All good things come to those who wait 230 days

Written on 23rd March 2009                                                                                                              9 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

On August 6, 2008, exactly 230 days ago, I stumbled upon a cute little project called WillDrawAnything. The site promises that its owner “Will Draw Anything For $2″. Always in for an experiment I paid the $2 expecting a cartoon within a few days. Unfortunately, or luckily, the site became popular pretty soon resulting in a backlog of, well, over 200 days.

The rules of WillDrawAnything are pretty simple: you pay $2 via paypal and supply a sentence, title or subject (no x-rated content). The cartoonist, DJ Coffman, will make you a 72 DPI cartoon based on the information you supply.

This is what i got:

Not bad for $2 right? My only wish would be that mr Coffman will increase the price to a reasonable $10 and cut down the time to 2 or three days. If he could do that I wouldn’t mind ordering a cartoon a week to use here on the blog or in our newsletter. But sometimes you gotta take the web as it is offered to you.

For now, go to willdrawanything.com and order your own cartoon so you can have it by November 8, 2009.

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Watch my watch while I watch my computer?

Written on 13th June 2008                                                                                                              1 COMMENT
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

A friend once told me that one day we will define the 20th century (and the first part of the 21st too, apparently) as the century we still had to wait for our computers.

What did we look at while we waited for our computers? The watch icon, ofcourse. An icon so recognizable it made the leap from the virtual world to physical world and is now for sale in the prestigious MoMA in New York for only $75.00.

With a nod to the era of 8-bit computer graphics, the face of this watch is shaped like a computer icon. Made of an ABS and stainless steel body with a polyurethane band.

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