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Sometimes the stuff you find on the internet is pretty cool.

Last night I tried to remember how to paint with water colors. So I drew a sad girl inspired by this funky looking icon I came up with while designing a logo for one of our clients. Pretty tenuous thread, huh?

While I do wish water colors had an undo feature, after numerous attempts I finally did start to get halfway decent results. The most important thing I learned was not to drink while water coloring – I drank paint water once, and put my brush in my gin & tonic twice.

Coolest quotes ever:

“The information superhighway is a dirt road that won’t be paved over until 2025.”
Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom/Blockbuster

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927”

“This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
An internal Western Union memo, 1876

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
IBM chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, founder, chairman & president of DEC, 1977

“640k ought to be enough for anybody.”
Bill Gates, 1981

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949”

“Everything that can be invented has already been invented.”
Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

“Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
Kristin Wilson, Nintendo, Inc., 1989

“A rocket will never be able to leave the earth’s atmosphere.”
The New York Times, 1936

“The only thing I’d rather own than Windows is English. Then I’d be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.”
Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Some new footage back from the lab, for City Councilman Oscar Villegas. I especially like the shot of the motel signage in Reno – Biggest Little City in the World.

Recent cool finds on the web: deadmalls.com – a website about failed shopping centers & malls around the US, groceteria.net, a site about classic US grocery stores (with a nice emphasis on their architecture.) Interestingly, the guy who runs the dead mall site also has a link to sodafinder.com, a site that can help locate obscure or discontinued soda. That’s some severe nerd material. I wonder if they have info on RC Cola….