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/

Note: The following may contain spoilers about “Star Wars: Episode III.” If you’d rather not know anything, stop reading now.

Closing the circle of ‘Star Wars’.

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was a Sith Lord, and the fear of Anakin’s recurring nightmare of Padmé dying in childbirth, made Anakin embrace the dark side. Is this how the circle closes after 28yrs?? or is this some demo reel for “Industrial Light and Magic”??

Sad to see such an epic movie closing up in this fashion, the story rushing in from one scene to another. Atleast, let the smoke of Anakin’s buring skin subside to put the much anticipated Darth Vader mask. The one thing that will make me watch Star Wars again will be Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi). I can actually feel him becoming Sir Alec Guinness in the 1st Start Wars, now Episode IV : A New Hope.

I guess I might be expecting too much too much, growing up with the original Star Wars movies, with Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewbecca and the Millinium Falcon. Or maybe This is how truth dies – to thunderous applause.

Maybe I’ll run back to the theatre and prove myself that I still haven’t Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.

I’d always thought, what if I could get those images edited in Adobe Photoshop or the vector illustration from Adobe Illustrator could be imported directly to Macromedia Flash. Or those cool video compositions from Adobe After Effects optimize for web, convert to flv and voila. I hate to use Macromedia Fireworks except to create those drop down menus list. Why didn’t Photoshop had to features??

The list unending, for designer like us who’d to shuffle numerous application get things right. So when Adobe announces it decision to acquire Macromedia, does it solves my problem?

Hmmm !! interesting indeed. But then, they said todays enterprises are built out of acquisition. True/Flase. I say wait & watch. But I believe, we’re in for some great new features in all the tools we live-with everyday.

Back from home after attending my elder sister’s wedding in my hometown Imphal, manipur. Some photographs from my trip home updated in FlickR.

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?

The National Steel Guitar shines under the spotlight like a proud lover lost in the blissful melody. Shuffling between an array of guitar from a flaming strat, telecaster to a sunbusrt Les Paul. The man has aged gracefully, theres no more of the Dire Straits days headband, swinging to Walk of life, but its Mark Knopfler — Boom Like That. The man, the guitar is a force to be reckon with when the band plays an extended version of Telegraph Road.

Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

Then came, Mark Knopfler LIVE in Bangalore 07 Feb, 2005.

Ninjai – The Little Ninja, a flash movie series by a group of young stunt men by day and animators, musicians and artists by night. Amazing cinematography and music. I don’t want to categorize this as a flash movie, flash was just the medium that they’ve used.
WARNING: Scenes is quite gory, may not be suitable for kids.

I sink like a stone that’s been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart

No, he didn’t sing that song, but beneath the white collared and the pin-stripped trouser, the Englishman with the Lazarus Heart didn’t falter. The scratched Sunburst Fender, clapping like a salsa dancer and arms spread out to embrace the whole world, this is the man freed from the Soul Cages

Be still my beating heart

Its 2:30pm on the clock, a little drowsy after the lunch. I would have slept on my workstation, hadn’t my mobile phone rang to have a lady on the the other side, “Is this Haaooa baaam”.
Me: “Yes, Its Haobam Martin here.”
Lady: “This is from The Times of India, you’d won a free ticket for tomorrows Sting concert at Palace Ground, Bangalore.”
Me: “Uh!! Oh Thanks”
Lady: “I’m Ruby, you can collect your free ticket, from our MG Road office, 1st floor, before 5:00pm today”
Me: “Thanks”

Me: thinking, which of my friend playing around??

I checked up with the number on my mobile phone, and made another of my friend call up that number. yes it was indeed form Times of India. WOW i got a free pass to the STING concert. Ran off immediately to the Times office, met Ruby and voila, i got it.

I’m an alien
I’m a legal alien
I’m an Englishman in New York

Yes, the Englishman is performing LIVE in Bangalore INDIA, tomorrow 4rd Feb 2005.

Catch up with my update tomorrow evening. If my camera passes through the security, I’ll freeze up STING.

Shakti, LIVE in Bangalore, 26th jan 2005. Remember Shakti, John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, the quartet completes with V. Selvaganesh on percussion and U. Shrinivas on mandolin.