“The lines are movement, and the dots are periods of inactivity. (The bigger the dot, the longer the rest.)” (via Door Sixteen » My mouse path.)
Thanks to Hoefler & Frere-Jones for the link.
“The lines are movement, and the dots are periods of inactivity. (The bigger the dot, the longer the rest.)” (via Door Sixteen » My mouse path.)
Thanks to Hoefler & Frere-Jones for the link.
San Diego Reader | Tie This Guy Up, Make Sure He Stays at SDSU - Thomas Lux, under whose wing I am privileged to have studied, interviews Ilya Kaminsky, a poet from Odessa. My girlfriend recently had the pleasure of attending Kaminsky’s class at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and like Lux, she raved about him.
I love his answer to how poetry affects the reader.
When I Was a Very Small Boy: Observatory: Design Observer - Beautiful words from Ettore Sottsass, designer of the famous red Olivetti typewriter.
(via clusterflock)
The self-destructive romanticism, the artistic self-consciousness, the frenetically unhinged form, the blend of emotional extravagance and cool self-mocking, the vanished boundaries between irony and sincerity and between symbol and reality, the overt cinematic breakdown and breakup, were all of their moment. Pierrot le fou was the last of Godard’s first films, the herald of even more radical rejections and reconstructions to come—for Godard and for the world around him.
Pierrot le fou: Self-Portrait in a Shattered Lens - From the Current - Buy it while you can. I did.
Who doesn’t want to write a serious, scientific paper called “Lost in the Sauce”? Ha!
That particular quote comes from an article on DISCOVER Magazine online, but the link for this comes from Lloyd Morgan’s wonderfully curated Lone Gunman: In Search of the Infogasm. Another choice quote, this time from the linked WSJ article:
In addition, they found that tell-tale burst of gamma waves was almost always preceded by a change in alpha brain-wave intensity in the visual cortex, which controls what we see. They took it as evidence that the brain was dampening the neurons there similar to the way we consciously close our eyes to concentrate. “You want to quiet the noise in your head to solidify that fragile germ of an idea,” says Dr. Jung-Beeman at Northwestern.
Fragile germ of an idea! Love it!
A sometimes-enlightening discussion of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. The film historian is an average scholarly bore at best, and the production values of this program leave something to be desired, but McDowell and Burgess are great. (via Google Video)
Subtraction.com: Minimalism, Michael Mann and Miami Vice - While I don’t think Mann is doing anything particularly unique among the works of other great directors (see the films of Jean-Pierre Melville, Stanley Kubrick, Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Terrence Malick, etc., and tell me their films aren’t “experiences”), I do like the correlation Vinh is drawing between design and cinematic storytelling.
A great film is great for what it excludes as much as for what it includes, exactly like great design. In that regard design is itself a kind of mise en scene—what is there is how it works, and how effectively it works is a result of how carefully and skillfully the processes that affected the design were refined and employed.
Two-part interview with Captain Z that provides a pleasant overview of the state of typography on the web. In brief: I’ve got to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time.
stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been… - Another great piece about computer technology, this time from Steven Frank of Panic.
His distinction between Old and New World computing echoes the distinction I described between traditional desktop computers and personal/mobile computers, devices that produce and devices that consume, respectively. What Steve does here is articulate the point I was merely hinting at; that in order for a true revolution to begin with a New World device like the iPad, devices like the iPad must be capable of developing applications as well as using them.
The tech industry will be in paroxysms of future shock for some time to come. Many will cling to their January-26th notions of what it takes to get “real work” done; cling to the idea that the computer-based part of it is the “real work”.
It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.
The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.