Being the meandering ramblings of someone old enough to know better, but too young to surrender to the void. You know this thing called life? I'm all about living it.
Stumbled (literally) across the following website & related demo video for an amazing product - from Lightspace Corporation, the "Play", "Dance", and "Design" products are amazing design installations for domestic, entertainment, and retail applications.
I won't try to describe these product's concept, as I would not be able to aptly describe them, so take a look for yourself. Click this link.
The following is a link to the demo video for the "Design" product, and I can imagine this kind of technology seeping into the retail world much sooner than later - so why not factor it into your next renovation? Video .
There are no prices quoted on the site, however if you're going into hock, why not go all the way, and incorporate some cutting edge (and trippy) technology into your space? The "Play" product is an amazing product for kids of all ages, and would be a great alternative to those late-night-too-much-booze Twister marathons! Or maybe not. Come on, tell me you've never thought about Twister "that" way before!
OK let's move then...
Put simply, in my opinion, this an awesome, innovative product which is no doubt prohibitively expensive, and will date very quickly I can imagine, but great as far as I'm concerned in July 2007!
'Twas nice to see channel 9 doing a hatchet job on the Concert for Diana on the TV last night - there was so many other performances they could have shown, but instead we got the crapola they dished up. You would never have known that Pharrell Williams was there, nor Lilly Allen, and that many of the acts played a few songs each.
Hell! Let's not take away too much CSI time from the baby boomers whom watch channel 9, eh?. I mean to say, this was never going to be a groundbreaking music event like channel 9 purported it to be, but I always get caught up in the atmosphere of such affairs, and as always, am bitterly disappointed by what free-to-air TV delivers. I hope this weekend's Live Earth coverage is different.
The only highlight on the TV last night, in my humble opinion, were Fergie's legs - they were special. But I digress, as I could wax lyrical about Fergie for a long time...
A quick peruse of YouTube, as always, reveals most of what we didn't see here, including the following clip. I can't wait for real broadband to hit this country, just so I can see all that advertising money leave commercial TV networks once & for all, as discerning viewers program their own evening's entertainment online. I'm truly sorry about the rant, but I'm just so sick of hearing that shit television is what Australians want to see. Ask anyone under 25 what they think - I'm sure they'll agree with me. It's not McLeaod's Daughters they want - that's for sure!
Anyway, Tom Jones has been a groover since before I was born, and throughout the late eighties & early nineties, he reinvented himself by performing great covers of contemporary hits. Channel 9 managed to squeeze in his performance of Prince's "Kiss", but failed to share the OTHER cover he played. This time around, he's covered the Arctic Monkey's hit(?) "I Bet You Look Pretty Good on the Dancefloor".
I don't have a lot of time for the Arctic Monkeys, and Tom Jones' reworking of this is a tad lumbering, but what it lacks in edge, it makes up for in style. And Tom managed to persuade Joe Perry from Aerosmith to play lead guitar for him as well.
