Pretty Things, Check.

Why am I blogging about jewellery? It’s a bit out of the ordinary for me isn’t it.

Well, that’s because this is extraordinary jewellery.

Imagine jewellery that doesn’t just stick to the norm, breaks the mould and makes everything that little bit more fun. This is exactly what young designer, Sally Pawson, brings to the table.

“An upcoming designer, maker; Sally Pawson is definitely one to watch out for. Her colourful, playful jewellery pieces use traditional jewellery techniques to combine printed aluminium sheet and silver. Resulting in contemporary, affordable pieces that will amuse and delight. Sally’s collection is made in a variety of seasonal hues, inspired by the countryside and gardens surrounding her rural Somerset studio.”

Sally takes the fun and playfulness of her jewellery straight into her wallpaper designs too, recently featured in the Sunday Times. Not standard boring wallpaper though, it’s Interactive Wallpaper! Not only is it funky and cool off the roll, you then get to unleash the coloured pens and pencils and join up the dots, creating unique patterns and a truly modern feature of your home. Imagine defying the parents and drawing all over the walls without getting a telling off.

I’m not sure about everyone else but I love buying something different for Christmas presents and what better than beautiful handmade  jewellery. So stop reading this, click the link and head over there to take a look!

 

Know how to exploit the weak points

If you are ever threatened by monsters, aliens, robots or any other bad guys then this poster from Olly Moss will surely help survival for quite  a bit longer then the average joe.

Found this through Gizmodo, and A Life Well Wasted.

 

 

 

Who writes these stories?

I read the Metro newspaper on pretty much, a daily basis. Before anyone reminds me I know it is a FREE paper so I shouldn’t complain about it, but it has annoyed me too much now and I feel I must rant!

The gaming and movie reviews SUCK!

I don’t mean the final scoring of a review, I pay little attention to this bit anyway. What I mean is; What a pile of gibberish, its like they copied a review from a pre-release one, that another gaming/movie website, already produced a month earlier. There is no indication the reviewer has even played the game or watched the movie and this does my nut!

Again, I know it is free but it would be a much better free paper if they either wrote a real review or just “cut the chuff” out of it altogether! Arrrrhhhhh.

Okay, rant over.

Toe Socks are wierd

Late night post I know but I felt the wierd things that are Toe Socks deserved a mention.

I once owned a pair of red and black striped ones (dennis the menace style). They have since gone missing, possibly stolen for how cool they made me look?

Described by a friend earlier as,

“making her toes feel tingly and odd”

I agreed with the feelings but mentioned that I wasn’t convinced they actually did guys sizes, and it was a unisex version I had once owned.

How little I knew.

There is a larger supply of mens toe socks than I realised for instance here where there is whole pages of mens toe socks.

Tonight I learnt something.

Tell me what you think and whether toe socks make your feet tingle too?

Streaming. Done.

Okay I mentioned in the last post that  it was possible through the magic floaty data dust known as wifi you can stream movies from your computer to your Xbox 360 instead. Read on…

The program you need is called tversity which as you have probably guessed from all other software I’ve mentioned is FREE. There is the option to upgrade to the pro version but I’ve stuck with the basic one and it does all I need so far.

Keeping it short and sweet; install, activate and enjoy.

It runs a media server on the computer which is found on the Xbox 360 dashboard under the videos section,  and allows you to play movies and videos straight onto your TV. I have had very few issues running it so far and there is loads of support on their website and  forums if there are any issues. Before being recommended tversity I didn’t realise it was possible to stream without having more expensive specific versions of windows  which support media streaming, that’s why it rocks so much! And it saves on consumable media like DVD’s and CD’s.

Right enough geeking for tonight. Stream away.

