Posted in Audio, Creativity, NPR, Social Software on Jun 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Silk Road: Not Your Father’s Amazon.com Silk Road (anonymous marketplace), Tor (anonymity network), Bitcoin. If you’ve never heard of this stuff listen to this NPR: All Things Considered piece on Silk Road, an e-commerce site that sells cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, among other illegal drugs. Rachel Martin interviews Adrian Chen, a Gawker staff writer. [...]
Posted in Creativity, People on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
John Korpics Interview Rob Haggart (A Photo Editor) interviews John Korpics, the creative director of Fortune Magazine. Korpics rides the Harlem line on Metro North from north of White Plains into Grand Central and keeps a journal: My Effing Commute which is great reading.
Posted in Apple, Audio, Creativity, Macintosh, NPR on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell Looks at Technology Innovations Robert Siegel (All Things Considered) and Malcolm Gladwell look at the mythic story of how Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC in 1979 and came away with the basic ingredients of the Macintosh computer. This is a brief discussion of a piece Gladwell has in the May 16th issue of [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, Process, Video on Apr 13th, 2011 3 Comments »
Handmade Portraits: Kiva Ford from Etsy on Vimeo. Beautifully filmed, edited. The scientific glass work is killer interesting. Zoom it out, full screen. Kiva Ford sells his work on Etsy. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People, Video on Dec 13th, 2010 2 Comments »
Chris Anderson, the director of TED on Crowd Accelerated Innovation. Fantastic. [via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Creativity, Music, People, Video on Dec 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Wow, great stuff. The looping is great and his choices of what to loop and how are right on the money.
Posted in Creativity, HyperCard on Nov 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
In the mid 1980′s I was deeply into a development tool called HyperCard and made hundreds of “stacks” (little applications) which I both sold and gave away. For those who don’t remember it or never got into it, HyperCard, developed by then Apple Fellow Bill Atkinson was a highly addictive development tool that had a [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People, Video on Oct 2nd, 2010 8 Comments »
Update: This is the complete documentary called “Fermat’s Last Theorem.” PBS/Nova had renamed it “The Proof.” Dr. Andrew Wiles is the head of the Mathematics department at Princeton University and is known for proving Fermat’s last theorem, considered one of the hardest mathematics problems in the world at the time. Wiles was interviewed for an [...]
Posted in Creativity, People, Places, Politics, Reading on Oct 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Writers in Danger Offered Safe Haven to Practice Craft in Pittsburgh Last night on the PBS NewsHour Jeffrey Brown did a piece on City of Asylum/Pittsburgh which offers writers from countries where they’re not free to write a safe haven to think and write. Residencies for Writers-in-Exile For two years we provide a furnished house, [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, People, Places on Sep 18th, 2010 No Comments »
An Artist’s Alfresco John Hancock Over the last four years hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have walked by or on top of the orange lines have unwittingly passed what is possibly the biggest graffiti tag in the world. The tag, which is so vast that all parts of it cannot be viewed simultaneously, [...]
Posted in Creativity, Social Software, Travel on Sep 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Are You Hip to Hipmunk? David Pogue writes about the spectacular new travel site: Hipmunk. I’ve been messing with it for a few minutes and it’s absolutely stellar. I can’t wait for the developers to apply this user interface to other kinds of information. They’re really on to something. I love the “agony” filter: price, [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Music, Video on Sep 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Everything is a Remix from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. An entertaining and well thought out discussion of remixing, covering, and imitating music. Three more parts coming which will hopefully cover other creative endeavors like the visual arts, writing, and more. When you come right down to it, everything really is a remix. We’re all standing [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Travel, Video on Jul 26th, 2010 3 Comments »
The Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon. The idea is to replace all current petroleum-based asphalt roads, parking lots, and driveways with Solar Road Panels that collect energy to be used by our homes and businesses. Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excess energy in [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Reading on Jul 10th, 2010 9 Comments »
Author Whose Bookstore Is the No. 2 (or 4, or 5) “Excuse me, ladies and gentleman,” he called out. “I am not begging, borrowing or asking for your food. I don’t represent the homeless, I’m not selling candy or selling bootleg DVDs,” he said, then paused. “I write books.” This story made my morning. If [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, People, Video on Jul 6th, 2010 No Comments »
This is an incredible interview with Christopher Finch who has just published a biography of Close and the artist Chuck Close. Jeffery Brown does an excellent job here and Close, who has various disabilities including severe learning issues shines. What an amazing mind he has. The NewsHour post is here: Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch.
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, iPhone, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 17th, 2010 4 Comments »
A Quick Introduction to WolframAlpha Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, iPad, Video on May 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. Fantastic idea and video. The ideas are creative, fun, brilliant. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Creativity, Places, Video on May 21st, 2010 No Comments »
A full length version of Nike’s “Write the Future” advertisement. Absolutely spectacular. Watch full screen, turn it up. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections, Creativity, Ideas, Objects on May 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Between blogs like Peter Nencini’s and Lisa Congdon’s A Collection a Day I’m finally seeing a focus for my ongoing interest in both collecting and attempting to document my collections. There is also a connection to scrapbooking here. In a way, this work pulls me back to my interest in the work of Joseph Cornell, [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, iPad on Apr 5th, 2010 No Comments »
iPad Magazine Art Direction from Brad Colbow on Vimeo. Wow. These are first generation magazine apps on the iPad. Popular Science is at the end and it’s the clear winner (of these three). This is an example of how the iPad is going to change the playing field for publishing and for simply looking at [...]
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