January 2010
33 posts
Unhappy Hipsters →
It’s lonely in the modern world
“But what if the iPad simply isn’t for the people who are critiquing it? What if...”
– Apple’s iPad: For what Audience? - 52 Weeks of UX
Instra:mental vs. Dopplreffekt
Instra:mental - Voyeur vs. Dopplreffekt - Pornoactress
The Silent Ballet | The Top 25 Electronic Releases... →
2005 + my life + music = prime time
“I think of graffiti a little bit like I think of garden gnomes — I respect...”
– Bookslut | An Interview with Alain de Botton
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value....”
– Alain de Botton (Architecture of Happiness)
“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover)
For non-Americans, the most surprising aspect of this ding-dong is how millions are spent on a show that goes out between 11.35pm and 12.35am – often a bit of a graveyard slot on British television.
via news.bbc.co.uk
Conan O’Brien managed to say bye-bye to a time slot so very dear to people in the United States yet so alien to us over here in Europe. I remember when a media planner was...
In other areas, the improvements are questionable at best. Graphical user interfaces are typically full of symbols. Most graphical elements you see on your screen are meant to stand for ideas or concepts. The little house on your desktop isn’t a little house, it’s «home». The eye isn’t an actual eye, it means «look at the selected element». The cog isn’t a cog, it means «click me to see...
I’m starting to notice the colour codings, the braille, the text on the pills themselves, the shapes and sizes of ibuprofen caplets, capsules (and what the differences are) and other medicines. There’s something about documenting day to day life that fascinates me in a way.
Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat... →
“U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an iPhone first-aid app that taught him to treat his wounds. After being crushed by a pile of rubble, Woolley used his digital SLR to illuminate his surroundings and snap photos of the wreckage in search of a safe...
Mr. Paul Isakson posted an article over on his blog and with a bit of luck I was going to post a comment to the very same article about the impact of mobile on retail;
The one question we keep asking ourselves every day, in coffee shops and in uni is not whether Pepsi is better than Coke, but of course what the advantage of a high street store might still be in this online world.
People...
via farm3.static.flickr.com
Down $300 dollars means that people aren’t exactly going back to oldschool gifts and classical toys or the like, just maybe that they’re still buying junk, useful junk or funny junk but in smaller quantities?
via youtube.com
I like this advert as much as I hate it;
I don’t love it, because it’s not new that women and men alike have different ’selves’ that they put on display to the outside world; there have been similar adverts for Lynx in the form of same guy, different hairstyles because there’s not just one man, there’s many waiting to be unleashed by a deodorant. It is clever in a world...
I had something in mind about New Year resolutions, something I haven’t done in the past because I never thought there had to be a special day to promise to do loads of things and because when I set my mind to do something, I usually forget. Spur of the moment works for me, or the ’screw it, let’s do it’ way.
Trauma Film Screenings is a Monday afternoon happening during term time and basically...
via fastcompany.com
5 hours of radio? Who listens to 5 hours of radio every day?
via adweek.com
It’d better be a rupture because it’s rather odd that no one ever thought their bubble was about to burst. Strange to walk into shops that used to be museums and carry on being museums that you can’t seem to touch or get close to. And strange to see everyone hold onto their prices like there was no tomorrow, to feel frustrated at lack of flexibility or willingness to open up to...
And my last post was about (almost) a month ago before I left for the holidays, had some time to reflect on what happened in 2009, stuff my face with cake and read books I’ve been meaning to read for a while but never had the time.
I discovered something that I already knew or half suspected but didn’t want to think true because I wanted to be optimistic instead of my usual morose self but a...
I don’t like wordpress anymore. Not the free domain at least. I’ve had it for too long and I’ve grown tired of the lack of decent themes (not like the paid for ones on my domain are any better), I dislike the ajax sometimes and I wish I could use blogger or typepad if it weren’t for the word verification that I dislike.
If I’m lucky, this will probably soon point to a domain, rather than a...
“Turing the famous supposed father of computer science who committed suicide in...”
– Interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo
“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each...”
– ~ BETSEY JOHNSON (via gatekeeper) (via justbesplendid)
M+ 2p, regular - Abstract Fonts →
…and imma let you finish, but Frutiger had the best typeface of all time!
