How can you not love a face like that?

An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself. A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find - the brush tool, the eraser tool - to get back at his tormentor. It’s resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself.

Of course, it didn’t end there and Animator vs. Animation II came out shortly after. Perhaps not as good as the first one (IMHO), you can clearly see subtle influences such as The Matrix circa 2006.

Almost 2 years later (July 2009), Alan posted on his profile:

I’ve started working on Animator vs. Animation III! Don’t expect it to come out any time soon, but know that it’s on the horizon.

Since we know that these things do take time, sometimes up to 5 months or more, I’m not holding my breath. Yet, I’m looking forward to the next instalment.

I can never figure out this cat. Why is it that he prefers the basket with our dirty rags over his proper sleeping basket?

I think he’s playing mind games with us.

Just a quick mental note to say that I’ve been blogging for just over 5 years now. The Aquila Online blog kicked off on 10 September 2004 (Yes, yes I know. I missed my own blog-birthday) and is still going. These things still amaze me.

So without much Pomp and Circumstance - Happy birthday blog.

Well, I wonder how long the W-key on my Dell keyboard is going to last.

Credit crunch, recession, taxi strike - all contributing factors to an economic slowdown.

Earlier this month Rory Dyer showed us an equally inspirational video during the GodFirst Church Men’s camp (Download audio resources | view some pictures )

The video replays the 400m race from the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Britain’s Derek Redmond tears his hamstring, then gets up to try to finish the race. His father comes down from the stands to help him cross the finish line.

To make matters worse, I always seem to miss the song intro on the radio and the DJ never seems to repeat the song title.

Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon the iPhone song identification application Midomi. Let me briefly interject.
A good friend, Leon Jacobs once said, “The greatest things about iPhone is the potential that every new app has to completely transform the device into a totally new experience.” I have to agree with Leon. Midomi has transformed the way I interact with music.

The premise is simple - open Midomi, press the big orange button, hold your iPhone up to a source of music and voila, it identifies the artist and song title. It even allows you to play back a short clip (from its own database) so that you can confirm if it’s the same song. Just watch out for loud ambient noise though - it makes song recognition a bit tricky.

Surprisingly enough it even recognised my tone-deaf humming of certain songs. Of course, if you don’t want to feel like a dork singing to your phone, you can also search for a song or band just by saying or typing the name.

The features don’t stop there though. You can bookmark and share your song results via Twitter and Facebook. Check out the lyrics, videos via YouTube and obtain detailed artist info. You can buy the song, but I haven’t been able to do so since the iTunes music store is still not available in South Africa.

All in all, this is a great application and at $4.99 (around R38) it’s worth every cent.

Download the Midomi application for your iPhone here.

Cloë the domestic short hair cat stares down a leopard.

Our cat Cloë loves watching Animal Planet.

A feline licker, do you call it a Flickr then?

A break in the clouds in the shape of an eye. The weather has been miserable this last week. Makes traffic a real pain.

Spotted these two Audi A4 cabriolets in Sandton, sporting matte black paint. Looks stunning when the car is clean, not so much when it’s dirty or dusty.

Extreme Rock Paper Scissors Superbowl ad from Bud Light. Low five!

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