lazy lemonade

Works best if there is a lemon tree in the backyard.

Maira Kalman Lecture

Last night at Stanford. She seemed like a well-adjusted female version of Woody Allen.

At one point she thought she was at Berkeley ;) – a faux pas only a New Yorker could have made (and gotten away with).

The talk should be up on iTunes university in a couple of weeks.

It was interesting to see 10 year olds waiting in line to get their books signed and then some design students get their “Elements of Style” signed. All in the same line. :)

The talk was very much like her blog posts and books, going from how she decided she was in love with A. Lincoln, while researching him in the Presidential  Library to her Proust Map, that she took along to DC.

 

Unfortunately not much insight into the method behind her madness.

Brushes

Caved in and bought Brushes. Here is my first finger-painting. Lovely app, but will take some time to adjust to using just my index finger, instead of a pen/brush.

Happy Deepavali

wave

Anyone else on the google wave know what it is all about? I am a bit disappointed, waiting for all the “stamps to get licked”

Red

Sydney is looking unreal right now. Excuse me while I go bother my one Aussie coworker on skype…If you are from the red planet, you are an Alien, right?

http://blog.flickr.net/2009/09/22/red-dust-over-sydney/

photo source : Highranger@Flickr

Bangalore 24th Airborne

Picked up a Tee from Old Navy yesterday, just because I had to.

Can’t find it online though..

Steve McCurry has a blog

And our dear Professor thinks we should show traditions some respect – so I will not just add a link on facebook, but go old school and blog about it.

the blog.

An aside.

I had to deal with the Geniuses at the local Apple store today. It all ended well. The ‘Lead Genius’ (his words) conceded that he had no real power in getting what I wanted done, though he agreed with what I had to say, in principle. sigh.

Wait, that isn’t the aside.

The real aside – people watching at the Apple store.

The woman next to me was in an off-white Chikan work kurta, green corduroys, hawaiian flip flops, had a knit handbag and a custom-made laptop sleeve – browsing the news in Hebrew. That is Israeli hipster chic for you.

Two Buddhist monks, in their typical saffron and deep red robes, and a jhola walk in. One of them consults a Genius about some video editing tools for his cameras. Yes, cameras – a sony video cam, a canon DSLR and one more, all appear from his jhola. The other monk, oh, he is having a conversation on his iPhone. And that would be iZen.

A digital media student who had all his work on his Macbook, before it decided to go kaput. There were some ER/House like scenes, panic, drama and the all knowing Genius saving the day – unfortunately no insurance – the laptop was more than a year old. Poor little rich kid.

Though the best part was watching advertising dollars in action. In the 40 minutes I spent in the store, 3 people waiting to be helped asked someone at the store, “Is it true that Macs are more expensive than PCs?”

heh.

the power of numbers

the power of statistics (real or otherwise) and back-of-the-envelope calculations in the hands of idiots is grossly under-estimated.

Tarantino hits the spot

Brutally Entertaining!

Fabulous! Loved every bit of the movie. Wonderful cast that delivers – though Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger could have done a lot more with their roles. But hey, I am not complaining. Go watch how a beautiful movie is supposed to be made.