Mon 1 Jan 2007
Old news, but still, just goes to show that some of the simplest ideas can be the best.
Never forget those essential everyday items ever again!, the Doorganizer will store all you need to get you through the day. Ideal for your keys, mobile phone glasses, passport, pens etc, infact pop anything in the pouch that you don’t want to forget the next day!
(Via metamanda>>weblog.)
Mon 25 Sep 2006
Over at Create Digital Motion a while ago there was a post about Better quality projection over longer wires: S-Video to CAT5 Baluns
A staple of the security industry, video baluns allow you to send S-Video, Composite, Component or even VGA signals through normal CAT5 ethernet cable. This allows a far greater cable run with less loss of quality. They’re reasonably inexpensive and since discovering them I’ve taken a couple and a hefty coil of CAT5 to every gig, locally and internationally. They’ve saved my signal many times, both from the ignominy of composite and the embarassment of "What? The stage manager didn’t say that you’d have to bring your own cable for the projector? Well no, we do’t make the DJ bring his own speakers and hook up foldback 15 minutes before the doors upen, but you’re a VJ, you should be used to backbreaking toil and endless disappointment."
To Anglicise it a little:
These are VGA versions (£ 105 + VAT), you can also get any number of variations of s-video, component video etc. A good UK supplier seems to be CyberSelect.
(Via Create Digital Motion.)
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VJ, hardware, technology, accessories, cables, gear, performance
Wed 26 Apr 2006
For sale - all now at lower prices!
Contact me if you want any of these and we can work out a deal.
SteamSHIFT out.
Thu 20 Apr 2006
As a minor follow up to my post on the ‘thing’ I bought … look at this - looks similar. To be fair, it was a post on this site that inspired me to buy the thing in the first place (look for the Sunday, April 09, 2006 post). That beautiful bit of vintage kit has been gutted to make a midi controller built for Thomas Dolby. Sweet.
SteamSHIFT out.
Wed 19 Apr 2006
It was listed as ‘PRECISION SERIES E-400 SWEEP GENERATOR F.M - TELEVISION-A.M’; which is basically gobbledegook to me, but may mean something to someone. Wikipedia has this to say:
Sophisticated tone generators will also include sweep generators (a function which varies the output frequency over a range, in order to make frequency-domain measurements)
But to be fair that’s not much better! So anybody care to explain it in layman’s terms?
On the other hand, I bought it because it looks so great! There’s something about vintage technology ….
SteamSHIFT out.
Wed 19 Apr 2006
You may remember from my blog entry about being in Harajuku earlier this year, that I was talking about having been in a designer goods store. Well, I have stumbled across it. The site is in Japanese, with the requisite amount of English words to make it cool, but the best thing is that I also found this site - I Bee, Inc. I Bee, K.K./Robot Labs. Check out the awesome videos of Pirkus R Type-01. This is the robot we saw in KDDI; it’s even cooler in real life.
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hardware, design, japan, robot
Wed 19 Apr 2006
Contact me if you want any of these and we can work out a deal.
SteamSHIFT out.
Tue 11 Apr 2006
If like me you are a coffee addict (and I don’t mean the hideous rubbish that comes in jars but real proper coffee), and your coffee making is a process, from freshly grinding the beans to brewing a great cup in a pump driven espresso (ooh pet hate: people who say eXpresso!!! AAARGH!) machine, this may be for you.
(from the superb web guru mezzoblue). SteamSHIFT out.
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tutorial, coffee
Mon 3 Apr 2006
Mon 13 Mar 2006
Last June, I bought myself a digital camera. I spent quite a lot of time deciding which camera to go for, and in the end plumped for the Canon Ixus 50.
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