January 2012
11 posts
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SOPA
If I describe the scene from the Goonies where they’re in the well-cavern, and Samwise Gamgee says, “The next time you see sky, it’ll be over another town…down here it’s our time..”, and my description is so good that it paints the picture perfectly in your mind, the drips of the water, the golden light of the cavern. Will the fed shut your brain down?
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Design Delicious Websites
Designing websites is more like the culinary arts than the visual.
Thinking about your designs for the web as these permanent artifacts that will be discovered and referenced in the future is probably not a realistic venture.
I think it better to think of our designs as a piece that we toil over then hand to the user to experience and enjoy. And when they’re done, figuratively, that’s it. As...
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You’re Referencing Thomas Edison Wrong
Ol’ Thomas Edison persevered through over 3000 iterations of a light bulb filament. This is what we teach kids. This is what we think to ourselves when the going gets tough. Just stick it out a little longer. Like the motivational poster of the cat hanging from a tree: “Just Hang In There”.
Persevering with a terrible idea is stupid. If you’re persevering purely because you have persevered for a...
“…engineers, designers, scientists, we’re all trying to make technology...”
– Paola Antonelli 99% Invisible Interview
July 2011
6 posts
Buenos Aires Redux
This time last year I was buying a plane ticket to Buenos Aires while delirious with meningitis. I bought the ticket and woke up the next day in a nightmarish pain wondering if I had dreamed it. Just thinking about that trip this month, perhaps it’s time for another excursion to South America.
The picture above was taken by Keith Conway, at one of our many cafe work sessions.
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“There are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche, via http://caterina.net/
June 2011
1 post
Make no little plans
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would...
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
7 posts
WatchPassing hail storm in la.
WatchIn LA this weekend and it looks and feels exactly like New York.
Sneakers (1992)
Bank Teller: People pay you to break into their places, so no one can break into their places?
Robert Redford: It's a living.
Bank Teller: Not a very good one.
January 2011
14 posts
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December 2010
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November 2010
2 posts
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October 2010
2 posts
WatchAn HTML 5 animation editor called Edge (super boring name, “Open up that Edge file” just sounds dumb) from Adobe. This is great, fantastic idea, but lets hope it’s not the DreamWeaver of our age, with a bloated code based and sloppy html compiling. But seriously it looks great.
WatchI’ve been updating this map while in Buenos Aires
September 2010
3 posts
“I miss the editorialisation of music, the curatorial influences of people like...”
– Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood (via gtmcknight)
