October 2009
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Breakfast, pumpkins, costumes, makeup, party.
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Watch
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.”
– C.W. Ceran (via minimalmac)
“All the time in the world” talk at Design By... →
“My focus was time as a material for interaction design that we should deconstruct and reconstruct in order to create products and services that take advantage of new real-time web technologies.”
So many avenues to explore.
Planetary
Does anyone know which one of these colletions I need to buy in order to start reading Planetary?
ah just had a gig conflict between between Good Shoes or The Cribs & Los Campesions!
The Cribs win every time, sorry Good Shoes.
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany →
Documentary on the birth of electronic music in German.
“We, the people who design software, must keep in mind that we are not designing...”
– ignore the code: Designing with Data
Small Bridges (to Proximate Spaces) →
The Flickr Code blog is fully of excellent posts like this, if you’ve not already subscribed, make sure you add it to your reader.
“You can feel it can’t you, after all these years of brands pursuing branded...”
– russell davies: just sell it (via iamdanw)
7up is morebetter than Sprite
WatchSimple rules:
No headphones on: free to chat
1 headphone on: keep it brief
both headphones on: don’t even bother…
“Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not...”
– Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
kapi:
Bittersweet Dirt Off Your Shoulder — Jay-Z...
“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are...”
– Charles Du Bos (via minimalmac)
Adobe Flash Professional CS5: Applications for... →
So you can use Flash CS5 to build real apps for the iPhone, using familiar (at least to web people) ActionScript, then you can package it all up and sell it as a proper iPhone app.
Underhand, but potentially opens up a very easy way for no programmers to build iPhone stuff.
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Familiar Place
When I read about dense cities like London and New York I always like hearing about very specific places that everyone seems to know about, like say the hot dog seller on 23rd and 5th (that proabably sounds silly to real new yorkers, because I just made it up)
That density of millions of people spending years in one huge city, perhaps inhabiting parts of it at different times but always still...
Atlas Sound - My Halo
100%
Thinking through making →
screens in context →
“Whilst the advertising industry has one of the longest histories of trying to understand interaction, it’s a very different set of tools that digitalness brings; ones that designers at the coal face of web and mobile encounter every day. Everything can be considered in context, be timely, reactive, and data-driven.”