The Sydney Opera House logo has been re-branded. Looks like a step down to me, concentrating on the steps, spelling it out for people who find the icon to hard to distinguish and moving away from the beautiful sails. I personally like the simple iconic old logo on its own. I do however find the white negative/positve spaces of the type bleeding right to the edge a nice touch. Long logos are a pain to work with, I wonder if they have a stacked version?

This years TED sounded really cool, sounded cool from reading about it from the people that went. Watch this video to see whats its all about. Can’t wait for these speaker videos to be on Ted Talks.

Architect/Designer, Philippe Starck: “I believe in general that my job is absolutely useless; but now, after Carolyn and these guys, I feel like shit”.

Statistician, Hans Rosling: “Bring me my sword!” (Rosling is a serious demographer but he is also - another deadly serious activity - one of the few sword-swallowers active in Sweden, and he ends his speech swallowing a Swedish bayonette).

Computer scientist, Jeff Han: “We basically have to un-teach people what they have learned so far about computing, and convince them that they can use several fingers, that several people can work on the screen at once”.

MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli: “I’m Italian, and in Italy design is normal.”

For a great laugh, read Wil Shipley’s account of the four days.

Its been 10 years since he was here at Ozcon 97. Please please PLEASE get him down here again! Hopefully for SuperNova

Photos from the recent trip to Japan. 514 from the D80 camera and 60 from the Cybershot T1. The D80 had two prime lens, one was a 50mm and the other was a 20mm wide angle. There isn’t many snow shots with the D80 because it snowed constantly and I was a bit precious with it. I took the T1 out most of the time, since it is now the non favourite “older child” camera. But I dropped it a few times onto concrete at the snows and the LCD display broke, so I was just pointing it with no idea what was being taken.

Matt’s CA3 thing which Haline is a contributor.

We Love Magazine, from Colophon 2007. KLEFT

I’ve just seen An Inconvenient Truth and the facts are shocking. Australia and the US are the only two nations that havn’t ratified the Kyoto treaty is just a kick in the stomach. I recycle all the paper waste I get and produce, but there’s more I can do. Climate change will have a significant impact on all of us. I think one of the first thing that come to mind right now is the worsening snow depth for the past 5 seasons down in the snow fields. The draught is another. Somethings happening.

Found this little guy in one of those bubble toy vending machines in Shinjuku. TEZUKA: The Marvel of Manga is showing at the AGNSW right now, more japanation!