I have been a very long time away from this little playground, and I’m not sure than anyone else will even realize that I’ve made a new mark upon the ground… nonetheless, here I go, because I need to, because I’m feeling like a patient straitjacketed in by her own devices… no society to speak of, no energy, no purpose — it’s as if I lost my mouth with which to speak and my ears with which to listen and have been consumed in a sort of all encompassing gaze, tunnel-vision, tube-related haze. No one speaks back to me because I allowed fear of deafness to induce muteness.
Ah well, now I’m perhaps rambling in some sort of outlandish generalisms, and it’s time to pick up my ass and get some breath rolling through this body again — to yoga.
Perhaps too, this minor mouth dribbling will tune my ears for a pin drop echoing in the distance—perhaps one of you still listening, or not completely resolved away. I miss the company of inquiring minds, even if our distance in space keeps us from collaborating on said inquiries. To share them is enough.
I’m on lunch break at the IIT Institute of Design “Design Research Conference” here in Chicago. Highlights so far — the Founder of TED Talks made a “presentation” in which he heckled the audience and criticized the conference set-up. Funny guy.
Maybe it’s because I’m not a “design researcher” or maybe I’m just distracted, but the morning has gone ploddingly. I’m looking forward to the next speech though: Kim Goodwin on Storytelling in Research. I’ll report later.
Oh! and the last guy was pretty entertaining about gesture-based technology. KD, a place where WC could move his kinesiology research into a design field perhaps? Tell him to check out: www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com.
Ursula’s post leads me to think about the difference between creative process and established technical process through the lens of brain chemistry. (Apparently everything makes me think about psychological process these days.) When looked at from a physiological perspective, does the brain exhibit the same process when thinking creatively that we use when enacting scientific experiments?
Ted video:
What the hell is Ted? Anyway, fascinating and not that new as an idea. The thing that gets me thinking is about the possibilities for making something based on those principles. Some kind of simple software that allows people to create and animate an idea and then instead of that idea being captured and contained as data solely on a hard drive, it is displayed, indefinitely, in a public space for all to see. I guess the thing that would set it apart from the ideas put forth in the video is if the stories, animations, ideas weren’t just displayed en masse, collected and then splattered like a giant collage. (That AutoDesk wall of ideas, the visual map of their collective thinking, reminds me too much of a thirteen-year-old’s magazine collage documenting her winter dance.) What I want to make is something that allows the narratives created by the participants to be affected by each other as entities unto themselves. (I realize that each narrative would affect new participants’ stories just by being displayed.) But what if they were able to continue to evolve long after their original creator was gone. As if they had a life of their own, one that was given mobility through continued input from new users/creators. How would that work? Damn, that part always trips me up.
but we still need to think about our list of how we want the site to operate.
looking forward to an in-person meeting, apb, at the wedding soon to come!
done. comments added — must click on permalink to see commenting field. (in this theme, that’s the “posted xyz hours ago” text.) Now I need to add back the author tags, but need to do some other work right now… if we can focus on what we really want the key functionality and look of the page to be, I could knock out a theme revamp fairly quickly — at least on the basic level — and then we can employ a tumblr developer to expand on our big ideas… cheers!
In 1904 Gillette first introduced disposable razor blades. Since 1995 the number of blades on a razor has increased at an astonishing rate. Currently the Gillette fusion (with five blades) has the most number of blades on a disposable razor. At the current rate a child born today will be able to shave with a 10 blade razor by the year 2024.
This book by Canadian graphic design company Paprila is for the closet taggers in all of us. The book provides a marker and templates for you to graffiti the well photographed walls and surface throughout the pages of this smart tome.
