Oh yeah baby, now that's what I'm talkin' about!

Yeah, so I recently bought an iTouch.  I got the handheld and some decent speakers since my wife and I want to use it a lot for music.  Cool thing is that I bought it with dough I made by creating and selling virtual objects in Second Life.  If you haven't heard about Second Life, it's an online multiuser 3D universe.  You move your avatar around, make it fly, import or build 3D objects...all kinds of stuff.  Well over the last year I've made L$132,000.  No, that isn't US dollars, it's Linden Dollars.  You can exchange Lindens for real US$ at around L$265.oo to US$1.00.  

I got US$37.00 for L$100,000.00.  I then went out and bought an iTouch, which was kind of satisfying.  Anyway, the iTouch interface...wow.  Yeah I know, everyone's saying that, but wow...

With it's iPod line of products, Apple has managed to completely change the user experience.  And ok, it's a touch screen and not a clunky mouse.  No clicking!  Of course a touchscreen is gonna be cooler that anything needing a mouse to operate.  Still, the way you move around on the iTouch is just...fun!  You're sliding things, you're actually jerking the thing to roll dice!  This is the level of interface design.  Windows users, please click on your "Start" button to turn your computer off.

ok, here's the thing...

So I guess it's time for a new blog...

Like the profile says, I'm pretty much focused on media all the time.  My work is multimedia, meaning I make digital images, animations, games, sounds, music and sometimes work with video.  I work on my computer about 10 hours a day, I listen to the radio and my CD's, I recently got an iTouch.  I have several email accounts, multiple gmail accounts, I am linkedin and I'm getting more into twitters.  I think the Facebook page is gonna have to go.  I got a Second Life.  I do an art blog by a guy named Dr. Bob Pliny.  I watch tv.  I got my Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art.  Then my medias of choice were etching, pen and ink, acrylics and watercolor.

So...I'm all into that, but like as not I'm not into media any more than you are.  The audio visual geeks, who ran the slide projector in Jr. High School, have taken over.  We're drowning in media.  Media is everyplace and just getting bigger.  It's changing the world and the world is changing it.

So...ok, the thing is...I'm going to write about that in this blog.  I'm also gonna do a lot of self promotion by adding artwork as often as I can and talking about how cool I am.  But mostly I'm going to write about all those media boxes we are plugging ourselves into.  They pop with sounds and pictures.  We're just pretty much "popboxed"...

...so...that's the thing.