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  • Posted on October 09, 2012

Bend it like ‘Jai ho’ Lee :)

“I drive countless nails into wood, bend them, grind them and then burn the wood, making nails protrude and at the same time blackening its growth ring and natural color. Glittering metallic nails on the black charcoal become ever more conspicuous. Through this process, I draw a picture on wood using nails” says renowned Korean sculptor Jae Hyo Lee.

Doesn’t his name resembles ‘Jai Ho’ Lee :) ? 

I was seriously awe-stuck, looking at this inspiring work !

His groundwork is most broadly realized in wood, an element that he is most familiar with in terms of characteristics, color, height and length. One of his most acclaimed public artworks is the bold wooden sculpture that greets visitors and guests in the lobby of Taipei’s Hyatt hotel :

I like his artwork based on ‘when it comes to good sculpture, though materials and shape may change, the essence will remain the same.’

View Korean sculptor Lee Jae Hyo’s amazing wood sculptures in Google results :)

  • Posted on July 17, 2012

Life ‘personified’ by Teresa Elliott

What do you think of this amazingly shot photo ?  Checkout that kid’s detailed rib cage texture, sense of delight spread all over. Fantastic, isn’t it ;) ?

At first glance, you’d think it is a photo of three boys playing in the mud. As a matter of fact, it’s one of Teresa Elliot’s ultra-realistic paintings. This painting is one of Grand Prize Winners of the American Oil Painting competition.

Teresa Elliot was born and raised in Texas, USA and most of her other paintings reflect a certain western flavor. Texas longhorns in particular, are one of her most frequent subjects. Which are usually set against an empty background under a dramatically colored sky and a seemingly empty and forbidding vista.

Elliott’s work has been featured in numerous publications and she has received several prizes.

> Appreciate & explore, a truly gifted artist’s personal space here

  • Posted on January 18, 2012

Online collaboration with Stixyboards

Collaboration is the next jig ! may it be corporate business or project discussion; all in all: Facebook-like real time collaboration is the buzzword.

I am heavily into merging Social communication into Business collaboration now a days. Hence bumping-on-to interesting ones in that league :)

Stixy is an online bulletin board. You can create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share: your family’s schedule, projects at work, an upcoming holiday, your photos, or share a file or two with a friend.

It’s worth advanced playing with stixy.com

  • Posted on December 01, 2011

Five Manifestos for the Creative Life


Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement.

The words or lines or colors don’t want to come, or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create. That’s when we turn to these inspiring manifestos, any one of which is guaranteed to give our uncooperative creativity a sharp kick in the pants.

Here are five of our favorite contemporary manifestos that nudge ideas out of your head and into the hands of the world.

» As it’s in brainpickings.org

  • Posted on November 20, 2011

What if some one reading your Gmail secretly ?

Other day, my home internet connection went for a toss . And had to send an emergency mail. So obvious choice was next door cyber cafe. Been there and done that.

Voila ! what a rude shock ! Next day, when I accessed Gmail at office, I got a notification that, my Gmail ID was used to create a Facebook & some other accounts. What the heck ? I never created new Facebook profile in last two days. Then who did what with my login credentials ?

Crux was, some one got hold of my Gmail password after my cyber cafe browsing episode and tried to impersonate me. Isn’t it dangerous when you’ve bank-statements, important documents, spreadsheets & Picasa photos are under one Gmail hood ?

I started sensing the dangers of ‘virtual world’ ! I’ve read a lot about people  got hacked with their accounts and I never thought one day, I would be the victim of it !

I went paranoid after that incident, which is obvious when you’ve have highly sensitive information is stored in Gmail.I access Gmail in variety of devices. I don’t remember, how many times I’ve changed my password.

That being said, mine is a solid use-case for Google to come with a novel ‘extra level of security’ that I’ve seen often in Banking sites and corporate authentication. That’s why Google is the most trusted partner by many who have their vulnerable & highly sensitive information stored in Gmail servers.

Gmail is flashing notifications about how to Enable 2-step verification to protect your account. Learn how to make your account a hack proof !

  • Posted on October 15, 2011

The Angry Birds Addiction

If you’ve not played ‘Angry Birds’, you’ve not lived in this tech era ! :)

I’ve played enough of it since the day of its release on Android. Played it in every possible place where ever I can carry my phone. It’s damn addictive and it’s not a new thing anymore.

There are days when you really feel like throwing something at somebody and angry birds is a safe enough antidote without actually breaking anything–things and feelings … this is what really makes it very appealing.

Someone calls it Angry Birds Addiction Syndrome. Not sure it’s a medical pathology yet, but for sure it’s the game that changed the history of mobile gaming.

This single-most-addictive game on my cell phone always made me ponder over ‘why it’s so additive and attractive’ ? is it because of simple graphic, is it for minimalistic controllers, is it because of highly usable & consumable gestures ? is it for dumbest of the dumb metaphor :), is it because of that unique combination of visuals and sound ? I don’t know !

A study by AYTM investigated the psychological and sociological motives behind the incredible success of Rovio’s invention. A great infographic helps “profiling” Angry Birds fans, and it proves useful to understand the mechanisms that trigger the success of the game as well as how consumers’ mood changes when playing the game.

>> Checkout  Angry birds addiction in infographics

  • Posted on October 05, 2011

Enticing photos at 1X

Flickr is crowded and I need a sweet, sharp and savorable place to admire photos. So is 1x.com. The stylish and elegant photo sharing site. I secretly admire lovely bunch of photos at my all-time favorite 1x.com. Every photo amazes, entices me there.

I found it most enjoyable photography site on web. It’s uniqueness, clarity and hand-picked photos make it a must visit site.

1x is an online photo gallery and social network. What makes 1x different from most other photo sites is that every photo displayed has been hand picked by a professional curator.

Only 1/20 photos uploaded are published, which has resulted in a gallery of world class photography. Many of the exceptional photos published on 1x can be bought as premium fine art prints, delivered right to your doorstep. | via 1x

  • Posted on October 03, 2011

Firefox – UI technique

Data can be searched, formatted, over-viewed, and browsed in a variety of ways. Firefox is using neat in-line content call-out user-interface technique in add-on page. This is quite an interesting pattern which is already used in interesting ways in many places using Ajax to load content quickly.

This User Interface component is a great space saver and quick to learn the context of use. Mozilla has used this nicety UI-element in many areas to de-congest overtly crowded extension pages. It’s highly usable and at the same time user can navigate around pages giving prominence to most needed content.