December 2008
50 posts
“It doesn’t matter how this new media is produced - with a video...”
– Archinect : Bryan Boyer Views
WatchWarhol is adept at manipulating people on drugs and–oh yeah–there’s a high chance a few things got ingested before this begins. (via Andy Warhol meets Steven Spielberg)
“In cities, we live with preconditions on our travel. For instance, in New York,...”
– That Was Zen, This Is Tao
“Inspiration is short-lived. It’s typically emulating other people, and it’ll...”
– John Norcross
“If you think other industries don’t have shit jobs, you’re deceiving...”
– Joel on Software - Thinking of leaving the industry
Soldier: Jefferson →
Suzanne Opton has created a series of portarits of US soldiers on billboards across the US – showing them as vulnerable — and human.
“Carrotmob organizes consumers to make purchases that give financial rewards to...”
– Carrotmob
WatchLove Songs on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told...”
– Steve Jobs - On managing through the economic downturn
“I don’t think much of Mike Arrington* and haven’t read any of his sites in...”
– Marco.org: Geek blogger worship
Ethan Zuckerman on how to engineer serendipity... →
Serendipity can strike – users can occasionally stumble on a marvelous new site – but that rare find shouldn’t be left to chance, he says. It should be engineered into the system.
IDEO hcd toolkit →
Human Centered Design Toolkit
“So what does a future run by gamers look like? Well, if they can handle...”
– If Gamers Ran The World
“This took me into a whole new area of office etiquette: what is the correct way...”
– Lucy Kellaway - The hottest recessionary activity in town
“Metro Rules of Conduct is a game about the awkward situation of commuting in my...”
– Metro Rules of Conduct
“The idea of investigating the conditions for a ‘recuperation of political...”
– 16beavergroup.org
WatchAmazing French Army Animation
WatchAntarctica (via Vimeo)
“It’s the very naive producer who works only on optimum systems.”
– Brian Eno
sweet thunder - tape findings →
This site is an archive of one of a kind cassette tape recordings and other odd sounds that I have discovered throughout my years searching thrift stores and garage sales.
WatchAmsterdam SMS messages on New Years Eve on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchArkitip, Inc. | Magazines | No. 0049
“Professor Nonaka outlines the Japanese concept of ba: a hard-to-translate notion...”
– Clock-watching bosses need to discover the Japanese concept of ‘ba’
“When you’re making something of high quality, you have to polish it a...”
– Kazutoshi Mizuno, Chief Vehicle Engineer, Nissan GT-R
Click opera - The Pompidou Centre has 75 floors... →
The book by Frei is a presentation, in 2006, of a book which came out in 1976 pretending to come from ten years into the future, a work of fiction by a fictional fiction author which was also pretending to be a work of sociology, and was in fact written by a real sociologist.