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Jan 14th

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List 2011 - Poptones

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings @La Maroquinerie, 9.11.11 - Paris. “The days were rough and it’s all quite dim. But my mind cuts through it all, Like a wrecking ball.”1 The first Paris show in years for the duo from no where and everywhere. We arrived late, hot and bothered, despite my best intentions. After a spell of bad traffic, we got stone-cold lost during a cross-town...

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Nov 23rd

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complexity/diversity/stability

The Minimal Mac philosophy appeals to me because it always takes into consideration the implicitly heuristic aspects of the practical/technical suggestions it offers. It is not simply a question of assembling the minimal computer hardware (the menubar items, dock and applications…); creative tools— software, hardware, networks —are posited as both representations of and...

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The New Aesthetic: To me, the waveform meant... →

To me, the waveform meant “work”, but to millions of other people it means “play”. […] This isn’t just about layers of complication. True enough, it is amazing how people who are otherwise technically illiterate seem to keep on top of Facebook Facebook’s increasingly byzantine, constantly…

Nov 13th

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Nov 13th

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“You can’t make a mistake when you improvise. It’s like drumming. If...”

– Patti Smith, Just Kids

Oct 26th

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Oct 20th

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Christiania

Catching up on the news about how the well entrenched micronation in the heart of Copenhagen, Christiania got squeezed from both sides of the political fence, sold shares to buy the land from the Danish state in order to survive, thus surviving to celebrate its 40th anniversity. As one commenter in the Guardian article put it, “There should be a Christiania in every city…”

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Oct 18th

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Every Index Card tells a Story, don’t it: the...

(sung to the tune of Every Picture Tells a Story)1 Link to Part 1/2 Episode 362 is the latest installment of Back to Work3 and has the sweet title, Writing on the Wind.4 It is about a Merlin Mann idea, the time/attention graph, whose units of resolution are measured according to focal length. Episode 36 is also about Index Cards, –the unlikely thread connecting Mann to design methodology and...

Oct 17th

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The Story of Software (part-1/2)

The Software Story1 is a conversation2 about software design methodology for Project development. This episode lead me to understand that the different methods of software design methodology have been theorized3; and, lead me to think that these methods are capable of being applied to projects other than software, especially in creative disciplines (i.e., my discipline, architecture). Matthew...

Oct 17th

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Sad Days, October

Now that the the last compelling team has been eliminated from the Major League Baseball’s Fall Classic,1 I can reflect upon the appropriate strategy heading into the World Series the fan of a losing team.2 Support the team that beat your home town heroes.3 By hoping that they go all the way, you can claim to have been beaten by the very best. Or, root for any of the other teams4 except the...

Oct 17th

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