Motion Reel - March 2010
Added shots from the last episodes of Fellat.
03/13/10 @ 2:42AM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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On iPad Application Design: "Look like a viewer, and behave like an editor."
I was talking to people at the bar after UX Show And Tell about how I have no formal education and that any knowledge of design I have consists of what I read all day for fun. So my idea of what constitutes good user experience comes from the sense of gestalt I accumulate from the sum of my extracurricular reading materials, rather than any direct teaching. Reading this article didn’t give me any incredibly new insight, but the quote in the title summarizes an idea I’ve been grappling with for close to a month but have never quite been able to articulate up until now.
Personally, at least, the goal of having a minimal UI that gets more complex as you invoke relevant actions is easy for me to endorse when I’m speaking about a product in a broad and conceptual way, but if I’m actually tasked with practically implementing that UI it becomes considerably more difficult.
03/07/10 @ 4:24AM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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The San Francisco Panorama: A Newspaper Critique
Mike Fourcher did not like it.
Again, I only have my initial impressions on which to base this judgment, but I’m inclined to agree with his criticisms of the Panorama’s content. I’d argue, though, that perhaps his points are ultimately irrelevant. As he says, a real newspaper obviously has time constraints and therefore be unable to give its contributors months to draft their pieces. The content will be drastically different for any paper attempting to follow the Panorama’s model - it’s the newspaper’s form, design and general editorial vision that’s thought-provoking here above all else.
The Panorama’s huge average story length is not the only anchor weighing it down: It is full of undirected liberal angst. Cases in point: The Magazine’s two short entry “Dispatches”, one from an Army psychiatrist in Afghanistan who laments that his job is to patch soldier’s minds up only to go back to the brutality of battle, and another from a Gulf of Mexico deckhand who moans about his vessel’s toxic waste dumping. The highly trained doctor behaves as if the conditions of war and the purpose of his job is surprising. The deckhand does nothing about his ship’s dumping and thanks the reader for listening.
This sort of writing seems criminal when one considers the Power Of The Press. Newspapers do not exist so we may simply unburden ourselves of our personal demons - that’s what diaries and blogs are for. Newspapers are capable of bringing sunlight to the dark places so change may come and evil can be arrested.
03/06/10 @ 10:24PM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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I received the inevitable apex of print fetishism for my birthday.
But seriously, in a time when the future of the newspaper seems to lie only in touchscreens and e-ink, releasing a 320-page broadsheet (the pages are maybe three inches wider than those of the NYT) is an amazing feat. Right now I’m just paging through it with only the most cursory of glances, marveling at how this even exists. Seeing comics by Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware on awful newsprint when I’ve only previously viewed their work on the archival-quality stock of their paperbacks is a revelation all by itself - having all these authors I love published within this artifact that’s bound to yellow and wither away within the year is mind-blowing. Daniel Handler tossed off a column on page 3, for fuck’s sake.
Also looking forward to reading Reality Hunger and Gravity’s Rainbow.
03/06/10 @ 9:51PM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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America Is F*cked [Graphically At Least] - Jess Gibson / Gary Draplin
Just remembered this existed. Such a pity the full doc never came out.
03/06/10 @ 7:09AM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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BIRDEMIC: Shock And Terror [Official Trailer]
Not sure if anyone here is interested, but Tim and Eric hosted the world premiere for this Incredible Work Of Art last Sunday. I just posted up an interview with its director here over at nonTV.
03/05/10 @ 9:11PM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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Ambling Alp - Yeasayer A million years old in Internet time, but still great. |
03/04/10 @ 2:36PM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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UX Show And Tell Boston
Anyone else going to this tonight?
Bring your deliverables to either get useful, implementable feedback or to show unique solutions to potentially common design problems. Drafts/incomplete work welcome. We’ll have a round-table discussion where one person tells the group if they need help with a design problem, or if they are sharing a unique solution that’s worked well for them in the past.
As always, all current or prospective user experience designers, information architects, web developers, content strategists, graphic designers, etc. are encouraged to share deliverables or just attend.
03/04/10 @ 10:00AM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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Just strictly from a typographic/design perspective, the new Tonight Show opening sequence is the laziest thing I can remember seeing from a major broadcast network.
03/02/10 @ 7:58PM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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CONDOMINANCE - THE FINAL TWO EPISODES [PLEDGE ON KICKSTARTER]
Is there more to Gary Pittsman than he’s letting on? Why is Regis even working that horrible job in the first place? And perhaps most importantly, why is Gary suffering hallucinations at an Animox manufacturing plant in Shenzhen?
All this and more will be answered in Condominance Episodes 3 and 4… if we manage to raise the budget. We’ve set up a Kickstarter page, and the deadline is in two months. Pledge $20 or more and you’ll get a DVD of all four episodes with audio commentary, outtake reels/behind-the-scenes footage, and a DVD-ROM feature with PDF copies of the original shooting scripts.
Watch the first two episodes here.
03/01/10 @ 1:33PM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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“AP has been using teams of anthropologists for the past three years to help guide its efforts. That research, he says, “convinced us that adding to the information overload of the Internet is no longer a business model, if it ever were one.” Instead, AP is looking for a “two-way relationship” with consumers using Twitter, Facebook and other methods.”
— PaidContent. It took THREE YEARS of anthropological studies for the Associated Press to come to this conclusion? Are you fucking kidding me?!
02/28/10 @ 9:37PM // permalink // comments + 0 notes
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