Haloasis is an interesting device that uses a rapidly spinning LED bar to produce a constantly changing display inside a clear plastic tube. It seems geared towards creatively displaying lyrics from your music. It’s not even in kickstarter yet, but it’ll be interesting to see how they do. I’m curious how loud it is, because these devices are never exactly quiet due to the high RPM spinning LED bars.
I think it could be more cool as a display for interesting information since my karaoke skills are less than amazing.
Anybody can come up with good ideas. No matter how clever you think you are – ideas are cheap. Trust me, someone’s almost certainly thought of your super-cool idea.
Even if your idea isn’t particularly unique, it’s in the EXECUTION where the professional is separated from the amateur. Can you actually build it? Can you make the right tradeoffs to build it on time? On budget? With high quality? Will it be sustainable or turn into a maintenance nightmare? In a way that customers will like and use? That’s the logistics.
You can’t just say “I’m going to buy an RV park” and expect to pull that off by the end of the week. A professional knows that there is a required amount of time for each step and the sum of those is the actual time it takes to realistically make a purchase. When you make unreasonable expectations you put yourself under undo stress and may even abandon the idea of buying an RV park because you feel that you are a failure. Instead, put a decent timetable to each action step and, even then, acknowledge that there is some element of luck involved in finding an RV park and will remain persistent even if you start to violate your initial time allocation.
Idea people lead teams full of chaos, missed deadlines, and failure because they don’t know the logistics of how to make the idea reality. The logistics are what separates good ideas from a bad ideas. Working out the logistics tells you if you can actually deliver the idea on time, with high quality, and in a sustainable way.
There’s a second layer of logistics beyond just delivering on time.
Countless MP3 players and cell phones were made before Apple got into the game. But Apple destroyed them all. Apple’s success was not due to having a technologically superior product or particularly unique ideas. Instead, they knew how to define an experience then constrain the product to something the logistics said they could solve in a delightful way. The technology experts picked the right technology/methods to deliver the experience flawlessly – versus what would do the same thing but give poor or inconsistent experiences. That one approach is what led Apple to completely dominate the music and phone market when dozens of other players were first and had more modern technology.
Spitbank Fort and No Man’s Fort are some unique properties for sale. The sea forts were 2 armor-plated forts completed in 1878 off the British coast. They defended the Portsmouth dockyards during WW 1 and WW 2. It must have been rough, because it was reported that “Life on site was grim; those serving were deliberately chosen for their inability to swim, to avoid any attempt to escape.” Ouch.
After 1956, they were decommissioned and sat empty until they were turned into a museum in 1982-2009. Spitbank was reportedly purchased for more than £1m in 2009 for and converted into a luxury hotel that folded during the 2020 corona virus pandemic. In late 2020, Pendulum live broadcast a concert from Spitbank.
Now they’re both for sale.
Check out their websites for the cool sales information.
The moment you say “We are going to make a game that is a <genre> with <art-style> graphics” and commit to developing that game you have made about 90% of your marketing decisions for your game.
The games with green titles where the majority surpass the $5000 revenue bar, the uncolored entries are medium sellers, and red are low.
If you make a great 4X game, it shouldn’t be hard to stand out among the +-/25 games 4X games released in the same year. But even if you make a great Puzzle game, it will be challenging to generate traction if there are +/-1000 other games in the segment waiting to be discovered. So coming back to what the article on howtomarketyourgame.com suggested: Yes, a lot of your game’s market potential is determined by the genre or rather segment you chose, but not necessarily because there is a lack in popularity, but rather because it will be hard to win through the hundreds or thousands of other games released in the same segment
Akiane Kramarik is a self-taught painter and says that Jesus spoke to her when she was four years old, encouraging her to draw and paint what she experienced.
At age eight, after seeking the right face to help her paint an image from her dreams and visions, a family friend brought to her a carpenter as a possible subject. The man’s face closely resembled what Kramarik remembered as the face of Jesus. She completed the portrait in 40 hours of intensive work.
Not long after, it was shipped to her agent for exhibition, who then stole it and sold it without permission. For sixteen years the original painting was held locked in a bank vault, with the then-owner unwilling either to show or to sell it. In December 2019, Prince of Peace was recovered by the artist’s family and sold to a private collector for $850,000. After twenty years, the original is available for public viewing at Beloved Gallery in Marble Falls, Texas.
At the age of four, Colton Burpo, whose story was featured in the best-selling book Heaven Is for Real and the film adaptation of the same name, underwent a critical operation after his appendix burst. Although it was not a near-death experience (his heart never stopped), he did say he had an experience of visiting Heaven and had visions of Jesus. Years later, when he saw Kramarik’s Prince of Peace on TV, he told his father “Dad, that one’s right.”
A great reflection on spectators to the crucifixion. We today are witnesses to the crucifixion – which kind are we? Are we part of the mocking crowd? Part of the indifferent crowd? Those that love Jesus?
When He comes, He will have not wounds, but scars. Scars on hand and feet and side. And that is how He will judge us. Show me your hands. Have you a scar of giving? Of sacrificing yourself for another? Show me your feet. Are you going about doing good? Were you wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? And that is how He will know His own.
The Arsenal device attaches to your camera and provides a number of previously more manual operations. It’s supposed to automate photo stacking, long exposures, focus stacking, timelapse, removes moving elements (people/cars/etc), color enhancing, and other features using advanced intelligence and AI.
I got captured by their ad because almost everything was filmed here in Oregon and boy is it slick looking:
Is it any good? I wondered if they were able to put the smarts of a good photographer into a device. Well…the British aren’t one for candy coating things:
