storing pics on the web only

i have way too many pictures saved on my computer, every time i see something funny i save it, or every time i find i good hi, res picture, or when i have something i can use in future projects i save it. but when i have way too many pics on my computer. i wish there was a good easy way to save images from the web and store them not on my computer but on a website, not like flickr or photobucket, but something where it would be as easy to store my saved images there as it would be to save them to my computer. that's the idea. when you use photobucket, you have to first save the images like normal, then go to photobucket, then upload them, add tags etc, then finally delete them from your computer. what i want, is something where i download and save an image, then it's automatically BOTH on the website and not on my computer.

i'm thinking something like dropbox, which lets you store things and make them available on other computers with dropbox or the web, the difference is, i want my pictures (or anything really) to not be on my computer, but only on the web, things that i don't hold too dear (funny pictures, stock photos & video). if i could say save images to a dropbox-like web enabled folder, the pics would be automatically uploaded to the site and stored in a hierarchy of folders the same as inside your main folder, once you chose where to save (just like you normally would) the pics get saved temporarily at that location, then would be automatically uploaded to the site, then deleted from the folder. you wouldn't have anything ever permenintly in the folder but a substructure of other folders that are all empty, the whole contents would be online. if you ever wanted a local copy for editing or other reason, you could just save a copy to another folder.

self improvement

so i've been feeling in a bit of a rut lately, i'm tired all the time, i'm having trouble focusing and i'm getting behind on my film deadlines. i need to come up with a way to improve myself. i need to come up with ways to maintian focus, keep my energy up and keep working. this is the home stretch and i've got a lot to do before i graduate so i can't slack off.

earlier today i was hitting that 4pm wall of grogginess. i needed to work on my movie (which i'd been doing all day) but i was exhausted. i was going to take a nap, which would waste an hour but maybe i'd feel better after, but instead i decided to take a walk instead. instead of sleeping to regain some energy i looked over my notes for the scene i was trying to write, then with those fresh in my mind, i went out for a brisk walk. it was nice but still cold enough that it perked up my senses and the activity of walking at a quick pace, got my heart rate up a bit and made me feel a lot better. i saved a lot of time, and used the walk to focus on solving the problem at hand, so that not only would i be sharper and more alert on my return, but would have already solved some of the problems that i was stuck on.

i'm going to try and find more simple solutions to improving myself and my work. i'll try to think creatively to try new things that might help me focus and work better.

while listening to the presentation about the small electric vehicles plan for large cities, i got to thinking about how they would stay charged. he suggested there would need to be charging stations for them, and i thought that the logical solution would be to have the charging stations at all parking spots. then anytime you were parked, you'd get recharged. then i got to thinking how they would charge, something could connect to the car like a gas pump, that would come from the meter...or the ground even. then i thought maybe it could be more automatic, you just park and it starts charging. but how? something could come up from the parking spot to connect underneath, but what about something that's already connected? that's where i had a eureka moment.

what if there were electrical receptors built into the tires, so that the car could be not just charged, but fully powered by an electrical current which was part of the road itself? think about how those toy racecar tracks work, the cars are on metal rails that give them their power, they don't need batteries because they are powered by the track itself. now what if cars did the same thing? the most prohibitive bottleneck in EV technology is batteries. they're incredibly expensive and not nearly as efficient or lightweight or compact as we would like them to be. they're the proverbial rock that the house of EV is being built around. so what if we did EV's with little or even no batteries? they were just giant toy cars on a city sized track. i don't really know anything about how electricity works or how this could be possible but it seems like a very worthwhile track (pardon the pun) to explore. i do know that technology like the powermat and the way the pen device stays powered on my tablet (while hovering over it at a short distance) proves that it wouldn't have to be a dangerous electrified surface, but a layer just beneath the rubber of the tires, and the surface of the street that exchanged the electricity necessary to power the car.

this would defer the cost of the switch to EV over to the government instead of the consumer, they would need to provide the infrastructure of the electric charging roads and the cost of electric vehicles would go way down, probably to less than that of gas vehicles. they would be come popular in urban areas and eventually could spread nation wide.

this seems like a really cool idea, i'd love to talk to some EE majors and get their takes on it to see if it's even remotely possible. but with a little creativity i'm sure it could be.

Pre WIE jitters

so i'm still trying to come up with what i wanna do for my WIE. i've been trying to think about this for a while, and i've had a few ideas, but none that i think would be any fun. for example, i had an idea the other day, one of those eureka moments when you think you've just come up with something brilliant. i have drawings and details in my physical pca but the jist is is's a new packaging system (for chips or cereal or whatever) that has chambers, each one sealed and you continue to break them as you eat the product. this way you don't have the chips at the end of the jumbo family size bag going stale, and you don't have to waste money and packaging buying individual size bags. this seems like a good idea, especially if i developed it more. and maybe it is. but it's not a fun idea. i want to pick something that will be a good use of my skills and be fun for me to work on later. i'm not in the business of making packaging, i want to concieve of a project that will make use of my skills as an artist. i guess i'll keep thinking on it for a bit, but the deadline approaches and i hope i don't end up making bags.

my new and improved PCA

so i'm having trouble using a physical pca (or an entirely physical one) i should be good at it, i mean, i draw all the time, and i'm supposed to be a visual artist, it should be a no-brainer that i'd just keep a sketchbook and that would work fine, but i'm just not keeping i up as well as i'd like, so it's time to branch out. i'm new-mediating my PCA and creating this online component.

first of all, i type way faster than i write, and i can't forget (or have pepsi spilled on) this component of my pca, so i'll try and log ideas here more often. i still plan on keeping notes, drawings and ideas in my physical pca, but i guess part of finding a creative solution to making this work is not putting all of my creative eggs in once basket.