October 2009
28 posts
“A Series of Small Flames” - Land of...
Watch“Song For My Father” live from 1968 - Horace Silver. (from the album Song For My Father)
[Right on, McConville]
Strange Loop 2009 Keynote: Minimalism in Computing
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Strange Loop 2009 Keynote: Minimalism in Computing
Though this fantastic presentation by Alex Payne lacks accompanying audio it is still worth flipping through. Alex is one of my personal heroes. This will stand in for my usual end of the night inspirational quote as there is more than enough inspiration here.
WatchStefan Sagmeister’s TED talk on the power of time off.
“Low Rising” - The Swell Season...
“ “Please. You want an offensive app? Come talk to me.” ”
– Trevor (in response to PepsiCo’s Amp iPhone app controversy.)
“ “I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.” ”
– Steve Jobs
“Be drinkable.” “You will be...
Superego! Episode 2:7
Superego! Podcast Episode 2:7
Rocko! Flacko! Mearso! And McConville as Janice Caaf, which I simply cannot get enough of.
Subscribe at iTunes.
YouTube. I love the Tube, but usually I’m not so crazy about the You part. Except, for some reason, today.
Babel Tales
Babel Tales is a series of composited New York City street photography by Peter Funch.
WatchInside Pixar and the making of Up.
[from Empire’s Up/Pixar videblogisode]
“Bottom of the Sea” - Time Since...
What good shall I do today? →
(Ben Franklin’s daily plan)
Daily Routines chronicles how writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. In his introduction, Polti claims to be continuing the work of Carlo Gozzi,...
“ “Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.” ”
– Leon Battista Alberti
“I much prefer experiences to stuff”
From the recent The New Yorker article on Zappos and their CEO, Tony Hsieh.
“I’ve never been into shoes—and I’m still not,” he said. Zappos has begun to expand from shoes, as Amazon did from its base of books, into other categories of merchandise: handbags, clothes. “Kitchenware, housewares, whatever,” Hsieh said. But he’s not really interested in those things, either. “I much prefer experiences...
Watch“Night School Hi-Q” - SCTV
“Cruiser” - Red House Painters (from...
WatchAndrew Bird was in the office recently and played “Anonanimal”. Incredible. Here’s his brand-new, stop-action video for it.