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Fab.com Flash Sale: Swissted Limited quantity.Aw man! Awesome...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:25:50 -0400

Fab.com Flash Sale: Swissted Limited quantity.
Aw man! Awesome Swissted punk rock design posters on Fab!

The New Aesthetic

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:50:00 -0500

Mental landscapes

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:52:00 -0500

“One thing I wanted to tell you is that I often think of him,” Tamaru said. “Not that I want to see him again or anything. I really don’t. We wouldn’t have anything to talk about, for one thing. It’s just that I still have this vivid image of him ‘pulling rats out’ of blocks of wood with total concentration, and that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me something—or tries to. People need things like that to go on living—mental landscapes that have meaning for them, even if they can’t explain them in words. Part of why we live is to come up with explanations for these things. That’s what I think.”

“Are you saying that they’re like a basis for us to live?”

“Maybe so.”

“I have such mental landscapes, too.”

“You’d better handle them with care.”

“I will.”

—1Q84, Haruki Murakami, p. 516

Sweden fine art print of original painting by theartofobservation

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:37:15 -0500

Sweden fine art print of original painting by theartofobservation

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Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:37:11 -0500

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Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:27:10 -0500

via http://thestrangeattractor.net/?p=8994

Zeloot | The Strange Attractor

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:24:46 -0500

Zeloot | The Strange Attractor:

Strange and wonderful Dutch concert posters.

gorg: Vectips Weekly Vector Inspiration #144 | Vectips

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:19:11 -0500

gorg:

Vectips Weekly Vector Inspiration #144 | Vectips

"The design process begins with a graphical description of a proposed device or system to satisfy a..."

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:42:57 -0500

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The design process begins with a graphical description of a proposed device or system to satisfy a human need.

To say that the description is graphical is to assert that at the very inception of an idea the designer’s understanding of his creation is almost visceral instead of intellectual. He perceives his idea at first not in the perfection of a well-turned English word description, nor in the precision of a mathematical formula, but in some nebulous assembly of building blocks of structure, vaguely beheld; he ‘feels’ his creation. The sketch forms the natural bridge between these vague stirrings of the imagination and the subsequent precise statement of the refined details of the concept.

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- “An outline of the requirements for a computer-aided design program,” Steven Coons, MIT. From the 1963 Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference.

"In an electronic age, all that properly moves is information. The massive overlay of antecedent and..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:54:22 -0500

““In an electronic age, all that properly moves is information. The massive overlay of antecedent and existent technologies takes on a peculiar character of simultaneity in the electronic age. All technologies become simultaneous, and the new problem becomes one of relevance in stress and selection, rather than of commitment to any one.”
–Marshall McLuhan, Letter from Toronto, 1960”

- Community and Privacy, by Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander, 1963

When New York’s water came from 42nd Street « Ephemeral New...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:50:30 -0400

When New York’s water came from 42nd Street « Ephemeral New York

via slavin: Judika Zirzow, 24, visiting her hometown,...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:44:29 -0400

via slavin:

Judika Zirzow, 24, visiting her hometown, Hoyerswerda, in eastern Germany, where housing is being torn down because the population is decreasing. (via Germany’s East Declines 20 Years After Berlin Wall Fell - NYTimes.com)

Hi Jack, This is it! I’m in the envelope, getting ready...

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:49:42 -0400

Hi Jack,

This is it! I’m in the envelope, getting ready for my trip back to you at Holy Spirit. Did you know it’s a 1,191 mile trip? That’s a long way! Thank you for sending me to Aunt Molly. She and I had fun hanging out in Princeton and in New York City. See you soon!

Your friend,

Flat Jack

Hi Jack, Aunt Molly folded me up to send me back to you in St....

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:44:00 -0400

Hi Jack,

Aunt Molly folded me up to send me back to you in St. Paul.

Your friend,

Flat Jack

Hi Jack, I got a Princeton Tigers baseball shirt! Your...

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:40:44 -0400

Hi Jack,

I got a Princeton Tigers baseball shirt!

Your friend,

Flat Jack

Cognitive dissonance between geographically distributed...

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:01:00 -0500

Cognitive dissonance between geographically distributed lectures. Everyone else seems to be at eTech 2008, at a food hacking session. I am listening to Atélier Le Balto present “The Act of Gardening.”