February 2010
25 posts
“Well done is better
than well said.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via Thinking for a Living)
Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass →
Posterous may have the technological advantage, but it’s the love and care given by Tumblr to it’s design that has made it four times more popular. I know it’s what won me over.
Watch“You don’t work at work anymore, you go to work to get interrupted.” - Amen, Jason.
WatchGorgeous timelapse of the Dubai skyline shot over five days and nights. Watch it in HD and full screen on Vimeo. (via @workwithmister)
Life Below 600px →
“The fold is one of those guidelines that has been thrown about so much that it’s now become a ‘rule’ of web design (or maybe more appropriately a ‘ball and chain’ of web design) with web designers blindly obeying without question.”
“Ever stop to think about the concept of The Fold?”
“Authenticity is invaluable, originality in non-existent.”
– Jim Jarmusch
Mamihlapinatapais
Mamihlapinatapais, from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, is considered the world’s most succinct word — and the hardest to translate.
It means “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but that neither one wants to start.”
(via Magic Words)
'You're filming for fun? I don't believe you' →
Another heartwarming tale of our wonderful police force keeping us safe from the evils of students, artists and film-makers. I’d wrestle them all to the ground, plant a knee in their back and arrest them if I were them. Particularly if they were female, and even more so if they’re dirty foreigners.
In all seriousness, what on earth do these utter cretins think that they’re...
Cliché →
bobulate:
Seth Godin on clichés:
In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make...
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via theimpossiblecool) (via tapwaterjackson) (via quote-book)
“It also involves very little war, moats, spaceships, wizards, mafiosos, or...”
– Glitch, a new multiplayer online game from the founders of Flickr.
Ferran Adrià to close experimental El Bulli... →
Well, there’s another life-long dream that won’t be fulfilled. Gutted. G.U.T.T.E.D. So what if it was losing half a million a year, El Bulli is (was) a thing of wonder, awe and amazement.
Ah well, things end. So is life. Doesn’t make it right though.
More: Ferran Adrià moves on: world’s most revered restaurant finds a new role.
WatchI was about to post Edouard Salier’s awesome video for Massive Attack’s Splitting the Atom, but seeing it reminded me of his equally awesome (but very different) video he made last year for Raphael Saadiq, that I don’t think I posted at the time. (Raphael Saadiq - Let’s Take A Walk directed by Edouard Salier on Vimeo)
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen dies aged 40 →
I didn’t see that coming. Blimey.
“Sapporo was laid out in 1869 and has a street plan like New York’s …...”
– Alan Booth, The Roads to Sata
“The universe is observing itself through us”
– Think about that one for a while. (via kapi)
