Lots of neat stuff going on!

The other day I had a bit of a meltdown on Twitter after we were stuffed around by an insulation guy who failed to show up, not earth shattering in the very least on it’s own but it was the end of a very long day where my mouth had given me all sorts of drama (the socket where the tooth was removed has cut its way through the gum).

So I was just a little fed up on it all.

But the thing is that despite those dramas I’ve got a bunch of really cool things going on at the moment that I thought I might catch you all up on.

The Midnight Movie Club

Probably the biggest thing right now is that Dan of the blog All That Comes With It and I are embarking together on a very cool little blogging project called the Midnight Movie Club.

The basics of it are fairly straight forward, each week we watch an older film that if shown at midnight on a work/school night we would have trouble tearing ourselves away from it despite the amount of caffeine needed to keep ourselves alive the next day. It’s not really a very long stretch of the imagination!

The other neat thing about it is that we’ve been using Google Wave as our collaboration platform to discuss our ideas on the movie. It’s worked really well and it does give us a little insight on the potential for Wave.

The first movie we’re staying up late to watch is Moonraker, the most science fiction’y of the James Bond films. Check out the site at http://midmoclub.com/ it has been a tonne of fun putting it together with Dan and early next year we’ll be opening it up for guest appearances by regular readers!

Armoured Cup of Joe Ltd Edition prints available

I finally got myself sorted and are now offering up some limited edition print runs of some of my illustrations, the first being the Iron Man inspired “Armoured Cup of Joe” . These are really limited runs, with only ten prints being made of each.

Go buy a limited edition print now!!

The Adventures of Professor Abe Decker

I’m loving Professor Abe Decker right now and are already looking at his next adventures despite only being two pages in on his tangle with the horrible Fishman! A new page will appear here every weekend!

Arjan

I'm using Wave as an offline p2p network with some friends for music.
I'm using Wave as a mini-friend forum to post about must-watch tv-series and music
oh and for bullshitting around.

Already put a rss on it the mmc.

Lee

It took working on the MMC for me to truly appreciate what Wave might be able to do, before that I couldn't really see the personal benefit.

Sounds like you're bending it to your will :)

Jeff

Nice idea with the MMC. I'm already subscribed. And I'm looking forward to more from Prof. Abe Decker! That's interesting that you're using Wave, too. I saw some early demos of it, but not much since then. Does it live up to the hype? Would it be just as easy to use Google Docs for the kind of collaboration you're doing, or does Wave really add something worthwhile?

Lee

Cool thanks for subscribing!

I'll send you a Google Wave invite so you can check it out, but the way we write these 'reviews' (if you'd call them that) is a very flowing 'chat' styled approach which Wave lends itself to really well.

Thing is, we are using very little of the features as we don't really need them at this stage but I'm sure as useful stuff comes online we'll give it a go!

Jeff

Excellent. Thanks for the invite. I just signed up and I'm geeking out a bit. It's a totally unfocused geeking, though, as I'm not sure exactly what to do with it yet, but I like the p2p network idea Arjan had. That's interesting.