Creative Vibrations ®

I created and manage a 24/7 online streaming student radio station for Ex’pression College. I had some help along the way, but the story reads more like the folktale The Little Red Hen.

Photos by Ex’pression graduate Tiffany Lo.

Ex’ Radio is built on Icecast server software. You can listen through iTunes, WinAmp, or any other media player capable of handling .m3u extensions.

http://exradio.expression.edu/exradio.m3u

View the on-going calendar of radio shows here.

The new Creative Vibrations Blog iPhone web application is currently showcased on Apple’s website here:

http://www.apple.com/webapps/socialnetworking/creativevibrationsblog.html

Don’t forget to add it to your iPhone’s home-screen!

I just finished reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson after being recommended to the book by a colleague. Although, I had trouble staying with Neal’s writing style. There was never a sense of “flow” for me. At times I felt he over-indulged with his descriptions; so much so, to actually detract from my experience and use of my own imagination. I loved the story as a whole, though, and considering the time it was written, Neal definitely foresaw conventions such as MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and more. My question is, “When will this book be made into a movie”?

Of course, I am referring to the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Computer. As if Jonathan Ive would have any reason in the known universe to hire me! Although, in a previous life as an Apple Creative, I remember being juxtaposed next to him and his “crew” at Cafe’ Macs in between training sessions. Not once, but on two seperate occasions! After hearing all of the new-hire horror stories, though, I never did have the gumption to approach him.

Well… here’s my new product idea anyway. The concept is that of taking a wireless keyboard along with the new laptop touch-pad technology and combining the two concepts together. In the minimalist vein, this would even alleviate the need for a mouse in most cases. This isn’t a new idea, but has yet to be accomplished in Cupertino style.

Artist rendering copyright ©2008 Creative Vibrations®.

Today I became conscious of a cool iPhone App called Twinkle. Twinkle throws a nice interface and variations on the Twitter messaging service. It’s brought to you by the folks at Tapulous.

I also upgraded my blog to the latest WordPress release: 2.6.1. Easy as pie. In addition, I’ve slowly started to customize the CSS to be better branded along with my main website.

Then, when I was comparing a blog entry with its auto-saved version and mistakenly compared the post to itself, I was surprised to find that I was truly in the Matrix! You’ll have to try that one out on your own while I go chase the White Rabbit.

Made in Emeryville!

Use your keyboard’s arrow keys to maneuver the snake. Eat the cubes!  (note: sometimes you have to click inside the game first to activate it.) Enjoy!

I created 2 Dashboard widgets and one iPhone Web App for Ex’pression College for Digital Arts that are available through Apple’s website. Here are the links:

Open House Widget

Expression News Widget

Expression iPhone News Web App