January 2010
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Apparently “grad student with a lot of design experience” is code for “MFA and former design professor.” Now I know.
Dear today,
NEXT!
Downloading AutoCAD 10. I’m design-geeking out with anticipation…
adoptedfashionn asked: hmmmmm licorice and grape fruit.... intresting combo..... i'd have to come to my senses before trying to eat that...
“Facebook master password?
Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master...”
– The Rumpus: Interview with anonymous facebook employee
“OMG: The Future of Retail Design Is Augmented-Reality Facades...”
– MetropolisMag
Anonymous asked: Why are you so awesome?
ask me anything →
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I’m lecturing in HCDE 411 studio next thursday. Professor Deeny rides again. #uw #hcde
“Teach design in k-12 education.. http://bit.ly/4ESWl7”
– jkolko
"the next feminist issue is sleep." and...
“So basically, around this time of year, a whole lot of people resolve to do the same thing to themselves that governments, including ours, do to recalcitrant criminals. And a whole lot of those are women.”
Read more at Salon
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RDJ is always great, but the film, for me, was a little meh. I would have loved more of the gothic darkness of the black magick backstory, and less gross-out pugilistic and maggoty close-ups. But it was Guy Ritchie and I knew that going in. But then, I loved Gangs of New York and everyone else hated that. I was deeply steeped in victoriania during undergrad, and love all of the dark, smudgy,...
“Think of the abundance of a cherry tree’s blossoms in the spring. We...”
– William McDonough
Jobless, and Living in a Bunk →
Remember those capsule hotels for over-worked and over-partied Japanese salarymen from the 80s? With the economic downturn, unemployed Japanese are staying in them on a longer term basis.
This seems like a more humane solution than shelters or the street. More secure, more private. There have been times of transition in my life when a living arrangement like this would have seemed very...
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“The Uncanny Valley theory proposed by Mori posited that as a robot increases in...”
– Child and Adults’ Perspectives on Robot Appearance Woods S., Dautenhahn, K., Schulz, J. (2005)
101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School →
I love it when people deconstruct complex processes into lists. Har.
“We are now bathing in the light of dawn, standing in the heaven we have created...”
– yokoono
