Pat Dryburgh caught me attempting a (failed) knock-out of Mike Precious earlier this afternoon. Shameful? Yes. (Animated GIF, by the way. If you can’t see it, click through.)
A swing and a miss.
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Pat Dryburgh caught me attempting a (failed) knock-out of Mike Precious earlier this afternoon. Shameful? Yes. (Animated GIF, by the way. If you can’t see it, click through.)
A swing and a miss.
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“Mondrian? I eat Mondrian for breakfast.”
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Many of you have probably seen this already, but it’s worth watching again (and again.) It seems my friend Pat Dryburgh (a great web designer, by the way) is still waiting and training and anticipating the arrival of Lion and Siracusa’s review of the same. Be steadfast, Pat — we’re right there with you.
P.S. I loved that Merlin Mann referred to Pat as “a sexy Zach Galifianakis” on Back to Work.
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I close my eyes and think of all the things I don’t want. And visualise them rolling by, vacuum cleaners, 3-D TVs, new phones and cars and hand bags, a neat house in the suburbs. I think of how unhappy these things wold make me and then I am free. If you don’t want these things they can never truly have you. Then I think of wood and I think of my bones as wood, something slow and put here a long time ago.
— Robert Montgomery (See the rest of his Billboard Series)
The Flickr vs. Twitter World Atlas — “See something or say something” by Eric Fischer. (Blue is Twitter, red is Flickr, white is both. Toronto pictured above. via)
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas. A human being is a part of the whole called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
—Albert Einstein
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Book vs. Movie (from MAD in 1954, via Scribner Books)
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word ‘design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.
—Dieter Rams, in the Telegraph article, “Dieter Rams: Apple has achieved something I never did”
Loved this part of his introduction: “I never set out to become anything in particular, only to live creatively, and push the scope of my experience.”
This film taps into something true—
If you love something, it won’t matter how hard it is on you. The hardness will make you love it more.
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
—Lao Tsu
“We have seen this gradual transition of the city of Copehagen from a traffic-infested city to really a people-oriented city, which is quite lovely.”
From their pedestrian systems, public spaces, and low-speed areas to the bicycle highways, how Copenhagen has created such a healthy, social urban fabric in such a cold climate should be a real inspiration to Canadian and northern American cities.
Jan Gehl - Livable Cities. …A place that recognises that “people want to be with people” and can work that ethos into policy and deliver it! Jan Gehl has done such good work forwarding the cause for human scale and liveable spaces!
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Heaven lives amid our filth.
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