December 2009
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Sketchy Wireframes →
Legit read about how sketching is important to the interface design process. Can’t manage it?—using computer wireframes that look like sketches still help to manage expectations and keep the process fluid.
We Have CCTV Footage of Their DNA Now, Sir
Mark Coleran designs the (ridiculously advanced) computer interfaces you see in them there action movies. Not a bad job at all.
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June 2009
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May 2009
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April 2009
13 posts
Akron/Family - “Don’t Be Afraid,...
EOD, CDT
Chicago turned loose, the apocryphal winds turned eager thermals, rising even to your third-floor office window. They push papers from your desk & titter. They direct your cheek towards the peripheral sunset. Red shift. Doppler.
She is landing in a dusk one hour advanced & this distance too speaks to you. It suggests you will become a better person.
Things A Man Should Own
herenotthere:
One pair of silver or gold cuff-links, simple and modest
A set of collar stays of varying size
One pair black lace up dress shoes, one pair brown
Decent black loafers — dress up or down
Shoe shine kit
A solid dopp kit. A good one can be passed down.
One black suit, one dark blue or grey
Canvas summer shoes, white or otherwise
A well-earned pair of jeans: straight leg,...
Things A Cat Should Own
1. A cozy chair, thickly upholstered if possible and at least as tall as one’s reach.
2. Object that rolls. Balls of yarn are a classic, but a plastic bottlecap will do in a pinch.
3. Sunbeam.
4. A cardboard box or similar enclosed space.
5. Two mice—one alive, one dead.
6. A vessel filled with water. Ones that don’t belong to you are best.
7. At least one human. Having multiple...
WatchWarning Signs #617
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Word By Word Slowly Acquiring →
The sentence, with its narrow typographical confines, is a lonely place, the loneliest place for a writer, and the temptation for the writer to get out of one sentence as soon as possible and get going on the next sentence is entirely understandable. In fact, the conditions in just about any sentence soon enough become (shall we admit it?) claustrophobic, inhospitable, even hellish. But too often...
28 Millimeters →
More than a year after he took the original pictures, French photo artist JR has returned to Kibera, Kenya. He was reunited with the women who had accepted to be part of his WOMEN project at the end of 2007. 2000 square meters of Kibera slum rooftops have been covered with photos of their eyes and faces. [via metafilter.com]
So I Should Ask for a 9% Pay Raise? →
Facebook, YouTube at Work Make Better Employees: Study
What I Heard Someone Yell About Poetry
In common speech, our idioms yearn to expand ourselves, are hyperbolic—Grief hit me like a train. In poetry we look back to the small—His body held as a falling leaf.
March 2009
8 posts
Open Sailing →
Launching a cross-Atlantic voyage in May, Open Sailing aims to create a self-sustainable, floating architecture that evolves like a living organism, a laboratory for techno-social experiments. The basic approach is to convert apocalyptic threats into design constraints.
WatchX ♥ Y. Math, science, surrealism from Israeli artist Amit Zakai. Via The Chicagoist.
WatchThe ’80s continue to provide.
Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid →
Three Pieces, Joined by a Tenuous Gasp: III
Man-Revolutionary! - Rogue Wave
Three Pieces,...
Buying and Selling, by Philip Levine
All the way across the Bay Bridge I sang
to the cool winds buffeting my Ford,
for I was on my way to a life of buying
untouched drive shafts, universal joints,
perfect bearings so steeped in Cosmoline
they could endure a century and still retain
their purity of functional design, they
could outlast everything until like us
their usefulness became legend and they
were transformed into...
February 2009
5 posts
"Extinct" Bird Seen, Eaten →
"Unchopping a Tree" by W.S. Merwin →
“ … Even in the best of circumstances it is a labor that will make you wish often that you had won the favor of the universe of ants, the empire of mice, or at least a local tribe of squirrels, and could enlist their labors and their talents. But no, they leave you to it. They have learned, with time. This is men’s work. …
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WatchRollerskates and a steadicam. Who knew?
January 2009
6 posts
What real-life bad habits has programming given... →
“This has actually happened to me. I was trying to hang a glass picture frame on the wall and accidentally dropped it. And in the shock of the moment, I loudly yelled “Control Z!” Then the glass hit the floor and smashed.”
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By which i mean it's -10 degrees & I'm growing a...
Hypothesis: Body hair is considered more attractive in colder climes.
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If it’s to be this city then
you must speak of the cold.
Of light’s endless promise pouring through
the glass, a sociopath’s grin.
That still. That seductive.
At the end of such distance you
wouldn’t believe yourself
frozen either.
The streets glisten like tears &
you take in this all,
all unmoved.
December 2008
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