Custom one man band

An amazing one man custom built orchestra. In this video, Diego Stocco not only builds his own instruments, but composes and plays the full orchestral piece.

Diego Stocco - Custom Built Orchestra from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

As seen on ada fruit industries blog.

Learning to Code

I'm proud of my 10 year old son who has completed the JavaScript Fundamentals Track on Codecademy as part of Code Year.

He has also completed 99% of the Web Fundamentals Track, 36% of the Python Track and 11% of the JQuery Track.

I am lagging behind him with only 86% of the JavaScript Fundamentals Track complete and none of the other topics started yet.

Caine's Arcade Global Cardboard Challenge

Last year Nirvan Mullick discovered Caine's Arcade - a cardboard game arcade built by Caine Monroy during the summer holidays in his dad's auto parts shop in East LA. Nirvan was Caine's first customer and he invited heaps of people to a flash mob to play and Caine's Arcade went viral.


This year to follow up, Nirvan and the Imagination Foundation are following up with the Caine's Arcade Global Cardboard Challenge on October 6.


Go play!

How monsters are made

During our travels in New Zealand we visited the How to make a Monster exhibit at the Waikato Museum.

Featuring animatronics, props and special effects from movies such as Inspector Gadget 2, George of the Jungle 2, Peter Pan and Pitch Black, the display highlighted some of John Cox's Creature Workshop's work.

Inspector Gadget hands

George of the Jungle gorillas

Animatronic head

We are all related/connected

Next week I will be in New Zealand catching up with relatives I haven't seen for four years (and some I have not met yet).

Here is an interesting video explaining how we are all related.

We are all connected.