User generated content lives on three things. This site has mainly one user, and that user has been generating content as frecuently as he would like. I’m not even sure if this is still considered a proper blog, with posts coming once a month. Maybe it’s close to a tumblelog, but not quite.
I guess [...]
I (day)dream at work. So I want to learn how to work in dreams.
I was inspired by my designer-friend Lorbus and his design dreams. I know it can be done. Mary Shelley had the idea for Frankenstein in a dream. Eccentrics and extraordinaires from Salvador Dali to Da Vinci, including Richard Feyman, did it. Even [...]
I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.
- Barack Obama on his victory speech
Instead, my president Chavez would say: I will yell at you, especially when we disagree.
Hoy cuplí un pequeño sueño… me metí a una rampa de patinetas y subí casi un metro de “pared” sin caerme. Siempre lo quise hacer. Lo intenté en olas cuando surfeaba en Venezuela, pero aunque lo disfrutaba como pocas cosas, nunca se me dió el surf. La ola de concreto es más dura, pero al [...]
Sony’s Cybershot series and a bunch of other cameras promise to
Automatically capture smiles with Smile Shutter™ technology and focus easily with Steady Shot mode.
I imagine a commercial for these cameras soundtracked by an REM mashup: Bad Day vs. Shiny Happy People.
I never got into it when it came out in the 80’s. I think I was a bit out of the radar, being a little 9 years-old and in Venezuela. But I do remember a the image and the name of Max Headroom, mentioned, of course, by the older brother of one of my friends.
I [...]
Austin Kleon takes newspaper articles and blacks out whole sections. The words he doesn’t blackout reveal new surprising meanings. Great. I wonder how one can translate this way of working to other disciplines.
By the way, this particular poem reminds me of why I’m into photography.
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