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This is a mix of post-advertising, art, music, culture & cool shit curated by Chris Cloud.
Unplugging may feel like the most obvious way to access these experiences of intimacy and quiet in a noisy digital world, but the very fact that it’s so obvious should make us suspicious. As usual, we’re going for the quick fix: the binary solution that lets us avoid the much more complicated challenge of figuring out how to live online. It’s easier to imagine flipping the off switch than to engage with and work through the various human failings that the Internet has brought to the fore.
And it’s easier to avoid what is, to many, a very painful truth: Going offline is no longer a realistic option.
Modern Pictograms, from the Design Office, is a free font containing common icons and symbols. Great for use when designing, or you can embed them in your website using @font-face.
"Ideas fail all the time because they’ve been obscured and over-compicated by adding ‘too much stuff’. They start to feel onerous and difficult and that they’ll be a nightmare to manage for the client. Let alone what a ball ache they’ll be for any normal person to engage with."
The original version of vimeo.
Jake Lodwick, on his Elepath blog: (quote edited)
“Most attempts to build websites are unequivocal failures.
In the case of Vimeo, I was struck by inspiration and built a working prototype in a few hours. I still use it regularly.
The prototype was not complete, but living software is never complete, like humans, gardens, and companies. Vimeo was just a subdirectory on my personal site, blumpy.org. It only had one person’s videos. But the point is that I deployed it, and woke up the next morning not with an imaginary vision, but a live website I could observe and discuss.
I’m not writing this to boast — I’m saying, ideas are impossible to pre-analyze; you have to build them to evaluate their value, and it’s really easy to build a tiny version of something. You can do it the same day. The reasons people don’t do it are overwhelmingly emotional and irrational. But we don’t want to eradicate passion entirely; we just need a safe container for it.”
The Importance of Facebook Cannot be Overstated
Selected slides from a larger comScore deck examining global social networking, microblogging and mobile trends. Select any thumbnail to embiggen.
In related news, it’s estimated that Facebook will attract its 1 billionth user this August. That’s 14 percent of the global population.
Images: via comScore.
Zeus Jones pours out a beautiful scotch-tasting party HTML5 web app for iPad. Drink it in.
