it can.

front porch don.

dahl & hemingway.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.
says earnest.

I never come back to a blank page; I always finish about halfway through. Hemingway taught me the finest trick : “When you are going good, stop writing.” You don’t go on writing and writing until you come to the end of it, because when you do, then you say, well, where am I going to go next? You make yourself stop and you walk away. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next.
says roald.

shun vs moritaka.

 

it was written.
adios.

gemini to discovery to curiosity.

heavy rain.

like a rhinoceros, my speed is prosperous
and pure knowledge expands from my esophagus

mechatronics for the future.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

yard view.

just marvin.

oji masanory.

one day, dieter.
one day.

hidden landscapes.

various small fires.

awkwardstockphotos.com

stephen wolfram x facebook.
top: cluster diagrams & data donor networks.
bottom: how topic popularity varies with age (by gender).

lahks on lahks on lahks.

blokk font.

Products like Facebook and Twitter are spaces that people don't just use but exist in. They are environments that form behavior. .. People act differently on Twitter, Facebook, Quora, 4chan, Snapchat, not because these are all different types of people but because of the way these spaces are designed. We should learn how to create spaces to guide and encourage behavior. .. The point is that every space has attributes that form behavior. If you built a park with no trash cans, people would throw their trash on the ground.
via.

10) You can make enough money but you can never have enough reputation
This is a line I stole from Warren Buffet and I love it. If you pursue reputation, profits follow.via.

start being a performer.

reality check.

In the early days of print, you had to understand the tech to run the organization. (Ben Franklin, the man who made America a media hothouse, called himself Printer.) But in the 19th century, the printing press became domesticated. Printers were no longer senior figures — they became blue-collar workers. And the executive suite no longer interacted with them much, except during contract negotiations.
[...]
Like all organizational models, waterfall is mainly a theory of collaboration. By putting the most serious planning at the beginning, with subsequent work derived from the plan, the waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work. Instead, waterfall insists that the participants will understand best how things should work before accumulating any real-world experience, and that planners will always know more than workers.
Clay Shirky on Healthcare.gov

how to clearly indicate to the world that you've raised more money than you know what to do with (and that your product markup is too high).

design is increasingly an exercise in consensus building (with a few super-votes).
or does it secretly involve doing all the research, running user interviews, thinking hard about it independently, pre-conceiving an optimal proposal and recognizing a few false starts and dead-ends to avoid, and then slowly steering a client to that same conclusion such that it seems like a foregone conclusion, using cycles of user testing, feedback, and refinement to optimize the product? good designers can make you feel smart; great designers can make you forget them entirely?

sans & serif, old & new. les frère frere-j.

the cost of convenience.

jcvd saturday.

got €650K? now you too can become an EU citizen.

a serious plan.
built!

wax paper seems like it has untapped potential.

the dog has a new theme song.

boomerang to fifteen years ago.

scramjet.

President Barrack Obama is one of 1.4 million Americans who take their dogs to work.

nick veasey.
(⌘-I)

conde nast is sued, closes intern program.
any architectural interns with good lawyers?

jan gehl quits and denounces sydney barangaroo waterfront development.
sounds like politicians and developers colluding to fill their coffers while flaunting 'people first design'.
kudos to him for shining a light on it before final permits are issued - hopefully the attention causes positive change.

with 90M users, flipbook raised 50M on an 800M valuation.
there is value in personalized news aggregators.

Obama loved the new tech during his campaign, but now, in trying to reconcile two radically different operating structures (gvmt & tech) while being shielded from the harsh realities of the dev schedule and product status, he sure got burned.

They broke the page into its component parts and prepared a handful of alternatives for each. For the button, an A/B test of three new word choices—”Learn More,” “Join Us Now,” and “Sign Up Now”—revealed that “Learn More” garnered 18.6 percent more signups per visitor than the default of “Sign Up.” Similarly, a black-and-white photo of the Obama family outperformed the default turquoise image by 13.1 percent. Using both the family image and “Learn More,” signups increased by a thundering 40 percent. (via wired)

vs

O: OK. On the website, I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to. Had I been informed, I wouldn’t be going out saying “Boy, this is going to be great.” You know, I’m accused of a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying, this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity, a week before the website opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work.(via the wp)

'I guess it depends on how much one values human life, as against the inconvenience of having to look in the rearview mirror more often.' (via the economist)

why you should move that button 3px to the left: trust increases when we get the details right.
(via)

eat healthy, says the white house.

egypt hires PR firm, then arrests them.

best song of 2005.

i just like to wash the brush.

   FADE IN:

   EXT. OCEAN - CLOSE UP:  WATER - MORNING LIGHT

   We are at the delicate interface between ocean and
   air...liquid and gas...the event horizon where molecules
   evaporate.  This interchange is ethereal.  Then, low
   frequencies rumble through depths...louder...closer, now...
   And the ocean surface is torn by a 46-foot catamaran and the
   ROAR of 2,700 horsepower, rocketing at us at 140 knots...

   OFFSHORE RACER:  "BORN TO WIN"

   in PROFILE.

   AERIAL:  "BORN TO WIN"

   ...has a canopy, low like a B-1 bomber and extends a half
   mile.  It launches off two-foot swells, goes airborne, pushes
   to 150 knots with another 1,100 RPM left...

..

   A DEEPLY-TANNED PLAYER

   named NICHOLAS in Vuarnet wraparounds and buzz-cut white hair
   glides by...

                        NICHOLAS
                  (low)
             Burnett, what's crackin'?

                        CROCKETT
             Nothing.

                        TUBBS
             Maxin' and relaxin'.

                        NICHOLAS
                  (doesn't believe them)
             Sure.  Change your mind; get
             inclined?  Let me know...

   Whatever Nicholas is soliciting, Crockett and Tubbs don't
   want.  (Nicholas brokers "go-fast" runs, moving loads from
   offshore into South Florida.  Among guys who pilot offshore
   race boats, there are one or two who've never run a load, but
   no one's found them yet.)  Meanwhile...

                                                  CUT TO: [etc]

hannah höch: album, 1933