We rented this baby for a recent shoot and jebus! its awesome. Image quality wise, the D80 just doesn’t compare.

Popper Box is creative fun. Check out our videos via YouTube and vimeo and photos via Flickr.

The MacBook Air is super sleek and nice, but I imagined and hoped it would be more like the iPod touch four times bigger.

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Well, I’ve had the iPod touch for about a week now, playing with it constantly everyday!

This little gadget is so sexy! I haven’t played with something like this and felt the glee of technology since I got my other iPod 3 years ago. Reviews have said that its lacking compared to the iPhone, but we don’t get those down here till next year so you don’t miss what you haven’t got I guess. Surfing the net on the touch is nice, its almost like the real thing without Flash and Quicktime. I’ve emailed via webmail, GMail mobile is simple and clean, went to Amazon to test order a book, Googled stuff, set up Google Reader so I can read all my RSSed blogs and found my house on Google Maps. Facbook is great on the touch too. YouTube is fun, most or all of the popular videos are searchable to watch, even our nerds video.

Typing on the on screen keyboard takes getting used to, mistakes are common. some of the controls don’t pick up your finger input and require several tries sometime.One thing that surprised me was how strong the WiFi detection is, I was driving home one night and decided to see if I could pick up any network. From a short 3km car trip I was constantly picking up people’s WiFi, about half of them were unlocked and I could join. Some of the names were just the modem name like Dlink, Netgear, others were nick names, one was the address of the house it was coming from! and one had “I smell sex and candy” I was never out of range of a single network, blocked or unblocked. If everybody unblocked their WiFi this could potentially be a nice roaming network.

This post was published on an open WiFi network via the touch a short walk from my house ( :

and its Amazing! Its been a crazy few weeks with work and things, Haline and I went to the Japan Film Festival opening to see Maiko Haaaan, then Kaki King (she’s amazing too) at the Opera House, which by the way has a very nice new website. And its my birthday ( : Thank you Haline for a great weekend and touch siah!

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.

For those who can’t afford the $4400 USD to attend TED, watch or download the TED Talks or add it to your iTunes viaTED Talks Podcast. They will be adding a new one each week, so visit regulary.

Update.
Sir Ken Robinson’s talk about Creativity in Education and Hans Rosling talk about Using data creatively are my favourites out of this batch.

I wanna go to TED, Watch the ‘Creative’ samples under the Highlights Tab here for some cool design/art related stuff, they have some of the most amazing speakers giving talks at this thing.