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Maira Kalman writes everything that I need to read. Image via here. - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
Maira Kalman writes everything that I need to read. Image via here.
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via Tommy.
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@howlvenice Oh wow. She has more books? I'll need them all. I am completely in love with her work.
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In my Google Reader I always check "sort by magic" (It's an option. Really. Try it.) I wonder what this means...
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Maira Kalman and The Elements of Style - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
Maira Kalman and The Elements of Style
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"Do trip and then get up and say, O.K."
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“I returned to New York. Tired. Sad. The world is coming to an end. What to do? What to do? I know what to do. Spend the day on the subway. The wonderful life-affirming two-dollar subway ride. I go with Rick. He wears a hat and he will take pictures. It is August. Hot, but not too hot.. We take the F train to Coney Island. Two girls on their way... - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
“I returned to New York. Tired. Sad. The world is coming to an end. What to do? What to do? I know what to do. Spend the day on the subway. The wonderful life-affirming two-dollar subway ride. I go with Rick. He wears a hat and he will take pictures. It is August. Hot, but not too hot.. We take the F train to Coney Island. Two girls on their way to the Aquarium have T-shirts around their heads and they are dancing.” -Maira Kalman in The Principles of Uncertainty. A new favorite book that I will read a billion times. Image via NY Times.
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I believe in science and art, and the promise and potential of design to bring them together to change the world. In our intellectual institutions, and our society in general, science and art live mostly separate lives- developing separate worldviews, distinct methods, specialist language, and segregated communities of thought and practice. But... - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
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Maira Kalman - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
Maira Kalman
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"Do trip and then get up and say, O.K." http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
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“Universe attempts to create new constellations for today’s night sky by continually analyzing the contents of over 20,000 international news sources, suggesting a modern mythology based on global media coverage. Universe portrays all information as being interconnected. Any word, quote, person, photo, topic or story can become the “center of the... - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
“Universe attempts to create new constellations for today’s night sky by continually analyzing the contents of over 20,000 international news sources, suggesting a modern mythology based on global media coverage. Universe portrays all information as being interconnected. Any word, quote, person, photo, topic or story can become the “center of the universe”, causing all other items to rearrange themselves in relation to the selected item. This treatment of information is reminiscent of the way we, as humans, experience reality — each of us from our own individual perspective. Universe gives data this same privilege.” -Jonathan Harris.
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Today, take in a good dose of Jonathan Harris' work: http://number27.org/work.html I love his ideas and writing.
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The main point of the internet: http://gapingvoid.com/2009... I love this from @gapingvoid
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WORLD BUILDERS- JONATHAN HARRIS: “The digital world, like the physical world, belongs to all of us, and not only to the companies who currently dominate it. The digital world is not some magic land that evolves alone. The digital world is composed of the things we build there. Just as architects define the built landscape of a country, digital... - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
WORLD BUILDERS- JONATHAN HARRIS: “The digital world, like the physical world, belongs to all of us, and not only to the companies who currently dominate it. The digital world is not some magic land that evolves alone. The digital world is composed of the things we build there. Just as architects define the built landscape of a country, digital architects define the built landscape of the web. Unlike the physical world, the digital world can support a boundless set of worlds within worlds—worlds for every human need. Many human needs are already answered online (though the elegance of the answers can always be improved), but many others are still without good online answers. Human needs that have to do with authenticity, self-reflection, depth of communication, and real relationship-building are especially poorly answered online (at least currently). Maybe these needs cannot be answered online and require physical contact in all cases, but my sense is that they can, if only we design the right worlds to encourage and support them. Some such worlds probably exist already (indeed, the web is so vast that one can find examples of just about anything), but even if they do exist, they have not become widespread, and the predominate thrust of today’s web is not around satisfying these needs. Today’s web feels more like one giant cocktail party, full of chatter, gossip, and he said, she said. It is often called the social web, but “garrulous web” might be more appropriate. Yes, there is more social communication now than at any other time in the history of the world, but much of that communication is chatter. There is nothing wrong with chatter (and beauty often hides in chatter), but there needs to be a place for deeper, longer-lasting communication too. You could argue that people will do what people will do, and that trying to change people’s behavior is arrogant and foolish. There is truth