Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Art of the Brick

Art of the Brick Exhibit Last Sunday I went with my friend Nicole to see Nathan Sawayan's "Art of the Brick" exhibit at the American Swedish Historical Museum (not to be confused with the Ikea) here in Philadelphia. Although I'm more interested in building cityscapes with Lego, Nathan's work is really amazing. I took along my compact camera t take photos, but now I wish I had taken my DSLR instead. I put the photos up on Flickr. After checking out the exhibit and the rest of the museum, Nicole and I headed over to the kids section where they had buckets and buckets of bricks to play with. At first, I wanted to just try building a sphere, but I couldn't get the geometry right and it started to look more like a pyramid. After finding some interesting brown and green pieces, I started building a pair of trees while Nicole made a (peeing) dog, a stream and bridge. I added a waterfall and lamppost to finish off the park and put it on a shelf with other visitors' creations.
Lego Park
I might go back in a few weeks with a camera and tripod to take better photos of the exhibit. I'm curious to see if my park will still be there. (Note: This post is my first test at using MarsEdit.)

Friday, August 15, 2008

Hello World

Hi, I'm Rob, a web developer and software architect living in Philadelphia, PA.

Back in early 2000 I had started a weblog that I authored for a few years. Like many weblogs, it was a mix of personal experiences, links, commentary, political rants, photography, etc. I eventually neglected it and the site disappeared when the free hosting service went away. I started a dedicated photolog a couple years back and have been doing a decent job keeping it updated.

Lately I've found myself wanting to write about technology, programming and projects I've been working on (or planning to work on) so I'm giving regular blogging (God, I hate that word!) another shot. I'm going to avoid writing about personal stuff, which gets weird when you find out family and coworkers are reading it. I'm also going to try to avoid politics, since there's a million political blogs out there already, and, frankly, current American politics just makes me want to emit a steady stream of expletives anyways. I was originally planning to make this only about projects I'm working on, but I could use an outlet for my thoughts on computers and technology as well.