January 2012
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November 2011
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WatchJohn Raux: Wholes
“At the calligraphy class he had audited at Reed, Jobs learned to love typefaces, with all of their serif and sans serif variations, proportional spacing, and leading. “When we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me,” he later said of that class. Because the Mac was bitmapped, it was possible to devise an endless array of fonts, ranging from the elegant to the wacky,...
October 2011
20 posts
WatchDoug Rickard
“I didn’t draw at all and here were all these bright talented kids.”...”
– Bruce Davidson’s ‘encounters with the invisible’ - The New York Times
Yūgen →
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Yūgen is a Japanese word pertaining to a profound awareness of the universe which evokes feelings that are inexplicably deep and too mysterious for words. The word itself is like an extension of awareness, the aesthetic perception which allows us to conceive of the vastness of the universe- but…
“What’s interesting about it is if you think about music, 35mm is jazz. So, the...”
– Joel Meyerowitz, 2point8
Siri, Redux
Austin Seraphin writes,
Apple has unveiled the new paradigm of conversing with an artificially intelligent computer. The Siri Assistant gives us the type of interface we see on Star Trek, the one we’ve always wanted. You never see them bumbling around their computers unless something goes seriously wrong. They just tell the computer what they want it to do and it does it. I put on an episode of...
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“I think another important aspect of the viewer’s reading is context. For...”
– Joan Fontcuberta, Science is Culture (via fairtradegothic)
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Jack Cheng: Integrity →
jackcheng:
…Beliefs and actions are like two separate musical tones, each with its own pitch, each repeating at a certain wavelength. Integrity is when the two come together, when beliefs and actions are in total alignment. A certain cosmic vibration occurs — there is resonance.
I believe we can sense this resonance, this integrity, in people and the things they create. We recognize it, often...
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“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people...”
– - Paulo Coelho
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Siri
Something I had noticed during Scott Forstall’s Siri demonstration:
Where most designers would have placed a loading… bar, pinwheel icon, or other progress indicator, Siri maintains a casual, conversational flow, peppered with interjections and non-lexical disfluencies.
This accomplishes two things: it allows the phone to complete what is likely to be a data or processor-intensive task...
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs
Watch(Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. 1946)
Trees, which provide a crucial protection against climate change, are also under stress from some of climate change’s effects. A mountainside in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana shows, in one photograph taken from the air, the two forces that are devastating forests in the West. The area at upper right was burned in a recent fire, and the living stand of forest at lower left is under attack...
WatchPhil Hill
Now picture someone at the other end of the spectrum. I, uh, I mean HE is running at about 40%. His negative carrier is not parallel to the baseboard, so he has to stop down to f32 for depth of field. Don’t worry that you’ve just lost all your sharpness to diffraction. He overdevelops his film, which guarantees blown-out highlights, not to mention enough grain to bake a billion bagels. His...
“Auctions held to benefit photographic institutions rely substantially on work solicited as gifts from photographers, many of whom cannot themselves earn a living wage from their pictures. The health of some of the organizations contributes to that of photography in general, and thus to that of the photographers individually, but one cannot help thinking how much more charitable it would be...
September 2011
14 posts
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WatchOlaf Otto Becker: Broken Line - Greenland 2003-2006
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