John Gruber: ”An exquisitely well-crafted, beautiful, useful iPhone dock. I’m in.” Gizmodo: ”I’m tempted to buy an iPhone just so I can use the Elevation Dock” SlashGear: ”Elevation Dock for iPhone blows up on Kickstarter” UberGizmo: ”Dock aims to make undocking your iPhone a piece of cake” Jason Fried: ”Love the thinking that went into the design!” Cult of Mac: ”Elevation Lab Has Designed The Most Gorgeous iPhone Dock Ever” Uncrate: ”…not just any dock. The Elevation Dock.” GigaOM: ”A dock becomes a darling of the tech world” Wired: ”The Dock Apple should have made in the first place.”
SoulPancake is number four in WIRED’s “What’s WIRED This Month” playlist in the January 2010 issue. Rainn graces the mag with a little shot of his near perfect Michelangelo-esque physique, and we get a nice blurb as well! It’s on page 48 in the magazine.
While checking in at SoulPancake today, I was turned onto SIA for the first time by SoulPancake user coffeeyesplease. The intriguing discussion can be found here and has some great music discovery if anyone’s interested in finding some new stuff.
Sometimes when Nya and Ryu (my dogs, photos on the right) dream, they get kind of rowdy and kick around while fake running. Usually, I obsess about them… But, after seeing the video below I no longer feel the necessity to obsess about it…. at all.
Thanx to my friend Seth Weintraub, author of 9to5mac and writer at Computerworld for sending this my way.
A brief little history: Blair Cline is one of my best friends, only he sucks at two things… The video games NBA Street, and Street Fighter.
Unfortunately, he thinks he’s good at both, until I crush him. So, he responds with what he thinks are verbal assaults of rhyming fury, only to be left dazzled when I respond. Below… are the two latest exchanges between Blair and myself.
After exchanging the names of my dogs with a friendly neighbor at the park, I was once again asked what my Australian Shepherd’s name stood for. “Ryu” is what I call him, and it actually means quite a few things. Allow me to share:
Ryu is probably most popular as being the lead street fighter video game character. He was widely chosen by many people because of his magical “Hadouken” power spheres. As he was the lead character ever since the first Street Fighter, those familiar with the video game should recall that not many characters could overpower Ryu, if any at all.
The image above is called “Concentric Hadouken” and showcases how magically fantastic the “essence” of Ryu is. Besides being an incredibly iconic video game character, the name and energy span deep into Japanese sub culture, including early graphic design and digital art. Read More…
This is a Valentine’s Day card I made for my love. Everything was done from scratch including the graphics, the flying cupid, the pattern/grid styles. It was made using Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. The song is Radiohead’s Fast Aurp from In Rainbows, which happens to be the best album of the past two years.
The photo at the end is a few years old (from college)
This one’s more recent. From the Rose Garden here in Portland.
If you have some time this weekend and are in the mood for some serious laughs, here are the latest two episodes of The Office. Titled “Lecture Circuit: Parts 1 & 2″ the series has really been delivering the goods this season.
Rainn was on Jay Leno on Wednesday, January 27th and announced the upcoming launch of SoulPancake.com. The entire video is below in case you missed it.
You can signup for Soul Pancake here to stay informed about our progress. The first version of the site launches in early February.
New Years is fun. It’s a time when people feel like they can start over, or if they’re doing great, keep it going for another magical year. Resolutions are something that have become synonymous with celebrating the new year… Here are mine.
• Eat yogurt every single morning with coffee
• Eat at a restaurant of different ethnicity every week
• Yoga stretches before bed, not just in the morning
• Consciously practice patience until it becomes natural
• Start working on that six pack (for real)
• Budget my money better
• Stay in contact with people that are important to me
• Build out a more diverse and global business network
• Double the traffic on my main websites
• Scout a new office
Whether you have new years resolutions or not, it’s important to take this chance and reflect on your life. Look back on the last year, think about everything that has happened to you. Were you in control of it? Could it have been better? Would changing something within your core mentality change your outlook on life? Make it more positive? Increase your patience? If you think anything can be done to improve your overall well-being, boost your happiness and feed your soul… Just do it.
I don’t really know what to say about this one. We always hoped it was coming, but nobody ever knew for sure. They’ll be playing at Hampton Coliseum in Virgina on March 6,7 and 8th. Read More…
One of my best friend’s Blair and I, have a long lasting rivalry in the game NBA Street. Below are the latest two exchanges showcasing our Earth-Shattering verbal skills while slashing the other’s NBA Street Skills to the ground. Read More…
Image via flickr user 
Founder of @thinkbrilliant Lucky to share my life with two Aussies and a Cattle Dog. Phish fanatic, lover of the great outdoors.
