This Salt Bird made me chuckle.
Software
“I see software as the testing ground for the future, a place where we can put on our training wheels and get our ethics right and develop cultural and social norms for how technology should relate to humans.”
– Jonathan Harris
From Jonathan Harris’ CreativeMornings talk.
Paying Attention
“Paying attention in a distracted world: It’s like bringing a gun to a knife fight.”
– James Shelley
(via 99%)
SaneBox
I just signed up for Sanebox, which aims to fix email overload. It moves unimportant email out of your Inbox into the SaneLater folder to stop unwanted interruptions, like a fabulous secretary that doesn’t allow just anyone to bother you in your office. Some of the features that convinced me to sign up are the SaneBlackHole, and the fact that you can defer emails.
I am strangely hopeful that SaneBox will deliver much needed sanity for my inbox. Want to try it yourself? Use this invitation code.
(via Mashable)
Concrete Chair
Couldn’t help but chuckle seeing this Concrete Chair by Stefan Zwicky, clearly a homage to Corbusier’s LC-2.
Finite
“Human attention is a finite resource, the same way that oil is and energy is.”
– Jonathan Harris
A quote from Jonathan Harris’ CreativeMornings talk.
Cardboard Bike. Really.
Izhar cardboard bike project from Giora Kariv on Vimeo.
How impressive is the idea to even want to create a cardboard bicycle? Congratulations to Mr. Izhar for proving us all that it can be done!
The Cardboard Bicycle can withstand water and humidity, coated with a strong layer of brown and white material, making the finished product look like it is made of hard lightweight plastic and can carry riders weighing up to 220 kilograms. The cost to make the bicycle is around $9-$12 and the manufacturer expects that the cost to the consumer would be around $60-$90 depending on what parts they choose to add on.
YES!
(via @erikspiekerman)
Friday Link Pack
Wondering what that above video is all about? It shows what English sounds like to foreigners
– Kansas City has hands down the coolest looking Library Parking Garage. (thank you Alexandra)
– Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think .(via @neilw)
– Faces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups
– Your kid should see this: Massive Animal Kites!
– A 1933 “booklovers map of America showing certain landmarks of literary geography”. What a find!
– 10 Email Extras You Should Be Using for Increased Productivity
– My friends at Area 17 are looking to hire an Interface Developer
– This is hilarious: What if every Olympic sport was photographed like beach volleyball? (via kottke)
– “If there was Swimming on Mars, the low temperature & low air pressure would force the pool to simultaneously freeze & boil.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Spectator of your own Life
“The more you document your own life, the more you check in, you tweet, the more you post photos of what you did last night, the more you do all of this stuff, or even in my case, the more you listen for little lines of dialogue that can make their way into stories, the more you photograph moments, in a way, the more you start to step out of those moments, and if you do that too much, you become a spectator to your own life.”
– Jonathan Harris
A quote from Jonathan Harris’ CreativeMornings talk.
Setlist
Do you use Rdio? And you like to go to live concerts? If you answered both questions with a yes, boy, do I have an app for you: By linking your Rdio account to Setlist, you’re able to see if artists in your collection are playing shows in your specified cities. Once you’ve found a show you’d like to check out, you’re only a couple taps away from purchasing tickets in Setlist through songkick. Awesome? I’d say so!
CreativeMornings Video: Jonathan Harris
I am thrilled to share our latest CreativeMornings/NewYork talk by the wonderfully thoughtful Jonathan Harris.
In this talk, appropriately given during CreativeMornings’ Arts + Tech themed month done in partnership with RISD, Jonathan revisits different phases of his life and the medium that marked them in his work as an artist. Starting with paint, Jonathan speaks on data, life, himself, and tool(s) — addressing both the positives and negatives of each medium as well as what he hopes for the future of arts and technology.
About Jonathan Harris:
Jonathan makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects range from building the world’s largest time capsule (with Yahoo!) to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean (with a warm hat). He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine, which continuously measures the emotional temperature of the human world through large-scale blog analysis, and has made other projects about online dating, modern mythology, happiness, anonymity, news, and language. His latest project is Cowbird, a community of storytellers working to build a public library of human experience.
A big thank you to Jacob Krupnick for filming the talk, Ben Hallman for editing the video, and Katherine Miles Jones for event photos.
Hare Styles
This Hare Style T-Shirt made me laugh.
Aspiring to be an ….
One day, I will be an Emailer Extraordinaire. I can honestly say, I am currently failing badly at it.
A Tattly designed by no other than John Boardley, force behind I Love Typography and Codex.
Designers & Books Fair 2012
This October, Designers & Books are hosting the first-ever book fair in New York City to focus on architecture and design book publishing.
The Designers & Books Fair will feature an exhibition hall filled with U. S. and European publishers displaying and selling their new Fall and holiday season 2012 design titles, as well as important backlist titles.
Booksellers and rare and out-of-print book dealers specializing in design books will also be displaying and selling books. Renowned designers and design world personalities will be participating in panel discussions, interviews, and special presentations. Fantastic!
Visit Designers & Books Fair 2012 for details about the Fair.
Graphic Design Magic
Fabulous Stephen Doyle conjures up design magic to celebrate the launch of The Battery Conservancy’s Americas Design Competition.
The international design competition invites designers (students and professionals) to propose outdoor seating for NYC’s The Battery, the 25-acre park at the southern tip of Manhattan. More Info
If you haven’t listened yet to the DesignMatters Podcast with Stephen Doyle, make sure to do so now. It’s one of my favorites.
How To Swim
Beautiful vintage cigarette cards from the impressively large digital collection at the NYPL. In honor of the Olympic Games.
(via Melissa)
Peel Wall Light
This unusual lamp (yes, really, a lamp) made me look. I give it a thumbs up for originality!
(via shoeboxdwelling)
Crisis
“The Chinese character for ‘crisis,’ he pointed out to me, combines the characters for ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity.’”
From the The Opposable Mind, by Roger L. Martin
Shadow Profiles
These shadow profiles, created with creased japanese paper and a single light source are simply stunning. Respect to the artist, Kumi Yamashita.
(thank you Yoko)
Inside a Toddler’s Brain
Considering I have a crazy (adorable) 2 year old at home, this chart made me chuckle.