Apparently, broken skateboards are good for more than just fire wood. Shwood Eyewear has made a business out of broken skateboard decks, by taking old boards and turning them into shades.
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Sunset

A simple change in perspective, a big change in perception.

Summer is here, relax.

Ahhh, summer is here and it’s time to relax and enjoy the longer, warmer and generally more awesome days. The above image was take on the 4th of July, it reminded me that kids do a great job of enjoy every last drop of their summer. Us adults could learn a little something from their approach.

Lytro is one of the cooler technologies to come out of photography in a long time. With the self-explanatory slogan “Shoot now, focus later” Lytro seems to bring something very new to digital photography. Although the focus now is on depth of field and focus, I would imagine in the future that the repertoire of this technology is only limited by the creativity of those producing the post production software.

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

- Ghandhi

Very interesting video created for a good cause.

Water ink _ BDDP Unlimited and Solidarités International – UK from BDDP Unlimited on Vimeo.

Last week I discovered the above Sound Matrix courtesy of Tumblr. After getting lost in the interface for a few minutes I decided it would be worth sharing. I always enjoy blank canvas interfaces that force discovery and interaction. Who needs instructions anyway?

Pinterest.com/firsten

Cataloging and storing your ideas and inspiration is not a simple task in the virtual world. Over the past year I have adopted two services in my personal and professional life to help keep it all together.

Pinterest.com – This service essentially allows it’s users to bookmark, annotate and organize interesting images discovered on the web. This has become a great tool for everything from recipe’s of interest for my wife to color palette and wish-lists for myself.

Evernote Applications – Evernote and it’s suite of applications over the past couple years have all but replaced my pen and paper for note-taking. It isn’t perfect… but it has become a very useful tool in my day-to-day working life. I have my fingers crossed for some sort of “sketchbook” functionality, for the time being I will reserve the pen and paper for that.

Veoh - RIP Television

How much longer will we refer to the video we watch as “television”? The device itself is on the verge of no longer carrying the hardware to pull those magical images from the sky. Rather, the televisions of today are connecting to network services such as Netflix, Hulu and GoogleTV. Fading the line between the computer and television.
Considering this, how much longer will the television convention stick around? Numbered Stations, rigid watching schedules, etc… All of these are extremely inconvenient and harder to use than they need to be.
As the content holders loosen their death grip on media on their antiquated advertising habits, the coming years are likely to reveal an on-demand world in which content and information are just a click of the mouse OR remote away. Does that sound like “television” to you?