Quickie business cards (Taken with instagram)
Best coffee in town. (Taken with Instagram at Sterling Coffee Roasters)
Dusk (Taken with instagram)
Beautiful photographs by Stephan Tillmans of CRT televisions at the moment they are switched off.
(via makenosound)
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I go for a run one or twice a week, on the hill behind our home. There are three decent uphill sections to get the heart pumping and corresponding downhills for contemplation of the mountains and all kinds of thinking.
We think of doing our best as if it’s a singular act. But it isn’t about the heroic effort at the end. A minute’s sprint in a half-hour run will hardly affect your time at all. It’s about getting up before dawn instead of staying in bed. It’s about setting a solid pace right from the start, when running seems strange and everything hurts just a bit. It’s about sucking it up when it gets hard – and it does get hard. It’s about not stopping, even when your legs and lungs and heart want you to. Your body is strong. But your mind is stronger.
And it’s about doing it again and again, because – and this is incredible, when you think about it – your body responds to hard work by getting better at it. Whatever you habitually do, your body will optimise for.
Those soft imbeciles shuffling from their car to the mall to buy more stuff? They’re optimised too. Optimised for sitting in front of a screen being told what to consume.
You are what you do.
” — I was about to shut this blog down and then this pops up… Golden. You are what you do.(via makenosound)
In perusing my feeds this morning, this photo and article caught my eye (click to read about it after you’re done here):
When I was a kid, I don’t remember how old, I kind of “designed” the Looxcie. I’m sure I wasn’t the first, but it seemed like it at the time. As far as I know, there were no wearable camcorders on the market, at least not on the consumer level.
I had this thought that you were always likely to miss something by holding the camera out in front of you as a secondary perspective. Not only could you miss a shot, but you were also missing whatever was happening because you were too concerned with getting the shot. It also seemed to me that the body’s natural stability and support for the head would be the perfect movable tripod.
My design housed the lens on a type of headgear that put it next to the user’s eyes. A cable then ran down to a pack on the user’s waist. I don’t remember the tape format that was available at the time… Hi8 or DV probably; but the camcorders to date were still bulky as ever. I might have the sketches somewhere in a box…
And now? You can wear one on your ear and use your smartphone as a viewfinder. And it’s a bluetooth headset. For $199.
That’s pretty incredible. I’ll be expecting my paycheck in the mail…?
How about you? What did you “invent” as a kid?