Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Part of the beauty of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa was how they were able to capture moments. On film, it’s a rare skill to capture those everyday moments by clicking on the shutter at precisely the right moment. The invention of photography alone didn’t allow us to capture these moments and stop time forever […]
Stefan Sagmeister My friend wanted to quit design. She had a designer’s-block of sorts. So I wrote a letter to Stefan Sagmeister asking him what he does when he has a block. Sagmeister’s one of my design-mentors, only possible in the world of books and the web. I was just a random kid, but he […]
When the credits start rolling, you don’t immediately go back to the beginning of the DVD and say “That was great! Let’s watch it again!” At minimum you might wait another five months before you see this movie again, regardless of goodness. Whereas if you hear a great song, you can listen to it start-to-finish, […]
Thursday, October 7, 2010
You throw away the outside when you peel an orange. It’s what’s inside that counts. When you meet a stranger you judge them on their character. It’s what’s inside that counts. “Guns don’t kill people, bullets do”. It’s what’s inside that hurts. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”. […]
Thursday, September 23, 2010
“Jesters do oft prove prophets†– w.Shakespere, Tragedy of King Lear. Being a prophet is much more exciting than someone who understands the present. It’s mystical to know the future. But the jester, the comedian, actually does a better job of knowing the present, this moment in time, better than any other profession. The skills […]
Friday, September 17, 2010
Steve Wilcox of Design Science didn’t even talk about design. As a speaker at the 2004 Mideast Conference he talked about his travels through his Africa with his wife. I remember two things about the village he stayed in. 1) Everyone carried shotguns, that part was scary, but when there’s music 2) Everybody dances. Whether […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Everyone in my design class seemed to come from some kind of art background. I did not. So I started to study other creative fields to learn their theories, issues, and conversations. My conclusion is that there’s been a massive creative party going on for years, decades and millenia, but Design is so late to […]
Sunday, September 12, 2010
The intensity poured into the crowd as Henry Rollins, the Leonardo DaVinci of this generation, painted a vivid description of his world through the eyes of punk rock. He is seriously doing as much as possible, as one human could. The funny, sad, and enlightening stories from his Siberian trainrides to the world of the […]
Friday, September 10, 2010
They wanted me to read to them. The book, carefully chosen, was about Oliver the Elephant who wanted to grow up and be a dancing circus elephant. So I asked the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up. I had just read the page about the girl who wanted to be cowgirl […]
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Artists have a focus to their work. The freedom and limited constraints, forces them to look internally and search for a meaning to infuse into their creation. With less outside-constraints comes a need to self-focus. In a zen-like state, the focus comes from within. Unlike design, they don’t have to consider the market, the audience, […]
