Gritty made it on yee olde BoingBoing again in a different context. Someone has hypothesized that this is is an actual production model, that Sanrio has copied Gritty’s smooth lines and badass little driver -

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/10/hello-kitty-sander.html

http://www.kittyhell.com/2008/04/04/hello-kitty-power-sander/

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/the-outrageous-hello-kitty-power-sander/

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/hello_kitty_power_sander.html

I knew she had more meme in her!

Here’s the original page: http://www.nathanielmarsh.com/hellogritty/

Dig This Spread, by nate_marsh.

I am very happy to have one of my photos in the “Weekly Dig” this week. I’ve had a couple in the “random photos” section but this is the first time I got into the centerfold – which is perfect for panoramas. I submitted a photo I had taken a couple months ago looking into downtown Boston from the Childrens Museum. The buildings on the water there each have a unique set of colors and topographies, I was rather happy with the result – then I played with it a bit in CS3 to give it a nice overexposed/
“bursting with color” look. I’m a happy guy!

dig safe, by nate_marsh.

I finally scrapped up enough pennies to buy me a new camera, yippee!
It is an evolutionary leap from my original baby, Francine, the trusty e300. The new baby in the house doesn’t have a name yet, but sure is she pretty! It an e510 which brings in some now tricks for my photos, the Image Stabilization that is built into the camera is amazing & it is much much faster to do many of the in-camera tasks. Lots of other interesting lil’ thingamagigs as well that I am still figuring out. I have some new photos from this cutie on flickr now.

What is Arrrrt?, by nate_marsh.

This question has been asked many time before, here’s a little light tent action!

p8252568, by nate_marsh.

I went on a fun whale watch this weekend with friends and family. It took about an hour to get out to the good feeding ground, which was a bit bumpy & a whole bunch of people were downstairs throwing up next to the snack bar. Once we got out to the site, we were lucky to see a lot of different whales, including some momma & baby whales. Since even the baby whale is gigantic, it’s not exactly cute, but it is neat to see.

I also saw a bunch of liquid and bulk ships on the way back – sweet!

Da Intercontinental, by nate_marsh.

Here is a pano that I enjoy gazing at. I was doing something or rather downtown when I got the chance to stroll down by the water.

The Intercontinental is some new $$$ hotel in Boston and it does have a very pleasing facade. It is probably a dump inside though!

P7082120_1, by nate_marsh.

Had a great trip up to Isleboro, ME — a pretty as a peach lil’ island somewhere up in Maine. A couple days of sun & fog with a couple of my closest homies.
Based on this photo, you can be assured that this was a very serious weekend — lots of far reaching discussions re: Kyoto Accords, the state of the derivatives market and some extremely high level, politically loaded games Chinese Checkers!

petitduckies, by nate_marsh.

Lookee at these cute little geesies! Makes me wish I ate meat !

old purple, by nate_marsh.

Old Purple there is one of a bunch of shots I took today that I like. I “snapped ‘em” all walking besides the Orange Line tracks. The Orange Line sits down in a big concrete trench and the 10′ high fences are covered with all types of plants! Yuppers and I took a bunch of macro shoots. I used my 14-45 lense on the macro tube which means you really have to be close, this was only about 3″ away!
Goddamn breeze makes it nigh impossible to get a perfectly focused shot, but this is close enough for me!

helicopter, by nate_marsh.

Summer is here and my new baby is ready!
I bought her recently after becoming enamored with the idea of a little remote controlled helicopter for indoors/outdoors fun time. It is not wise for me to let her loose right now inside the house as I am not too handy on the controls and she’s got a little junk in the trunk/ boost in the caboose.

She is a Walkera 5#8 which is a nice coaxial helicopter (that means there is no need for a tail rotor and it flies a bit more stable. She could probably use a new paint job and some other “pimpin’” but she is a sweet little thing!