The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night, dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here. And don’t be so earnest.
Seamus Heaney
Friday, August 30, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Joe Torre, once wrote, the really good hitter has to “concern himself with getting the job done, instead of how it looks. … There’s a certain free-fall you have to go through when you commit yourself without a guarantee that it’s always gong to be good. … Allow yourself to be embarrassed. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.”
On performance.
On performance.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
The Internet overvalues newness, and live-show attendance follows suit. The deluge of music in our digital lives means that discovery is sped up alongside digestion —Oh, I streamed their single, saw their video clip, can extrapolate the live show. Scenes become useful insofar as they are patient organisms, interested in slow changes and small differences, less enmeshed in online attention cycles—but you need to reach across them to be able to tour.
Jace Clayton, aka DJ/rupture, as a member of Sasha Frere-Jones’ latest panel on musicians making a living in the era of music streaming services. (via thekeri)
Jace Clayton, aka DJ/rupture, as a member of Sasha Frere-Jones’ latest panel on musicians making a living in the era of music streaming services. (via thekeri)
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
my own mary story is not so different…one year I ended up being the narrator (God).
“The first part I played was in the Nativity play at school. I auditioned for an angel and didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary and didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to the baby Jesus. I wore a calico head thing that my mom made, and I bleated through the whole thing and got my first laugh. And that was it—I was hooked. That became a metaphor for my whole career: Every time I’ve thought, Oh, I should be Mary, I somehow go and find something offbeat and different.”
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I would never do flowers but I like how much they disappear into the skin-tone. They’re right in your face but not at the same time.
That being said I’m beginning to understand lulu’s theory, that tattoos look better on darker skin…
Tattoos on women make sense to me. They enable you to bee more than just pretty or sexy. They are just you.
Abandoned Barn | near Gothenburg, NE | 2013
Shout out to photographer extraordinaire Alex Matzke for this awesome location. Her badass photo of this barn can be seen here.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013
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My mom is from a cattle ranch in western Nebraska. It’s 2 hours from a gas station and 35 miles of dirt road until you get to the highway that takes you to the gas station. She road her horse to a one-room schoolhouse until highschool when her mom moved to a town 4 hours away.
My dad is from Brooklyn. All over New York really, he grew up during the Great Depression so they moved often. He wore a suit pretty much every day and even on the ranch where he carefully stepped around the cow pies even though they had all frozen.
Growing up I felt like the representative. The New Jersey cowgirl or the Nebraskan urbanite.
Even though I don’t really get to go back to Nebraska anymore, I still cringe when Cantabrigians scoff at the fly over states. This talk is long but she really gets across reconciling the dissonance that comes when you spend enough time on the other side.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
InsideSalk - 10|08 Issue - Institute Friends Take 'Journey' Through Françoise Gilot's Exhibit and Life
On Francoise Gilot’s relationship with Jonas Salk.
She also recently began a new series of paintings, which Gilot describes as some of her best work to date because she’s now painting with more ease and spontaneity – something that Yoakum believes she also found in her marriage with Salk.
"I think what Françoise found was the dialogue that she had earlier (with Picasso), but without the combativeness. Jonas and Françoise experienced fame early in their careers and one might think that having that would be a really solid platform to continue the rest of your work," Yoakum said.
"However, creativity is an experiment, it’s trial and error — and with the loss of anonymity, there is also the added scrutiny. This creates an additional burden that they had to carry," he said. "I think they both understood that very well, and one of the many characteristics that they each brought to their relationship was their ability to understand that in each other."
InsideSalk - 10|08 Issue - Institute Friends Take 'Journey' Through Françoise Gilot's Exhibit and Life
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
Progressive Reduction for UI Design
The mistake isn’t biasing your UI towards one type of user, it’s failing to realize that your user’s bias is changing.
User profiling could really come in handy with animations that are designed to instruct changes to the model.
Progressive Reduction for UI Design
Friday, August 2, 2013
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Dig the loop that begins at 3:45.
the light horns that come in are very movie-score/gershwin esque.
#ifiwasadj
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Not all that technology replaces is obsolete
100 years after horses were declared “obsolete”, the recreational horse industry in the United States alone is $40billion. Yes, that’s with a “b”. Sometimes a technological replacement reveals a deeper underlying value. From printed books to vinyl records, not everything rendered obsolete vanishes.
Kathy Sierra
I got into an interesting aesthetic argument with a friend last weekend. Basically I don’t love how Ableton has perpetuated the loop paradigm ad nauseum and want other technology to emerge so that we have a richer landscape of tools with which to make music. She argued that people against technology have always lost (progress always progresses) and so this is kind of a rebuttal to that point…
Your app makes me fat (via @aresnick)
In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv (currently at Stanford) and his co-author Alex Fedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students.They asked half to memorize a seven-digit number and the other half to memorize a two-digit number. After completing the memorization task, participants were told the experiment was over, and then offered a snack choice of either chocolate cake or a fruit bowl. The participants who memorized the seven-digit number were nearly 50% more likely than the other group to choose cake over fruit. Researchers were astonished by a pile of experiments that led to one bizarre conclusion: Willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources. Spend hours at work on a tricky design problem? You are more likely to stop at Burger King on the drive home. Hold back from saying what you really think during one of those long-ass, painful meetings? You’ll struggle with the code you write later that day.
Since both willpower/self-control and cognitive tasks drain the same tank, deplete it over here, pay the price over there.
Maybe we’ll think more about what our users really care about. Maybe we’ll ask ourselves at each design meeting, “is this a Fruit-choosing feature or a Cake-choosing feature?” and we’ll try to limit Cake-choosing features—the ones that really drain them — to that which supports the thing they’re using our app for in the first place.
But if it’s “content” designed solely to suck people in (“7 ways to be OMG awesome!!”) for the chance to “convert”, we’re hurting people. If we’re pumping out “content” because frequency, we’re hurting people.
Your app makes me fat (via @aresnick)
'Post Tenebras Lux' by Carlos Reygadas
Reygadas prefers to think of cinema as “not an art of representation, it’s an art of presence,” using reality to capture the essence of things even within a fiction.
Reygadas, 41, came to filmmaking somewhat late in life, after a career as a lawyer working in Europe specializing in armed-conflict resolution. “I liked what I did very much, and at a certain point I just felt it was not my work I didn’t like but the kind of life I lead,” he said. “I didn’t want to go to an office from Monday to Friday, dressing in a suit and a tie. It is something as banal as that, but in the end it’s your life, what you do every day.
'Post Tenebras Lux' by Carlos Reygadas
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