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“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.”
- John Cleese(via a…
“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.” - John Cleese The Extraordinary Thing About Creativity http://www.swiss-miss.com/2012/04/the-extraordinary-thing-about-creativity.html
Mesh distortions applied to topological view of London. Deforming it to map the shape according to the Underground map. Fantastic idea.
(via Benedikt Groß – Metrography – London Tube Map to large scale collective mental map)
Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”
A new favorite:
Highly beautiful photo series Winter Berlin by Matthias Heiderich
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
This is not a photo. It’s an oil painting. Seriously.
I love this challenges standard perceptions. On first glance you assume this is a photo. Something so detailed and refined, so similar to a photograph, is a photograph. But when told it’s an oil painting you look for more. Not finding any signs of evidence or reason, you naturally assume a sense of what Arthur C. Clarke calls, magic.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A quote better known for it’s association with Apple. I love how this art embodies that very same feeling, but through almost anti-technological innovations.
Oh Apple. Just when I begin to tire of your ads, you bring out this little cracker.
Beautiful.
Notorious SIRI
SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple’s servers. Notorious Siri then sends Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize to the device.
Siri’s speech synthesis is synced to the beat using the timestamps obtained from the Echonest API. Easy Peasy.It’s like Biggie’s back in the room…
Observations of a Dreamer
Recently stumbled across a Google doc I started over 4 years ago where I fairly listed random observations and points about business, work and making stuff. Unsurprisingly alot of it is naive dribble, observed by someone who very had little real world experience at the time.
There was however a little wheat amongst much chaff. These couple of quotes jumped out at me. Which seem particularly poignant around the passing of Steve Jobs.
Hire the best people you can find.
Let people do what they love to do.
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