Month: January 2012

  • bridgettelizabeth: John Cleese on creativity (by zeekomkommers) “We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when we’re asleep. So what I’m saying is that if you get into the right mood, then your mode of thinking…

  • kateoplis: William Gibson: The Future Now What is the future to you?Tomorrow. Literally. The present is a very short interval, today. I don’t feel we live in an era. An era’s supposed to be a long period of the same sort of thing. I don’t think we’re having that, unless you want to crank the…

  • (via This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids | Colossal)

  • CB: Right. You know, I think it is hard, because I think there’s an inherent sensitivity that I know that I possess, and I think Portland and cities and communities of its ilk also possess this kind of hyper-sensitivity. I think that’s part of what makes us tick — this constant self-reflectiveness, and self-awareness. And…

  • It may seem astonishing to see a book company expanding so rapidly in the digital age, or a thriving market for three-dimensional libraries: Countless oracles have proclaimed print products dead. Yet that prophecy only seems to steel the Assoulines’ resolve to make their enterprise’s core products more elaborate and sumptuous than ever. The world of…

  • (via Made in China «) via Colossal

  • industrialist: 1962 Austin Enterprises Chess Set

  • Stowe Boyd: A Company Of One In An Architecture Of Cooperation

    Stowe Boyd: A Company Of One In An Architecture Of Cooperation stoweboyd: Jeremiah Owyang is onto something when he recently suggested that workers should change their mindset about work, and consider themselves instead as a ‘company of one’: Mindset: Your Boss Is Really Your Client, Jeremiah Owyang […] the way that companies should re-think management…

  • Against (a particularly reductive reading of) Procedurality

    Against (a particularly reductive reading of) Procedurality dropouthangoutspaceout: So as Cristian Mccrea said yesterday “So, that sure happened”. It’s off gamesnetwork and in your face. I’m going to start by saying that I’m not going to tackle some of the core issues that Sicart attempts to assail. I feel that at times he has reduced…

  • thisway: Charles “Sparky” Schulz Draws Charlie Brown (Official) (by Snoopy) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)