February 2012
17 posts
A Look Inside the American Embassy in Baghdad -... →
After the American troops departed in December, life became more difficult for the thousands of diplomats and contractors left behind.
Within days, the salad bar at the embassy dining hall ran low.
Sometimes there was no sugar or Splenda for coffee. On chicken-wing night, wings were rationed at six per person. Over the holidays, housing units were stocked with Meals Ready to Eat, the...
January 2012
17 posts
Able Parris: In the Name of Design: A Response →
Tell me this world is indifferent to our involvement. I beg you.
ableparris:
Someone said something today on Twitter that echoed far enough to reach me. They had claimed Earth was “indifferent to Design”. That design changes people, not the world.
I find this statement upsetting.
Lots of people retweeted it, otherwise I wouldn’t think twice about it. But how could we possibly think...
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ableparris)
WatchThe Harvest title sequence
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
6 posts
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 →
mostexerent:
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
