I found this in Apartment Therapy, pretty inspiring. Something we forget to do everyday.

While Barack Obama created history by becoming the first African-American to be elected U.S. president. CNN created history by debuting hologram reporter.

From The Age:

CNN viewers saw double on Tuesday when the cable news giant used a hologram to “beam up” a reporter from Chicago to New York for election analysis.

Correspondent Jessica Yellin explained:

Yellin explained to viewers that her body was actually still in Chicago, with 35 cameras filming her inside a special tent. “They shoot my body at different angles and I’m told that’s what transmits my entire body image back to New York,

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: 10 days old Airi

My lovely daughter Airi Haobam, born on Thursday, 28 August 2008. She weighs 3.25kg at birth and both the baby & mother are doing great. If you are wondering why this post is a month late. Well, I was giving all my time & love to my wonderful family. Being a first time Dad, it’s a wonderful experience. I guess the most beautiful aspect is that, it helps people realize how much of love we are capable of giving. At present, she is the center of me & my wife Khuman’s little world.

I always like the word “welcome to the future”

This is Part 1 of Aurora, a concept video created by Adaptive Path in partnership with Mozilla Labs. With Aurora, we set out to define a plausible vision of how technology, the browser, and the Web might evolve in the future by depicting that experience in a variety of real-world contexts.

Read in detail at Adaptive Path.

In the past few months, some of India’s leading brands goes for a brand makeover. Major retail store Lifestyle and Shoppers Stop changed. Shoppers Stop now boldly says ‘Start something new’. The ‘Born tough’ tyre brand CEAT goes for a more streamlined logo and the poor rhino is nowhere around. Godrej group of companies, now has a dash of color in their font logo.

Indian bank Canara bank rebranded to a more upmarket color. Joining in, UTI Bank morphed from its old school logo to a more jazzy AXIS bank. I guess they felt the need to stand up to the competition of the multinational banks with an image makeover and a better brand positioning.

Has anyone thought about the AA in Anil Ambani’s Reliance logo. Think about it. Sometimes it could be that dying need to make the presence felt.

Image: Hasselblad Website

When was the last time you felt you’d seen something and it blows you away. And you felt the urge, specially if you’re blogging or those office water cooler chats, to shout-out-loud that what this stuff is packed with. Offered in 22 and 39 megapixels, Hasselblad are the cameras you stop talking about megapixel and any of those silly little jargons. With it’s history spanning a century & half, that includes the portraits of our planet from space and a moon trip with NASA.

Hasselblad H3D is rumored to have a price tag around $25,000. Its not for everyone or the average consumers, we can call it Rolls Royce of cameras. If you’re those few people to own this camera, you better be making masterpieces not simply take pictures.

Image: 100 Hands

I’d stumble upon this URL in my old Google bookmarks. 100 Hands showcases the works of Bangalore based designer/filmmaker/musician Premjit Ramachandran. Quite an array of inspiring works in design, music & film. My only concern is the amount of popups, which some visitor might find it annoying.

But looking beyond the popups, this site is my library of inspiring Indian designer.

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

Screenshot: Seventh Incorporated

Inspiring work, great portfolio from Bangalore based design firm Seventh Incorporated. In my quest to find the best of the web from an Indian perspective. ladies & gent – Seventh Incorporated. In their own words…

Seventh Incorporated is a multi disciplinary graphic design studio, born out of a partnership of several years, between an Information Architect and a Graphic Design Professional.