I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

3 comments April 18th, 2008

Mario Lego Mix

It’s not new that some of my all-time favorites are Legos… and Mario… so I really couldn’t resist to post about this two movies by Mlichael Hickox:

1 comment February 9th, 2008

Life’s a Passage…

Today i came across an amazing ode to life in the shape of a game - Passage, as in real life, you can only move forward, and time is a limited resource, we know we’ll die in the end, that’s the only thing certain in the game. Seems a bit sad of course, but the simplicity of it and at the same time the easiness as one engages in the game is unique and certainly a matter that could be applied to a whole lot of other developments as Mark Hurst suggest in his newsletter and by which I came across this special game.

One of the things I found particular disturbing at the beggining the fact that I could only see a tiny fraction of the ‘maze’, and only after reading the author notes it made all the sense, like in life one can only disclose a small part of all that surrounds us, all those things in life that are there for us to see, but paths and decisions that we take, may allow us to see them or not, it’s really up to you and in the end, all the decisions count.

For everyone out there, you should really play it, simple, powerfull and in the end truly amazing and inspirational!
Thanks Jason!

1 comment January 31st, 2008

LEGO turns 50 today ;)

Yup, it’s true, LEGO just turned 50! I haven’t used them for so long of course, but I got my first lego when I was just a few years old (which without revealing to much) makes them probably my oldest active toy! And for more than 30 years they’ve helped me extrapolate ideas into brick realities.

On this particular nice date I’ve decided to post about it and the love I have for LEGO’s, for which I confess, I still love to play with them!

So what better way to celebrate this date? humm… maybe by watching this to them, by Monty Python:

2 comments January 28th, 2008

Project GAME OVER by Guillaume REYMOND

Game Over is an art project by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND, and it’s a series of animation movies reviving some of the very first video games! The only MINOR but very special detail is that instead of pixels he’s using real people!

My personal favorites is the Space Invaders:

and the very latest Tetris:

simply because I’ve actually played them a lot, but check the project page where you’ll find two more videos: Pole Position and Pong.

2 comments January 8th, 2008

Riding my Segway in Lisbon

I confess that my daily commuting has been somehow different, since I bought my Segway last October. But it was with some surprise that I got a call from Público, a portuguese newspaper on the last week of 2007, asking if they could interview me for a special article on Segways, which I ended accepting!

What I wasn’t counting on, was that some hours after it was published, I got another call from the national TV channel, asking if they could interview me too! Well you can be the judge and check the result:

DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately it’s only in Portuguese…

16 comments January 7th, 2008

Segway i2

First and foremost a Disclaimer: Who hasn’t ride one, doesn’t comment for now, unless if it’s for asking to try it out. Trust me, it’s the best approach!

And now the story! Me and Patrícia just lost our minds and decided to buy two Segways. The first has arrived by a lucky strike last Friday!

The intro is short and for those who don’t know what the heck its a segway, to put it simply, a Segway it’s a Human Personal Transporter, something with a nifty name and that I assure we’re just starting to hear, but it will in our life span give a lot of conversation.

The Segway has been part of my dreams, for as long as the day Dean Kamen introduce it to the world as his “Ginger” project. At the time I found it amazing, and from the first images that I wanted to try it. Well it wasn’t exactly easy, even Patrícia tried it before I did, well she had actually tried a x2, the whole-terrain version, which I haven’t yet tried, so I guess she still leads the way!

During a weekend in Porto, some weeks ago, while I searching online for some guided tours and what to visit on such short break, I found the amazing Porto Tours from Santiago and Mariza, and I have to honestly tell you that I really never expected it to be as amazing as it was! In fact 3 very special and unique 3 hours in my life. Best advice, if you don’t want to increase your expenses, don’t try it! All the rest, add a Segway ride to your personal list of things to accomplish before you die and start saving money!

It’s expensive, way expensive for the Portuguese income, but not all in this life can be bad, and sometimes, you just have to work for something that really drives you and makes you a little happier, something that might change all that’s coming for good!

So I just declare this post an open-invitation for try outs! Will all safeties ON, the helmet and me running aside, as a friend I am most delighted to let anyone that requests try-it out.

Next stage? Be able to commute every day for work riding it. In my case involves two separate tracks: home-train and train-office, besides all practicalities I still have to realize how can I store it while at the office.

16 comments October 2nd, 2007

SAPO CODE BITS

Well, SHiFT isn’t happening this year… and yeah, believe me no one’s more sad about it than myself, well may two other crazy guys! But we couldn’t stand still so we’re helping SAPO in an astonishing event:

and trust me, we’re all aiming high, as high as we’re allowed to get all the Portuguese developers an amazing event, party and mash-ups contest!

The event is obviously inspired in the Yahoo Hackday which totally contagious us back in May in London when some of us managed to attend it. Since not all Portuguese can afford traveling as far, SAPO decided to recreate it!

We’re trying to include everyone that wishes to go, but since the seats are limited, I urge everyone who praises for his/her geekiness without shame to register at:

Time as come for all of you geeks in the closet to come out, so I really hope we can all meet up in November in Lisbon!!

4 comments September 21st, 2007

Playstation 3 Home

Took them some time, but the first images of the online social network for Sony’s Playstation 3 kind of seem in the right direction. You can see the video on directly on YouTube, or watch it here:

1 comment September 15th, 2007

The real Computer Monster

2 comments May 18th, 2007