EXTREME SHEEP!!!!!!

Artplosure 2009

Artplosure 2009 happened over the weekend in downtown Raleigh, and it was one of the best art festivals I've attended in a long time. While I'll always love my Hoboken Music and Arts Festival, somewhere along the way, they lost the plot and became more of a "look how many things our vendors can fry" event with little focus on the artists. Not here. Live performances, interactive activities for anyone who wanted to participate, and nicely mapped out area around Moore Square making it easy for you to move around and take time to find everything you wanted to check out.

I took some shots for my new Meetup group, which you can checkout out here.

Looking forward to the next one!

Watch out for that tree...

While I think that every phone should have this, here is the new application from Phase 2 Media: Email N' Walk. That's right, now you can email away while still watching your furry friend mark his 40th tree in the neighborhood. You type in your subject, the text of the email, and hit send. It will direct you to your mail account, where you select the person you want to send to, and away it goes. Gimmicky: sure, but if they could develop it for Blackberry, the world would be a safer place...

Tweet Mic

With "Tweet Casts" becoming more and more popular, along comes Tweet Mic to help expedite the process. You can record your Tweet Cast directly on to your iPhone, and then upload a link direct to Twitter. The files are hosted on a Tweet Mic server, which you can access to manage your old recordings. The cost for the app is $.99, but if you're fairly active on Twitter and need to post that one thing that comes up on the fly, then it might be worth the investment for you.

Interact with and track your contacts on a new level

Highrise is one of the new kids on the block, helping you organize and streamline how you operate and help you look forward as well. The great part about this program is that it's for everyone: marketers, designers, teachers, real estate gurus, the works. Track leads, import and export contacts with ease, and review conversations you've had with clients to help build relationships and be better informed in meetings. Reminders can be send via SMS and email.

It is a paid program, and for those of us that just need to keep up with a To-Do list, they have a free version called Ta-Da.

Even the best multitaskers need to elevate their game in this environment, so get to it!

Can you hear me now?

Hi, we're from New Zealand, and we're going to destroy you.

By far the most intimidating pre game ritual in ANY sport.

Don't mess with Elmo (NSFW)