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This morning I did my ritual, reading Jawa Pos newspaper in pdf format (from its website), and I found a very interesting article. Then I check that in other sources, and here I wanna share it to you all.. the crazy, awesome, wonderful, magnificent idea of building a DYNAMIC TOWER.Italian architect David Fisher is building his first skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu. Every floor of the 80-story self-powered building rotates according to voice command, and nearly the entire structure of the $700 million building is pre-fabbed. I caught up with the architect in New York, and he blew my mind again and again.Fisher was inspired to design the Dynamic Tower during a visit to a friend’s top-floor Midtown Manhattan apartment. “I had a view of the Hudson River and East River at the same time, it was beautiful and I wanted to make that feeling accessible to more people.” He loves the idea of seeing the sun rise and set in the same room, and considers the building to be four-dimensional. “Time is always changing the shape of the building,” he told me.The rotation takes up to 3 hours (so you’re not always spilling your coffee), and gets power from photovoltaic solar cells and 79 wind turbines, one located between each floor. The system is meant to create enough energy to power to the entire tower and still have juice to spare for some surrounding buildings. According to Fisher, two of these $700 million futuristic scrapers are planned so far, one each in Dubai and Moscow. They will be built using a truly radical technique.Construction on the Dynamic Tower will be unlike anything that preceded it. The only part of the tower built on site will be the skinny center core. It is strong enough to hold the floors in place, and will contain the building’s elevators, which transport people and cars right to their door. Each floor will be made piece by piece in a factory in Italy—a throwback to Fisher’s previous life in prefabricated bathroom design—and placed onto the core using a lift system. With this method, each story is completed in about six days. By comparison, traditional ground-up methods can take six weeks per floor.Groundbreaking for Dynamic Towers in Dubai and Moscow is expected to happen in the fall, with construction reaching completion by the end of 2010.  

Hello guys, this afternoon Ceppy (ODS art director) came to the office with an excited expression. She showed me the new prototype of Macbook R. Yes, it is the new Macbook R, even newer than macbook air. You guys please just see the pictures I attach here, and enjoy. If any of you having interest to be the first to have it, please feel free to contact Octodesign Surabaya. It’s just crazy that this macbook had just been crashed by a car. This is not a photoshop edited, this is the true story. I myself just touched the ‘macbook R’ (Macbook Rusak/Rongsok) few minutes ago.  

This morning when I did my daily ‘gooder’ routine, I was caught up with one article. Some of you might already hear about it (especially if you are a regular ‘google reader’ reader). Sir Richard Branson has just announced his joint venture with 2 genius guys from Google to create new company, called Virgle (from Virgin and Google). Allow me to paste his statement here :”Virgle’s goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it’s high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world.” So, the world we live in is moving so fast, too fast maybe. And that idea is quite inspiring, since the world is too crowded, while the green issue is emerging. So why don’t we move to Mars? Let’s just see another 30 years..

How’re you guys? So, last saturday I met with 2 friends who are - I will say - FB (facebook) addicts. Okay, if some of you already have FB, then you might understand what I’m gonna share here. But if you haven’t had any FB account, just try to follow this story,hehe (or you might end up with signing-up a new account). So, I was totally surprised when my friend told me that she has the fastest fluff in the world. Yes! in the world! You can check the link here. She gives her fluff (you don’t know what fluff is?? come on, sign-up FB account!) named mongkie. Hmmm.. Okay, let me give you short brief about fluff. It is an application inside facebook that allows you to have a pet (they call it fluff), and you can ‘pet’ it, ‘feed’ it, and do many other things. If you ‘feed’ the fluff, it will gain an increase in its speed. If you’re a fluffer, you will know how hard to increase your fluff’s speed. And my friend is now #1 all over the world. Her fluff is the fastest! She says that she can be #1 because a lot of fluffers are ‘feeding’ her fluff (you can check the mongkie profile here). A lot of her friends are proud of her and so loving her that they want mongkie to -always- be the fastest fluff in the world. One day, there was a ‘competitor’ (named blue cow) who wanted to beat mongkie, and you know… all of mongkie’s (loving) friends are put their everything to make mongkie be #1, always. So, last saturday, she told me that she cried because of that, and here I post part of my ‘interview’ with her :

9:10:34 PM Adhiatma: so actually, what made you cry?
9:11:14 PM babypunk85: hmm.. the feeling that I am so loved… Overwhelmed with love actually..
9:11:25 PM babypunk85: and the thought that.. who am i?
9:11:34 PM babypunk85: Do i deserve that ammounts of foods?
9:11:48 PM Adhiatma: so actually, what do you think made them doing those for you?
9:11:55 PM babypunk85: can you imagine how much food they dedicate for my fluff, so that mongkie can be that fast?
9:12:52 PM babypunk85: I guess they love me..
9:13:05 PM Adhiatma: why do they love you?
9:13:24 PM babypunk85: That’s it. I don’t know..
9:13:35 PM babypunk85: guess i’m just a lucky girl
9:13:51 PM babypunk85: love to fluff and having silly conversation with them…
9:14:16 PM Adhiatma: i see
9:14:26 PM Adhiatma: so tell me short story about blue cow(ard)
9:16:46 PM babypunk85: this is a message from someone that i dont even know who he is before
9:16:58 PM babypunk85: at that ‘day’
9:17:08 PM babypunk85: Don Chan
11:58pm Jan 11th

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Freddy Wang has been petting for the last 8 days, and saved up all the munny to feed Cowe in one massive feeding… (That’s an average of 3,750 pettings per day x 5 munny, 235 pettings per hour, or 4 pets per minute, for 16 hours a day - I assume he needs 8 hours of sleep, and eating, and going to the loo…)

8 days ago he was at barely 100,234 fph, and 5 days before that, he was at 26,455 fph… when I was tracked Freddy’s Cowe progress and logged it.

The Fluffbook SiteAdmin at the Fluff Forum says there is a kid in Singapore that keeps writing scripts after scripts to automate fluff petting, not sure if she meant Freddy or not…

Freddy can not be FaceBook messaged to… (thinks he turned it off on purpose)

-Doggy&Don

9:17:41 PM babypunk85: this is sooo special for me
9:17:48 PM babypunk85: I dont even know him
9:18:06 PM babypunk85: And from his message, I knew that the admins is watching over me too!
9:18:29 PM babypunk85: They know everything.

Hello everyone.. Time goes so so fast, today is the first day on the last month of this year.Today - as I told you, I’m making it as a habit - I read my google reader, and I find this interesting topic. It’s about 3d street illusion. From design point of view, it is creative. But I see from communication point of view, it might be used for marketing/communication/promotion ideas.. I mean who won’t take a look on that 3d picture?Here is the link of the article