to that, but people’s behavior is largely influenced by the context in which they live. People who live near a ski slope are more likely to ski, as people who live in a city are more likely to hang out at bars. When we design spaces (real or virtual), we need to take responsibility for the types of behavior those spaces are likely to encourage. We cherish our capitols, cathedrals, museums, monuments, and parks, but who will build structures of this stature in the digital world? Ancient and beloved fields like journalism, publishing, and music are drowning in this tsunami of change. Students of journalism are wondering whether they should study computer science to stay afloat. But they should have patience. It is the job of journalists to do great journalism, and not to build platforms to disseminate that journalism. They should be able to trust those who build platforms to build them great platforms. But this has not happened yet—the digital world needs great builders. Speaking especially to young students of computer science, art, architecture, and design—I would encourage you, as you imagine what you want to become, to consider becoming digital world builders. Help construct our future digital world. Build honestly, naturally, authentically, beautifully, not motivated by page views or ad revenue but by what the digital world should be, in its purest, noblest sense. Articulate digital spaces that nurture the soul and the spirit. Don’t leave it to today’s companies to solve these problems, as they will only perpetuate the same habits they have already adopted. There needs to be a new vision for the future of the web, one that is sensitive both to the human individual and the human collective, just like real life. Toward the end of his life, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright often said that with 20 more years he could rebuild America, and give it an architecture that was organic, natural, and truly its own. Others called him arrogant for making these claims, but he would respond that a great nation should expect its great architects to build it great buildings. The same is true for the digital world. The rest of the human race—the struggling journalists, the embattled authors of books, the makers of music, the normal folks who have been robbed of their individuality by today’s web—should expect its digital world builders to build them beautiful, honest, nourishing worlds.”
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A brilliant rejection letter. - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
A brilliant rejection letter.
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I love Jonathan Harris. “I Want You To Want Me is an interactive installation about online dating, commissioned by and installed at New York’s MoMA on Valentine’s Day 2008, as part of their Design and the Elastic Mind show.” - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
I love Jonathan Harris. “I Want You To Want Me is an interactive installation about online dating, commissioned by and installed at New York’s MoMA on Valentine’s Day 2008, as part of their Design and the Elastic Mind show.”
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Johnathan Harris. - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
Johnathan Harris.
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Maira Kalman’s book The Principles of Uncertainty is so incredibly beautiful - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
Maira Kalman’s book The Principles of Uncertainty is so incredibly beautiful
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"Two drifters off to see the world- there's such a lot of world to see" I love that line and, recently, can't shake it from my head.
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"I want to tell you the understory. The not-story." Maira Kalman in a beautiful book, More Things Like This
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Feet first “Tom Robinson, an English photographer, takes photos of his and his girlfriend’s feet as they travel the world (from Mexican beaches to Chilean volcanos to New Zealand’s thermal pools). Don’t his photos make you want to take your feet somewhere fabulous?” - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
Feet first “Tom Robinson, an English photographer, takes photos of his and his girlfriend’s feet as they travel the world (from Mexican beaches to Chilean volcanos to New Zealand’s thermal pools). Don’t his photos make you want to take your feet somewhere fabulous?”
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(via papertissue) Craving travel.  - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
(via papertissue) Craving travel. 
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Against the backdrop of the evolution of media and its powerful gathering of news material and data, all of the world’s happenings are trimmed like a lawn by a mower, with fragments of information flying about from place to place through the media as grass flies through the air. These broken pieces of information adhere to our tofu-like brain like... - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
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I go for someone who is a little brooding and somebody you can have a good conversation with, a good fight with, who will always keep you guessing and make you laugh. And he has to have good shoes. - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
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Heart this day http://yfrog.com/iy1lzj
Heart this day http://yfrog.com/iy1lzj
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Heart this day
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"Dim, unsubtle and charmless ever since I stopped doing it, he answered modestly" -Charles Saatchi
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Last Sunday
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Tree lighting and wine tastings today with Matthew (ready, steady, set….go!) - http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/post...
Tree lighting and wine tastings today with Matthew (ready, steady, set….go!)
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Tree lighting and wine tastings with @matthewdclay. I feel incredibly lucky to have such a great friend who I get to work with every day.
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