Chris Dimino was given the following challenge.  Take this now useless item and give it a new life than it was intended to have.  The solution is presented in his typewriter series of sculptures.

My personal favorite is the “Corona-Matic”.  A typewriter turned into a waffle iron that makes keyboard shaped waffles.  I came across this image on Treehugger.  Click on the picture to go to his site and see more of his work.

The new Canon 5D Mark II is a pretty awesome camera.  It retails for $2700.00, which is quite a lot of money for a camera, but the results a remarkable.  I’m not a big photography buff, so it’s actually not the still image capabilities that caught my attention.  These new cameras are capturing High Definition images AND can capture video.  The full frame, 21.1 Megapixel EOS 5D Mark II is the first EOS with full High Definition video capability.  Click here for more info, or just watch some of the videos below.

I haven’t fully researched these but it looks like there are two great sample videos from this camera. The first video was done by a professional with tons of extra equipment and the second video was done by a news photographer and a laptop.  Here is a link to the super professional one, and I’ve posted the other video below. 

Yup, I had a birthday.  I decided for my cake this year that I would like to have warm brownies and vanilla bean ice cream, with crushed sugar cones and chocolate syrup.  mmmmmmm :]

There were a couple of problems though.  It was hard to get all the candles lit without burning my hands.  Then, when I blew out the candles, we had to open up the doors and turn on the fans so that the smoke detector wouldn’t go off!