January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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August 2011
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Nicholson accepted Kubrick’s mandate to discover what could be found in the script by demanding take after take, looking for different ways of doing almost everything required. “Anything you do as many times as a successful actor, you can’t have one set of theories,” Nicholson said to the documentary crew. “You can go for years saying, ‘I’m going to get...
“Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
July 2011
10 posts
Cinematic geography and the problem of genius →
“Academia teaches us to ask questions like Shay’s — and generally, to answer them ourselves. So we find parallels and influences that make sense on paper without worrying too much about whether they’re actually true.”
John August, on what has definitely, most definitely, been for me the hardest part of my transition from graduate school to professional life.
It’s when I...
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“Design is the activity we humans engage in when we are not satisfied with our...”
– Erik Stolterman in The Death of Design Thinking…
“The intellectual development around design as a special human approach to...”
– Erik Stolterman in The Death of Design Thinking…
WatchI had to use my phone to shoot the video so you’re not getting the full effect.
But this is how I’ve been blowing my mind for the last ten minutes.
The next step being to raid this space and take it to 11.
We live in a truly, wonderfully, magical era.
The next source of wealth creation? You.
Michael Barone of The Examiner:
Finding an answer, it seems to me, must start with recognition of a change that has been occurring for decades and that has accelerated with the financial crisis and recession: The fact that Americans are less likely to work their whole careers in large organizations and more likely to work in small organizations and skip from one to another.
We are less likely...
Lately my mantra has been, “What is this situation’s giant neon cowboy with animatronic dry-humping hips?”
Some personal metaphors require more explanation than others.
Go to Wikipedia and click “random article.” This...
“Terry Major-Ball.”
June 2011
6 posts
“Brain wiring that effortlessly recognizes faces, animals and other symmetrical...”
– Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang in a NYTimes.com article called Get Your Kids The Fuck Outside or something.
My brain isn’t wired for the modern world.
Something I’ve known since the first grade.
May 2011
5 posts
Getting around to it.
Last night Kate and I finally scratched off an item I’ve had on my todo list for six years…
…auditing my backpacking first-aid kit.
It’s a good thing we did… we’ve taken this first-aid kit on any number of trips over the last few years, but I haven’t taken stock of what’s contained in it since I put it together more than ten years ago. Under the...
“There’s a reader backlash to a comma in what they feel is a place that is...”
– Chris Onstad on His Indefinite Hiatus from Achewood
April 2011
4 posts
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This could be something.
I make no secret that my favorite band of all time is matt pond PA, and that I believe Matt Pond is one of the most talented songwriters of the modern day. I’ve been following his work since 2002, when I was living in Duluth and Anton first introduced me to The Green Fury.
I was instantly hooked to its chamber pop stylings, but what really grabbed me was the rich imagery of mpPA’s...
How To Steal Like An Artist →
On Spaghetti Western Awareness Systems and...
My blog post about our new amazing San Francisco studio space and echoes and ambient awareness and spaghetti westerns and such on the Adaptive Path blog was never intended to be a blog post. It started as a brain dump at 750 Words, which developed an emergent purpose and before I knew it spawned 1,200 words.
That told me something was there. I obviously had something to say. So the next day I...
Roger Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms →
Golden.
Sometimes, I just need to be told what truth is.
March 2011
13 posts
WatchI made a video of a thing I made.
The Adaptive Path Fridge Alarm →
I made a thing.
D: "It's not in Los Angeles, it's outside of Los Angeles."
K: "Isn't everything in Los Angeles outside of Los Angeles?"
D: "Yeah."
K: "Like, isn't that the whole point of Los Angeles? Sitting in your car and yelling?"
D: "In lots of sunshine."
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MX Attendee: [watching me color my sketches from Tomer’s presentation] “Wow, so cool! I’ll bet as a kid you never thought you’d grow up to do this for a living!”
Me: “Well, as a kid I thought I would grow up to be a professional skateboarder, but I guess I’d still be pretty happy with the way things turned out.”
Seriously.
I make drawings for a...
February 2011
7 posts
Sliding Doors of Laziness
Hey Verizon, cool tabs. Though brown isn’t really in your corporate palette, is it? And those tabs look strangely familiar… like, a tutorial I followed more than seven years ago familiar.
Sure enough those tabs are from Douglas Bowman’s famous Sliding Doors of CSS article for A List Apart. Here’s the example page. Copy. Paste. Done. I’m surprised Verizon had the...