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Come onnnnnn May 11th.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:24:07 -0600

Come onnnnnn May 11th.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:57:05 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Photo

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:21:01 -0600

God these are sweet.

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:47:43 -0600

God these are sweet.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:27:21 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28):

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My two favorite discoveries today: Polenta (delicious) This...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:53:27 -0600

My two favorite discoveries today:

Polenta (delicious)
This song

Titus Andronicus — “A More Perfect Union”

A Billy Bragg and a Springsteen reference in the same verse. I’m all in.

Brilliantly simple. via

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:07:11 -0600

Brilliantly simple.

via

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:27:10 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21):

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Hey! A portfolio.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:03:56 -0600

Hey! A portfolio.:

(it might be mine)

Up there! In the sky! via

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:00:13 -0600

Up there! In the sky!

via

The mission’s lead space-station flight director, Bob...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:19:22 -0600

The mission’s lead space-station flight director, Bob Dempsey, described the first views during a pre-dawn briefing on the progress of the space shuttle Endeavour’s 14-day mission to the International Space Station: “The astronauts, who are accustomed to views you and I can’t really describe, were moved to tears when they looked outside the windows of the cupola for the first time.

I’d say this solution has been around for quite a while.

A Journey Through Asia via

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:14:46 -0600

A Journey Through Asia

via

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14)

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:09:49 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14):

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One of the better music vids I’ve seen in a while.

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:45:21 -0600

One of the better music vids I’ve seen in a while.

Here’s a poster I just finished for Word & Image.

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:59:16 -0600

Here’s a poster I just finished for Word & Image.

Irakere — “Bacalao con Pan”

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:54:14 -0600

Irakere — “Bacalao con Pan”

"I ask myself, am I really stuck? Sometimes we think we’re stuck or we want to think we’re stuck but..."

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:34:59 -0600

“I ask myself, am I really stuck? Sometimes we think we’re stuck or we want to think we’re stuck but we’re actually on track and just don’t know it. Some paths are inevitable. Remember, a rut is also a groove.”

- Christopher Simmons

My favorite tip from an immensely helpful ISO50 post.

Measuring creativity

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:06:06 -0600

Measuring creativity:

bobulate:

When musicians improvise, their brains turn inhibitions down and creativity up. Scientists set out to measure exactly what is going on in the heads of musicians, using jazz as the constant:

[T]hey go into what we call a “dissociated frontal activity state.” There’s this notion that someone like Coltrane is “in the zone,” he’s far away from the concerns of everyday life. And he is in some other place where all of these novel ideas are flowing out of him.

How does he do it?

The brain really alters itself into this creative mindframe where its purpose at that moment is to generate novelty and to decrease inhibition.

Consider that for a moment: improv decreases inhibition and increases novelty! As I mentioned recently, people are already improvising. With the emergence and adoption of a new set of tools and services, the line between creator and consumer has narrowed and, in many places, blurred completely. And this is the great opportunity for designers (or creators or any kind): to create room for this sort of free flow of ideas in our design process and in the products and services we create for people. Plan for improvisation. Make room for novelty. (These are not oxymorons.)

In the meantime, head over to hear a series on the field of “neuromusic,” research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music.

Beautiful.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:04:48 -0600

Beautiful.

Framing a Modern Masterpiece

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:58:07 -0600

Framing a Modern Masterpiece:

I’ve been reading a lot about St. Louis architecture for a project lately (in this book), so I feel that I can attest to the importance of this competition — It’s exciting stuff.