December 2011
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WatchEarly, partial render. At least I’m getting stuff done at this hour. Ridic / fail.
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Adults Now Spend More Time With Mobile Devices... →
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Graffiti with punctuation.
Interesting take.
punkdad:
Blogging is not writing, it is graffiti with punctuation.
The way a lot of bloggers do it (particularly on Tumblr, though it’s not platform exclusive) definitely fall into this category, and further, into the subcategory of completely unartistic graffiti vandals: the lowly tagger. Nothing but initials, hastily drawn, always an afterthought, always done just...
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Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing →
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My "thesis" is now officially known as my "side...
Side projects are important. They’re recognized especially in the software development world as being some of the most important, career building work you can do. Search Google for “importance of side projects,” and you’ll find a ton of articles explaining it in full detail. (I’ve included some of those reasons down below, with citation.) I think the most important...
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The Social Life of Marginalia →
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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For... →
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WatchThere’s a lot of great things going on in Mixel. Once I get an iPad (coughchristmasiscomingcough), I’ll play around further with it.
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Emotional Filters
Stanley Hainsworth is the Chair and Creative Director of Tether. He used to be the creative director of Nike, Lego, and Starbucks. I saw him speak in 2009, a few weeks after I was laid off. I was understandably down on being a designer, but Stanley’s talk was inspiring. Although I’m hard-pressed to remember a specific story that got to me, I remember his talking about a tool he’d...
“What are you between?”
– Tether / Stanley Hainsworth
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New York is a great place to live when you can...
rulesfornewyork:
Get out of town in late February. This is when living here is the most brutal and everyone goes a little nuts. Even for four days, just get out and go someplace sunny.
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This is how I feel today, this is my baseline.
— Ze Frank, The Show, 2006 December 19
I first saw this video almost five years ago, when I was also at the bottom of Ze’s referenced “problem curve.” It struck me immediately, this idea of recalibration, this idea that whatever you’re experiencing in the moment is your new normal. It’s brilliant, allowing you...
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Thesis goal:
I want to create something that promotes handwriting as a valid and powerful tool for expression and problem solving.
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WatchSo. The iPhone recognizes a person’s handwriting in Chinese, analyzing strokes: their order, their length, their intersections, and maybe some other stuff, and from that, it suggests Chinese language characters that it thinks you drawing.
If it can do it for Chinese, why not latin characters? And if it can suggest individual characters, if you wrote them in succession, why couldn’t...
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“For me, what was interesting was trying to find the essences of things, what...”
– Leo Villareal, a light artist working on The Bay Lights, which bears some similarity in execution (though not in intent) to a project Michael Yap and I are working on.
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Everyone is Gay: The 'hair rumple' →
LOLOLOLOL. Yes.
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Harsh but deserved criticism, and where I go from...
Dr. Paul Pengaro held a plenary thesis session for our class last Friday. I expected a rough critique. Paul’s ability to get to the root of the idea is something that I envy, and he put it to good use throughout the session.
This is what Paul critiqued:
Elevator Pitch Statement
For anyone that uses handwriting in any way, who wants cloud access to their entire archive of handwritten...
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“My set list is on my iPhone. Sometimes it takes forever for me to find it. I...”
– Anne Heaton, during a concert at Joe’s Pub
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