Maciej Ceglowski Our technical goals are to never lose data, be very fast, and favor boring and faded technologies where possible. A rule of thumb that has worked well for me is that if I'm excited to play around with something, it probably doesn't belong in production. 2010-01-12T19:06:33Z http://pinboard.in/blog/63/ ry ry John Maeda Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered ‘useless,’ will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. 2009-12-07T16:25:46Z http://spacecollective.org/rene/4708/The-universe-will-fly-like-a-bird ry ry Umberto Eco The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. 2009-11-22T23:14:27Z http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html ry ry Luc Tuymans It’s like I don’t know what I’m doing but I know how to do it, and it’s very strange. 2009-10-30T19:06:30Z http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2009/10/12/091012craw_artworld_schjeldahl ry ry These visual essays, together with animated stings and very short films, have become the primary modes of communication; objects are strung together rather than taken in isolation. There is no space for contemplation, just clicking, scrolling and flicking. This leaves the solitary object somewhat adrift, only embodying meaning when it is juxtaposed or collated or slotted into a larger collection. Although a glance at any tumblr or curated weblog might suggest otherwise, the 'thing' is in danger of imminent extinction. 2009-10-20T11:00:31Z http://www.thingsmagazine.net/2009/10/death-of-object.htm ry ry Fumito Ueda There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. 2009-09-24T13:45:14Z http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssENxDZupQE lrizoli ry lrizoli LBJeffries Kurzweil['s] definition of innovation: if people like it or understand it, you didn't do anything new. 2009-09-16T11:51:43Z http://twitter.com/LBJeffries/status/4028930060 lrizoli ry lrizoli Jack Shedd On the other, if I had to endure one more 10-speed silhouette printed on an America Apparel shirt, or a cute plush pseudo-monster, I was going to burn the damn thing down and demand half the fair go home and think about what they’d done. 2009-09-14T10:42:03Z http://www.bigcontrarian.com/2009/09/14/im-a-consumer/ ry ry Chuck Klosterman It’s akin to a combination of Badfinger, Oasis, Corner Shop, and everyother rock band that’s ever existed. 2009-09-10T13:25:22Z http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles,32560/ ry ry Luc Sante There will be no traffic, and the streetlights will seem to shrink back into their globes, drawing their skirts of illumination into tight circles, and the rutted streets reveal the cobbles under a thin membrane of asphalt, and the buildings all around are masses of unpointed blackened brick or cacophonies of terra-cotta bric-a-brac or yawning cast-iron gravestones six or eight stories tall. This is the sepulcher of New York, the city as a living ruin. 2009-08-17T13:14:02Z 9780374528997 http://www.amazon.com/Low-Life-Lures-Snares-York/dp/0374528993/ ry ry William Gibson Canadian cities look the way American cities do on television. 2009-08-07T06:54:29Z 9780399154300 249 http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ammm5BYnJfgC lrizoli ry lrizoli Werner Herzog Our civilization doesn't have adequate images. And I think a civilization is doomed or is going to die out like dinosaurs if it does not develop an adequate language or adequate images. I see there's a very very dramatic situation. For example we have found out there are serious problems facing our civilization, like energy problems or environment problems or nuclear power or all this overpopulation of the world, but generally it is not understood yet that a problem of the same magnitude is that we do not have adequate images; and that's what I'm working on. A new grammar of images. 2009-08-06T17:32:44Z http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ymyiRXCszc ry ry