The crowd stands in awe of the mighty mixture of mentos and a particular diet beverage

Today was fraking amazing!

Life Size Mousetrap

Quote of the day ,”Through the Powers of mass hypnosis, you did not see that!”

I am thourogly exhausted after a full day at maker faire, but ready for round 2 tomorrow!   Jester, Kardboardrobot had a great time today and in the spirit of make we are busily working on version two of our very own maker faire project.  Today Jester shot stereoscopic video using two 1080p video camcorders.  At the moment kardboard robot is building the new redesigned rig, I’m working on our infografics, and Jester is editing.  The fruits of our labor will be live on the interwebs very soon.

-mypixelslipped

Some of the detritus left from the village

I recently went on a walk through the now closed Cullen Gardens and Minature Village, with a couple freinds. The experience was kind of depressing, walking along the paths that used to be lined with minature urban sprawl, liliputan suburb and pristinely kept gardens, reduced to fraying wires, dilapidated tiny train tracks, overgrowth and trash heaps. It really is sad that such an amazing place no longer exsists but in memories and pictures.

I would like to to return after finding old images from the village and compare them to what remains.

The plastic bag is a troublesome little object, as this piece proposes it is Scheduled for Deletion. Cities (and some countries) around the world have put taxes or completely banned the use of plastic bags outright, or switched to biodegrable corn plastics. These actions can only go so far. Recycling programs run by stores only work if patrons return their bags to those stores. As such it’s very important for the average consumer to switch to reusable bags, weather they be plastic or fabric, recycled, or hand made. It’s not that hard to keep a collection of bags in your car, or in your purse, backpack or (man)bag. When asked “Paper or Plastic,” you can respond, “No, thanks, I brought my own!”

Above image is of the working prototype of Scheduled for Deletion.

And here’s a tiny picture of the finished frame.

Coming soon sound sample.

Canadan, out!

-the mica logo doesn’t take you to the portal home it takes you mica.edu

-it’s very easy to break the site. Just like before if you go deep enough into the site the top menu disappears.

-it has 3 different forms of navigation! that’s just bad, and their different depending on where you are in the site

-it’s even more difficult to find anything, and since the search doesn’t work, good luck.

Over all it’s worse then it was before, is barely, if usable at all and clearly seams like no one with any knowledge of good interface design was involved at all.  I know this is not the case but it’s just sad.