Sony released three new cameras at 2 a.m. today (night owls are the target demographic, I suppose…). Of the three (the a7, a7R and RX10) the new a7R is by far the coolest.
Full frame sensor in a tiny, little camera body
Interchangeable lens mount (an oddball one, however)
Weather sealed
Wi-Fi
36.4 megapixel (holy crap)
No low pass filter (which means the best image quality possible)
Electronic viewfinder
Tiltable 3” LCD
In a word (or three words), it’s totally sick.The big thorn in its tiny side, however, are lenses. Currently, zero lenses exist for this thing. Sony promises to release four of them by Christmas, but yeah, slim pickins.
Beastie Boy Mike D designed a Brooklyn-themed wallpaper, or, toile, if you will, and you can purchase it here: http://www.flavorpaper.com/wallpaper/brooklyn-toile
HOT TIP: in the event that you don't have a swath in your brownstone that needs highlighting, you can purchase a 8.5 x 11" sample from the link above for a measly $2
An unknown individual flew a consumer drone over midtown Manhattan today (which is illegal). The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff (as drones are prone to do). Thankfully, no one was hurt, however, it certainly frightened the person that it crashed directly in front of on the sidewalk. Wisely, this person fished the memory card out of its camera, and gave it to ABC news. Here's the report from ABC:
Martha Stewart Demands Home Repair from Apple for Cracked iPad
Earlier this week, ex-con Martha Stewart dropped and cracked her iPad:
I just dropped my iPad on the ground and shattered two glass corners. What to do?does one call Apple to come and pick it up or do I take it?
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 25, 2013
I am still waiting for an apple rep to come pick up my IPad. No action yey
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 26, 2013
Ms. Stewart constantly misspells words in her tweets, and one can safely assume that "yey" is supposed to be "yet." Later that afternoon, Stewart pitches a new business idea to Apple, which seems deeply inspired by Google Now:
Maybe I have had a good entrepreneurial idea? Apple Now? Like same day delivery from Amazon? I think I am on to something. Same day fixit!!!
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 26, 2013
The key message in that last tweet was "fixit!!!" At this point, it seems the domestic diva had stirred up some Twitter-fueled drama:
So is it time to put out the fires and admit I was just pissed off at the fact my precious ipad shattered and I wanted to make light of it??
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 26, 2013
The magazine is called Martha Stewart Living, and this Twitter rant can be dubbed Martha Stewart Pissed. Later that evening, Stewart shed light on the controversy:
i cannot believe that Apple Public Relations is mad at me for tweeting about my Ipad and how to get it fixed! steve jobs gave it to me!
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 27, 2013
Perhaps if she had properly written the capitalization of "iPad," like did in her first tweet, then Apple PR would have stayed out of her grill. Steve would be mad at you too, Martha. Next, she teases us in the next two tweets:
i wish i could explain everything here on twitter about the broken IPad, the stolen IPhone, the silly joke about repairs and my frustration!
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 27, 2013
but it is impossible so i will deal with it all silently and hope that apple will fix everything so i can function again with proper tools
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 27, 2013
Looks like Apple PR won this round. Stewart is forced to bite her tongue. However, she is still convinced that Apple needs to come to her door and fix her stricken slab:
Let's now talk turkey: Ipads addictive,awesome,expensive. Glass should /could be unbreakable. That the iPad works with cracked corners-great
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 27, 2013
But the cracked glass is sharp and can cut. I was just upset that I(someone)was clumsy and let the iPad fall out of the car. To fix is time
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart)
September 27, 2013
Here's the question: are all Martha Stewart products made out of "unbreakable" glass? And if not, does she offer a "Martha Stewart Now" service that comes to your door and immediately repairs cracked cookery? Let's face it, this kind of home service is the only way forward for everyone. To quote Martha Stewart: "To fix is time"
Volkswagon will no longer be producing the Type 2 Microbus, which is still currently produced and sold in Brazil. The country now requires all vehicles to be equipped with airbags and anti-lock breaks, which the little bus lacks.
