OMG! It’s absurd but also genius. Reminds me of when I discovered Fanny Pack. Which I will grace you with, right now.
Salem in XLR8R
The Salem article in XLR8R is really good. The new Salem album is a treat, but their ethics and values resonate really heavily with me. If you click through on the link, you can read the article in hi-res PDF. Their new album is out September 27th.
Whip My Hair – Willow Smith
Yes, you do want to listen again. Yes, you do want to tell your friends. Yes, you do want those faux converse that triple stack.
RGB Airplane
I wish I was…
Be vulnerable.
Sometimes you can spend years allowing your body to act as an echo chamber, holding in all of the words that you aren’t 100% comfortable letting out. It feels safe.
It’s not easy to let go of your insecurities, but the most wonderful things in life happen when you do. From friendship, to true love, being open with the people you love is the most precious gift you can give yourself.
New work over there…
I have never had my work compiled in any public facet before. Finally, I’ve got a portfolio setup, to house my work, including the personal more abstract stuff. Please have a look and spread the word if you like what you see. I should have a lot of new stuff coming soon (watercolors!!!).
Karen Elson – Truth Is In The Dirt
Amazing visuals here and a really nice tune. It’s interesting. The majority of the big models I know have an amazing eye and visual vocabulary. They are artists. In this case, it’s easy to see Elson heavily pulling references from the fashion world.
Are you a drive-by teacher?
Someone will show their work and I’ll see an opportunity to make it better. But instead of spending time with that person to teach them what I see and how to make it better, I’ll drop some quick comments in Campfire (or IM or email) and then just move on. Things like “That sentence is a bit wordy – let’s try it this way” or “I think there are too many horizontal lines going on here… Can you remove some?” It’s not that the comments aren’t useful, it’s that I drop them and move on. That’s not teaching, that’s just critiquing and suggesting and that’s not going to help people get better. Teaching is about encouraging understanding — and patience.
(Emphasis mine.)
Apple Mimics Breathing
In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”
The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breathes per minute, which is the rate that the sleep-indicator light fades in and out on most Apple laptops. Older models such as the Macintosh PowerBook, however, use a blinking LED indicator, with discrete pulses in one-second intervals.
The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop had a similar feature but with a shorter fade-in-fade-out period. Its rate was around 40 blinks per second, or the average respiratory rate for adults during strenuous exercise—not very indicative of something in sleep-mode.
