May 2013
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While nerdiness implies a certain social awkwardness that’s ultimately...
– Marcus Wohlsen | WIRED http://bit.ly/105b0J5
April 2013
1 post
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Not having a persistent record allows us to present a nuanced identity to...
– J. Chipchase “You Lookin’ at Me? Reflections on Google Glass.” http://dthin.gs/10Xp1vU
March 2013
5 posts
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Just favorited Dummy Mix 129 // Two Inch Punch by DummyMag on Mixcloud
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Like porn, techno interfaces are more focused on what looks good than what feels...
– C. Brown: How ‘Minority Report’ Trapped Us In A World Of Bad Interfaces http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/how-minority-report-trapped-us-in-a-world-of-bad-interfaces
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Just favorited Soosh for Habitat by Alive Lab on Mixcloud
Legibility is a baseline requirement for typesetting anything. It’s like edible...
– Mark Boulton - UI is visible. Type is visible. (via bashford)
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Just favorited Diplo & Friends on BBC Radio 1 Ft. Baauer/Schlachthofbronx 6/17/12 by Diplo and Friends on BBC1 on Mixcloud
February 2013
2 posts
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Just favorited Episode 6 ft. LOL Boys (LA/UNO NYC) |3.11| by tripthelightradio on Mixcloud
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It’s only in terms of what’s old that the newest technologies make initial...
– R. Goodman, Bad Metaphors, Bad Tech, The Millions
January 2013
1 post
November 2012
2 posts
audio-visual feedback in a casual game provides the grammar of the experience...
– Popcap: the 10 secrets of casual game design | http://bit.ly/RK9g6E
The B2 Bomber, despite the essential ugliness of a machine dedicated to...
– John Pawson on the B2 stealth bomber. (via bashford)
August 2012
5 posts
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
– A.C. Clarke on A. Rothstein “Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Pt. 2” | http://bit.ly/Or02xJ
Fiction gives us everything. It gives us our memories, our understanding, our...
– “All is Fiction” K. Ridgway | http://nyr.kr/PgCWtj
we should “… start seeing the interface as an aesthetic form in itself...
– S. Pold on Interface Aesthetics: An Introduction by Jason Huff | Rhizome http://bit.ly/MA364t
Just favorited “LOVEWITHSOUND by TOKiMONSTA” by oki-ni on Mixcloud.com
Just favorited “Four Tet - Diplo and Friends (07-15-2012)” by themixfeed on Mixcloud.com
June 2012
12 posts
Just favorited “Rustie - BBC Essential Mix (07-04-2012)” by themixfeed on Mixcloud.com
Just favorited “FACT Mix 79: Rustie ” by FACT Mix Archive on Mixcloud.com
Just favorited “Falty DL mix - Xfm 16/07/11” by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud.com
The paranoid outlive the oblivious.
– S. Kanazawa “The disadvantage of smarts” | http://econ.st/KSJEQV
Just favorited “Clark Mix - Xfm 24/03/12” by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud.com
Cities are our greatest invention. They generate wealth and improve living...
– R. Florida “Why Cities Matter” | http://bit.ly/M1YUgZ
Just favorited “Benji B Radio 1 (Clams Casino Mix) (26.04.2012)” by Benji B on Mixcloud.com
Just favorited “Lorn Mix - Xfm 09/06/12” by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud.com
Just favorited “Jamie XX - Benji B mix” by add_void on Mixcloud.com
Just favorited “RESONANCE by Guido” by oki-ni on Mixcloud.com
Just favorited “FACT Mix 314: Guido” by FACT Mix Archive on Mixcloud.com
Foursquare I use for bookmarking, sharing and recommending places. Instagram is...
– Juha Van Tzelfde “The aspatial city” | http://bit.ly/K2WtYr
May 2012
2 posts
ubiquitous computing is already here, its just incredibly messy
– A. Townsend “Pushing the Web to the Periphery” | http://bit.ly/KfSzzX
Mobile screens, portable audio devices, and untethered access to one’s familiar...
– Michiel de Lange “Txt and the City” | http://bit.ly/MzPslU
April 2012
2 posts
The “New Aesthetic” is a native product of modern network culture. It’s from...
– B. Sterling ” An Essay on the ‘New Aesthetic’” | http://bit.ly/HAlzki
Physical” means providing context: - Where am I? What’s around me?...
– H. Dubberly “Convergence 2.0 = Service + Social + Physical” | http://bit.ly/HCe9YY
March 2012
11 posts
Charade (1963)
Regina: Why do people have to tell lies?
Peter: Usually it's because they want something… and they're afraid the truth won't get it for them.
Patently, art does not have an monopoly on creation but it takes its capacity to...
– Félix Guattari | Chaosmosis
Just favorited “FACT Mix 235: Ben Frost” by FACT Mix Archive on Mixcloud.com
One of the core themes of the New Aesthetic has been our collaboration with...
– James Bridle - #sxaesthetic (via bashford)
Dan Hill, "In praise of lost time" |...
the photograph implies a blurrier sense of time than the mechanical snap of the shutter indicates: “Although it depicts only a split second the felt duration of the picture extends several seconds either side of that frozen moment to include—or so it seems—what has just happened or is about to happen.” So photographs are suggestive of times, rather than pinned in time.
All our futures depend on the transition from an entertainment culture to an...
– David Trotter | http://bit.ly/GB9oOr
given that symbolic consumption and production—one definition of culture—is now...
– Introducing SuperNormal by Dan Hill | http://bit.ly/ytrytn
All visualizations share a common “DNA”—a set of mappings between...
– A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo | http://bit.ly/wzUfBx
February 2012
8 posts
Just favorited “FACT Mix 288: Kuedo” by FACT Mix Archive on Mixcloud.com
The strongest impacts of an emergent technology are always unanticipated. You...
– WIlliam Gibson - The Art of Fiction No. 211 (via bashford)
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...
– Rainer Maria Rilke
To accomplish this vision, we work in our studios flipping between sketchbooks...
– Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas http://bit.ly/wWUvdF
a work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Or, to state the modern case […] works...
– L. Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage Books, 2007)