Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Most Awesome Japanese Wig Site Ever!

Hi,

It's a thing of web beauty.

A site that allows you to upload a photo. Then resizes and grades the image so you can add wigs and glasses to a near 3D model.

It's wig-alicious!

Also hours of fun - no kidding.

Travis has never looked more like a washed up Friends actor...

NP Out

P.S. The site is in Japanese so persevere with it. The rewards are out standing

Monday, November 24, 2008

Making People Notice Your Passing

Hi,

My Dad used to work for British Rail in the UK. He would come home with some funny work stories , but would also get quite angry about others.

The worst reaction he ever had was to people comitting suicide by walking in front of busy commuter trains.

According to psychologists people choosing this kind of exit want to cause inconvenience and shock in as many people as possible.

Of late there have been idiots killing themselves in front of a media audience. Either DIY with a webcam, or in front of new crews.

The thing is - the delay to trains was not what got my Dad angry. He got upset because the poor train driver could never stop in time - and ended up feeling resposible for killing someone. Even if that someone was a self involved wanker.

I guess this new media suicide doesn't wreck an innocent persons life. Unless you count the affect on untold idiots who insist on watching the clips themselves.

Personally I read the web-page but never watch the clips. I prefer my dead losers to remain un-witnessed.

I just felt the world get lighter.

NP Out

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Rock on!


Hi,

I'm a big fan of computer games and played alot of Guitar Hero II when it came out.

There's nothing like nailing a hard rock track on a plastic guitar with large, colourful, plastic buttons.

It is frighteningly close to doing it for real - minus the huge anxiety at the beginning and the huge exhaustion at the end of a live gig.

Now you've got guitar hero on tour and rock band. Both of which provide multiple instruments (guitars, drums and vocals).

You can rock out with your friends and get a serious pleasure high from nailing hard tracks.

The genre is hit such critical mass that you can even get versions of the game specific to your religious tastes.

The humour involved in christian rock goes up a notch when you watch the video of mid western familys enjoying a hedonism based music scene from their own home.

The more advanced games allow you to start composing your own tracks. Making it possible for people to collborate and create music in a simple and easy way.

But is rock n roll really supposed to be this easy to take part in? Have they finally crossed a line and forced the sound of youth rebellion into a plastic package?

More importantly do you want to play on the plastic guitar, drums or sing into the microphone?

Just one more track man!

NP Out