Robert Frost: the writer without a desk
December 2011
i’m looking for a sound designer for a 30 min film
“Now we drive out the pope
from Christ’s church and God’s house.
Therein he has reigned in a deadly fashion
and has seduced uncountably many souls.
Now move along, you damned son,
you Whore of Babylon. You are the abomination and the Antichrist,
full of lies, death and cunning.”
—Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
i’m going to Stratford City, so there
“I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.”
—Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial | Music | The Guardian
Noel Gallagher: if the master tape of your latest album was floating in a vat of hummus (sic) I would push it under
Yup, total tosh http://t.co/m7zyFNsL via @ilovetypography
Can you hear me screaming in Brooklyn? http://t.co/jODlB9rY
Tonight at LDNIA we might just have reached peak unbloggable
I had to rearrange their faces. And give them all another name.
“I wish life liked nature more” Nathan (aged 7)
RT @I_like The @NothingToSeeHere book is now for sale from Pocket Mountains. Use code ‘NTSH’ to get 20% off http://t.co/yjc72UrF
Nothing is ever cut and dry. Mr @markboulton on the money http://t.co/JUpA8KvT
“Work in public. Reveal nothing.”
—The art of working in public « Snarkmarket
“The writers give you a glimpse into their thought processes — “they both conjure a sense that the piece is almost being written as you read it. It feels like they’re just a graf or two ahead, and if you picked up the pace, you could catch them— overtake their blinking cursors. It feels slightly chaotic and totally thrilling.” Yet, Robin points out, they don’t give away too much. They’re thinking out loud, but also privately; they’re using the public part to help catalyze their internal sense-making processes. Or as Robin sums it up in a lovely koan: “Work in public. Reveal nothing.”
—collision detection: The art of public thinking
“Nascent James Dysons aren’t going to suddenly appear from their garages, wielding new technologies to export. And economic pain won’t make anyone more likely to disappear into a garage to invent one. What it will do, we have to hope, is force people to co-operate and adapt, possibly to the fact that the neoliberal dream of an enterprising, capitalist private sector has now been lost for good.”
—potlatch: Thatcherism as tragedy then farce
The internets is bipolar
- As you’d expect, opinion was polarised. Andy Budd perhaps encapsulated how I feel:
- If you compromise on nothing, you’re a dictator. A lack of compromise weakens the chance of discovering that you could actually be wrong.
- And Oliver Reichenstein today:
- Web design is engineering. Engineering is all about making the right compromises. Case closed.
