iconography and obama
I want a transformative movement!
What all transformative movements have in common is the quality of speaking up to an aspirational public, to our best possible selves. Transformative movements act like the world is better than it is, and—when they work—they inspire the world to live up to this partial projection. The Obama campaign, has, in moments, embodied precisely that quality: Obama conjures a better America and that better America shows up for him. But political moments do more than speak to our best selves; they harness that quasi-mystical power to make radical demands to transform the real world. The Obama campaign has not done this, not on any issue at the core of our current crisis. Not on global warming, the war in Iraq, the
iomega gets it right again
The first time that the people that made the Bernoulli Box became iomega with removable drives that were all about YOUR STUFF I thought their was some very savvy thinking about the desires or consumers. Then the CD burner came into being and smashed their success in the portable storage marketspace. Well, It looks like Iomega is returning to its old smart self creating a very desirable, very sexy new ego 320 GB hard drive. The reviews I’ve read are very good and the drive is exceptionally good looking.
It reminds me of a flask with something warm inside for when the cold winds blow. Or maybe a cigarette/cigar case — something very personal. The kind of
Myst for the iPhone
A screenshot from Myst.
Myst is the first game I actually purchased. I had played many games as early as the line command games and Adventure. But Myst was something different an immersion, in a quiet space, an adventure with dangers that didn’t run towards you and ask you to kill something.
I look forward to visiting an old friend.
Tags: Myst, Cyan, iPhone, games, interaction
explaining twitter
The Boston Globe and 140 Seconds on Twitter
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Twitter is a micro-sharing website
where you describe in 140 characters or less what you’re up to. You can
send and receive messages via SMS (text messages) on your phone,
through Twitter’s website and third-party applications such as Twitterific.
If you want to talk “with” someone on Twitter, you add @theirusername
to the front of the message and it shows up in the person’s replies
tab. This was a feature that was added several months after Twitter
first launched in 2006 based upon how people ended up
MobileMe hearts me
MobileMe Update
We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received. We are working very hard to make MobileMe a great service we can all be proud of. We know that MobileMe’s launch has not been our finest hour, and we truly appreciate your patience as we turn this around. Read this article for more details.
The MobileMe Team
No this hasn’t been Apple’s finest hour.
I still haven’t purchased my iphone.
I will when its right.
I don’t get my voice mail from ATT now I just can imagine what
Hybrid Taxi’s : Why aren’t all cabs hybrids?
I’m trying to understand this. Cabs drive around in circles all day. Round about here, round about there. Why are they running on gasoline? Why haven’t all cities mandated hybrid or electric cars for this purpose? Or better yet; reconstitute an old way that was pretty darn smart?
It’s all about dollars and cents and making money in a business.
Taxi Drivers Seek Fuel Surcharge
By Sewell Chan
Complaining that soaring gasoline prices have made it barely possible for them to scrape by, about 17 drivers held a rally on Monday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan headquarters of the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, demanding that the panel impose a fuel surcharge.
orphan works ; crazy copyright law ©
What are we thinking? Don’t you think you should own the copyright to your work? This is especially crazy if you are an artist. Imagine being Jackson Pollock or me. We need to bring our laws into a place where we can have fair use.
I want people to see my work, share it, publish it. I just don’t want them to alter it.
This is an op ed by Larry Lessing from the New York Times, you can read the original here:
Little Orphan Artworks
CONGRESS is considering a major reform of copyright law intended to solve the problem of “orphan works” — those works whose owner cannot be found. This “reform” would be an amazingly onerous and inefficient change, which would unfairly and
conversations : denise scott brown and robert venturi
I was meandering around the net and I found a little gem. An interview with Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi. It’s always good to see an interview when Charlie actually shuts up and lets his guests answer his questions.
We should hear more from these two architects before all we have left is their work. Let’s hear their voices. Thank you to both of them for all the fine thinking and work they have done so far. BTW this is an old interview.
Tags: ideas, architecture,
olympic identity to remember
This is one of my favorite Olympic identity programs ever. I had to post it at a time when the last really interesting identity I can remember is Barcelona. The newest… no one will remember. Favorites?
waiting for october
photo: http://www.webkist.com/
Waiting for the season to be over so we can enjoy some days like these. I’m an October beach goer… I don’t really enjoy it until I have to wear a coat there. Margaret and I are big kite fliers too. We have two in the trunk at all times. I can taste the salt from the ocean.
A photo by a flickr pal.
Tags: shore, horizon line, summer, kites, ocean
