Many people

don’t think naming your phone after a fruit will gain you as much success as Apple’s iPhone

More info at Pomegranate Phone website.

psst… its viral marketing, get ready to be surprised ;)

My copy of Chinese Democracy arrived and in my hand finally :)

Check out the official new single “Chinese Democracy” from Guns & Roses soon-to-be released album Chinese Democracy.
It’s punk, blues, raw rock at it’s best. I might listen to it some few hundred time today and its so GOOD. When AXL screamed at the opening riff, I felt like I’m 18 again.

listen at:
Guns & Roses Official Site

OR listen to CHINESE DEMOCRACY right here at Haobam.com, even if you won’t be able to download the mp3

As someone commented on NME:
I can safely say…. ROCK IS BACK!

Photo: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Bob Dylan turns 67 on May 2008, and Lou Majaw from Shillong, has been celebrating Dylan’s birthday for the past 37 years. Catch The New York Times coverage of the man, the land and the music.

…he laughed aloud at how Mr. Dylan might react to the news. “Who this Lou Majaw is? What’s wrong with him? He doesn’t have better things to do in life than celebrate my birthday?”

An Outpost of Rock – narrative audio-visual photo story supporting the article. Photos & audio recording by Ruth Fremson from The New York Times and narrated by Prabhat Sawyan, prominent industrialist and architect of the Ri Kynjai resort.

“God has given us a special gift — the gift of singing” – Rev. J. Fortis Jyrwa of the Khasi Jaintia Presbyterian Assembly

I finally get to watch Indiana Jones over the weekend. When the first Indy – Raiders came, I was still in school, and I can remember watching it in a local theatre without understanding a single words. But the bolder chase & the truck scene are still fresh in my head. I don’t want to write some review of my opinion on the movie. But if you ask me whether I like the new Indiana Jones after 19yrs, I’d say, I’d grown older not Indy.

The adventure continues :)

Sonic Flare playing at Tavern, Church Street, Blore – 13 Sept & 11 Oct 2007
Info & audio sample of the band, pls visit – http://www.sonicflare.in/

My last performance was at Melbourne with my colleagues. I’m really looking forward to this gig. If you guys around in Bangalore. Catch you around. A good break from normal office routine.

And don’t forget to visit our band site and drop a few line ;)

Our band Sonic Flare performing live one of our original “Still”. I wrote the lyrics based on a riff composed by Neeraj.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first of the Indiana Jones trilogy, one of my favorite movie of all time. I like Indiana Jones mostly because, he’s not perfect, makes whole lots of mistakes though at the end he beats up all the baddies :)

The movie had quite a fan following allover the world, but some fans go that extra miles.

Three kids from Mississippi, 1982, created a shot-to-shot remake of the movie. twenty-one years later, their fan film creation has become an underground hit receiving attention from media elites such as CNN, Vanity Fair and even a nod from Steven Spielberg himself.

And now, in February of 2004, it was announced that producer Scott Rudin (Addams Family, School of Rock) purchased the rights to the untitled life story of the three Mississippi kids who remade Raiders of the Lost Ark over the course of 7 years. The film will chronicle the childhood adventures of Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb on their ultimate quest to remake the greatest film in cinema history.

http://www.theindyexperience.com/raiders_adaptation/raiders_adaptation_main.php

http://www.bbcworld.com/content/talkingmovies_archive_18_2005.asp?pageid=665&co_pageid=6

Now apart from this adaptation, watch out for Indy 4, with Harrison Ford coming soon 2007 ;)

Finally our band site is up & running. I would like to thank our drummer Vinay (Raghavan) for the constant pestering and making my life a living hell for the past one week. But then, I got another site up & running, and I’m really proud of it. So putting it in a better way – Thank you Rags for making the site possible :)

I’ve been playing with these guys since my engineering days in Tumkur. Dumb was the first song that I wrote in my final year in college. Its a nice feeling to look back how Neeraj, Jonks & me start perfecting Dumb with a few chords I’d composed, hmm D-G-Am. Then the 9th & some dim chords thrown in by Neeraj and I forgot the actual chords progression I composed :)

It’s impossible not to shine,
You’re the mirror to your soul

People ask me whats thats. It’s from our new song No Heroes, which I wrote. And it’s the title of our upcoming album.

Check our music at http://www.sonicflare.in

This time I pledge that I won’t be a spoiler like I did in my previous entry “Revenge of the Sith“.

Thriller writing doesn’t get any better than this. – Denver Post
The review about Dan Brown’s much acclaimed novel The DaVinci Code is never ending. The book ran at an exhilarating tempo through a night of murder, symbology, code breaking, cryptology, secret societies and Leonardo DaVinci’s The Vitruvian Man.

The Vitruvian Man, there are many myths and theories which surrounds this DaVinci work. But from an angle, we can understand the proportions of the human body. For example, if we divide the total height of our body with the length from toe to waist, or the total length of our arm divide by the length from fingertip to elbow, we get a value 1.61803399. This proportions can be found in many of natures creations from the arrangements of petals in a flower, eye like marking in a butterfly, spiral of a sea shell, the list never ending. This value is roughly a ratio of 5/3, called the The Golden Ratio or Phi (Pronounced Fi).

This ratio was applied to many of DaVinci’s work and on many Roman architects.
The Golden rectangle, as many of us may have heard is also based on the Golden Ratio.
There are unlimited applications today from paper sizes to page layout and yes graphics design.

Thank you Mr. Brown for helping me realize that not all old painting are for Historians. Or who knows, maybe I’m growing old, while learning to appreciate your book and old paintings ;)

Some related links:
http://goldennumber.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/gallery/vitruvian.shtml
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRectangle.html
http://www.danbrown.com/