July 2011
66 posts
“The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the...”
– Charles Eames
WatchChase No Face / BELL (by zach lieberman)
No post-production effects were used. Everything on the face is happening in real-time, via hacked Kinect, laptop and LED projector. Built using FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih.
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Faced with the undeniable global and personal anxieties that characterize our...”
– Jason Gots, You Are Not an Equation
Cites Emanuel Derman, a quant, who coined the term pragmamorphism:
our tendency to define people in terms of inanimate things – IQ tests, magnetic brain scans, income. Pragmamorphic thinking, says Derman, is dangerous because it creates a...
“Expertise is a posture as much as it is a volume of knowledge.”
– Seth Godin
“When asked what surprised him most about humanity, the Dalai Lama answered...”
– Dalai Lama
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me,...”
– Chuck Close on Inspiration via We Are The Digital Kids
“The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better designs we...”
– Steve Jobs, via @bigspaceship - Empowering a Culture of Creativity
WatchGorgeous …
via @helenwalters / thoughtyoushouldseethis:
“Voyagers is like a title sequence for the museum,” describes Chris Allen of the Light Surgeons of their installation in the entrance of the £35 million Ofer Wing of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The crashing waves of type are simply gorgeous. Sea of Information takes a deeper look at some of the other digital...
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“We obsess in this country about how to eat and dress and drink, about finding a...”
– Dudley Clendinen - The Good Short Life With A.L.S. - NYTimes.com
via @brendonvolpe
“The more we anticipate public humiliation and guilt, the worse we’re...”
– Human behavior: To resist temptation, forget guilt or shame and think positive - Los Angeles Times
A Changing Web Culture Fits With Red Hat
WSJ: Are you worried about people not being willing to work for free on open-source code in the future, especially with much of the world's economy in the state that it's in?
Mr. Whitehurst: It's becoming more culturally acceptable to share. Red Hat, Intel, and International Business Machinesare top open-source contributors. It's not altruism, but enlightened self-interest. It's saying, "I'll take a smaller slice of a much bigger pie."
WSJ: Do you see information sharing and collaboration as the way of the future?
Mr. Whitehurst: This is going to radically change the way institutions are managed. The Facebook generation is used to collaborating, and they're used to a meritocracy. It will change work structures and the nature of the corporation. Most problems can be solved by massive collaboration.
“If you’ve gotten what you want out of a scene or moment, end it. Keep things...”
– Brendon Volpe - Television is Furniture - Ambition
