Thru Boing Boing I found this really cool Flash animation of a drawing, you can find it here. Once it loads up you can watch the drawing of a figure, beginning from the skeleton and develop into a fleshed out person. way cool. Makes me want to practice my drawing.
Category Archives: Bit of the ordinary
Something from everyday goings on.
Painful on the ears, or Playing Music Pt1
Now my family is not known for thier musical prowess. in fact, one might say the opposite. One thing I always joked about with Ann was my future rock star career. Well, last Christmas she bought me a guitar, and I was very excited. However I never really got around to playing it. So for my recent birthday she got me lessons. Which as it turns out is exactly what I needed to get me to practice and play.
Now, my family is thinking, “what Owen playing guitar!” You see, in the Collins family mythology there are some events that get repeated endlessly at family gatherings and holidays. Usually first in line is my brother Jon’s complaining about seeing every Gothic Cathedral ever made during a trip to France. A couple of steps below that is little Owen playing the violin in the 5th grade. “And Owen’s bow would go down when everyone else’s was up…..”
So since then my musical abilities have been limited to whistling and singing along to the radio. But now I have jumped back in the music arena with the guitar. I’ll keep you updated with my progress.
Mac mini Subway art
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has posted about agroup of artists in berlin that use a Mac mini and a digital projector to create a portable video installation on a moving subway train. The coolest thing I have seen in a while.
Crowes in Concert
I went to a Black Crowes concert last Saturday.
It was interesting on many different levels. First, it was the first concert Ann and I ever went to together. What was quite odd was that the concert was on Campus. Now here I am at a little college in Virginia, and who does the Student activities Board get? The Black Crowes. It shows the insane amounts of money that they have here.
So as a result Ann and I went to a concert where we were the older than the majority of the audience. Picture it, the band on stage, Chris Robinson wearing a shirt that says: “Long hair don’t cost a thing” While the crowd is wearing polo shirts with the collars turned up, text messaging on their phones. And who calls people while you’re at a concert? The last concert I went to no one had their cell phones (they did exist however big they were).
But overall, it was a lot of fun, even if the sound wasn’t that good. But what can you expect for a space that was pretty much a big garage.
Quite a garage band for $20.