November 2012
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Lebbeus Woods, Architect Who Bucked Convention,... →
Lebbeus Woods, an architect whose works were rarely built but who influenced colleagues and students with defiantly imaginative drawings and installations that questioned convention and commercialism, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 72.
In an era when many architecture stars earned healthy commissions designing high-rise condominiums or corporate headquarters, Mr. Woods conceived of a...
October 2012
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Timbuk2 x Woolrich →
The Timbuk2 x Woolrich collaboration I worked on is finally out!
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An Open Letter to Ann Coulter by John Franklin... →
Dear Ann Coulter,
Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?
I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of...
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Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott →
Excerpted from “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life” by Anne Lamott
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. People tend to look at successful writers, writers who are getting their books published and...
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The Best Upgrade Is You
minimalmac:
I have come to believe that the best and most cost effective technology upgrade that one can make is to themselves. I’m not talking cyborg implants here. I’m speaking about knowledge. That is, increasing your skill, aptitude, and understanding when it comes to any device, application, or tool.
For instance, one of the best technology upgrades I have ever made is to learn the keyboard...
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“What music is to the spirit, reading is to the mind. Reading challenges,...”
– History of Reading by Steven Roger Fischer
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A Taste of the Divine →
Julian Baggini Aeon Magazine
We have taken our places. This evening’s performance, sold out months in advance, is about to begin. The programme, handwritten in a traditional script on a rolled parchment, tied with string, tells us to expect a prologue, two chapters and an epilogue, without interval. I’m nervous with anticipation but I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that it’s not because I am...
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“So it dawned upon me how important it is to be a creative. Because it means you...”
– John Maeda
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Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas' letter of resignation... →
As I thought about what happened, I continued, increasingly, to be horrified by it. You are agents. Your role is to help and encourage my career and my creativity. Your role is not to place me in personal emotional turmoil. Your role is not to threaten to destroy my family’s livelihood if I don’t do your bidding. I am not an asset; I am a human being. I am not a painting hung on a...
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Designers of the Signs That Guide You →
By ALICE RAWSTHORN NY Times Published: October 21, 2012
VIENNA — Walking through Vienna Airport recently, I noticed something odd about the signs. It wasn’t that they were misleading, on the contrary, they seemed to relay the right information in the right places, but that they looked slightly blurred. The characters and symbols on most airport signage are crisply defined, but some of these...
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People simply empty out
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In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a writer. 49-year-old Bukowski did just that, and in 1971 his first novel, Post Office, was published by Martin’s Black Sparrow Press. 15 years later, Bukowski wrote the following letter to Martin...
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Overworked, Overwhelmed, Overscheduled? Work More →
itwonlast:
By MARY H. K. CHOI l Wired Oct.6, 2012
You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected, because you keep trying to have it all—or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it’s not working. The way out? Work more. Hate to break it to you, but career and home aren’t the only poles. There is another: all those beautiful, disregarded side projects.
Does...
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Oliver Reichenstein on the past, simulation and... →
@jordanmoore: A couple of weeks ago you discussed simulation technology and how we use it to simulate “all we have left: the past”. Do you think designers are harking back to an easier time, when their works were less transient – and that digital is a format where it is difficult to leave behind relics of our work, and provides no assuring sense of longevity?
This is an extremely complex matter...
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Does Biology Make us Liars? →
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life By Robert Trivers (Basic Books, 397 pp., $28)
By: Oren Harman, The New Republic
Self-love makes the world go round. But, alongside cooperation, could self-love give birth to deception? Could the imperative of self-regard be so great, in fact, as to lead to self-deceit? In his new book, Robert Trivers, a master of...
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