Mark this point in history. Yesterday was the first time in my life I had ever used a Wacom tablet for sketching. People say it takes about three weeks of concerted effort to get used to using a tablet. By the looks of things, I pretty much perfected my technique right out of the gates.
Author Archives: Dane
Separated at Birth
October 10, 2009 – 8:30 am
Behold: ET: The Extra-Terrestrial and the new Photoshop Logo. I gotta hand it to Adobe. They really knocked this one out of the park. I mean, look at that gloss. It just screams OS X Aqua circa 2000. Yes, yes. The logo is old news, but it’s newly interesting now that you can host this […]
“Here, I made you a better poster.”
September 23, 2009 – 6:34 pm
LINK. God dammit, I miss San Francisco more than I thought I would.
From Analog Interactions to Tangible Bits
September 22, 2009 – 12:34 pm
I spent a great deal of time this past summer turning the idea of “analog interactions” over in my head, carving and sanding and refining it through a series of essays. It largely started in my post Analog Interactions, where I discussed my recent forays into Arduino and my increasing interest in historic, richly tactile […]
From The Archives
September 21, 2009 – 1:47 pm
While paging through my journals of yesteryear, trying to find a particular passage, I came across this gem from July 22, 2003: WEIRD THOUGHTS WHILE DRIFTING OFF TO SLEEP: A lamprey swallowing a bicycle “Barry’s Floss and Park” A floral-patterned laundry bag, filled with laundry, tied around someone’s ankle
A bad taste in your mouth.
September 15, 2009 – 9:47 am
Mint Sells to Intuit for $170 Million Why is this such a great deal for Intuit? Fast Company explains: “Mint’s apparently not begun to investigate the data-mining opportunities present in the recorded info on those 1.4 million users–a data set that’s got intrinsic value in its own right.” Wow, that’s pretty bold-faced. To be fair, […]
Human-Poultry Interaction and Internet Pajamas
September 8, 2009 – 9:52 pm
You can’t make this shit up. In this paper, we present novel systems supporting remote interactions between humans and also between humans and animals. We developed interfaces which supports non-verbal modes of communication. We introduce the Poultry.Internet system, a remote multi-modal human-pet interaction system. This system allows humans to remotely touch their pet using a […]
Quoth Heidegger
September 3, 2009 – 8:44 am
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who engage in hermeneutical phenomenology, those who engage in phenomenological hermeneutics, and those who get beat up after philosophy class for being good at math.
Pro Tip
August 30, 2009 – 9:36 am
If there is a top secret document that you absolutely do not want me to see, this is probably the best way to hide it: Write it into a blog post. Publish it online. Send me an email telling me that I absolutely must read it. If secrecy is of paramount concern, I would recommend […]
Multitask This
August 26, 2009 – 6:18 am
Ironic that this article at CNN.com, which cites a study that reveals multitasking may harm one’s ability to filter out distractions, is interspersed with five headlines and hyperlinks to irrelevant articles on Health.com.
