Category: sillyActive

  • Blogging about Tweeting about Blogging

    Just now we wrapped up an hour-long #StartupChats session on Twitter discussing the importance of blogging and one’s startup (summary via Storify). And now that we’re writing about that here, we are effectively Blogging about Tweeting about Blogging as the title implies! Why? Because that hour of human-generated 140-character content flying across the Internet made…

  • Limited Edition Artisanal Hub

    Disclaimer: this is a sillyActive blog post and, although the featured hub is in fact real (it was our first prototype back in January 2012) nothing else in the post should be taken seriously in any way. Enjoy! Today we are proud to unveil our limited edition artisanal reelyActive hub. The product of countless months…

  • Connected Things: a decade of progress?

    The above video, the infamous Legomercial, is about to celebrate its ten year anniversary. In January 2003, over the span of a week, I built the Lego sets, shot the stop motion using a Lego webcam, wrote the entire score using an Alesis Quadrasynth and produced the video using VideoWave, the rendering taking hours on…

  • Shit just got reel silly

    To inaugurate the sillyActive blog, it felt like the best thing would be to post the first bit of reelyActive silliness. And here it is: Context This photo was taken on April 3rd, 2012 (look how pale my arm is!). At that time, reelyActive was a project barely three months old being run through düngengineering,…