Jonathan Harris pulls a Thoreau and moves into a cabin in the woods. World Building in a Crazy World is a digital Walden: in deck form, presented at a Media Conference, yet not lacking in heart or breadth.
“Time is a material.”
Matt Jones of Berg’s presentation, “All the time in the world” is a springboard into so many interesting avenues regarding time, space and design. Seen here is Michel Gondry’s lo-fi “making of” video for the Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar video.
“ If an interaction is fun, design it with more friction. If it’s boring, design it with less. Don’t blindly make everything faster and easier. ”
“ Note to self: More levity. Less worry. Stop being so meta and just make stuff, not making stuff about making stuff. That sucks. ”
“ I find it really amazing how close it is to sports. Even with writing, I can appreciate it even more right now because it’s newer to me. Going over a paragraph, going over and over and over it – at some point it starts hurting the same way it does when you go running. ”
Christoph Niemann on the creative process in Short Deadlines Make You Think Straight
“ Don’t worry if someone else is already working on your idea. I’m certain they are, but they are decidedly not you and it’s the you that makes your idea unique. ”
“Coveting possessions is unhealthy. Here’s how I look at it:
All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I pay nothing for. Storage is free.
When I want to take something out of storage, I just pay the for the storage costs for that particular thing up to that point, plus a nominal shipping fee, and my things are delivered to me so I can use them. When I am done with them, I return them to storage via Craigslist or Ebay, and I am given a fee as compensation for freeing up the storage facilities resources.
This is also the case with all of my stuff that Amazon and Walmart are holding for me. I have antiques, priceless art, cars, estates, and jewels beyond the dreams of avarice.
The world is my museum, displaying my collections on loan. The James Savages of the world are merely curators.
As I am the curator of their things, and thus together we all share the world.
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A fine comment from one Pastabagel on Collect ‘em all! (via Code for Something w/ a fist-bump for Johanna)
“ You don’t throw away your books when you buy a computer. You keep both. The beauty of living in the present day is you don’t abandon the past. The past co-exists. ”
Stephen Fry (via inky via merlin)
“ Callbacks must be a symbol denoting the method to call,
a string to be evaluated!
A block to be invoked! Or,
an object responding to the callback method. ”
Rails is being quite poetic today (line breaks and punctuation added).
Kubric on the indifference of the universe.
See also: Richard Dawkins on the same topic in this Radiolab Quickie.
“ Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. ”
From the essay Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, who was complaining about gossip and the trivialities of the daily news long before any of us were born.
“ If there’s one thing I’ve learned about living a life it’s that you need to keep moving, and if there’s another thing it’s that you really should quit your job every once in a while and take on something new, maybe even something that seems crazy and scares the hell out of you. ”
Jonathan Coulton (via meaghano via marco)
“ Happiness comes from achieving success doing what you love, while ignoring the trappings that symbolize success in that field. ”
