I've finally found my bum-ass a place to live! Fairfax, CA in beautiful Marin County. Im going to give you all some good reasons to visit: 1. Fog, what fog? 2. My street turns to dirt in 1/4 of a mile from my house with several trailheads. 3. We have a hottub. 4. Good mountain biking trails. 5. Good people 6. Close to S.F   Great place, hardly as many yuppies as the rest of Marin co. Read more...

Just lounging around, thinking I'm gunna throw some stuff down right here. [caption id="attachment_410" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Anyone that can explain this picture to me gets $2"][/caption] First, let me share with you some music that others have shared with me. I have not posted music for a very long time and this is just completely different. Gotta thank Fitch for this one. Some good real music with a little bit of synth to make it nice and cracky. Read more...

Dedicated to Andrea WayteThe Fantastic Mr. Fox, a movie based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name, is a terrific movie starring some clever animals. In particular, the red fox is portrayed as a sly and ingenious thief. A thieving fox is a pretty common theme in literature and this movie made me curious if the red fox really does have a case of kleptomania as big as we give it credit for. Read more...

Im not entirely sure what I just watched. But I like it. From the artist's description: Syn Emergence is a project which examines my own associative relationships between sound, form and space.The project is constructed according to a range of specific sonic and spatial scale rule sets (micro, component, meso and macro) which I designed as part of a cross-disciplinary notation/cartographic system. Syn Emergence from RICH BEVAN on Vimeo. Read more...

Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Eko, a traffic light concept by Damjan Stanković that counts down the time until the light changes. According to his description the benefits of the light include: Less fuel consumption because drivers can turn off their engine as they wait for the light to change. Less stress, you should be free to text message if you know the light wont change for another minute. Read more...

This was posted on my facebook wall tonight. Check out the style here, looks like its going to be really good.

[caption id="attachment_21" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The Innards"][/caption] There is a really cool kit made by Future Kit that will allow you to pretty easily make your own LED VU meter. The kit comes with 15 leds, the PC board, all the components and a little bit of solder. The solder that comes with the kit is pretty big so I just used my own 60/40 rosin core solder from Radioshack. You have to attach your own power supply and the kit accepts 9 - 12v. Read more...

You love music, and you are impressed by flashy lights. Put them together and you have entertainment for hours. Peter Menich has created quite possibly be the best musical visualization ever created. Watch thousands of particles move to the sweet sounds of the piano: Can I have this as a winamp visualization please?