January 2010
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Future Shock →
dailymeh:
Computing isn’t a theocracy where the high priests are bent on keeping their power. We are not seeing something akin to the Protestant Reformation, where the Church’s monopoly on interpreting scripture fell. Steve Jobs is no Martin Luther.
I was ok with the trope of the car but as soon as religion gets brought into the equation, all metaphors will eventually go to [lol] hell.
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WatchDesigner People - Ed Fella on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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“But the point is, the web kinda hates bounded, holistic work. The web likes bits...”
– A new class of content for a new class of device
It’s the content, not the context. The message is the medium. The End. Game Over. Queue 16 bit midi track.
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Phoenix “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” – covering...
langer:
soupsoup:
No flash support and no multitasking are HUGE mistakes.
This device SCREAMS out for rich interactive flash-type content. I’m not saying Flash necessarily as a platform is the answer, but you need to allow people a way to develop the content this device was made for.
The lack of Flash support should probably be considered a feature, not a bug.
Flash came around a little...
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“Marshall and Bleecker, propose the term ‘undisciplinary’ for the type of work...”
– The new book Digital Blur: Creative Practice at the Boundaries of Architecture, Design and Art looks like a good addition to my amazon list.
However the term undisciplinary bugs me; similar to my hesitation to mention multidisciplinary bat work, but it still almost feels like an empty word. I see a...
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Archisuits (2005-2006) - Sarah Ross →
Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits include the negative space of the structures and…
“This is not a healthy situation. In order to become better you don’t want to be...”
– I’ve got to say this. The UK web design scene is often just self serving, indulgent bullshit (via iamdanw)
Critique is a valuable skill that often is overlooked in the quick win design school scene, the opinion of your peers is great for getting to something good. Not a design by committee...
VSSTV - Very Slow Scan Television (2006) - Gebhard... →
Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham…
“Even the daily catalog of sandwiches became oddly mesmerizing, a sort of...”
– I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com
note to self: subscribe to sandwich updates
A conversation about the conversation.
aedison:
People love narratives. They go to the movies to indulge in someone else’s narrative, they read books to shoot narratives straight into their bloodstream. People like narratives because narratives are the lies they’re allowed to believe. So we need to stop saying that the Republicans deal in narrative. We need to be honest. We need to tell people that they deal in lies.
Narratives...
A Different Kind of Weekend →
The iconic Futura title of Weekend
Vampire Weekend can’t seem to get enough of Weekend, French director Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 fable about a bourgeois couple caught up in the collapse of capitalist civilization. First, the band used a version of the film’s iconic title to open the video for “Mansard Roof” off of their last album. Then they released a video for “Oxford Comma” that borrowed the...
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“I worry about the echo chamber of tumblrs and their ilk and the meaningless...”
– ARCHIVE AND CONQUER
irony?
If print is dead then this is a very long goodbye →
Ever since the nineties and the advent of cyberspace, futuregazers have been quick to pronounce the death of ink on paper.
/ via Johnson Banks
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The click-dream →
This year’s EDGE question was: “How has the internet changed the way you think?” As always, the dynamic range of responses is astonishing: from the glib and angstrom-shallow to the super-smart and and ultra-deep.
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“I think of myself less as a leader, and more of being almost an architect of an...”
– Tony Hsieh of Zappos - Celebrate Individuality
American Outlaw Style →
This isn’t something you can go buy, they don’t sell it at stores, and it’s never on sale. If you have a job, a wife, kids, bills, rent to pay, a car, and clean underwear, then you’ll never…
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch from the The Golden Rules of Filming
Boutiquecycles.com →
Boutiquecycles.com is a beautiful looking website about beautiful looking bikes.
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“As Stalin knew, the camera has always lied. Now it’s just smoother.”
– Bonaldi on Metafilter’s Victoria’s Secret Photoshopped Post
The real world vs the construct is coming thick and fast, from “fotoshop fridays” on Fark through to the shoot once, retouch many for catalogue variations. I’m fascinated by the want for...
The ascendancy of the non-private person
claytoncubitt:
“Tiger Woods, described frequently as a “very private” person, was unable to keep his private life private. Why? Because he interacted with non-private people. The reason Kim Kardashian and the Jersey Shore denizens have risen to positions of prominence in popular culture is because they each epitomize the non-private person. They have nothing to hide, so nothing that becomes...
“It seems a tired subject that the general public doesn’t seem to understand the...”
– Design Assembly » Design diss/course
see also NZHeralds coverage of the Auckland region identity, telecom, etc etc etc
“It’s simple to think about the future optimistically because the future hasn’t...”
– Rands In Repose: Wanted
The present is where it’s at.