February 2012
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“The real world is where you take pictures for... →
modernandmaterialthings:
“Documentary vision is kind of like the “camera eye” photographers develop when, after taking many photos, they begin to see the world as always a potential photo even when not holding the camera at all. The habit of the photographer involuntarily framing and composing the world has become a metaphor for those trained to document using social media. The explosion of...
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January 2012
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NBC’s Fear Factor Not Sure if it Actually Wants To... →
joshsternberg:
Tom Brokaw (and NBC News) doesn’t want his likeness to be associated with Mitt Romney in a political ad. Fine. But they’re cool with donkey semen and urine chasers.
TMZ reports that the stunt, which was shot last summer, involved teams drinking a full glass of donkey spunk with a glass of urine as a chaser. NBC execs held multiple powwows leading up to the air date before...
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“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– John Gall’s Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
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“For the past couple of years, we have gotten into the habit of presuming that...”
– A List Apart: What I Learned About the Web in 2011
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the...”
– Benjamin Franklin
Why does nobody talk like this anymore?!?!
Change is good, donkey →
Never get too comfortable.
I was reminded of this with the Google redesign(s) in 2011. Even though they weren’t a total shock (it was about time), they still made me entirely uncomfortable.
This is, in part, because Google is as central to getting around today as the U.S. Interstate Highway System once was. And when a change is made, it impacts, in a crucial way, the way we navigate.
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“Actually, you know, businesses aren’t machines. Homo Economicus doesn’t actually...”
– Ten questions for Mark Earls.
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Ossington
me: where are we going?
jon: somewhere on ossington
jon: likely the ossington
me: So the ossington on ossington.
me: Thats in the ossington district right?
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