Looking for a ruler

I wanted to see how big will a 8 inches by 6 inches envelope be and thought of printing a exact ruler

But How? I searched google for a real ruler image which can be printed on my office paper and this is what I got: Printable Rulers

Nice and Handy for a quick measurement :-)

BrightKite

BrightKite is another site which I came across while browsing through the businessweek slideshow of Best Young Tech Entrepreneur. Based on their description on their web-site:

" Brightkite is a location-based social network. In real time you can see where your friends are and what they're up to. Depending on your privacy settings you can also meet others nearby."

How good OR how bad are they will be known only when I spend some more time on their site. But time is at a premium right now. So I better get back to work, or else .........

Wild Pockets

I was going through a slide-show on the  BusinessWorld web-site about Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009 when I discovered a new web-site called WildPockets.com which allows people to create 3D games by themselves. 

Just registered to try it out. They seem to have a lot of tools to design your own stuff. Be it 3D Advertisements, 3D Product features and many other things. Lets see how good it is.

Some Disappointing Updates

Building of games and other 3D content require installing an ActiveX control which when clicking on install gives an error in the WildPockets page --> Could not download the installer. Now who is playing the spoilsport here? Browser, Organization Firewall OR Wildpockets.com.

Some pics from 27th March

Its been a couple of days since I updated my blog. Yesterday while checking our art group bangaloreartforum mails, I came across a bunch of pics which Prabha had taken during our Lalbagh artist camp. I thought of uploading some of the good ones (according to me), so here they are:
Me Messing around with dry pastels














I seem to be happy, but about What?


Jagdish Sir giving Finishing Touches to my work












Our group of 5


End product after Master's Finishing touches











And the master's own work

An Interesting Book

Recently I came across a web-page (I don't remember the links which took me there) and saw a review/information about an art book which I think is a MUST BUY for me. 

Title

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers

Author 

Danny Gregory

BAF Meets at Chitrakala Parishad

On the 12th of April, members of BAF met at a truly inspirational place - The one and only Chitrakala Parishad. Jagdish, Jyotirmoy, Subodh, Usha and a new member Hegde were a part of this meeting which took place in the entry lobby of Parishad. We came up with a couple of thoughts and decided to take up the following as our action items for coming weeks:

1. Have a road/street show of our paintings in Lalbagh (the other side which has the tower on a mountain view), but before that publish the event in all possible media (newspapers, online, Bangalore shopping guide etc.). We also plan to take our paintings to that show and see if there are any interested buyers. But the important point here is that, people should know that an event like this is happening. The date is yet to be finalized but its definitely going to take place within next month.
2. Create a new blog and upload all the soft copies of our art on that blog. The object of this blog would be to sell our paintings. All the members will send soft copies of their art and Subodh will create the blog and upload all the pictures.

Looking forward to a long weekend

As I write this post, I am looking forward to a long weekend starting tomorrow, i.e. Good Friday.

Lots of work at office and will continue to be there until I am at this location. Good part is that I will be moving from this project pretty soon.

On Sunday i.e. 12th April I would be visiting Chitrakala Parishad to see Shobha Goswami's painting exhibition and also to meet up with fellow BAF members for a quick meeting.

Rest Later

Hectic Weekend

This weekend was hectic as expected. Some updates:

1. Received my wife and son at Hyderabad's new airport (I found it much better than the Bangalore airport although both the airports are constructed by the same company :-)). I can write a lot about the goods as well as the bads about both the airports but not now, may be some time later.
2. I met 3 of my old school friends at Hyderabad yesterday. Some of them I met after almost 15 years ..... Had a great (but short) time meeting them.

Chacha Chaudhary brings me back

looking out for themselves

While reading about "Rashomon" on internet, I came across a series of links with one link leading to another and another .....

- Rashomon

-- looking out for themselves

-- Psychological Egoism

-- Circular Logic

-- Infinite Regress

All these are definitely Interesting Reads. 

Bhad-Manush & Rashomon

The setup was amazing. The cast was superb and the performances were outstanding. Based on some Japaneese story "Rashomon" (on which Akira Kurosawa has also made a movie) dealt with dual-faced human being. Quite dark some times the play was on a backdrop of heinous crime committed and the witnesses account of the murder.

Now I am into reading more about Rashomon and the ideology behind this story. Lots of information is there on wikipedia about Rashomon