Well it’s been a minute since I posted on the ole blog here, I’ve been busy with my new job at Neilsen IAG as well as freelancing on a couple of other projects and I continue to work with Galison on their email campaigns and some other general stuff since they’ve always been so good to me.

Add to that the fact that we recently just moved into a new place in Brooklyn and it’s a recipe for having a lot going on but not much time to write about it. The original idea of the blog was to help me get work anyway, and now that I have more work than I know what to do with, I guess I’ve kind of drifted away from it a little bit.

That being said, I will still find time to write here because it’s always good to share how much of a geek I am with the world (and by world I mean the 3 people that actually read this thing) and I am actually going to get back to working on a little side project I had been cooking up, more on that later.

Those bastards are at it again! If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Apple, it’s that you never buy the first generation of a remodel or new product if you can avoid it. Invariably, they will update the product a few months later, without changing the price, and you’ll be stuck with a product that probably looks the same, but YOU know is infinitely worse than the new version.

I am, however, in the market for a Apple desktop and will be looking into the iMac more seriously (now that it’s faster) instead of the Mac Pro which is substantially more expensive.

Catherine and I are in the process of acquiring our motorcycle licenses, we thought it’d be something fun to do during the spring so we could ride while the weather is good. She actually has a 50cc scooter (New York only requires a motorcycle license to drive anything under 50cc in engine size) that she’s been riding since November of last year. She rode it through most of the winter, which I could never do.

Now that the weather is getting great though, I kind of want to see what all the fuss is about. The problem is that I don’t really want to spend as much as I’d have to spend to have something that can only go 45mph, so I really would need a motorcycle license to ride anything quicker.

I’m going back and forth between a scooter (such as the pictured Big Ruckus) and a small, cheap motorcycle. I really would prefer a motorcycle, mostly because most scooters aren’t made to fit a 6′6″ guy. The Big Ruckus, for whatever reason, has always sort of caught my eye. Maybe because it’s one of the few scooters that doesn’t look like it was designed for 17 year old girls, it actually looks utilitarian. It’s also got a bigger motor so it can get up to maybe 75 - 80mph, which would suit me just fine.

We’re planning to take our permit tests this weekend before attending a safety course, hopefully we’ll have our licenses within the next 2-3 weeks. Then we’ll see how the motorcycle/scooter debate plays out.

Li Wei is a conceptual artist from Beijing with a knack for depicting the impossible in effortless photography and installations. None of the photos on his site, according to Wei, are collages or created digitally, instead they rely on traditional tricks used by illusionists… you know, smoke and mirrors?

You can check out his site by following this link, some very cool images in there.