for funz

PROMETEUS


THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED


MINILOGUE/HITCHHIKERS CHOICE

(kristina, you brother rulz, you do too ;)

HYPERONYME


WALK IT OUT FOSSE!


BRAZIL INSPIRED

(i still can't watch this enough)

coming soon: a slightly more intellectually stimulating post!

totally SWEET-EN

swedish design



swedish art



swedish flora



swedish nature



swedish digs ( this is the office i'm working in pre clutter )

been a bit to long but all is well. livin' lovin' the swedish island life. The Sommardesign Kontoret is off to a great start this year. Sixteen students a quarter of which aren't swedish natives ( four in and out for jobs / school ), three coordinators / managers, and ten projects! The "design for all" and the built environment never got so much attention!

gimme sum mo

I don’t think I’ll ever know who makes things the way they are. And it doesn’t matter […] It doesn’t matter who hires me, because they’re all guilty or they’re all being used by those who are. It’s like being surrounded. Wherever you shoot you hit the enemy […] What I do is like throwing a rock into a pool. The splash doesn’t matter, only the circles it makes. (Andrew Vachss)

eye of the tiger

excerpt from a short essay

[This is from a class i should have taken four years ago, but ended up taking as a super senior. My teacher Emily Robbins saved me with decidedly interesting topics, thanks Emily, comp II couldn't have been better]

Percy is, in the end, undeniably correct in his breakdown of experience and it’s culturally tainted undertones. Where I think he is faulty is in his generalized reproach of educational packaging. For example, when Percy speaks about the difference between a person dissecting a dogfish on the shore versus in the classroom he implies that we as assumptive beings are incapable of escaping the institutionally imposed formatting or standardization of thought without being an atypically astute student. In reality though aren’t the conditions laid before us, within the classroom, similar to those forced upon us by nature. Aren’t there benefits to precedent in our undeniably post-modern station, and aren’t those the only reason we can approach situations like these comfortably without any severe sense of wonder. Allowing us to stroll precariously the borderline between modern and ancient
mysticism. I’d say that the actual problem at hand isn’t how or where we receive the information, but that many times each of us as individual learning entities takes the information for granted. Passive acceptance happens in the natural world just as it happens in our current state of industrialized commodification.

I do recognize the difference between what he calls “common” and “complex” approaches to understanding, and I can see the value in his pragmatic approach to perception, but in the end isn’t it the variation between each individuals assumptions that become the most valuable aspect of culture. What would we be without the transference of knowledge, and it’s eventual transition into accepted wisdom? In short, we would be less intelligent than a majority of the earth’s creatures, perpetually pure, and prone to eating poisonous berries all the time.

The problem isn’t the situation itself but the possibility that an individual is unaware of variation within the situation. Complete freedom is slavery. To be progressive and effective one must take into account the nature of the information afforded them and the context of the environment in which it is learnt / taught. In this format methods can become less relevant, and the educator can rely more upon the curiosity of individuals working with, not necessarily within, the parameters suggested them. Thus allowing context to inspire not dictate.

E pluribus unum, sine qua non...

from many, one - without which it could not be

Arrow's impossibility theorem

i found these searching for dr.stranglove + RAND + cold war

ps. i still need to post on the conference, i'm a bit slow these days

IDSA Midwest Conference>

new business cards! Only business cards!



i still need to finish the descriptions of each slide but...



click the link below to see the presentation on flikr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36831686@N00/sets/72157600100447044

i'll post an actual post in a day or so...

peas

i have a presentation to make ! ? !

i'm going to present my "critical path," as far as my design philosophy / world view goes, and how this path of events eventually inspired me to attempt the project i've been working on. anyhow, just put some of the sketched story boards up on my flickr. i like em', but i need to get movin', because in eleven days i have story time with about six hundred "designers".











welcome to my brain. shoes off.

interesting dynamic visualizations>>>

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Thanks Kevin, solid example...
[http://purestflanerie.blogspot.com/]



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//////mix-it-up part deux//////


you've seen it before, but think about it again...

do you realize...

THE POTENTIAL!!!

we have an obligation to ourselves and each other to maintain this beautiful opportunity called "the internet"

lets make it worth OUR while...

true true

thanks to Ben the benevolent, and his tireless ears
who knows somebody who can bang out animations like this?
seriously let me know.

i love a man named Hans...

what i'm seeing, i'm needing

tuneglue
http://clients.onyro.com/tuneglue/

screenvader
http://www.screenvader.com/root.html

if you: know, can, want, have; done, met, seen, know; about, how, who, what, where......
let me know, cause even before you've told me, i love you, thanks

ps> i see you browsing, so start commenting, remember: intercommunicated wisdom, it's the whole idea...

It's happening all around us, like a collective chant murmuring, "we want a better info atmosphere"

cheers to nate "chuckles" barbarick
http://www.myspace.com/spreadeagles
he has a blog as well, i'll find it...

Here we go...

yesterday & today, the lovely Aaron Atchison has dedicated himself to setting up a little space for us to work. It's in progress, and for all of you out there who are dying to contribute, you already know who you are, wink wink nudge nudge, say no more say no more. For in only a few short cosmic moments (ie days/week) we are going to have a static ip, and a fresh activecollab to start hashing out the foundation of d-camp. So stay tuned, keep your decoder rings handy, and, as always, email if you want to know more.

ps I SEE YOU oo00OOhh, but seriously, if you like what you read/see comment.
peace in the middle east

(great mood today)

mix it up...

put them together and what do you get? a new approach to web browsing... on the go.

All you need

thinks Brian! i hadn't seen it! whoooooooo

selected slides from the latest presentation...

on flickr..."selected slides" set