Apple TV and Creativity
I was supposed to go to some karaoke tonight, but my friend wasn’t feeling too well when it came time to go out. We planned to reschedule for next Tuesday. I am just as happy to stay in and watch something on my new setup of Apple TV and Netflix streaming. I just love this thing, there is more than enough content for me on Netflix streaming and I love that you can play what you want when you want. I can pause, rewind, fast-forward, etc… but my favorite part?
No commercials! Although, sometimes commercials are funny and make me laugh, like the living under a rock commercial from geico that I mentioned in my blog yesterday.
Right now my favorite commercial is this one…
The giraffe on the treadmill is absolutely hilarious.
So besides no commercials…
My other favorite thing is the screen saver. If you let the Apple TV go without using it for a couple of minutes and nothing is playing it will start to display a screen saver. The default screensavers are either flowers or animals. Both are pretty cool. If you want you can have it pull photos from a mobileme account. I think the last option is the coolest.
You can search for a term in flickr and it will display random flickr photos with that search term as the screen saver. How cool is that? You can also use the flickr menu item to browse and display search terms in a slide show. In addition to searches you can add a username to display your own photos.
Super nifty!
So what does Apple TV have to do with creativity? Well aside from catching myself zoning out to the screen saver from time to time in awe of the awesome photos I’ve found that if I put on an episode of something or a movie I’ve been able to work better with the whole crafting thing. Why am I crafting? Well, I’m not crafting like scrapbooking type of thing going on… I’m using crafts of the “arts and crafts” kind to make cover art and among other things to make the animation, and wallpapers and other things for my website.
I always have been one of those people who seem to work better when I have something going on in the background. I like to go to coffee shops to blog. Or I like to just generally have people around me when I’m working on something. I used to go and hang out in the library when I had to type papers for class. My all time favorite was just hanging out in the dorm lounge room back in the day and we would all be working on different home work projects and things… but we’d just be kinda there hanging out with one another. Although most of the time very little work was actually accomplished compared to the amount of goofing around that would happen.
Well like I said I’ve found that if I put something on in the background like a movie, or a tv show. I’m able to focus on creating new things to post on my website. Or in this case… blogging . I just put a tv show on. What show? Bones, before that it was futurama.
I promise VERY soon I’ll actually have some new creative things up instead of just talking about them a lot! Well it’s late and I must get to sleep soon. So until next time!
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