Archive for January, 2007

Nintendo’s Wii to provide AP news: The Wii News Channel, scheduled to debut Saturday, will primarily feature top news stories and photographs from The Associated Press.

Nintendo Profit Up 43 Pct. on Wii Sales: Nintendo Co. said profit soared 43 percent during the last nine months of 2006, boosted largely by booming year-end sales of the wand-wielding Wii game console.

Anytime a designer or artist complains to you that they don’t have the right tools to do a good job, you just show them this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Qpc4UzP9g

That guy is the Jimmy Hendrix of MS Paint.

“Dubai-based real estate firm Omniyat Properties plans to construct a tall building in Dubai modeled after the Apple iPod. The name of the 24-story tower: iPad.”

After decades of consumer products being driven by architectural form (IKEA, Modernism, cheap Eiffel tower statuettes), will pop consumerism drastically drive the form of architecture in a clearer (or shallower) public dialogue? And what happens to the meaning of the building when the iPod is no longer the public’s object of desire?

http://www.salatti.net/ipod-come-modello-per-la-nuova-torre-progettata-da-omniyat/

I guess this isn’t a whole lot different, in concept, from past pop architectural “icons”: Longaberger HQ, Mmmm…, Lucy, Dino.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/mc-mcs010407.php 

Go Wii! Go Dance Dance Revolution! Or, how about kids just go outside?

This is one of the neatest things I’ve seen in a while (if you have a webcam). Try letting the snow pile up on your head and shoulders and then brushing it off. Pretty cool, eh? Thanks to Darren for sending this one over.