February 2009
187 posts
4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness →
Petri Purho’s video game 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness induces audience anticipation. The concept is simple: download the game and watch a black status bar for 4′33.” If you’re the only one…
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WatchLift conferences, webcams & interviews
“Recessions are a good time to “prototype”. Decisions get made...”
– More ideas , less stuff | Lets get creative
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Service Design Overview →
In the mid 1990s, researchers at Arizona State University characterized the early stages of interest in the design of services as the “crawling out” phase (1953-79), followed by the “scurrying…
Why the overwhelming numbers of design flops?
“Designing for other designers (…) ignoring entire consumer categories
Change for change’s sake
They made us do it (…) one reason why cellphones are so infuriatingly difficult to use. The market is dominated by the cellular networks, which are understandably anxious to ensure that new phones are compatible with their technology. Unless the manufacturer complies, they refuse to sell the phone.
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The Highlights →
The Highlights is an online arts journal started in 2007. It consists of web-based projects and essays by artists.
Watch“A Study Of Three Mirrors” by rAndom international are not really 3 mirrors. Above each so called mirror there is a small camera which captures the person in front of the mirror. That image is then printed with light (LED’s) on a light reactive surface. (via Vimeo)
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“The advertising industry loves crowd-sourcing too, but has its own name – User...”
– Three’s a crowd
WatchClay Shirky– It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.
WatchLas Vegas casinos increasingly pay attention to their customers - their likes, dislikes, moods and patterns - in order to create an engaging experience.
Natasha Schüll at Gel 2008 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Design seems like a teenager to me →
The Super Normal object emerged from a long tradition of evolutionary advancement, that it is not attempting to break with the history of form but rather trying to summarize it, and that it…
Dr. Zilog – Kids (MGMT Cover)
A new guilty...
Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses : NPR →
For decades, Americans sat in front of their televisions and watched — just watched — their favorite shows. Those days of passivity are over. Now when we turn on the TV, we also fire up the Internet.
But one group of fans has interacted with their favorite television shows for more than three decades. Vidders, make unauthorized underground videos using clips from the shows.
The Futurist Manifesto
We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.
The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.
Literature having up to now magnified thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, we want to exalt the aggressive gesture, the feverish insomnia, the athletic step, the perilous leap, the box on the ear, and the fisticuff.
We declare that the...
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Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams →
As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important criteria for what he considered was good design. Subsequently they have become known as the ‘Ten commandments’.
“If you decided to spend $100 on your happiness, would you buy something...”
– How to Choose Between Experiential and Material Purchases
I kind of like the fact that articles are starting to compare the benefits of free vs the consumer credit fetishism
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“So, it seems logical that having thousands of people involved in the design...”
– design by committee vs design by community (things we learned from the Drupal.org project)
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Examined Life: A film by Astra Taylor →
Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us.
Examined Life interweaves fascinating “walks” with philosophers through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas — crowded city streets, deser ted alleyways,...
(The Social Dynamics of) TED Standing Ovations →
At the end of every talk each member of the audience is forced to contend with a highly social conundrum: whether to lead, join in or opt out of the standing ovation. (via slantback)
“With the economic downturn in full swing, certain dealers announce that...”
– Edward_ Winkleman - Reframing the Real Price Issue
“Science involves confronting our `absolute stupidity’. That kind of...”
– The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Touch →
Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things. We are developing applications and…