Free hugs (March 28th - Limassol's Castle area)

And i could seriously use one right now...

"Videogames for gurlz"...

I keep seeing all those that keep using equality as an excuse to actually perpetuate gender inequality. Or rather i don't even know if they are serious about it or that perhaps they are not even aware that they are going against the very issue they are trying to promote.
I saw a post somewhere titled "Games for girls" and it was basically all pink and a nail saloon simulator and had text like along the lines of "wanna be beautiful", "party up" and the like. You don't see "games for boys" explicitly even if they are marketed as such, because of course, gurlz don't play any games other than prettifying up an avatar or spending time in a virtual saloon or shops. I'm not saying that there aren't or that they should't, I'm just saying that it's not the rule. "But look at how many downloads the app has!" When compared to which leading downloaded "boy-app"?

Lets not forget about developers being harassed with the reason being that they are women. Just go over to any multi-player game with guns in it. There are more women in them than most realize, guess why they are not using their mics...

I'm no feminist, far from it, but sometimes "stupid is stupid" and don't realize the pain they are causing. The first person I played video games with is my mother, 25 years ago give or take a couple, can't remember exactly how old I was. But it was on an Atari 2600 clone and that didn't have "girl games" on it. It had planes with bombs, sharks eating divers and frogs hopping on logs.

I was given a new PC mouse. But it has nothing to do with the picture below.

   It really was this dusty on the 28th of February. As if "Yeah, have a nice month."
   (But it cleared up the next day.)
    Spot metering with exposure lock on the sun, then focused and recomposed with the buildings in mind.

Exploring Piero Manzoni - Qualities in a tin can.

The following are conceptual designs for tin cans (well... their labels at least), related to an international project on exploring Piero Manzoni's tin label art.

How would a tin can look like if it contained character qualities?

  Logic. I guess often compared with being a know-it-all?

  When not wanting to be called shallow. Layers and layers to peel off.

 I think this one is pretty self explanatory.


I wanted to give love a try, but the idea i came up with was beyond the scope of this. I wanted to make a custom tin can shaped cylinder, that was made out of semitranslucent plastic (yeah, not tin) that was bulging out at the top and bottom, with light and heating elements inside to both light and warm it up.

New phone case (iphones and samsungs) - shameless plug.

I remembered my grandfather's typewriter again and started playing with it, and then i thought i'd make a case based in its colours and buttons. (Hard case, snap one case and scratch-resistant vynil skin).

Redbubble link

Window and frames

I like how the window sort of divides the view in two, the bright part and ... the not so bright part. And the plant life that's covering a damn spray tag on the water tower.

Now the room wasn't dark of course; it was actually cozy with warm colors, wooden floor and a fireplace. A camera flash could be used to bounce light on the ceiling and brighten things up in the capture, but that could ruin the visual cues by removing the framing and making the brightness uniform.

Socialising

I know it's been done to death, but I was at this coffee place and half the people weren't just showing stuff on their phones to their friends, they were *only* looking at their phones and nothing more. 

At least turn the screen to the other person and show them a nude picture or a cat picture :P

I like sharing-tech, but the kind that will (for example) allow me to flick a picture on my screen towards a friend's immediate location, the phone will use blutooth to see which friends are in the visinity and then calculate which phone of those is closer to the direction i flicked the image to. And then send it to their screen...

(Yeah I'm aware of how ironic it is to post this kind of a PSA thing in a blog thingy.)

Autumn colors swatch.

Went to a nature trail a couple days ago and managed to snap a couple of pics before it started to rain...