SHAWN FRAYNE: Shawn is the sole inventor or co-inventor on a number of US and international patent filings. He has his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Shawn is the inventor of the core wind generator technology on which Humdinger is founded. Previous to his involvement with Humdinger, Shawn successfully matured several technologies, in the fields of self-inflating packaging and water disinfection, from concepts into developed products. He established a strong intellectual property base surrounding those technologies and in early 2006 sold substantial rights to a multinational company.  Some of Shawn’s work has been profiled in Popular Mechanics, Discover, Forbes.com, and NPR.

My thoughts: He came up with winddinger when he worked in Tahiti.  Tahiti regulates many import restrictions and he had to come up with small, cheap, and low maintenance to power up basic needs for the place.

He sees, and I truly believe, that the idea of inventing cheap & open source idea to create energy/products will change  the perspective of future.

The world is dominated with a lot of wasteful technology and we are so emerged ourselves to it that we don’t even question what things are the way it is.  Big dominated countries produce products and we indulge ourselves with immediate convenience and high technology.

Efficiency!

wind vs water vs solar vs etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mecU7S2xoJc

http://www.humdingerwind.com/

I always need to think about how i can write about my artist statement from the fact i know. but Elif talks about how we learn to write about how we feel.

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70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L’Ogre on Vimeo.

“I would like to make some significant art.” – This is what my friend said.  He is getting tired of not getting noticed by the world.
I was thinking what is significant art.  Who is giving the meaning of significance?

Art = Creativity = have ur own system != algorithm = same structure = common acknowledgment

Another quote from Chuck:
“People just have no clue about their genuine nature. I have countless friends who describe themselves as “cynical,” and they’re all wrong.  True cynics would never classify themselves as such, because it would mean that they know their view of the world is unjustly negative; despite their best efforts at being grumpy, a self-described cynic is secretly optimistic about normal human nature.  Individuals who are truly cynical will always insist they’re pragmatic. The same goes for anyone who claims to be “creative.”  If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you’re really just following a rote creative template.  That’s the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”

It was 5 month playing into World of Warcraft I saw the very first episode of The Guid. It was refreshingly interesting and funny.

This show was distributed through online like any other low budget and having fun projects. One good example of successful case of project is Four Eyed Monsters.

The show let you to believe that they used digital video and computer cam to capture Felicia Day’s (who stars as Codex) simple MMORPG gaming diaries. It adds more flavor to its subject matter.

The show is a good example of encouraging creative people who have some good ideas to make art/video/what they are interested in utilizing social medium that is easily available to us: like youtube, myspace, vimeo, blog, and so on.

Now the show have noticed by MMORPG players and it is going for 3rd season.

The promo music video for the next season is a brilliant idea, lyric is even more hilarious, but I can see this video was not made with pocket money. I was hoping that they will keep the low budget style of their show going no matter what.

There are a huge fan of “Tron”.  From my understanding is that movie makers and fans were hoping to recreate the same look and feel of the original Tron to the new Tron movie.  There were enough movies out there where heavily invest on CG to disappoint the original movie fans.

This continuity of certain aspects of the movie adds more flavor.  I was hoping that The Guild’s promo video is more like mature-ish.  Not that they are, but just to keep the certain aspects of the show.

Oh well… But I like the video anyways.

I heard this was the top download in iTunes last week.