My life as shoes

Wind Cheat Sheet

A good nights sleep

The neoair, see how it inflates and keeps me off the ground,  almost as much as my actual mattress? This thing was heaps expensive when i bought it off ebay, but it certainly has paid itself back in comfort and warmth. I used this a heap of times in Japan and not once did i feel my back cold. from parks, to snow covered fire escapes to a night out in niseko. My back was definitely the least of my worries. The best aspect of it, is you are not limited to sleeping on your back, somehow this pad magically keeps you lofted above the ground even when you are on your side. Also converts into a chair quite easily with my Big Anges fabric chair Downside, blowing it up =P 

It doesnt't sound like much but for only 260 grams (i got the short one, goes from shoulder to knee), it is a solid piece. heck, i dont think i'll ever go out without it. 

nifty gear for my new wallet

my new wallet from tokyu hands, japan is truly awesome, so awesome now I regret not buying two. its as minimalist as you can get with three visible panels allowing you to quickly show any form of id and a quick access slot allowing you to slide out that credit card or cash at a moments notice.
But the true gem that makes this wallet work is this card right here. it's called a electromagnetic separation card allowing you to put two touch based cards, in my case my office access card and my go transport card, back to back whilst ensuring they still not interfere with each others RF response. With three cards constantly interfering with each other previously I had to find the card in my wallet, remove it, swipe it and place it back in the wallet. yeah no big deal they are bigger things in life. let me just say this they are touch based cards! we might as well go back to magnetic stripes if that's how they are going to be used. it's like when I saw one iphone user take a photo of someone elses iphone so they could get a copy of a photo. *facepalm*
Anyway with this ESC I just swipe with my wallet if it gives me an error flip and swipe again. one everyday annoyance down for a measly ¥1680.
blogging this from my phone is interesting, maybe it'll mean I'll post a but more this year. I've been buying loads of gear here and there and I but done to good use in my last trip to japan, so much to write down for future reference.

Sugru fixes and creates awesome stuff

The idea for the joby gorrillapod slider was an idea I actually saw at one of their exhibitions but it never became a reality so I decided to make my own. This coincided beautifully with the fact that I figured out how to make my phone take time lapse shots, so hopefully i can set this up on a tree, and set up my phone to capture the sunrise for me in case i miss it.

Anyway forming the joby gorrillapod slider was HORRENDOUS. The material is sticky enough, but once you start using your fingers and giving it a bit of body warmth it is insufferably sticky to your fingers. I struggled quite hard until I used the most primitive shaping technique, just jamming it in.

So i stick a glob of it on the back, bigger then it needs to be and then put a finger behind it to hold it into place. Then i aggressively just jam the gorrillapod over it. Turns out if the motion is fast enough it moulds the shape but doesnt stick to the gorillapod. So keeping it fast and rapid i kept at it until the shape was formed. semi-SUCCESS!

semi-SUCCESS because in all that yamming it wasn't exactly on the same plane and the tip is rounded and kinda allows the camera to roll and tilt and in addition start ripping the sugru mould off the back (yeah i was impatient as well didnt give it 24hrs to cure). So I broke out another packet and restarted the moulding process. A more precise motion led to a better shape and its cured for 12hrs so far and holds the camera like a trooper! now time to write the timelapse script for my phone =)

The black diamond headlamp broke its little hinge. I wonder if sugru holds up to drilling much, well will find out in a few hours.

Time lapse of Queenstown skyline

Sugru > noise

 

Not so much gear, but hoping to do a few other things with sugru, not sure what though, grip thingies for my cup for when it gets 2 hot for one. Also fixing my headlamp which has a broken rotator. Ideas ideas.