January 2009
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Be A Two-Headed Monster →
Who are you?
Answer that question before you start to work.
School will teach you about kerning and Paul Rand, but they cannot teach you the thing that will determine whether you will be good or great. That thing is up to you. In fact, it is you. Your work needs to have your unique point of view.
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Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's... →
Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.
“Slum tourism or “poor-ism” has been around a while. You can get slum...”
– Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
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“Putin’s withering reply to Dell: “We don’t need help. We are...”
– Putin-Dell slapdown at Davos
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“My reputation for being a prick is far from unfounded. And the truth is I really...”
– Not safe for work: If you can’t say anything nice, kill yourself, Paul Carr
Well, that won’t be very hard. →
Mozilla Labs is asking students to design a web browser without chrome:
“What would a browser look like if the Web was all there was?
No windows, no unnecessary trappings. Just the Web.”
First person to submit the iPhone wins.
“Programmers are the Gods of their tiny worlds. They create something out of...”
– Derek Powazek - Programmers are Tiny Gods
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“I can see similarities between that process [vérité] and Twitter. Certainly you...”
– Louis Abelman Tries Twitter
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Why Do Young Male Writers Love Icky, Tough Guy... →
It does seem like every other literary novel that comes out these days has at its center some variation on the classic antihero — a character whose flaws are worn plainly if not proudly, and who inspires in readers scorn and affection in equal amounts.
Fab et Marie →
French Multidisciplinary Design Studio
“Innovate as a last resort”
– Charles Eames
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“For all of you entry level “producers” who mash-up 800 songs to get hits on Hype...”
– Mashing More Than You Since 1987
Ira Glass | A.V. Club →
The months and months when you’re making something and it doesn’t seem like the thing is going to come together, and it’s terrible, and things get a little testy, and you really don’t know if it’s going to work at all. (via @explode)
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Brooklyn Museum's Digital Docent Peddles Art to... →
The Brooklyn Museum was one of the first museums in the country to actively participate in these Web spaces, using them to communicate directly with members, to chat with artists and to allow visitors themselves to be curators, mostly for free, without infringing on the nonprofit museum’s budget. Over the last three years, Ms. Bernstein has turned the Brooklyn Museum into a model for 21st-century...
Watch“Removal Studies” are a series of videos made using time-lapse photography. These videos are sleep studies that observe the reaction of the unconscious body to the negative stimulus of removing the covers. (via Vimeo)
WatchEvery day, flickr deems 500 photographs from its database “interesting.” Each frame of this video represents the average of one day’s 500 interesting photographs. (via Vimeo)
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“My last seven adverts in this column were influenced by the early catalogue of...”
– Guide to dating: The classified ads of the London Review of Books
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“It’s like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe...”
– Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God
The 99% Conference from Behance :: Home →
A conference that focuses less on inspiration, and more on how idea generation and organization come together to make ideas happen.
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“Complications set in–yes, complications. How many times have we heard: ‘it’s...”
– Log Lady – Twin Peaks
Is Ikea built to last? →
Ikea’s new range is packed with its trademark sense of fun and frugality. But with other homeware stores suffering, is the Swedish giant in danger of extinction?
Colliding Branes by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling →
Rudy Rucker’s latest pair of novels depict a near-future Earth in which every object becomes conscious. The first, Post-singular, is just out in paperback from Tor, and the second, Hylozoic, will appear in hardcover in May.
I'M A DESIGNER AND... →
…I’m a sex addict
Women Panelists Absent at ROFLcon. Again. →
At the same time as web memes and cewebrities receive a nod from the academic and professional community coalescing around ROFLcon, a conference celebrating the like, other well known time sucks, most notably, content authored by women, were deemed a waste of energy.
In a plot twist worthy of Lost, it turns out that TV commercials aren’t obnoxious interruptions after all. They’re helpful interruptions, which increase your enjoyment of TV by periodically reminding you how much you’d rather be watching your favorite show.
via Please Embrace This Commercial Interruption
falk: verb intransitive: to fart while walking, especially when the motion of the buttocks breaks one long fart into a sequence of momentary staccato farts: usage: “I get so embarrassed at the mall with my stepfather. He falks like a Vespa with a tank of bad gas.”: forms of conjugation: falk, falked, falking; noun form: falker
Selling Americans On The Virtuous Recession : NPR →
Recession based advertising is a curious thing, advertisers are almost sounding condescending with the soft sell
WatchWe Live In Public TRAILER on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Never Sleep Essays →
Exclusive + Inclusive: The Twofold Nature Of Graphic Design Paul Nini One thing that continues to attract me to the study and practice of graphic design is the diversity of activities and roles…
Telling stories in an age of information hysteria →
A few years ago I gave a talk about information design, and I began with this idea: that in the 18th century, the amount of knowledge that one was expected to have learned in a lifetime was…
Twitter is not public infrastructure →
In Twitter Limits Potential App Growth, the author argues against Twitter’s new global limit (20,000 requests per hour) for previously whitelisted (and unlimited) API-consuming IPs