, which is a small price to pay for the amusement of creeping out everyone that comes into (or lives in) my house.
They were $30 each, which is a small price to pay for the amusement of creeping out everyone that comes into (or lives in) my house.
August 16, 2007
The iPhone
Most anyone who knows me well knows I'm not big on personal luxury. Yes, I still drive my 17 year old Camry with 185,000 miles. No, I don't own an HDTV with Blu-Ray. Yes, those are the Nikes my dad bought me in 1994. And until this morning, my cell phone was pretty much the ugliest, most bare-bones piece of equipment that money could buy... Oh wait, I didn't buy it. AT&T gave it to me for free because my old phone was so old that they didn't make replacement batteries for it any more, and miraculously it was still under warranty.
Despite my spending habits, once in awhile, something comes along that screams "this is the future" so clearly that I feel obligated to have one just to keep up with human social evolution. The VCR started that when I was just a few years old. Then the Nintendo Entertainment system. Then the PC. Then the internet. And now, the iphone.
Despite the fact that part of my thinks that kharma mandates that anyone with a $600 electronic device in their pocket will get pushed into a swimming pool, I really do feel like the iPhone and devices like it are the future of computers and communication.
Much like when the internet originally became mainstream, the iPhone manages to make the world feel a whole lot bigger and a whole lot smaller all at once. I can look at a map of any street in the US while sitting at a restaurant. Or I can watch the Beatles perform "Hey Jude" while my friend drives us to lunch. Or I can email my distributors while waiting in line for a movie.
It's amazing, it's beautiful, it's high tech, and it's expensive. And of course, it's also a phone.
Despite my spending habits, once in awhile, something comes along that screams "this is the future" so clearly that I feel obligated to have one just to keep up with human social evolution. The VCR started that when I was just a few years old. Then the Nintendo Entertainment system. Then the PC. Then the internet. And now, the iphone.
Despite the fact that part of my thinks that kharma mandates that anyone with a $600 electronic device in their pocket will get pushed into a swimming pool, I really do feel like the iPhone and devices like it are the future of computers and communication.
Much like when the internet originally became mainstream, the iPhone manages to make the world feel a whole lot bigger and a whole lot smaller all at once. I can look at a map of any street in the US while sitting at a restaurant. Or I can watch the Beatles perform "Hey Jude" while my friend drives us to lunch. Or I can email my distributors while waiting in line for a movie.
It's amazing, it's beautiful, it's high tech, and it's expensive. And of course, it's also a phone.
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