This is my Synchronicity post. I will update it as appropriate.
In 2003 I gave a public lecture at Ball State University on the topic of Synchronicity during a weeklong festival called UniverCity. My experience, or rather awareness of this phenomena, begins with Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychologist, who wrote an essay bearing the same name.
Of course, I am referring to the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Computer. As if Jonathan Ive would have any reason in the known universe to hire me! Although, in a previous life as an Apple Creative, I remember being juxtaposed next to him and his “crew” at Cafe’ Macs in between training sessions. Not once, but on two seperate occasions! After hearing all of the new-hire horror stories, though, I never did have the gumption to approach him.
Well… here’s my new product idea anyway. The concept is that of taking a wireless keyboard along with the new laptop touch-pad technology and combining the two concepts together. In the minimalist vein, this would even alleviate the need for a mouse in most cases. This isn’t a new idea, but has yet to be accomplished in Cupertino style.
Artist rendering copyright ©2008 Creative Vibrations®.
I have to start by saying that until this past Friday, I was not a huge fan of Sigur Ros, a music outfit from Iceland. My fiance’ is really into them and first took me to a show a couple years ago at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, CA. (The Marin Civic Center was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.) I was impressed by the sonic qualities at that show, but didn’t really feel connected to the music. I think the highlight for me was the opening act playing and bowing a very musical saw.
Fast forward to Friday, October 3rd, 2008, at UC Berkeley’s Greek Amphitheater. The show was epic. One of those times where you really had to just be there. The music ran the gamut of life… and the visuals were not cheap, either. I seemed to think someone was actually playing the lights and video to the music in lieu of being pre-programmed. I really enjoyed some of the theatrical elements as well, including the musicians outfits, and of course the confetti that was blown over the audience, dancing with the wind and sparkling in the colored lights of the stage. To top an already amazing show- rain started to pour down during the encore; almost as if it was scripted. The last moments of the performance felt so primal, ritualistic, and inexpressibly beautiful.
I found some photos, video, and a few blog comments floating around the web. Here they are below:
I was reading something, maybe on Technorati or TechCrunch, about how you need around 100,000 unique views per month to make money on your blog and that the top blogs post multiple times a day. Those stats can be debated, but what I’m wondering is, “What about us Weekend Bloggers”? Yes folks… the Weekend Blogger. Those of us who are either starving for good ideas, type really slow, or have a million other things going on in this world. How does a Weekend Blogger make a dent into the blogosphere?
Here’s what I found:
http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/23/the-art-of-the-weekend-blogger/
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
“Walking down the street,
The people I meet,
In front of the TV,
In magazines,
On computer screens…
Driving down the road,
Catching a high-beam,
Billboards popping,
It ain’t stopping…
INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Capture my time,
Brainwash my mind,
Service with a smile,
Go the extra mile…
Everything I need,
Value perceived,
Stab me in the side,
And watch me bleed…
INFORMATION OVERLOAD”
by: Peter Jeshua Sahaidachny
© 2004-2008 creative vibrations™. all rights reserved.
I’ve learned a lot from social media expert Chris Brogan just by reading his newsletters. Since he also listed Creative Vibrations on his blog, I thought I would return the courtesy. Check out Chris’s free eBook on personal branding here:
Today I became conscious of a cool iPhone App called Twinkle. Twinkle throws a nice interface and variations on the Twitter messaging service. It’s brought to you by the folks at Tapulous.
I also upgraded my blog to the latest WordPress release: 2.6.1. Easy as pie. In addition, I’ve slowly started to customize the CSS to be better branded along with my main website.
Then, when I was comparing a blog entry with its auto-saved version and mistakenly compared the post to itself, I was surprised to find that I was truly in the Matrix! You’ll have to try that one out on your own while I go chase the White Rabbit.
“When You Get A Chance”. Kind of like WYSIWYG (”What You See Is What You Get”). WYGAC is great in emails, for the web, and especially at work. Start using it today!
This music video was created by Andrew Cornett, Dean Pogni, Antoine Lee, and Yael Braha. Original music by Creative Vibrations. Special thanks to Ex’pression College for Digital Arts.
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