Stackenblocken!

One of my 25 random facts I posted on FB:

I am a modern minimalist trapped in a sentimentalist body. In the words of others, I like to keep everything in an "organized clutter". I get my orderly, organizational skills from my mom. [I get my love for music + artistic abilities from my dad.] I have a lot of stuff so being organized + putting everything in its right place seems to come to me naturally.

If something in my room or on my desk was moved, then I would immediately notice. My workmates have dubbed my desk after the Conan O'brien German game show skit "Stackenblocken". They would joke + say everything on my desk was placed at 90° angles [not true], which would help me easily win at Stackenblocken.

Stackenblocken

new OURS video

{ LOVELOVELOVE IT }

They don't normally make videos so I appreciate the effort into this particular one. What a beautiful location they chose.


The Worst Things Beautiful from Ours on Vimeo.


Now, all I can listen to today is Ours back-to-back...

Video now on Flickr mobile?

For all you iPhone [or Android, or iPod Touch] owners out there who haven't been able to view Flickr videos on their advanced mobile browsers, well, now you can.

Last week, Flickr released several upgrades to their mobile site m.flickr.com, + most notable of updates is being able to watch Flickr videos on your mobile phone.  There is a catch though... They stated on their December 4, 2008 blog that this feature would only apply to videos uploaded from that day forward.

One thing I'm confused about... Flickr videos are generated using Flash software, which feature is apparently not supported on the iPhone as far as I know. [Please, correct me if I am wrong]. According to this Wired article, Apple will not allow Adobe Flash software to run on the iPhone simply because Apple's Terms of Service agreement prohibits it. The clause that states it in the agreement is as such:

An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise,

reads clause 3.3.2 of the iPhone SDK agreement, which was recently published on WikiLeaks.

No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).

Now with that said, how is it that Flickr is able to have their users view their Flash-enabled videos on their iPhones?  If you are reading this + have an iPhone, please try to view this random guy's flickr video + see if it plays on your iPhone. Since he uploaded his video on December 7, 2008 the new mobile site upgrade should apply.