Overwelming a Saturday Night

After a quiet Saturday night (well deserved and missing lately), its has been brought to my attention that the world is still at ones finger tips, waiting, almost beckoning, to be invented, created, transformed, re-made, re-designed, and redefined. This continual exponential expansion is beautiful.

A night of my browsing usually encompasses two sites: Make: Blog and Lifehacker. I can get lost so fast within their links (and links from those links), yielding 10+ tabs open at once stemming to a wider-open borderless field of interest.

I love the creative do-it-yourself stuff. It can be anything. Home building, computers, gardening, knitting, green energy/building, videogame developing, programming, t-shirt printing, etc. Anything stemming to and from that creative human element floats my boat.

Its almost overwelming (as brought to attention tonight). It is overwelming due to the limitless amount of amazing things that lacks time and money to invest and experiment with.

Even Jay Leno is seeing it. A post taken from the Make: Blog references a recent Jay Leno's Garage episode where he takes to a couple of guys who can scan a 3D object and turn it into a 3D digital image. With that imagine, the part can then be duplicated. Rutgers had a 3D printer of some sorts like the one in the episode. But is so overwelming! To think, for under $5k you can have a production facility in your garage thats limited to only the dreams and imagination flying around between your ears.

And now theres gonna be a $100 computer as big as a smoke detector?!? Limitless applications that can be used for. And you need free help with that? Google's got you covered.

How does a world grasp that!? As quoted from another real smart guy, "Almost nothing has been invented yet."

Or Mr. Einstein, "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Music: The Go! Team - Get It Together

Fwd: New Jersey - Recycled-Container Chic - NYTimes.com

So you've all driven through Newark on the Turnpike or 78. You've all looked out your locked car windows at the piles of trash, smoke stacks, car lots, power plants, Bon Jovi's, fat sandwiches, and anything else that apparently give the rest of the country the only picture of the great state of New Jersey. inside this dirty exisits the building blocks of a promising and innovative way of building buildings.

As told by Pops, who somehow knows a lot about a lot, there is a great surplus of shipping containers in Jersey straight up chilling. A great amount of products that come into the NY/NJ ports are carried in standard shipping containers. The shipping crates are not shipped back to Asia because it's cheaper to just make new ones.

The title of this post is from a NY Times article about how some dudes want to build an apartment omplex in Harrison, NJ out of the surplus of containers.

This theory has been around for a while, not just for apartment complexes, but for shelters for third world countries. Think about it. You're in a third world country picking rice or oranges or making some Air Jordans in a factory all day. You get out after a 12-hour day and get home to your house made out of plastic siding, cardboard, and anything else you can gather. And your house sits within a lovely neighborhood of other plastic siding houses. You're so money. Oh wait, no you're not, you're far from it. You're not asking for much, obviously gwtting by with nothing already. You just a want roof over your head, a locked door you can hide behind, and maybe some electricity and a hot shower every so often. You just need a shipping crate from Newark.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/realestate/01njzo.html

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