FL909 drumcomputer - make some beats!

The first time I saw this I thought it was just a picture of the original drum machine that defined early house music. But no, it’s actually a fully functional clone of the beat machine created in flash. It even looks like it’s from 1984 with coffee stains and such (is that blood??). I was in love with Daft Punk’s album Homework which has the TR-909 all over it. Their latest effort Alive 2007, is a mashup of all their songs and it totally has me pumped about electronic music again. So if you’re like me & one of your goals for 2008 is to make more hot beats, lay down some high-hat & drop that b.a.s.s bass!

The 5th Indie Craft Experiance in Atlanta is this Saturday June 2nd & It’s FREE this year!!!

There will be a 100+ local crafters and designers there with cool / cute / amazing handmade stuff to sell. This year there is going to be workshops to help you sharpen your crafy chops. What more? The Lasch (the rock band i’m in) is going to be playing at 3pm. (ice-atlanta.com for more info)

I also helped sew in the sweet shop preparing merch for Heiss-Threads. Her website is built on Solo (Sol Designs content management/e-commerce system). Check out her booth at ICE!

It’s at Centennial Olympic Park. If you need more culture in your life, Creative Loafing named ICE as one of the top 5 cultural events of the summer! ooooooo.

Blinkies, Throwies, & Interactive Sewies (The Workshop)
I’m teaching an easy workshop at 2pm called . It’ll cover making simple throwies and then show you some other crafty uses of LEDs to get you glowin. I am also going to explain how to make crazy lasers and take photos that are even cooler than this!

Not sure how singup works, but people registered for the class will get to make their own throwies to take home. Everyone else can watch and hopefully get inspired.. After that, mozie on over to the stage for our show at 3pm!

stay crafty atlanta.

An amazing article by Alice Rawsthorn on how designers are changing the world for the better. From a $100 laptop for schoolchildren in developing countries, to a pot for carrying water that can be easily rolled, designers are focusing their talents on the world’s poor, in an effort to positively impact the lives of the world’s unwealthiest 90%.

More information and specs on the $100 laptop.

I just recently found this article in the NYTimes about social networking that speaks to what we do and also to where technology is going. Everyone thinks it is interesting/weird that Cisco bought tribe.net - I think it is smart. What do you think? Click here to read the article NYTimesArticle

Linerider beta2 is here! If you have never played Linerider you need to. It’s not really a game but more like a sweet toy. Get creative!
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If you’re a graphic designer, you must have thousands of fonts on your computer. You probably don’t know what half of them look like, the other half you probably never use.

I have tried other font managers such as Extensis Suitcase and the built-in Mac Font Book. Both were met with limited success. Suitcase crashed often and hogged up all my resources, and Mac’s Font Book did a good job, but just wasn’t powerful enough.

Then I stumbled upon Linotype’s FontExplorer X.
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