Sorry, No Art Today.
You know. It´s one of those days.
So Amazon think they have me figured out? Hah! Well I´ll show them who knows how my brain works. After I´ve purchased the three new recommendations they found for me that is.
Mr Beezos. It seems you are a very good at this algorithm thingy. Hat tip.
PS Best book last year about thinking and the irrational human being? Daniel Kahneman is your man.
Twine. A new way to make your physical surroundings talk to you in bits. My inner geek likes this.
One step closer to something that actually makes meaning. Dont think we are there yet, but twine seems fun enough to be worth it for some of us.
A strategy for eating Cap´n Crunch
Randy has, over time, worked out a really fiendish Cap´n Crunch eating strategy that revolves around playing the nuggets´most deadly features against each other. The nuggets themselves are pillow-shaped and vaguely striated to echo piratical treasure chests.
Now, with a flake-type of cereal, Randy´s strategy would never work. But then, Cap´n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the real engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidian geometry and whatever sunken-treasure-related shapes that the cereal-aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow information. The important thing, for Randy´s purposes, is that the individual pieces of Cap´n Crunch are, to a very rough approximation, shaped kind of like molars. The strategy, then, is to make the Cap´n Crunch chew itself by grinding the nuggets together in the center of the oral cavity, like stones in a lapidary tumbler.
From the novel Cryptonomicon by the utterly brilliant Neal Stephenson.
Image by moliroli86 Flickr CC
We’re Approaching That (Brief) Time of Year When ‘Christmas’ Searches Eclipse ‘Porn’
Oh, we merry humans. Or should we say gents only?
"One surprising trend in gaming is that gamers today prefer, on average, three to one to play co-operative games rather than competitive games. Now, this is really interesting; if you think about the history of games, there really weren’t co-operative games until this latest generation of video games. In every game you can think of – card games, chess, sport – everybody plays to win. But now we’ll see increasing collaboration, people playing games together to solve problems while they’re enjoying themselves."
— Jane McGonigal, director of games research & development at the Institute for the Future in California and author of Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Happy and How They Can Help Us Change the World (Penguin)
Cowbird, sagas from real life
Jonathan Harris who claimed fame with his We Feel Fine project are back with a new and very exiting idea.
Cowbird are supposed to tell heartfelt stories about life. Humanity´s sagas. Not a small order to start with. It will be interesting to see if Mr Harris are able to gain interest from people who passionately can tell stories and start sagas on their own.
At present the only saga available is the Occupy saga, which in itself is rather interesting and shows the potential in this storytelling project.
Go check it out over at Cowbird.
Finally Spotify is taking curation seriously. Looking forward to see lots of great (branded) ways to discover new music.
In the category: Just Gorgeous.
Leonardo da Vinci’s to-do list, based on a forthcoming book, illustrated by the great Wendy MacNaughton. A fine addition to these famous artists’ to-do lists. (via)
(via theatlantic)
Finding daily white space.
How often do you think that you don’t have time to do something or start a project? If I told you that it really easy would you believe me? The hard part is following it through. Close to 5 years ago I decided that I needed to rebalance the use of my left and right brain. I picked up a sketch book and a pencil, started drawing a few pieces. None being better than the paintings I did on canvas at age 7. (I had the originals so I can prove this:-)).
The big challenge wasn’t my skills, but setting aside time. Then I came across a book by Danny Gregory named The Creative License. It said that if you draw just for five minutes during the commercial breaks, or when waiting for a biz meeting to start, or at the toilet for that matter, you are starting to find room to getting good.
Finding time is a challenge no matter what the purpose of that time might be. Exploring “white spaces” are highly effective. By white spaces I mean time when you are gazing, waiting, being passive. Find portable tools. Give yourself no excuses like Angry Birds or FB update checks. Just train your passion.
As you can see from the photo. An aquarell of a shoe. Still a long way to go, but drawing and painting is steadily becoming a habit. A really good and joyful habit.
Good luck on making good habits.
