Technology meets Fashion

Hussein Chalayan is a designer known for mixing technology and fashion. The dresses above display time-lapse videos with the help of 15,000 LEDs that are embedded in the fabric. The one on the left is a sequence of a rose opening and closing...I'm not sure about the other. He's also made animatronic dresses that move and wooden skirts that could double as coffee tables.






Here's some more info about the technology behind some of the fashion.

Thing #6: More Flickr Fun

It seems like a lot of the mashups and third party tools available on Flickr are useful for manipulating your own photos that you've uploaded..and I haven't uploaded any. I did like this one called Flickr Color Picker, where you can click on a color and up pop Flickr images that match that color. Pretty cool!

Thing #5- Discovering Flickr!

Johnny Weir
Originally uploaded by dinkus30

I'm supposed to take a look around Flickr and find an interesting image that I want to blog about. Well, guess whose image I chose!

This is Johnny right after winning the short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this past January...and I was there to see it!

I'm all for this...

Wisconsin Woman, 20, Arrested for Two Overdue Library Volumes...

7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

I think the habit that I find the easiest is #7- teaching and mentoring others. I really enjoy sharing what I've learned. As far as the hardest, that may be #1- beginning with the end in mind- even if I set a goal, I tend to get distracted by other things that I want to learn!

My First Post!

Well, I've been meaning to start a blog for a long time, but have never gotten around to it. Thanks to Learn & Play @CML, I can do it at work!