Exceptional person

Man Woong Han Graduate student at the New School in New York. He started composing late in his life he had always liked music and especially music in movie and how music reflects the human condition.

He was originally studying physics. In high school he had done an IB program as well as a GCSE program which forces you to focus on some subject. He chose what he was good at which was Math and Physics. He had applied to college with that as a major and had been excepted into stony brook where he came to the realization that he didn't want to spend his whole life doing calculations, he wanted to do something more aesthetic, that dealt with emotion. So he transferred having had no musical training.

His advise was that you should be involved with something that you are really into. For him it was difficult to switch majors because usually people who go into music have musical training prior, he hadn't. So is you don't have musical training you have to work that much harder, just practicing constantly. Also you have to be aware what is happening in the field and just listen to a lot of music and read how to's.

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Metaphors

I think Seth Godin is really big on metaphors. I like how he shows his point though! I read a blog that I was drawn to because I though it was going to be about the Nile Perch, a really big fish, but it wasn't although the post was very enlightening. It was about the fact that you have to be weary when making changes in your life because those changes are going to affect other aspects of your life.

Like in my Biology class we talk about derived trait in species and how those traits sometimes have a negative affect on other parts of behavior.

Drones

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles are easy to built as Pantopicon takes a look at the use of these vehicles and how anyone can now have one! Even me! Everyone can have fun with a drone, use it just for play or it could be used for surveillance.

Robots

Can robots be seen as their own species? With advances in robotics coming faster and faster one artist, Ken Rinaldo, wants to open our eyes to the reality that we are living side by side with technology. Are robots the new up and coming dominant species? Are they waiting for man to help them evolve into something greater?

With advanced mechanisms like NASA's Robonaut, or Honda's Asimo there seems to be no limitations to what technology can achieve as we look forward to a thousand tomorrows.

Big Red

On Wired I found that a new company has emerged in the UK called Institute for the Present. It is a collaboration between two companies, RIG and Tinker London, that both design pieces that combine real world and the interweb.

What they've come up with is this:

I giant, very impressive looking space bar!

Not very practical, it looks more like they are creating collectibles for the rich considering it cost 110 pounds or 173 dollars.

Experimental Portraiture

What is experimental portraiture? I found some photos of it when I looked on Flickr and google. What I found was just some distorted images of a person. I guess its just experimenting with a portrait to make that portrait into a different persona to allow it its own image. I'm not sure... Here are some examples.