Blogfolio

It seems that one can make a portfolio using the blog templates. upload photos, add the description... and you're done. people can even comment on your individual work ! I tried making one at home but my laziness got the better of me.

Banquet Hall to Wedding Mall

I was wondering something like this HAD to come up in the land of elaborate weddings. The celebration now has a 50,000 crore market (!!) and what a way to capitalize on it ! Read some text from the ad -

.. a shopping extravaganza specialy brought to make your wedding preparation easier than ever. From wedding wear, jewlery and banquets to beauty parlours, white goods and furnishings, wedding card makers with honeymoon package organizers... 3-screen multiplex, food court, speciality restaurant and banquet hallsadd to an experience... 175000 sq ft of retail space.. launching in 5 places in India.

CellPhone Cloning

A case of cellphone cloning surfaced the day before in delhi. A sting operation conducted by a tv news channel exposed this.

More on Cell Phone Cloning

Machinima

Machinima is a new art form which uses game engines to make animation movies. It can be a gud prototyping tool for moviemakers, I think. Also, runtime games could be made with two players on opposite sides play. One puts enemies at new places and the other has to kill them. Something like "Assault" in UT.

Blog, Borrow, Steal

Many of today's blogs lack "original content". It has become a platform to "flaunt your sources", rather than "individual thought expression". I think the so called "new media" borrows from old media, mixes with other old media and voila ! you're done. People appretiate it too.
Welcome to blogosphere !

Designer Label ?

On one hand BusinessToday is promoting "design" as a span of ideas, objects, services. And paradoxically their compatriates in the media are promotin design only as a fashion and clo-thing.

If someone asks what I do and I say I am a designer, its likely that it'll be presumed that I deal with clothes, fashion, models, glamour.. the works !

Common people already have a misconception about a designer. And all leading (or misleading) newspapers and magazines are adding fuel to the fire. Design has a long way to go in India. Bhagwaan bharose !

SpongeBob

I love SpongeBOb ! The characters are so simple and so well written, the story gets so engrossing and enjoyable everytime.. and the creative moments are such a joy ! Thanks Sharad for telling me what I was actually wearing on me ;)

Here are the lyrics of the title song for the show.. Have fun !

Captain: Kids: Captain: Kids: Captain: Captain: Kids: Captain: Kids: Captain: Kids: Captain: Kids: Captain: Captain & Kids: Captain:

Are ya ready kids? Aye, Aye captain! I can't heeeaaar yooouuu! AYE, AYE CAPTAIN! oooooooooooo......... Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Sponge Bob Square Pants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. Sponge Bob Square Pants! If nautical nonsense be somethin' ya wish. Sponge Bob Square Pants! Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish. Sponge Bob Square Pants! Ready? Sponge Bob Square Pants, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Sponge Booob Square Paaants! Ah Ha Ha, Ha Ha Ha, Ha, hArgh wh..arire..Ha arrrigh.

Hindu Jehad

The RSS is going to air a channel soon to promote their "Hindu" way. Its called Sudarshan TV and is starting on I-Day this yr. Knowing their ideology, the other TV gods and demigods will be nothing in comparison to this one. I clicked these docile but influential creatures sometime back from my dgcam (media borrowing from other media to display in another media - new media !)

Sick Love

Heard the new-s about Sania's crazed fan ? The pervert had some lewd (and false) comments about our young Indian sportstar..

Seeing all the rape stories on TV in these few days, I think the more sex we show on TV, the better it will be for the "member-s" of our community. At least they'll jerk off and feel spent and satisfied..

playboy.co.in anyone ?

meanwhile check this one out (for sane Sania fans) http://saniamirzablog.blogspot.com/

New Media Terms

Domain: publishing content to the web
podcasting
like we view blogs thru RSS, we can put audio files and listen to them via RSS protocol on your portable mp3 player (i am lost). Where is the world getting to ?


Domain: advertising/brand building
in-serial or in-film placement

for ex: BMWs get endorsed in all Bond films, Indian movies have placed brand names/products at strategic locations to catch the attention of viewer/proxy-consumer.
It is said to firmly place brands in the consumers' mind.
has been happening since 'bobby' days, but has been more "in-our-face" today.


p.s: serial = see real ? truth is stranger than fiction :)

Operating Games ?

Saw an interesting gamerTV episode yest. a special game has been made for surgeons so they can perform surgery with much more precision..

Trajan

Have you noticed the media lately? Movie Promos including Star Wars 3 and Master & Commander on the tube, Real Estate print ads use this new elegant font called Trajan . Seems like trajan was a roman warrior of repute. The font has got that Roman feel with a royal touch . Looks good to me. What say ?
The font designer's name is Carol Twombly who also designed one of my favorite fonts, myriad. Isnt it a small world ?



More on Trajan, the guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan