Pants Wettingly Good Art

Hi,

I do not use this phrase lightly.

Dealing with wet pants is one of those things I still have a problem with in spite of being a dad to a 3 year old...

Alex CF just hit my top 5 artists of all time, and it took just 5 minutes of looking around his website.

Imagine you could buy a specimen case brought back from the Lost World penned by Arthur Conan Doyle...

Or maybe some remnant of the expedition to the Mountains of Madness in antarctica penned by the great H.P. Lovecraft...

Or even the travel case accidentally left behind by Death when he was making a house call...

This artist just blows me away with the detail he puts into his creations. His ability to model and hunt down minor antiques to put the touch of authenticity into his work is staggeringly good.

The fact that his work centres around good books, and myths, that intrigue and delight me just adds to my enthusiasm.

This is the first time I have wanted to rush out and buy an artists work in the last 10 years.

Wow

NP Out

P.S. big thanks for technoccult for yet again pointing me in a direction I hadn't known existed but for some reason felt like I had been looking for - for ages

Americans - Screwed up or Righteous?

Hi,

The verdict - Screwed Up

This product is indeed now available and its mere existence made me laugh so much coffee came out of my nose.

Is it the ultimate act of Democrat denial? These guys don't approve of masturbation or anything short married sex.

Is it stark political commentary? Erm probably not.

More importantly - do you think her husband has one?

OMFG

NP Out

OK now I'm officially old

Hi,

The highlight of my weekend was taking my 3 year old daughter to Te Papa. Which is probably the coolest kid focussed museum I've ever been to. Oh and it's local and free too.

They've recently installed a huge interactive video wall, which lets anyone create an interractive masterpiece from stock images and even pictures and video updloaded to their web-site.

It is great fun to play with and dozens of people can use and interract with it at the same time.

I'm a very technical boy - so my feeling aged wasn't caused by this awesome and easy to use piece of technology.

It took me 2 minutes to work out how so retrieve and display images using a base station and then beam them to the wall. Not too shabby for a late thirties tech head.

All the other adults had to have an expert guide them for the first 5 to 10 minutes. So I was feeling smug.

My daughter was watching me the entire 2 minutes and then asked for a go. Not only did she handle it perfectly straight away but she also used multiple fingers to control the touch screen interface in Apple Mac style. This increased her speed and ability to find cool images and then display them on the wall.

The thing is it never occurred to me to use MAC shorthand on the damn thing...

She's only 3 godsdammit!

Is this the start of a slippery slope? In a couple of years will I be getting her to program the 3DTV recorder for me?

NP Out

P.S. on the bright side my daddy-pride level was huge :-)