how to stereo
Most of film culture has been built around monocular capture and reproduction. A single camera lens produces a flat image. The flatness of the image has l...
Category: design
playhouse
Nearly two years ago, for the birthday of our oldest, I made a playhouse. I designed it using Sketchup, which allowed me to adjust the sizing and layout, while ...
mobil gas pump interface suggestion
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more on Mexican restaurants; planting a cactus in too small a pot
A few weeks ago I asked why Mexican restaurants are so often decorated like 19th century ranch homes when Mexico is a living, modern culture. Such decor perpetu...
stacks of colored objects, some icons
candlesticks by victoria delany shuffle table from &tradition flavia by Ettore Sottsass kebab lamp by committee Thunderbird house post, Chief Wakas pole, S...
should Mexican restaurants always be decorated like 19th century ranch homes?
Near our home is a newish Mexican restaurant that bills itself as a “modern Mexican delicatessen.” Like many Mexican restaurants, it is decorated as...
committee for lladro, campana brothers for lacoste
Top: Love I, Love II, Love III from Lladro by Committee Bottom: Campanas + Lacoste The logical conclusion. Being consumed by the sign.
Good graphic design can make the difference between a convert and confusion.
This morning, I saw the following text on an advertising poster in a parking lot in Glendale, CA: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE The graphic designer chose to use the da...
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About a year of tweets, archived here for posterity.
I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
“becomes more informed and demanding (thanks to the internet forums)”
While reading up on a ridiculously high-performance kitchen appliance, I found this quote from a manufacturer: Between the year 2000 – 2001 the market con...
A limited caribbean confederation flag
An obvious start. The flags of Cuba and Puerto Rico combined. previously: The British Isles became the United Kingdom. What might the Caribbean islands have bee...
Diagram as commentary: how Goldman Sachs circumvents SEC with Facebook offering.
Reggie Middleton’s diagram for his post, Goldman Creates a Facebook Hedge Fund for HNW Clients Historically Ripped Off By Such Vehicles, Spits In Face Of ...
Clever advert for Lifetime femicide of the week movie.
A delightfully clever advert from Lifetime: I can’t decide if the ♀ female sign inside the delete icon kills it or makes it. Also, the “LifetimeR...
Facebook + smart grids + cash prizes = It’s on! (and off!)
I know my fellow consumers. We are a conspicuous competitive lot. Look at what I got. Also, free shit. Everyone loves free shit. I was just trying to remember w...
Never mind the iOS “home” button. The whole screen should offer physical feedback.
The “home” button Apple has designed the iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and Touch) with a single physical button for navigation: the round “home...
Are there two types of feedback for ads, click-through and click-off?
I’ve seen two electronic ads today I was happy to “reject”: one for a conspiracy video and the other for Meg Whitman. In the case of the forme...
A total guess on Pandora’s “random walks”.
My guess is that when you first launch a Pandora station it begins at the dead center of the Venn diagram created by all the people who have also endorsed/reque...
The iPod Nano and augmented reality.
While likely to get some kids jumped, the new iPod Nano is a brilliant step towards augmented reality. Note how yesteryear’s band buttons have now become ...
Will computers in 2050 finally look like the ones we imagined in the 1950s?
A user on MetaFilter has argued that a well designed item is that which lasts a long time – or, perhaps, an item which the owner values for a long time. Here...