Monthly Archives: March 2010

Crazy new Horvath/Kim pieces come home!

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My Friend Dave
Monster #14

I got incredibly lucky and stumbled into GRNY at the right time a few weeks ago, just as an interim art show was being launched.   Some amazing work was there – a little bit of everything.  But the highlight by far, at least for this camper, were some custom David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim pieces.  David has been customizing some of his My Friend Dave kaiju and I scored the only lemon-lime one at the show.  And as incredible as that piece is, Sun-Min’s resin Monster #14 is out-of-sight.  I’ve never owned a resin piece before so the sheer weight of this guy is shocking.  It’s definitely not a toy – it has the heft of a statue and it’s gorgeous.

How to fix a locked-up iPhone

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My iPhone 3GS locked up this afternoon for apparently no reason.  Lovely.  Here are the steps I took to repair this particular iPhone.  Your mileage may vary.

  1. Hold down the power and home buttons for about 6-10 seconds.  The phone will reboot, if it works from that point, you’re done.  Congrats.
  2. If not, try once more.
  3. Boot up your computer and launch iTunes.  Make sure it’s up and running, not updating or anything before you start the next steps.
  4. Plug the iPhone into your computer.
  5. Press and hold the power and home buttons until it resets.
  6. As soon as the phone resets, let go of the power button, but keep holding the home button.  Get a good grip, you’ll be holding it for 30 seconds or so.
  7. Eventually your iPhone screen will change to the “plug into iTunes” logo.
  8. Your computer will inform you that the phone is in recovery mode.  Follow the on-screen directions.

What will end up happening is that iTunes will wipe your phone, reinstall the OS and firmware, and then sync all your info.  This will take a while.  You’ll lose any photos, gamesaves, etc, that occurred since your last sync.  So… make sure you sync often.