Kris Lane is conscious

Documented@Davos: Paulo Coelho, Author Coelho discusses his...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:26:43 +1300

Documented@Davos: Paulo Coelho, Author

Coelho discusses his thoughts on the future of the publishing industry, why he loves ebooks and why he loves his kindle more than his iPad.

RIP Mike Kelley

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:34:00 +1300

such a sweet website too

"Based on what you’ve told us so far, we’re playing this next track because we know your secret, and..."

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:30:28 +1300

“Based on what you’ve told us so far, we’re playing this next track because we know your secret, and we’re thinking about telling your wife. Maybe it’s worth upgrading your subscription so she’ll never find out.
If you choose not to pay, you won’t be able to stop us from telling her. You also won’t be able to stop us from continuing to play this track, since you’ve already skipped too many songs in the past hour. Skipping an unlimited number of songs is a benefit available exclusively to our paid subscribers.”

- The Growing Creepiness of Pandora’s Music Recommendations

"In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with. In other words,..."

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:15:11 +1300

“In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with. In other words, when I say that style is a special case of technique, you have to have the technique — you have to have a place to make the choices from. If you don’t have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don’t have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.”

- “You practice and you get better. It’s very simple,” iconic composer Philip Glass famously said.

"Bierut’s essay, which distinguishes between process- and portfolio-based schools (“Swiss” versus..."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:11:18 +1300

“Bierut’s essay, which distinguishes between process- and portfolio-based schools (“Swiss” versus “slick”), remains a sobering plea to designers and teachers to improve design education through cultural literacy. Many themes still hold true, and a few others are in desperate need of updating.”

- Why Designers Still Can’t Think

Metropolis II

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:57:15 +1300

Metropolis II

Take Shelter. So so good.

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:46:02 +1300

Take Shelter. So so good.

Still Life by Scott Garner I like this

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:58:11 +1300

Still Life by Scott Garner

I like this

List of inventors killed by their own inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:34:44 +1300

List of inventors killed by their own inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

This is why Wikipedia is better than Encyclopedia Britannica.

"There is indeed a common trait in the typical way creative thinkers approach challenges: They can..."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:16:15 +1300

“There is indeed a common trait in the typical way creative thinkers approach challenges: They can comfortably hold opposing thoughts in their heads and get to work. At times, this trait can be misconstrued as “the magic of creativity” and especially in the design field I frown when I hear that label because it reveals a preconception that designers are industrial artists that purely rely on their intuition to give shape to their solutions. Not so.”

- The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmony

Collaboration vs Solitude isn’t the dichotomy that seems to have been the de jour talk over the last two weeks. Any form of work takes multiple methods to get to an end. The real challenge is how ideas are communicated no matter how ideation happens.

LANEWAYS IS GONNA BE AWESOME

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:08:00 +1300

LANEWAYS IS GONNA BE AWESOME

"I don’t give a shit but I care quite a lot."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:32:00 +1300

“I don’t give a shit but I care quite a lot.”

- Richard Serra

Todays books are: My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist I swear I use...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:11:23 +1300

Todays books are:

Both are excellent in their own ways.

"Viral success on the internet is a strange phenomenon. Marketers spend hundreds of thousands of..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:33:49 +1300

“Viral success on the internet is a strange phenomenon. Marketers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to create something people will share with their friends, only to be beaten time and time again by accidents and genuine ineptitude. That’s part of the fun of the web — halfway decent singers wallow in obscurity while Rebecca Black gets 20 million hits, and your meticulously edited Tweet will never be as funny as a horse avatar poorly hawking ebooks. The content we share the most is stuff we can have conversations about, especially when the conversation goes something like, “This is weird and terrible and hilarious and I can’t look away and I think I love it.””

- Watching Hipster Runoff Eat its Own Tail

Online is the new Vaudeville.

JamesVictore on all-nighters

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:33:26 +1300

JamesVictore on all-nighters

/Colophon - Aperçu My name is Kris DOTCOM and I approve this...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:56:08 +1300

/Colophon - Aperçu

My name is Kris DOTCOM and I approve this message.

Today’s totally sweet deal.

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:55 +1300

Today’s totally sweet deal.

"But for every grumbling codger who departs this mortal coil there’s a new baby born who seems to..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:13:26 +1300

“But for every grumbling codger who departs this mortal coil there’s a new baby born who seems to know how to do a two-finger swipe on an iPhone touch screen right out of the womb. And yet here was a clear example of a bond with the printed word, the material object, that transcended generational divisions. Eli told me to he wanted me to sign him up for Shonen Jump Alpha, but he didn’t seem enthused by the prospect of reading the latest installments of his favorite manga on the flat screen. If my 14-year-old could be transformed into a crotchety old codger, then maybe, just maybe, the culture really is losing something valuable as everything goes virtual.”

- When the Internet ate my son’s manga magazine

"Commercial landowners like parking lots; they generate cash until better economic conditions arrive,..."

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:51:00 +1300

“Commercial landowners like parking lots; they generate cash until better economic conditions arrive, and blank space can be converted into a more profitable moneymaking device—typically a building. The practice is called “land banking.””

- Between the Lines

Dear Auckland CBD landlords, you suck.

"After three weeks of non-reading, my brain felt a bit numb. I told myself that I was working so hard..."

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:02:00 +1300

“After three weeks of non-reading, my brain felt a bit numb. I told myself that I was working so hard that I couldn’t engage with a book. I fell, instead, into a steady diet of Netlix, Hulu, Skyrim, and the NFL. Like an addict in the early stages of recovery, I felt a euphoric at being released from the bitter yoke of my addiction. As a non-reader I felt free to happily non-think all day. It was delicious. Almost animal. I craved red meat and raw sex and new episodes of Fringe.”

- In the Land of the Non-Reader