Moil's Ink

There isn’t a happier Moil in a hundred thousand miles. Top row is the drum machine, second row includes the strings, next row controls the upper and lower keys, and various other switches and bars throughout control the sound of the pedals, add bass backup, one switch even holds the keys down for you. Once the bedframe is attached this thing will take me to places only H.G.Wells could dream up. I kind of wish it was both, Commodore Hammond AND General Midi, now that would be Space Rock 2010.

These are real objects, made from cardstock and glue, printed from a PDF. The PDF’s will soon be made available to the general public so you too can build your own Boomcity.Biz logo for your desk.

I recently was surfing the web for one thing or another, and ended up on a website called Superpunch. A collection of oddities from around the web blogged about. From there I discovered papercraft. Specifically some Starwars related papercraft. I built the Millenium Falcon, R2-D2 and the TIE interceptor. The Starwars ships are like toys that can be recycled. Much better than plastic, but with less moving parts.

Then I read about someone who used the papercraft concept to create a replacement part for a speaker stand. They modelled the object in the computer and converted it into a paper craft, built and then covered it in epoxy. Plastic-like replacement part. So I decided this was cool, downloaded Sketchup and Pepakura. I’m not sure what I might use this for, but I like the concept a whole lot.

I think we may start seeing some interesting objects appear around Boomcity soon.

The Citizens of Boomcity.Biz collectively would like to wish all a happy year this 2010, and be sure to re-watch your Kubrick box set.

We are happy to say that Boomcity’s crime rates are still non-existant primarily due to the removal of standardized currency. We look forward to another year of useless police.

In the tech centre research has hit another level of awesome with the creation of the Boomcity image gallery. Construction on the beta model of the re-usable, customizable image gallery was completed late last night. Now begins the second stage of testing and adapting for stability and ease of use.

On a slightly different note, the Guv’nor has once again joined the entertainment platform in a new secret entertainment factory. Word on the street is there are off-beats involved and the Guv’ner himself will be a major spokesperson for the project.

31 days until GHD.

While walking with my children we saw two seperate trees being used as human refuse containers. The apple pictured here is thankfully biodegradable, but the garbage found in the other tree unfortunately was plastic and some paper that could have been recycled. The really odd thing about both trees was that garbage cans were visible from both tree.

Even more recently my kids dumped a couple apple cores at the base of the tree outside our house…but they put them out there as a snack for the Racoon that lives in a nest in that very tree. Had the Racoon not eaten the apples we would have cleaned them up.

   Next month a meeting will occur in Coppenhagen that may very well change your way of life.  The United Nations Climate Change Conference. I heard a joke about future taxation on breathing since we exhale carbon dioxide. This might not be so funny after all. Imagine a new religion, the green religion, where by paying money to someone, somewhere, some web site, we ease our souls of their wrong doings against the earth itself. Instead of tribunals to god, we pay the earth, except like church, earth nor god need our cash, just those who run the organization. Please seek the truth about climategate and the Copenhagen climate conference.

 On another note… This is the new ad from Telus with the addition of the space rocket pick pocket. That’s a wallet being lifted from the pygmy goat. Recently I discontinued my cellular phone. Useful but expensive. I was being charged for surfing the internet and other activities without my knowing through my phone. October I was charged for 11 minutes of webtime, except I never went online.  After talking with a telus representative it is apparently normal to be charged like this and it was my fault. To add salt to the wound the new ad campain promotes  ’clear and simple pricing’. They can keep their pricing and their lies, and I’ll simply keep my money.

Moil Studios has been studiously moiling.

Mr. Moil was recently lecturing about typefaces. Conversations from how Courier looks rounded and smooth on a Mac and pixelated on a  PC (the ‘Naughticus’ wallpaper below great example of how Courier appears on a PC) to conversations about the Helvetica Documentary by Gary Hustwit to the creation of a popcan tab typeface as seen in the GC&theBG wallpaper image below. 

Much flash development has also been occurring as well. Mr. Moil recently heard a rumour that Flash CS5 will export to IPhone compatible applications, and adobe labs confirms it. To get ready for this very cool news much excitement and practicing with Action Script 3.0 has resulted in two new flash applications  (a 2-4 player game timer and some math quizzes) available in the Boomcity Gallery. 

Although not near completion the Moil crew has been working hard with the Blipsandifs Programmers to produce their XML based jukebox for the superflat single archives using Action Script 3.0.

Boomcity researchers have proposed a new theory regarding the universe and how we see it. Noted Boomcitizen Dr. C. took notice to a interesting phenomenon during the last eclipse and has been testing his theory ever since.

While examining the sun through a tiny pin hole in a black  card, I was using it to shield my eyes from the eclipse halo, I suddenly took notice not the the glory of our star but to the instrument I was witnessing it. When held before me I saw a tiny pinhole of light, like a little star. That began my recent studies.  -Dr. C.

Although the diagram  has greatly simplified the concept it does work to demonstrate the theory. Dr.C. points out that we never see the jar itself as it orbits geosynchronous. For more information regarding star holes please contact Boomcity Science Dept. through the Boomcity Tech Centre Techsupport.

As you may know, Boomcity.Biz is an automatic structural bio system designed to adapt to its inhabitants. As the population grows and shrinks, the city reconfigures itself to accomidate the Boomcitizens needs. During these modular reconfigurations there have been known glitches and errors. Rest assured the city will right itself eventually and life will resume as normal.