I found this notebook last night while surfing on Betty, took a capture of the image, cropped it with Photoshop Express for the iPad & now I’m testing BlogPress… although it looks really nice & familiar, the official WordPress app is missing too many features to be useful.

This was the surprise waiting for me when I woke up on my birthday this week! I didn’t expect it, and it was a wonderful surprise. Her name is Betty and she’s beautiful  :)

Lost… it was such a love it or hate it tv series.

I loved it :) In so many ways it was a fantastic story and I am not disappointed in the ending at all – how else could it end?! Not one person I know likes Lost and I really think they’re all missing out, I enjoyed even the seasons that went off track and seemed pointless.

I’d love something cool, besides each season on blu-ray (currently only have them on dvd…) to memorialise the series and I’ve found two sites selling products that definitely fit the bill.

The auction of  small props used during the filming is currently being previewed, the website unfortunately gives no indication of the auction date – I would LOVE some Dharma Initiative beer cans or condiment bottles!

Also, artist Ty Mattson is selling silk screened prints with a perfect retro feel on the abc site, there are 3 or 4 prints I could definitely live with them hanging on my walls. My favourite is the print I’m showing here because the story line of Locke is one that I particularly liked, I really did love that character.

I think this is going to be so much  fun!

Sign up for Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule and at the start and middle of each month  you’ll receive an email with photos you uploaded to flickr a year ago. It automatically chooses photos that have been most favourited, commented on or rated most interesting. I can’t wait to receive my first email!

So often I’ll come across a flickr photo and realise I’d completely forgotten about it, this photo I took and for whatever reason loved while I was taking and uploading it. I love the rush of memories you get of that day and everything you were doing on it.

This is the main reason why I randomised my flickr feed here in my sidebar, so much more interesting to see some random photo from the years that I’ve been uploading to flickr than the most recent you can easily see just by going to my flickr homepage.

Go straight away to this page and watch the Mad Men clip included at the bottom of the page :)

I love that the Domestic Scientist made this cake for her own birthday, and without using any fondant (which I find fairly revolting). It just looks so good, I think she did a fantastic job :) I would love to have this as my birthday cake!

VIA

Does anyone else really want an iPad? :)

It seemed the best time to try this photo trick out and post today, April Fools’ Day. I love reading about and seeing photographs and video of big clever pranks, but my favourite remains the old BBC Panorama Spaghetti Tree (& read about it here) story of 1957.

So simple, so silly, genius! A real sign of the times that so many people fell for this.

Helveticons

Really nice ones too! You see so many tacky, ugly or incomplete/un-uniform* icon and interface icon sets out there. I really like these, clear and representative, well drawn and consistent stylistically across the packages. I love that they’re based on the structure and appearance of Helvetica. Beautiful icons (& fonts for that matter) make me happy which is pretty sad I guess :-)

I found myself in an argument once that lasted a couple of weeks back & forth about what constitutes an icon vs a symbol – to me these are icons because even though their meaning has to be learned they look like what they might be representing, they look like a real object. The other person believed that because the meaning of images like these aren’t universally known representations of anything overruled that they looked like ‘things’ and would make them symbols.

Pointless argument? Probably :-) but still interesting and I’d love to get a real experts opinion on this.

*what’s the correct word for not uniform?

We were trapped by some rain on a walk into the city over the weekend, so I took the opportunity to play with a new iPhone camera app that I found last week. Silly name, Hipstamatic, but a fun app.

Something I found irritating but now like is that you can’t just run the app as a filter on existing images in your iPhone Photos, it’s nice to have to think about what combination of pretend filters and film you’ll use to take a picture rather than dressing up a boring iPhone photo.

I took screen shots of the app in use… you’d be better off checking out the website :)

*The flower photo was on the way home after the sun had been back out for a while.

Neil Gaiman tweeted:

You ALWAYS don’t like the new Dr Who. It’s a rule. You miss the last one. But after a few weeks (or less) he’s the Doctor. It’s inevitable.

He’s right, but even from this short preview I don’t hate this new Doctor, in fact I kind of liked him straight away – I’m surprised! I really really liked Christopher Eccleston and when he regenerated I could not imagine that David Tennant would ever grow on me… too skinny, too comic looking. He was fantastic! Tom Baker will always be the ‘real’ Doctor to me but Tennant has been my favourite by far.