June 2008
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fastlane
we are whisper nice things in your ear-close. we are lovers, friends, humans, animals. we are hand-holding, own-worlding, spectacular displays of human interaction. we are junkies with a taste for the sweet and the obscene. dynamic dynamite explosions!
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The 10 Commandments of Web Design →
my favorites:
5. Thou shalt not name your Web 2.0 company with an unnecessary surplus or dearth of vowels.
6. Thou shalt worship at the altar of typography.
via simko
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dear anyone who makes desktop wallpaper
it’s gorgeous! it blows my mind! i can’t wait to stare at it at random intervals throughout the day.
but wait, what’s that? a huge line of text at the bottom in a high contrast font with all of your copyright info? deal breaker.
i know, people steal your work. they are mean and bad. but seriously, it’s an eyesore on my monitor. people don’t paint murals and put up...
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not those kinds of voices
i think my favorite thing about making/designing/building/producing anything is the problem solving element. the little extra ‘you’ in your head that challenges every decision you make along the way.
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“During World War II Picasso suffered some harassment from the Gestapo in...”
– picasso quotations via dailymeh extremely violent painting for its time.
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“So if at any point during intercourse, your partner starts screaming, “OH...”
– oh LOL from cracked.com’s list of the 6 most terrifying allergies (re: allergic reaction to semen)
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“Whilst working at my last agency, I received an excellent piece of advice from...”
– as often as i am in denial of it, this is completely true. from img is everything
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pictures for reasonable children [img] →
a pictures for sad children comic and a more rational spin on the classic ugly duckling story.
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walking through movies
You know how you’ll put on your headphones, and then go walk around the city and imagine that you’re in a movie?
i do! but substitute “the city” with “my town”. via catbird electro makes me feel like i’m a badass matrix-ish character. slow songs make me feel like i’m in some deep, heart-wrenching sundance film.
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“Be transparent. Share your work constantly. Solicit feedback. Appreciate...”
– iBanjo » Programmer Insecurity (via atmos + drawohara) not just programming :)
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“… and all the while … he’s talking about parentheses, about how a sentence...”
– John Haskell, I am not Jackson Pollock via postlinguistics
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ambition
21st Century Living is one of Matthew Good Band’s most well written songs.
Ambition can backfire Ambition means more ambition means faster ambition means better I wonder if you could supersize, can you supersize ambition Does that make you ambitious if you supersize ambition Around here our ambition hurts more than it helps Around here our ambition throws a non-perishable item in a...
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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via christmasgorilla + jayrobinson)
baroque = puke
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Haha oh my god i might not have power until friday night. Applies to all parts of essex county suffering from power failure!
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“ZOIDBERG BLOGS ABOUT DUMBLEDORE”
– from the Auto-Meme 9000 made by liam. there is also a tumblelog that generates chats.
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more golden tidbits from the office
potential client: so people are very visual. they respond to visual things, you have to find just the right balance of text and imagery.
boss: *nod*
potential client: great! i think you get it!
(because like, he hasn't been a designer for over a decade or anything.)
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“We want a site exactly like [website with nothing on it] but with [everything on...”
– overheard in the office head, desk, etc
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Women Like Tumblr →
but only brainy women over 21! can we work on that next time? or at least give a heads up? via david
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internet survey
so last night at the mashable party, we (zoya, chris and myself) conducted a small survey.
the question: what is your favorite thing about the internet?
the results were as follows:
porn: IIIII II
gay porn: I
free porn: I
getting off (of the internet): I
new ideas: I
freedom to be creative: I
aol sound effects: I
cafemom: II
connecting to the world: I
if you plan on...
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“Learn to think before speaking or I’m going to stick my foot in your ass.”
– chris
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“And you’re kept in an open cage
So you’re free to leave or stay...”
– Death Cab for Cutie, ‘Talking Bird’ from Narrow Stairs
Good stuff on this album, classic rip-your-heart-out sad songs (like the above) and some new sounds as well.
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