I spent hours at the beach with the almost 6 years old Melissa and W. We were observing the minutiae of the place and collecting short over-lived sticks, easy to pull together and tie up with a used up nylon string or net. Mine was calibrated on my fist like a baton relay, her was built in a similar fashion with a bright orange plastic rope. I remember that at one point in the discussion, when I was not grasping her point although trying to she served me with a never-mind. Calling a raw phrase a turning point is a clear exaggeration or not. She's growing old and getting tired of detailing the whole picture to the grands. Grabbing hands and nevermind.

After getting over with a big assignment from our client in Abu Dhabi, a packaging work for which we produced more concepts than for any other work ever, I believe it is time for some clean-up. Here come the Beatles, a good reading of past languages a bit before pushing the corners of the next framework. Coruscus is going CSS and is near, white, menu-less, portfolio-centric with samples of a size that scares, I'll be on that thru the next update for PixArtisan. Speaking of which, stats inform PixArtisan has received on average above 1000 unique visitors a day for 10 days in a row now. These are very interesting news considering Angela Rohner wanted to include the site in her gallery of the best designs and that we are simultaneously on netdiver.net, defrost.com and the excellent webcreme.

to google was finally included into the standard body of the Oxford Dictionary today, a verb. For how long have we been using that very verbiage, three years? Google it!, more than anything a "no-excuses" call to coworkers and friends who still don't get it. When I use to decline their questions with this now-famous short for "the-tool's-out-there-just-use-it".

Back to the kid, turning 6 on the 7th of July, what is she getting? Lots of very girl-ish stuff of course, mitigating her wandering ego is an assignment, an arch with arrows to check her homicidal tendencies, but two things I point out: phones and cameras. We're giving her a phone, no bells and whistles, I said phone. She's already our bilingual secretary, she can have her own phone. Most important she's getting a digital camera, a 3MP simple automatic white-balance not-too-many-presets digicam with a 15 MB memory that she can hook up to her Mac. She uses Photoshop, at her age it is important to understand where the input comes from and that it's all digital on the source. Kids need push, not over-protection, before somebody spells the word they have to print their photos. Technologies that make sense, are convenient, flexible and do not rip your time from you need to be embraced and experienced in full. What would you do with your photo prints when half your friends are in the US and the other half spread all over EU? Photo-blogging is in not because it's trendy but because it makes sense.

Now for something that does not make sense. So dark the con of man... you're missing The Da Vinci Code, not the book, the pelicula. Stay away, crap head to toe, do you want me to swear on the keyboard? No link for you!