Stuff and Other Stuff

No seriously, I used to be able to post notes on other people’s posts. I know it’s been...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:44:03 -0500

No seriously, I used to be able to post notes on other people’s posts. I know it’s been a week or two since I’ve used you Tumblr, but I swear I’m not crazy. I feel so lost and alone. Sob.

tedx: Michael McDaniel & Jared Ficklin are designers at...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:11:00 -0500

tedx:

Michael McDaniel & Jared Ficklin are designers at frog design, a firm in Austin, TX responsible for a multitude of products, from ovens to compost systems to apps to breast scanners. At this year’s TEDxAustin, the pair introduced their plan to re-invent urban mass transit through flying cars: high-flying gondolas running via cables stretched over cities — a little bit like ski lifts.

For more information on urban cable and The Wire, watch Michael and Jared’s entire talk, “A mass transport system in the sky” from TEDxAustin 2013.

This is idea is now being passed around Austin as fact that it’s happening. True? Or are we all just a little overexcited, like the time that artist drew a hypothetical Austin subway system and we all cried a little in delight.

Loving anything with Cvrches. Even though the v in their name is...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:52:27 -0500

Loving anything with Cvrches. Even though the v in their name is pretty ridiculous.

djbahler: CHVRCHES - Recover Yessssss. Finally a follow up to...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:28:51 -0600

djbahler:

CHVRCHES - Recover

Yessssss. Finally a follow up to The Mother We Share. Can’t wait to see them at SXSW!

fastcodesign: Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air is a...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:44:19 -0600

fastcodesign:

Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air is a 350-page tome that collects 50 diverse tree houses from around the globe.

Obviously me reblogging this post is mandatory.

Benjamin Kyle is a missing person, because he has amnesia and...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:23:16 -0600

Benjamin Kyle is a missing person, because he has amnesia and doesn’t know who he is and the government hasn’t been able to figure it out either. You may have already seen this 10 minute documentary about him — it’s been online for a bit and — but you probably haven’t seen this amazing pointilism portrait of Ben! OMG, let’s all go back to the drawing board, literally. But about the film: the lady who calls 911 after finding Ben is pretty chill for having just discovered a nearly-murdered person, but the 911 operator tells her to calm down anyway. It’s gotta be a reenactment, right?

So sad! I can’t believe how difficult it is to live without an identification card. Ridiculous.

fastcodesign: A group of Estonian architects have built a...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:53:42 -0600

fastcodesign:

A group of Estonian architects have built a trampoline walkway through a Russian forest.

Well this is unacceptable. Doesn’t he know he should be bouncing?

I love this. (Regardless of whether they’re sending iPads or Motorola Xoom tablets, of...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:05:00 -0600

I love this. (Regardless of whether they’re sending iPads or Motorola Xoom tablets, of course)

Most of us were not raised to think kids can learn on their own. But even if you were raised to think kids can teach themselves, you will be shocked to hear about the kids in Ethiopia. MIT chose a remote, illiterate community to send some first-graders a box of iPads. Unopened. One person in the community was taught how to recharge the iPads. That’s all anyone knew about the iPads. Within a month, the kids could read English and within three months, the kids had hacked the iPad to make the camera work even though someone at MIT had disabled the cameras.

Quoted text from Penelope Trunk.

devexity: Borgarnes under a full Moon, west Iceland by skarpi -...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:57:23 -0600

devexity:

Borgarnes under a full Moon, west Iceland by skarpi - www.skarpi.is on Flickr.

likeamanwould: i don’t even need to see the rest of the reddit...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:26:20 -0500

likeamanwould:

i don’t even need to see the rest of the reddit AMA of PSY.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/120oqd/i_am_south_korean_singer_rapper_composer_dancer/

Hilarious.

[–]faithful_sta11ion Did you ever get bored doing the gangnam-style dance?

[–]PSY_Oppa[S] there’s no time to be bored. i’m so busy doing the horse dance…

fastcompany: fastcodesign: Words cannot express how much we...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:22:09 -0500

fastcompany:

fastcodesign:

Words cannot express how much we want to bounce across the Seine on a trampoline bridge.

This. Would. Be. Fun.

Absolutely.

likeamanwould: hahaha YES

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:18:45 -0500

likeamanwould:

hahaha YES

fastcompany: At an event in Ohio recently, Chrysler CEO Sergio...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:28:46 -0500

fastcompany:

At an event in Ohio recently, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne and Wieden + Kennedy’s John Jay talk about the impact of the “Imported From Detroit” campaign on the fortunes of the automaker over the past two years.

More fuel for my fascination with Detroit. Plus the ad includes the Fox Theater, which I went to once for the Nutcracker when I was a kid and it was magical.

“The success of this campaign has contributed significantly to the company’s sales growth over 2010, and as a result of this success, Chrysler has paid off their government bailout six years early.”

Kind of impressive.

fastcodesign: Rain Room, an installation by digital art...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:08:12 -0500

fastcodesign:

Rain Room, an installation by digital art collective Random International, is an indoor gallery where it—you guessed it—continuously rains.

Um, what? No. Video of her walking here.

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:35:37 -0500

Um, what? No.

Video of her walking here.

When you imagine yourself being older – if you allow yourself to imagine it at all – it’s with the...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:17:48 -0500

When you imagine yourself being older – if you allow yourself to imagine it at all – it’s with the sense that Future You is not really you, with your wants and needs and habits, but perhaps a different person entirely.

In her book THE WILLPOWER INSTINCT, Kelly McGonigal puts it like this:

“Brain-imaging studies show that we…use different regions of the brain to think about our present selves and our future selves. When people imagine enjoying a future experience, the brain areas associated with thinking about oneself are surprisingly unengaged….It’s as if we are observing a person from the outside to decide what is true about them, rather than looking within to decide what is true of ourselves.”

She also adds:

“Studies show that the less active your brain’s self-reflection system is when you contemplate your future self, the more likely you are to say “screw you” to future you, and “yes” to immediate gratification.”

It’s human nature to care more about our own well-being than a stranger’s. So it’s easy to put the wants of our present self ahead of the needs of our future self. The stranger-self.

My favorite example of this is from the How I Met Your Mother episode “The Duel.” You know who should decide this? Future Ted and Marshall. Oh the Knights of the Poorly Constructed Round Table.

fastcompany: WorldCam zeroes in on just...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:56:49 -0500

fastcompany:

WorldCam zeroes in on just about any given location—your favorite restaurant, your competitor’s offices, a famous landmark, Fast Company HQ—to reveal on-site Instagram intelligence, with pinpoint accuracy. It’s kind of like Google Earth, only with Instagram feeds instead of satellites.

Spent a long time looking at Brazil. Plans!

fastcompany: 6,000 old incandescent light bulbs and some...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:14:33 -0500

fastcompany:

6,000 old incandescent light bulbs and some chicken wire form a beautiful, interactive cloud installation.

“We were hoping for wonder, curiosity, and excitement,” says artist Caitlind Brown. “What we didn’t expect was the look of awe on people’s faces as they stood beneath Cloud, trying to figure out how it works.”

Can someone install this in my room please?

theclotheshorse: bottega veneta spring 2013 Love #2 and #3.

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:00:09 -0500

theclotheshorse:

bottega veneta spring 2013

Love #2 and #3.

likeamanwould: what myspace!? Look who finally made their...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:18:07 -0500

likeamanwould:

what myspace!?

Look who finally made their website look less like a sketchy abandoned building!