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Art, the app, About our Kickstarter iPhone App project

By posterous | Published: November 27, 2010

In many ways, our Kickstarter iPhone Application idea is like every other iPhone Application proposal. We want to:

(1) Make the #1 iPhone App in the world
(2) Provide a chance for amused consumers to become fully engaged creators
(3) Make a lot of money
(4) Make our Kickstarter investors rich, and
(5) Retire with the ones we love somewhere in the South of France

What makes our iPhone application radically different is its orientation (creative), approach (smart) and goals (learning by doing). We have already spent two years designing the project’s 200 exercises specifically formulated to take an IPhone user on a journey through the history of art, retracing the 25,000 years of art historical landmarks.

How did we come up with the idea? It all started with a question posed by our visionary CEO Clay Newton to his clandestine research team (a lone counter-cultural academic living out his delusions in a crawl space under a prominent research library). The question was simple:

What does the world want (well, besides sex)?

Upon thorough review, the answer that our crack researcher discovered was clear:

The world wants to draw.

Yes, you read this right: the world wants to draw!

Examine the indisputable statistics for yourself. Google Zeitgeist’s 2009 Year-End Search Queries Rankings placed “How to draw” only below “How to kiss.”

Since our team is currently happy kissing our partners off-line, Clay made a crazy decision to follow through with the unlikely result of the inquiry, developing an iPhone application that would give a constructive creative outlet and counteract now popular destructive i-activities of the likes of “Shooting Pigs,” and “Farting” iApps.

The Bottom Line: This Kickstarter proposal would like to acquire the start-up monies to build an iPhone “Drawing” application that would fully engage the hearts and minds of over 1,000,000,000 people all over the world who want to draw every single day.

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New project I am working on.

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What do you know about QR codes?

By posterous | Published: November 23, 2010

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Clearly, not much.

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The Evolution of the Geek /via @chep2m, @flowtown

By posterous | Published: October 27, 2010

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Hilarious!

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Dia de los Muertos: Altares & Arte

By posterous | Published: October 26, 2010

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Hi family and friends,

I will be setting up an alter at Studio II Gallery in Napa November 6th thru November 29th in memory and celebration of Co-op families that are no longer with us. Much Love , Maureen

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HOW TO: Stop Nivo Slider on one play and stay at final slide

By Clay Newton | Published: October 20, 2010

I’ve found the Nivo Slider jQuery slideshow to be one of the nicest. It’s very configurable, and is one of those just works kind of widgets (that is of course unless you are looking at it in IE 6.)

Recently, a client wanted the slideshow to stop after one play and then rest on the last slide, but Nivo seems to be designed to return to the start slide on stop. It seemed like it was going to be a bit gnarly to fix, and did take a bit of effort/investigation, but here’s what I came up with, and it really works.

Mike Ilsley has come up with a couple of solutions that work, but both of them ran into issues in my particular case.

His “Solution #1″ headed back to the first slide, which was not what my client wanted. “Solution 2″ would interfere with the paging functionality my use case required.

This solution basically sets the startSlide parameter onLoad, and then beforeChange of the slide, inspects the current slide index. If the slideshow is at the final slide, you must change the settings of the slideshow to one greater than the number of slides in the slideshow.

Here’s how you do it

$(window).load(function() { $('#slider').nivoSlider({ startSlide:0, //Set starting Slide (0 index), beforeChange: function() { if($('#slider').data('nivo:vars').currentSlide == 9) // look at the # of slides and compare to total # { $('#slider').data('nivo:vars').settings.startSlide = 10; // increment # slides to length + 1 $('#slider').data('nivo:vars').stop = true; // tell it to stop } } }); });

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Testing out the new WordPress iPhone app

By Clay Newton | Published: October 16, 2010

As I am getting ready to head off on a Geeks on a Plane trip, figured I should prep for mobile posting. This new version of the WordPress iPhone app seems like a winner so far!

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Photos: 50+ years of Japanese concept cars ::: Pink Tentacle

By posterous | Published: October 11, 2010

Here is a selection of concept cars designed by Japanese automakers from 1957-2009.

Toyota Proto, 1957

Toyota Proto, 1957

Toyota Publica Sports, 1962

Nissan Prince Sprint 1900 Prototype, 1963

Toyota Concept, 1966

Mazda RX 87 (Bertone), 1967

Isuzu Bellett MX1600 (Ghia), 1969

Toyota EX-1, 1969

Toyota EX-II, 1969

Toyota EX-III, 1969

Mazda RX-500, 1970

Mazda RX-500, 1970

Isuzu MX1600-II

Nissan 126X, 1970

Nissan 270X, 1970

Nissan 216X, 1971

Nissan Skyline Concept, 1972

Toyota EX-7, 1972

Toyota RV-2, 1972

Toyota F101, 1973

Nissan AD-1 Concept, 1975

Nissan NX-21, 1983

Nissan CUE-X, 1985

Daihatsu TA-X80, 1987

Mitsubishi HSR II, 1989

Nissan Boga, 1989

Nissan Figaro Concept, 1989

Nissan FEV, 1991

Mazda London Taxi, 1993

Mitsubishi ESR, 1993

Suzuki EE-10, 1993

Nissan AP-X, 1994

Toyota Moguls, 1995 // Nissan Hypermini, 1997

Nissan TrailRunner, 1997

Nissan KYXX, 1998

Honda Fuya-Jo, 1999

Mazda Miata Mono-Posto, 1999

Isuzu Zen, 2001

Toyota POD, 2001

Isuzu FL-4, 2002

Honda IMAS, 2003

Honda KIWAMI, 2003

Honda Pro Drag Civic Si, 2003

Nissan Jikoo, 2003

Toyota FINE-S, 2003

Toyota MTRC, 2004

Infiniti Kuraza, 2005

Mazda Senku, 2005

Mitsuoka Orochi, 2005

Nissan Zaroot, 2005

Acura Advanced Sedan, 2006

Mazda Nagare, 2006

Nissan Terranaut, 2006

Acura Advanced Sports Car, 2007

Mazda Taiki, 2007

Nissan Mixim, 2007

Nissan Bevel, 2007

Nissan Pivo-2, 2007

Honda FC Sport Concept, 2008

Mazda Kiyora, 2008

Honda P-NUT, 2009

Infiniti Essence, 2009

Nissan Land Glider, 2009

Isuzu FC-12

Isuzu Fire Fighter 2

Isuzu FL-1/FL-4/FL-10

Isuzu Lunar Rover

Isuzu Super Heavy Dumptruck

Lexus Minority Report Concept, 2054

[Via: NetCarShow, Car Styling, ConceptNissan, Isuzu]

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I love so many of these.

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So you need a typeface?

By posterous | Published: September 28, 2010

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I love this infographic by Julian Hansen.

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Recently read: Daemon by Daniel Suarez

By Clay Newton | Published: September 27, 2010

This past weekend I finished Daemon by Daniel Suarez. I loved every minute of this book, in fact, I wish it was longer.

Suarez’s prose is ok, but I think it’s solid for a first book. My real attraction to this book was Suarez’s grasp of the potential of the technology we use today. He creates a crazy, scary and inspire world in which hackers, gamers and general lost souls can achieve their potential … a cultural meritocracy taken to the extreme, all powered by a distributed background process.

You should definitely check this out!

Now I am dying to read the sequel, Freadom™. It should be a wild one.

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