If you want to get your hands on one (and face it, you do), you need to get yourself to Brazil and cough up $35,637. The only major problem is that your van will look like this:
Weird Twitter Account @Horse_ebooks Revealed as "Performance Art"
The mysterious Twitter account called @Horse_ebooks is, in fact, 29 year-old Jacob Bakkila, a Buzzfeed employee and self-proclaimed performance artist. Jacob posted a constant stream of non sequitur (m-w.com defines non sequitur as "...a statement that is not connected in a logical or clear way to anything said before it.").
Many people found the posts to be funny, when, in fact, they were intended to be conceptual/performance art, not comedy:
According to this article in the New York Times Bits Blog, the idea behind @Horse_ebooks was to present a spambot that was out of control. Think of those automatically-generated, out-of-context spammy comments you often find on blogs. This is the voice of @Horse_ebooks.
A big part of the today's reveal was the following video, which warns of a man named Dalton, who apparently has the power to crash the stock market:
The video, which hints at being a mockery of the Occupy Wall Street movement, links to a page that acts as a malfunctioning site for, what appears to be, a video game called Bear Stearns Bravo.
What you shouldn't do is try to figure any of this out. It's a pseudo-marketing Twitter account that's actually a real marketing account for Buzzfeed.
This Week in Angry Rich Guy News: Coca-Cola heir Alki David tweets furiously at Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia
Billionaire CEO and Coca-Cola bottling heir Alki David (pictured above) is apparently really really mad at Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia. Alki tweeted the following at Chet in the afternoon of Sunday, September 22nd:
@ckanojia - hey fuckhead, if you keep ddosing FilmOn you are going to pay in more ways than you can imagine.
What is ddosing? Wikipedia calls it "...an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users." In layman's terms, it's a cyber attack. Alki is convinced that the attack came from Chet. So, like any responsible, professional person, he violently lambasted his assumed foe on Twitter.
Alki and Chet both own similar companies. Their businesses use small antennas that capture local TV broadcasts, and their customers pay to rent these antennas, so they can watch over-the-air broadcast TV through on computers and mobile gadgets. Alki's company is called FilmOn, and Chet's company is called Aereo. It's worth noting that Alki's original name for FilmOn was "aereokiller."
Read more about it in this Greg Sandoval piece on The Verge:
It's clear that the Surface project has been an abject failure. However, to Microsoft's credit, they haven't given up. You can't help but wonder if HP had fought for the Touchpad, that it may have found a way to become a sustainable product by now.
At today's event in NYC, the new Surface2 was announced. Microsoft also showed off a new Touch Cover called The Remix Project. There's no QWERTY keyboard to be found here. What you get are dedicated controls for DJing and manipulating sound.
The 3 faders, 8 keys and 16 pads are pressure sensitive and backlit, so they have at least something that you can't get with on-screen software controls. A dedicated Remix Project app lets you quickly remix tracks, and, presumably, DJ to your heart's content. The app and new Smart Cover are compatible with the original Surface Pro, the new Surface2 and Surface2 Pro. None of this will work with the Surface RT.
Here are the questions it raises:
Are Surface-owning DJ's going to invest in a hardware accessory that's limited to 3 faders, 16 pads, and 8 buttons?
If the answer is yes, will enough people buy this to make it wildly successful?
Can a wildly-successful niche accessory save a deeply-troubled tablet?
Grand Theft Auto V: The 3-Day Billion Dollar Dynamo Started Out as a Chaotic Project Led by Inexperienced Dreamers
Grand Theft Auto, the video game title that, this week alone, generated 1 billion dollars in sales in three days, started out life as a somewhat experimental project led by relatively inexperienced people. The following video by The Guardian tells the tale eloquently:
The take away? There's a fortune to be made in impractical decision making. The tricky thing is determining which crazy ideas to green light, and which ones to poo-poo.
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