Found in the tubes

"The concept of quality is difficult to define, for it is not merely seen, but somehow intuited in..."

Wed, 29 May 2013 21:10:12 -0700

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The concept of quality is difficult to define, for it is not merely seen, but somehow intuited in the presence of the work in which it is embodied. Quality has little to do with popular notions of beauty, taste, or style; and nothing to do with status, respectability, or luxury. It is revealed, rather, in an atmosphere of receptivity, propriety, and restraint.

Quality is concerned with the weighing of relationships; the discovery of analogies and contrasts; with proportion and harmony; the juxtaposition of formal and functional elements — with their transformation and enrichment.

Quality is concerned with truth, not deception; with ideas, not techniques; with the enduring, not the ephemeral; with precision, not fussiness; with simplicity, not vacuity; with subtlety, not blatancy; with sensitivity, not sentimentality.

”

- Paul Rand

UI porn. Hard to define but you know it when you see it.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:56:42 -0700

UI porn. Hard to define but you know it when you see it.

P fell asleep on his knees after an apparently raging sleepover...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:23:04 -0700

P fell asleep on his knees after an apparently raging sleepover birthday party. Out cold.

Hands down – truth be told – my favorite TV show: Adventure...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:29:00 -0700

Hands down – truth be told – my favorite TV show: Adventure Time.

"And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless,..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:24:00 -0800

“And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.”

- Anton Chekhov

Paul’s Boutique redux

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:50:02 -0800

Absolutely epic. DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot and DJ Food recreate the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique using all of the original sample sources. A must-have for any Paul’s Boutique fans. So, so great.

https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-31-8-1

Meteor inspired. James Blake, “Retrograde.” Directed by Martin...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:47:51 -0800

Meteor inspired. James Blake, “Retrograde.” Directed by Martin de Thurah. (Thanks, Gish.)

A.G. Lafley explains why everyone gets strategy wrong

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:12:25 -0800

The nutshell: ’Cause making choices – and being specific – is scary.

Not hard. It’s “hard” to have acquired the experience and expertise to make effective choices. But it’s not hard to choose. Just scary.

From the article:

“… the essence of strategy is making 5 integrated — sometimes difficult — choices. And a lot of us, a lot of human beings, don’t like to make choices, right? Choices are difficult, we want to keep our options open, choices involve taking risks, and not only risk to the business but personal risk. So I think there’s this sort of human resistance to making choices, and choices are the core of strategy.”

“Companies have to define an ideal future in strategic terms, limit the field rather than try to please everybody, decide on the best strategy for that market, discover and use what they’re best at, and determine how to support and measure its people as they carry out the strategy.”

“Strategy is five choices…
• What is winning?
• Where am I going to play to win?
• How am I going to win where I play?
• Where are my core competencies that are going to enable me to win where I play?
• What management systems and measures are going to help me execute my strategies?”

http://www.businessinsider.com/ag-lafley-roger-martin-playing-to-win-2013-2

Stefan Sagmeister (among other talents) is a master at launching...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:19:27 -0800

Stefan Sagmeister (among other talents) is a master at launching – getting the right people to pay attention to what he’s up to at just the right moments. It’s always to do with his, uh, little sagmeister… But hey, it works.

Sagmeister opens his studio (20-ish years ago)
Walsh joins Sagmeister
Sagmeister & Walsh site launch

Periodic.net

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:03:00 -0800

I nabbed periodic.net and built this page in 1997 and more or less haven’t touched it since. (I updated the links at some point, apparently, but that’s it.) Tonight I finally got around to torpedoing it. Goodbye, 1997. Goodbye, baby Stefan website. He’s 10 now. Oh, and to whoever’s still squatting on periodic.COM all these years later — still having done nothing with it — not even a dumb page like mine: YOU WIN.

Kijek/Adamski stop-motion animation (music video) for Shugo...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:14:52 -0800

Kijek/Adamski stop-motion animation (music video) for Shugo Tokumaru – “Katachi.”

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/shugo-tokumaru

Cool NFL Fandom map built from Facebook...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:02:55 -0800

Cool NFL Fandom map built from Facebook data.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/nfl-fans-on-facebook/10151298370823859

http://deadspin.com/5979970/facebook-data-provides-the-most-accurate-nfl-fandom-map-ever-created

until then if not before MFA Dance Thesis Concert Choreography...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:35:00 -0800

until then if not before

MFA Dance Thesis Concert
Choreography and Direction
Rebecca Lemme

Presented by
The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance
California Institute of the Arts

Collaborators
Drew Foster, Dan Norman, Steven Kai van Betten, Istanbul

Dancers
Alyssa Alden, Joe Badalamenti, Laura Berg, Amanda Castro, Wesley Ensminger, Mallory Fabian, Jake Harkey, Tiara Jackson, Stephen Patterson, Jamie Pea

22 February 2013, 8:00 pm
23 February 2013, 7:00 and 9:00 pm
Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater

Tickets $2 CalArts, $10 General
Reservations: calarts.edu/calendar

Photo: Patrick Martin / Design: Michael Lemme

"Don’t love yourself in art. Love the art within you."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:11:00 -0800

“Don’t love yourself in art. Love the art within you.”

- Stella Adler, as relayed by Christoph Waltz to Terry Gross.

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/18/167062665/unchained-admiration-between-actor-and-director

"Your work can either get better or get easier. Not both."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:16:20 -0800

“Your work can either get better or get easier. Not both.”

- Not sure if he said it first, but first heard from Teju Cole (@tejucole).

Darth Vader can’t hear so good. (Don’t try to watch with a loved...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:31:21 -0800

Darth Vader can’t hear so good. (Don’t try to watch with a loved one sleeping peacefully beside you.)

“Wait,” taken from the album “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming,” is the...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:44:05 -0800

“Wait,” taken from the album “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming,” is the final episode of the trilogy, the end point of the visual collaboration between M83 and Fleur & Manu that has been ongoing throughout 2012.

Spaceballs on Tam.

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:11:58 -0800

Spaceballs on Tam.

Charlatan/Martyr/Hustler, by...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:32:39 -0800

Charlatan/Martyr/Hustler, by @joeyroth.
http://joeyroth.com/poster/

(Via @espiekermann)

The greatest sports photo ever. Incredible. Muhammad Ali and...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:15:39 -0800

The greatest sports photo ever. Incredible.

Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston
Heavyweight Title Rematch
May 25, 1965
Photo By Neil Leifer/SI