The monitors in this picture look pretty much like normal monitors when you first look at them . . . and then you sit down in front of them and realize that these are art tablets. I happened upon them in a vendor booth at the HOW Design Conference last week. The booth was jointly sponsored by Adobe and Wacom. Wacom makes these great art tablets. I have a small tablet that I use at home. You use a stylus pen to draw or navigate menus. It's a totally cool way to use your Mac. I suppose a PC could use an art tablet too, but it's so much cooler on a Mac. I'm just kidding. Don't send me any mad mail about Macs. it's just that I have been using Macs since 1984 and I would be a bit uncomforatable working on a PC right about now, as I am sure those of you that use a PC would be a bit uncomfortable using a Mac. Both platforms have their pluses and minuses.
Anyway . . . the Wacom tablets pictured above are actually touch-screen monitors. You can touch the screen with your fingertip to navigate the menus, or you can use a stylus to draw directly on the screen. They can be tilted horizontal if you what to use them like a drawing table. This was just one of the cool elements of the HOW conference. If you haven't been, and if you are in any way involved in design, print production, or management of a creative firm, you should think about this conference. It is incredible.
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Song 090: Whiter Shade of Pale
Artist: Procol Harum
Album: Procol Harum
Year: 1967
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We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said, there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see.
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as wellve been closed
She said, Im home on shore leave,
Though in truth we were at sea
So I took her by the looking glass
And forced her to agree
Saying, you must be the mermaid
Who took neptune for a ride.
But she smiled at me so sadly
That my anger straightway died
If music be the food of love
Then laughter is its queen
And likewise if behind is in front
Then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
Seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
And attacked the ocean bed
1 comment:
I had a small Wacom before I really knew how to use a computer except as a drawing tool. Later, I bought a really large pad (an off brand) and it worked fine if you drew in grand expressive gestures, but all it did was tell me I was a doodler and could do much more with the small one. In drawing classes they did not allow us to look at our drawing, only the subject, so a pad with no image seems natural. Beth has a cousin who cannot type and has been using an image pad for years. I don't recall it in color but he just used it for business instead of typing. Mostly he just sat with it in his lap thinking. He needed a list.
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