Bend A Spoon With Your Mind – Matrix Style
I’ve probably watched the Movie “The Matrix” dozens of times. It never ever gets old. One of my favorite scenes is the now very famous spoon bending scene.
About a year ago, my son Henry and I decided that we were going to bend spoons with our minds. It didn’t quite work the way we planned, bu ...
Bold Anti-Smoking ads
Gone are the days of the sexy Marlboro Man, who made smoking appealing, manly and part of the cowboy way. Tobacco advertising is one of the most highly regulated forms of marketing today. Canada is one of the leading anti-smoking advertisers in the world, compared to some of the middle eastern coun ...
Don’t Be a Copy Cat!
Imitation is the best form of flattery as the saying goes, but not when others copy your photo and your Background on Twitter. This is actually the 2rd time this has happened or maybe even more.
I checked out what kind of Twitter-er they were and most are the ones that sell a lot of stuff to peo ...
How To | Make your Blog Search Engine Friendly
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a truly hard and sometimes complicated endeavour to achieve good results in. There is a lot more to it than just adding a few meta tags in your index page to get a high ranking on for example Google search engine. It gets even trickier when you have your own blog ...
5 Wild Things about a Classic Childrens Story
The children's classic storybook Where the Wild Things Are is being released in theatres soon. What a timeless story of a boy who finds an imaginary world in his bedroom after being sent there without dinner. The story was one of my favorites growing up (probably because I had a vivid imagination an ...
Ice Is More Valuable Than Gold on the Moon
It’s been all over the news this week: The LCROSS Lunar Impact. But why is it so important to know whether or not there is water on the moon? There are several reasons why knowing this would be exciting.
First, if there is water on the moon we would be able to not only learn so much more about ...
Play Games| Meet People | Hang Out
Here is a site that enables you to play multi player games for free, meet friends and hang out. OMGPOP started in 2006 as iminlikewithyou, a place for people to play games to meet each other and in 2009 changed our name to the shorter OMGPOP where people meet each other to play games.
They don' ...
iPhone | Will It Blend?
A lot of tests have been tried on the iPhone in focus. Everything from dropped from a few feet, submerged in water, run over by a truck etc. But The big question, if not the biggest question of it all is, will it blend? In this torture of a clip we will witness a "scientist" do the ultimate test on ...
Real Friends VS Internet Friends
Since I gain a lot of inspiration from reading tweets, sometimes when I’m waiting for that rush of creative adrenaline to hit me, I will spend a few minutes staring at my Twitter stream. Since I follow over 22,000 people, it moves fast and many times I am able to see full conversations between twee ...
Life explained: I lego NY
Legos were one of my favorite toys to play with as a kid. The engineering brain in me constantly wanted to test the laws of gravity, pushing the boundaries of lego's building capabilities. I still remember the day my Mother sold our lego chest. I was 15 and hid my tears as a young mother carried off ...
Want to Generate Color Schemes from Your Photos?
Here is a cool application that can extract color schemes from an existing photo. Color Suckr. is a good tool for web designers and for those who want an easy way to get the colors from a favorite photograph or website. FireFox add on is already available. Check it out. Real helpful and really h ...
Digital Intuition @ The Tip of Your Fingers
Here is a mobile application that knows you and brings the stuff you want. my6sense's super duper AI (artificial intelligence) technology learns what is most important to you based on your consumption habits, serving you as a digital sense, or as we call it 'Digital Intuition'.
There is nothing ...
Google’s Larry Page | Tips for The Entrepreneur
Starting a business, especially a design company, can be daunting to say the least. There's so many aspects that needs to be looked in to in order to make sure you are ready for your clients. Not only do you need a good and healthy approach to your idea but also a short as well as a long term plan o ...
How To: Make An Extreme Pumpkin Carving
Halloween is a big deal in the States, and it’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again! My son Henry and I love to carve pumpkins each year, put candles in them, and light them at night throughout the month of October. It is one of our favorite Halloween traditions.
We normally carve the st ...
A Rain Forest you’ve never seen before
In my personal art, I love to manipulate everyday objects, taking them out of their original context and therefore transforming their meaning. When I stumbled upon Japanese artist Yuken Teruya, I was immediately drawn into his paper cut-outs using toilet paper rolls. Looking through his beautiful po ...