- Video Introduction To Audio Damage Replicant – interesting audio plugin
- Lebbeus Woods Remains an Architect Unbounded by the Status Quo – I have always liked the idea of theoretical architecture
- The Story Of Record Rama – video profile of a record collector and his immense record collection. The Library of Congress or some organization ought to buy and digitize the lot of them. Google?
- The most brilliant outdoor campaign ever – marketing is storytelling.
- Coalesse: Live/Work Office Furniture – I like
- Ignore That Logo Under the Tape! – It’s amazing just how far the control mechanism can (try to) reach
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Doing you are what?
I haven’t been thinking much about posting lately; mind focused elsewhere, and all that. Facebook and Twitter get my status updates, so here’s a heavily-linked mishmash of my recent activities: Continue reading
links for 2008-08-18
- Ignore That Logo Under the Tape! – To ensure that only the companies that pay millions of dollars to be official Olympic sponsors enjoy the benefits of exposure in Olympic venues, organizers have covered the trademarks of nonsponsors with thousands of little swatches of tape.
- The Crowd Will Save Us – How the green movement taps participatory networks to drive innovation
- World’s Longest Yard Sale Day 01, Day 02, Day 03, Day 04 – great pics of found midwestern typography and ephemera
- The intangibles – The things that have no price; things that customers value more than it costs you to provide them.
- Thought Leadership by Design – interesting on-demand book
- Nodal – Free Generative Music Software For The Mac
- How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand, part 1 of 6 – “Flow†(video)
- Don’t do what your users say …
- Naomi Klein interview – The author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
- On the value of dissatisfaction
- The top ten 1980’s New Romantic bands (video) – the behind-the-scenes origins of this quintessential 80s music
- How To Stop Being A Lazy Designer
- Free Roland TR-727 samples
- movie posters revived by allcity
2008 Sketches for Summer
I’ve uploaded an archive of some recent sketches (70.4 MB zip) for your consideration. Most of these are shorter tracks, in the Short Fictions vein, along with two longer pieces. Individual files:
- Mad house (sketch) (3:38, 5.3 MB MP3)
- Headsville (sketch) (4:19,6.1 MB MP3)
- Minimal (sketch) (4:00, 5.9 MB MP3)
- Slow rave (sketch) (4:43, 6.8 MB MP3)
- Strangler (2008 revision) (11:58, 17.1 MB MP3)
- Untitled 2008-07-17 (sketch) (2:30, 3.7 MB MP3)
- Broken beat box (sketch) (2:29, 3.6 MB MP3)
- Tonglen dub (15:57, 22.9 MB MP3) – features elements made with BeatMaker
links for 2008-08-08
- Daedulus Demos The Monome (video)
- Tamara Adlin interviews Peter Morville
- Pretty, Open Source Audio Looping with Livid Looper – a new, free audio looping tool, built in Max 5.
- the value of irony as a design principle – an anti-commercial value system based on three “ironies”: “the ironies of unbranding, demonetizing, and noncompeting.”