So as my brain releases itself from the depths of winter, I can literally feel my motivation and inspiration levels returning to something I’d like to think of as normal. In a distilled philosophy of several things that I’ve been thinking about over the last couple of months, I’ve been finding myself attracted to the simple and wonderful things that make me smile.

Just a quick note on the fact that I am willing to give people money. Click through to get some as well as a link to Girl Talk’s latest album which he just released to the world free of charge…and it’s pretty sweet!

I’m not sure what the TSA can really do about this kind of in flight violence, but it’s an enlightening and refreshing alternative to making sure your seat is in the up-right position and your table tray is correctly stowed. But more importantly, do you want to be the one having the fun, or the one recording everyone elses fun?

I found it, in the stream of information that is my Google Reader, a Fubiz article about 2 agencies that have been working on the simple idea of surfaces and information delivery. All you have to do is watch these two videos and you will start to peek at the essence of what interaction design really is.

My latest foray into the analogue workings of the photography equivalent to home cooking.

So I may have been away for a while, but whilst I’ve been sharing stuff with Google Reader, Google’s been hiding it away. Click through and find out what’s been inspiring me the last few weeks.

So I was one of the 441,000 people that yesterday, took part in Groupon’s first national offer-o’-the-day. Spend $50 at Gap, and we’ll give you $25 off.
I need new pants and socks, how can a boy say no.
So the 440,999 other people invested their $25 and accrued over $11 million, in one day. I think that sounds pretty good. They are getting huge social buzz and a guaranteed 440,000 extra store visitors (before the end of November) and yes, store visitors, the coupon is not valid on line or at …

I’ve had a lot of issues with touch screen developments, in the same way that websites in the early 2000′s and 90′s tried to replicate physical things without rethinking their content for the digital space, I’ve found that a lot of touch experiences simply try and imitate web or physical predecessors.

So with the world of online shopping continuously on the rise, those store owners thought they could freak people out a little bit more by watching their customers, monitoring their actions, the stores they’ve already visited and how they navigate and explore the store.

But you don’t have to worry about security camera or men in dark suits with ear pieces, it’s the mannequins you need to look out for.

“We live in a bubble of fake bullshit and we have this hunger to get to anything that’s real, even if that’s a Starbucks Mocha with REAL Swiss Chocolate” – Jesse Schell

With the constant barrage of iBullshit about phone antennas and ‘oh em gee it looks like they might put a gyroscope in the next iPad’, I keep feeling that I’m being disconnected from design, idea, creativity driven lifestyle I loved so much back at Uni. I don’t care about 3D TV when the content of the shows is just moving wallpaper to sell the gimmick. I feel like all this shit needs to be given some meaning.