Quick and Simple DVD Burning

So you have got hold of your video files, now how the hell do you turn them into a DVD that you can watch on your DVD player, Xbox or another PC? Keep reading for the solution…

I won’t go into how to get hold of your movie files as these could come from handycams, mobile phones, torrents (not that i’m suggesting you illegally download them) or your own DVD rips. However you get hold of your digital movie files you have the issue of actually watching them. Do you suffer the smaller computer display(okay I know some people have 37 inch displays etc) or turn them into a DVD to watch on your large HDTV that you bought for that very reason?

Well I’m guessing you would go with the TV. I’m also assuming you don’t want to stream over wifi to an xbox or ps3? That would be a whole other story which I’ll address later on.

The software I would suggest as it has always worked well for me is DVD Flick

DVD Flick is FREE! And it is nice and straightforward to use. It has loads of features but keeps it’s easy for begginners too. Full info can be found here , this explains all the file formats it supports.

All you need to do is find the file you want to burn to DVD, decide on menu options, if you want it burnt to disc after encoding or an iso for burning later, and then click Go.

As it’s free give it a go and see what you think, I would not suggest running it on a low power processor though, as it will take till the end of time to finish.

Enjoy.

Open your eyes to Open Gallery

I was recently introduced to Open Gallery by a friend and in my normal response to art related stuff promptly ignored her and nodded in agreement and said yes in all the right places and proceeded to not think any further about it.

Foolish.

Having now actually paid attention and looked at the projects they are truly awesome! Open Gallery is all about Video Painting. Their info on the site explains in more detail:

“Video paintings are filmed in a single take with a stationary camera. They contain no edits or subsequent manipulation. Video paintings show the world in real time. The video painting is non-narrative. There is no dialogue, no sound. In contrast to the film and video tradition which has been dominated by the provision of meaning and understanding, the video painting aims to escape our cultural and perceptual closures, freeing the viewer to play in the openness of the image.”

Even if art is not normally your thing, this should catch your eye. It is completely different and has an impact unlike other (more boring) forms of art. Take a look at their website or follow them on twitter and see something new.

Munch Bunch Yogurts

Short and Simple.

Munch Bunch split pot yogurts are a marvel of engineering. They somehow arrive with the strawberry and vanilla split in half with no physical barrier???

It’s crazy stuff.

Not quite perfect due to the shaking in excitement

Last.fm rocks… True Story.

Last.fm the music streaming service actually rocks.

Let me enlighten you…

I signed up 2 years ago when I first got the Last.fm app for my iPod touch. At the time I didn’t really know what it was, I knew it gave me a stream of music on demand to my iPod but other than that had no idea.

Now 2 years later I have realised the true potential. Unlike other streaming services such as Spotify which require disturbingly high monthly subscriptions of £10 to get rid of mid-stream adverts, Last.fm is free free free. There is the option to subscribe for £3/month and this removes adverts from the website and adds better visitor info but it is not a necessity.

The description from the website makes more sense than what I was about to write so have a read:

“you’ll get your own music profile which will be filled with all sorts of things as you keep using Last.fm, including your personal charts.

As soon as you start listening to music on Last.fm, or with your media player on your computer – for this you need our free Scrobbler software which you can get here – all this music will get added to your profile and you’ll see what you’ve been listening to so far and get your own artists, tracks and album charts. This is what we call “scrobbling” – read more about it here.

Based on this music you’ve already listened to, Last.fm will recommend you new music you’ll like, upcoming events of your favourite and other related artists, as well as other users with a similar music taste to yours – these are your musical neighbours.”

As well as scrobbling the music you play on your computer it will work on the tracks you play out and about on your iPhone/iPod even if you aren’t using the app itself at the time, it just catches up when you sync up later. And…yep there is more.

Xbox Live has just added support too and allows you to play through the  tv too, You can now blast it out on the surround sound!

Sign on up, give it a go and see what you think, in the meantime stay cool.

P.S. Haven’t posted in ages so this may make little sense?!

Tattoo Ideas

I am interested in getting a second tattoo to go along with the current one residing on my ankle…….

That is the issue, What and Where?

I will post some of the random ideas I have seen or thought of, maybe some are a little geeky lol.

Suggestions Please.