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Funky!

I return from the past few weeks of hell with…THIS!

And now for something totally different

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No matter how much you dig what you do, and no matter the amount of enthusiasm you maintain, if you work in the creative fields, you need a blow off valve.

If you have been an irregular visitor to these parts, you’ll know that it’s something I have struggled with on and off for the past few years. My creative outlets come in fits and spurts but over the past six or so months there has been next to nothing, as the daily jobs just suck up spare time like there’s no tomorrow; which when it comes to doing something just to relax seems to be the case.

Last week I launched www.playforest.com, a domain I had been sitting on for some time as I pondered just what to do with it – the original idea was just not manageable right now. Finally after much thinking about it, I decided it’s going to be my play site, where I use next to no words and just post doodles and drawings. Just because it’s there does not mean I’ll actually be rampant with it, as if just by ‘being’ it causes me to suddenly become a prolific doodling fiend, but it’s existence requires some justification.

Anyways, I hope to start doing something with it soon, as several years of concepts about an idea start to actually come together. I just have to find that thing called time, though I know damn well that you can only find it if you allow yourself…

Bike Doc App

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I told myself a little while back that I was going to only try and post meaningful discourse (to me in anyway) or entertaining/inspirational things. Prolly will last about a month and then I’ll start throwing up random shite again.

I stumbled on this this morning doing the rounds. As per my post about iPod apps I like and use, this one’s really interesting in helping people work out all those little niggles on their bike. The concept is totally interesting and signifies just where media is heading, especially the media that Apple (love them or hate them) is moving into the market. What I find most interesting about this is where once you had a book, which might or might not have been out of date or was soon to become so, this App should and could in theory always be up with all the latest. What’s more, unlike a book, you can have this with you when you need it most… when you are out on the bike. The interactivity is also far more intuitive than trying to leaf through a book to find a particular niggle, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words and a picture that goes ‘bing’ is worth who knows how much?

You can grab it here, if you are so inclined.

Tags: bike doctor