05 2 / 2012
Designer Steve Shanabruch is making typographic logos for every Chicago neighborhood. In the vein of the CitID project. (via)
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15 12 / 2011
daniel sinker: I'm starting to think Lego is evil
Well, maybe not evil, but “highly problematic.”
First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much…
My thoughts exactly!!!!!!
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07 12 / 2011
Artist Gaelan Kelly illustrates “NPR: How the Voices Look In My Head.”
(via JimRomensko.com)
Too good.
(via npr)
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04 10 / 2011
"I know very subjectively what it’s like to be 21 years old and sitting in a room full of adults who are all taking about how cute your passion for your vision is and how angry that makes you. A certain kind of young person is going to respond by saying, ‘Let’s knock the walls of this thing down, set fire to the conventional wisdom and take the future for a test drive.’"
(Source: The New York Times, via unusualwizard)
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23 9 / 2011
Ryan Kennedy, a designer, imagines how the new Facebook Timeline would look if brands and fan Pages had a crack at it too (they don’t—yet).
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14 9 / 2011
Discouraging news from the world of journalism:
Narrative Science, a company affiliated with Northwestern University, has devised a new computer software that can write news articles in under a minute. The articles sound like they were written by humans, impressing robotics and language experts. “It’s as if a human wrote it.”
Except… a computer actually wrote it.
Narrative Science says it already has 20 customers using the technology.
Discuss.
This is the opposite of discouraging.
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24 8 / 2011
"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."
16 8 / 2011
How cooking is like writing
The apartment is way too quiet.
My mom and siblings went home this weekend, which changes a lot of things. First of all, I no longer constantly hear sounds of crying, laughing, guitar playing, Angry Birds theme song bawk bawk bawk, yelling, screaming or running around.
Also, the number of things that this apartment’s inhabitants can cook has gone from approximately 3984109482357 to eight. Like, my dad actually made a list of eight things he is able and willing to cook during the work week. My list pretty much has zero.
We actually had some time Sunday night, so we ended up with this dinner: chicken, mutton (not my meat of choice, but actually pretty good in India) and spinach. Not the most impressive meal, but hey, we made something. We took a picture to prove to my mom that we actually cooked.
While cooking, I asked my dad something like, is this chicken done? He said yeah, I think so.
You think so?! What if I get poisoned?
It’s just my gut feeling, he said.
No, this post is not about me getting poisoned. It’s about how I had no gut feelings about anything, because I never cook. Ironically, gut feelings require experience.
Which makes me think, maybe being good at something, especially at a creative thing, doesn’t mean your work is of higher quality. Maybe it just means the lightbulb moments come more easily and happen more often.
I’ve been dead of any inspiration to blog recently. Most days I don’t even want to look at a computer after work (unless I’m hanging out with Sarah and Chelsea on Google Plus). But sitting here writing is not the hard part. It’s thinking of interesting things to say, based on my often un-interesting life. Picking up on things I see and things people say. Pulling those together into ideas and sentences and stories.
How cooking is like writing, and really everything else in the world: what seems like luck actually come from years of work, and sometimes, you just gotta accept that the beginning sucks.
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16 8 / 2011
Whoa?! Best album cover ever. Worst high school subject ever.
(via maythefest)
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