February 2010
62 posts
“To understand paradoxes is to be able to hold two conflicting ideas in your head...”
– Frank Chimero - On Paradoxes
Create Your Own Adventure - Powered by Gap... →
I have been trying to Create My Own Adventure, but I’m never sure what to put on these things besides, “Send me to Patagonia, please please please, I wanna go hiking and see some glaciers!”
Think that will win me over with the judges?
“In a more exhaustive study, a psychologist analyzed 558 emotion words—every one...”
– Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
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Watchmatthewb:
Khalid Mohtaseb shot and graded this footage in his spare time while on assignment in Haiti following last month’s earthquake. He used a Canon 5D2 and Kessler Pocket Dolly, and all footage was shot in natural light. Stunning. (via Zach Klein)
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“Fear breeds on ignorance so what the world needs now is what it has always...”
– Mariane Pearl
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“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity
The thesaurus might equate “disabled” with synonyms like “useless” and “mutilated,” but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she hows how adversity — in her case, being born without shinbones — actually opens the door for human potential. (via...
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“Your three-year-old and your work in progress teach you to give. They teach you...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I’m finally reading this after seeing it repeatedly on “Books Designers Should Read” lists, and guess what, it’s books designers should read. It will ring true for anyone in the business of Doing Something...
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WatchHahahaha, Diane Sawyer is perplexed by Holland too. The secret to happiness is OLD PEOPLE and CHURCHES everybody. Now you know. OLD PEOPLE and CHURCHES.
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Western cities fare best in well-being index -... →
My hometown is either the second best place to live in the country, or it’s residents are just the second most delusional.
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“As designers, we write the notes and our audiences improvise the music”
– Bobulate: Designing for improvisation
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How Very Banal To Ask What I Mean
Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.
Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists great artists. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. The virtuous always triumph? Ward Cleaver is the prototypical fifties...
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“Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting...”
– Douglas Adams
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“The powerful belong at the top. Eurocentrism demanded that cartography place...”
– A Eurocentric Problem « P U L S E (via robot-heart-politics)
It’s amazing how disorienting this is to picture, and how ingrained the “North is up” concept is. Or even the concept of “up” which is actually completely arbitrary.
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Basia Bulat - Heart of My Own
Workity working...
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Today!
I will be a non-profit website designing machine! I’m gonna take that website, and I’m gonna kick it’s ass. No distractions, this thing is getting done.
(Because I don’t know how much time I’ll have tomorrow…it’s probably frowned upon to bring your laptop to a Superbowl party, right?)
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“On the internet, “design” usually means heavy use of rich graphics and textures....”
– Marco.org
Oh, I don’t think so at all! What internet are you reading? While rich textures and graphics are great, they are tools to enhance the overall experience of a design/website/brand/experience. Any designer worth their salt, internet or otherwise will tell you that. ANY design should...
“I completely respect everyone’s choice of religion. Just because I’m...”
– NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights
FYI I’m so on Team Saints. This guy’s awesome.
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Medal Gear: Turning Electronics Into Olympic Gold →
When Olympic athletes take the medal stand at this month’s XXI Winter Games, they’ll be decked out in a completely different kind of hardware: the recycled metals from end-of-life electronics. Canadian mining company Teck Resources was able to harvest the gold, silver, and bronze from the circuit boards of old computers and have it melted down and cast back into what are now the Olympic medals....
