That damn beach ball!

June 29, 2009

Misc. News

‘Beach ball’, ‘Pizza wheel’, ‘Spinning pinwheel’, ‘Rainbow ball’, ‘That fracking thing again?!?!’, call it what you will, but it’s actually called the Spinning wait cursor.

I can’t really find any other information about this following short, other than what’s been said on the site I found it from.

It’s called ‘Study for Stone Waiting Sculpture’ and it’s by Brian Kane who is a designer, Emergency Broadcast Network co-founder, and Vujak co-creator.

Life sometimes feels like its been halted by the ball which brings impending doom to many Mac users daily. I know I’d like one of these on my wall to just sit and stare at sometimes, if it were real.

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Hey, I'm Simon Wicks. By day I'm a 27 year old media designer for lastminute.com in London UK, by night I'm a tech and social media addicted pro cheese taster. Ok, so maybe not a pro cheese taster, but everyone loves a good bit of cheese, right? I'm on Twitter, like everyone else and I run a personal blog I call A Little Piece of Me, which has the occasional rant, but is mostly full of funky things I've found online and some photography.

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I'd love one on the wall I have to stare at in the office. That'd brighten up my day..

It's bad enough seeing a normal "beachball", but one in slow-mo!!! It immediately fills me with rage! ;)