January 2010
“Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”
– Howard Zinn (via missyblazeberg)
“Some Apple workers in the most critical product-testing rooms must cover up...”
– Black cloaks! giving new insight into the meaning of cult of mac. Last Minute Leaked Photos of Apple Tablet? - Mac Rumors
(Mareen said:) I just heard that someone who was...
My kids (4 years, 6 months) had an email address before they were born. And a website. It’s great for the grandparents. (via mareen)
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client...”
– Saul Bass (via marco)
“When I did the Esquire covers the reason you picked up the magazine — you looked...”
– Legendary Magazine Designer George Lois’s Last Round - BlackBook
{poetry}
Aubade - Philip Larkin
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Arid interrogation: yet the dread Of dying, and being dead, Flashes afresh to hold...
Yes, weCanvas? →
(Because iCanvas would be less about sharing)
“Aren’t all our achievements, even if we are struggling in a world where there...”
– a swirl of horses
“Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge, ” he said. “Because the...”
– Carlos Castaneda (via artlistpro)
“Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (via psychotherapy)
Daring Fireball Linked List: Why Is Tumblr Kicking... →
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry argues it’s because Tumblr is better designed. (I concur. Although I still don’t get the whole “reblogging” thing.)
This would have been so much easier to post here if he would have been on Tumblr.
Spreadability Is No Accident: Pants On The Ground →
mikearauz:
We’ve trained ourselves to recognize videos, images, and messages that will be most appropriate for spreading, repeating, and remixing. The concepts of “viral” and “memes,” i.e. things that spread on their own without human control or volition, are dead (Read Henry Jenkins and co. if you don’t believe me). And with each new Susan Boyle we discover,...
BD Vintagefoto Droplets for Adobe Photoshop →
via superselect
Agnotology →
Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is “the study of culturally constructed ignorance.”
clientsfromhell:
After a lengthy presentation for the design of a microsite, the clients had a few unanswered questions. Chief among them regarded the large portraits of former actors and directors beside their bios. The conversation went something like this:
Client: “Can you click the picture?”
Me: “No. What do you want it to do? Enlarge?”
Client: “No, I just want to click it.”
Me: “But...
My gift to you today? Just a time killer called,... →
ronenreblogs:
(via winstonwolfe)
go check it out
“We’re wired for attachment in a world of impermanence…How we negotiate that...”
– Robert Neimeyer, a psychologist at the University of Memphis who studies how people draw meaning from loss and grief (via psychotherapy)
