phone and your social status

My last phone broke and so I went back to the store to buy any ordinary phone that I could get for cheap, and the next upgraded phone was a smart phone, an android to be exact. The sales people told me some of the differences between that and an iphone, like the applications and the cost so I went with the cheaper. The point is that I see people with Iphones that view at as more than a useful device, but as emblem of their social status, but since other companies are coming out with smartphones it may change that. Dont get me wrong I think the Iphones are faster than androids but they both do the same tasks. Like PC or mac the same to me, but thats probably because I grew up using both of them, at home and at school, so I view it as a preference thing. I think as more smartphones become common then the difference wont be seen as much, but then it becomes about upgrading, "If it looks the same how will people know I upgraded"

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNxDd3l0lEU

Narwhals

Everytime I ask some one about these mysterious creatures no one says they even heard of them or if they have, they never really knew much about them. Well I will inform everyone about them then! They only live in the artic sea or the northpole, you know where Santa is. In some ancient Russian stories the narwhals were thought to be related to the legendary unicorns, basically making them the unicorns of the sea. A lot of people thought their tusk is a horn but it is actually growth from their teeth. Anyways thought these animals were something cool to look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSjjHiysBbE

Painter Sick!!

Anyone who is into photoshop I suggest to check the program (Corel Painter) its pretty sick. For the longest time I've been using photoshop to illusrate any image or edit any image which is great, I can use it pretty fast and usually never run into any problems but it can't quite do what painter can do. With this magical wand you can make any image seem as if it were actually painted with brush strokes awesome because that can really help inspire new and different techniques. I found that messing with an image or just drawing it scratch in photoshop and then taking that image into painter afterwards, can produce something completely different looking things that I never would of fathomed. here are some examples

-making photo as if painted:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVOwOvGhrdg

-drawing in Painter example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUKwozKXOc&feature=related

-Overview of Painter:           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChqkPjDyGuo