entertainment

Entertainment Gathering (EG) 2008

Posted by _tango! on December 10, 2008
Posted in: brand, design, EG, entertainment, experience, fun, ideas, information, inspiration, me, music, tech, TED. Leave a Comment


I’m off to Monterey CA for TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman’s newer “Entertainment Gathering” Conference!
The speaker list is quite impressive with a seemingly circus like theme this year based on this cool pdf program floating around.

Some highlight speakers I’m craving to meet:
– Violin guru Joshua Bell
– X Prize founder Peter Diamandis
– Applied Minds inventor Bran Ferren
– Viral Global Dancing Matt Harding
– Egypt’s Indiana Jones Zahi Hawass
– HEROES writer Tim Kring
– Illustrator David Macaulay
– MIT MediaLab founder Nicolas Negroponte
– Technologists David Pogue
– Dirty Job’s dirty man Mike Rowe
– Mythbuster’s Adam Savage
– PIXAR co-founder Alvy Ray Smith
– Magician Jamy Ian Swiss
– Penn&Tellers Teller
– A floating Zepplin, idea makers, shakers, and creators everywhere! Plenty of surprises…

Iron Man uses Flickr Creative Commons photo

Posted by _tango! on December 5, 2008
Posted in: entertainment, information, inspiration, tech, wacky. Leave a Comment


Uploading photos online is very common (everyone should do this!). Creative Commons is a free way to protect yet share your photos online for creative uses while receiving credit. Sometime you receive a few emails that you ignore, and sometimes you realize Woa!!.

Meet Jeremy Keith. He took a picture and posted it on Flickr. He receives a few emails, and just says use what you want and credit me. Next thing he knows, 3 minutes into the Box office hit Iron Man movie is the picture he took being used as the background! Pretty awesome!

Read the whole story here.

Fluid Tunes: hand motion navigation

Posted by _tango! on December 5, 2008
Posted in: design, entertainment, experience, fun, ideas, information, inspiration, me, music, style, tech, thoughts. Leave a Comment


FluidTunes from Majic Jungle Software on Vimeo.

Using cameras to navigate your interface has been around for some time, but just a refresher, here’s yet another one called FluidTunes! Only for MacOSX. Again cool, but overtime, I’m not sure if I’d use! Cool is not always usable in the long run, hence cool becomes uncool!

via lifehacker

ImprovEverywhere: Welcome Back!

Posted by _tango! on November 27, 2008
Posted in: entertainment, experience, fun, ideas, inspiration, me, thoughts, wacky. 1 comment


Welcome Back from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo via swissmiss

ImprovEverywhere.com presents “Welcome Back” where a crew of total strangers enthusiastically welcome back total strangers at the airport terminal! I think everyone should be greeted this way!!!!

Reminds me a bit on Ben Zanders lessons on How Happy Birthday Should Always be sung; with passionate enthusiasm, waving hands while standing, vibrant smiles, and shining eyes with a community of awesome people!

Weekend Links

Posted by _tango! on November 24, 2008
Posted in: entertainment, fun, tech, wacky, weekendlinks. Leave a Comment


A few months back I noticed an oozing mustard filled hot dog sliding down the back windshield of a taxi cab. I’m guessing a pedestrian threw their hot dog of the reckless taxi cab after nearly getting hit by them! This sight amused me for the next few blocks driving!

– Japanese Lotion Spin Game Challenge (video)
– Charlie Rose vs Charlie Rose video
– Drawing with Water video
– Automatically make your last Flickr image your Twitter background!
– Zink Tomy, the camera with a built in printer!
– A Tire hits a car dealership!

Kokuyo Highlighter

Posted by _tango! on November 17, 2008
Posted in: brand, design, entertainment, experience, fun, ideas, inspiration, style, tech, thoughts. 2 comments


Kokuyo adds a simple twist to a highlighter pen allowing you to highlight, circle, or outline any text!

Several years ago I slammed my highlighter into a corner and left 2 jagged edges leaving vampire like tips (I might have also just carved a triangle out with an exacto blade late into a creative night procrastinating). Anyhow, I used the pen until it dried up, but I never thought I’d see this accident turn into a product! Accidents(procrastinating) are sometimes the best inventions!

via spoontamago