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"The signs are that many of us struggle these days to read in a concerted, attentive and linear fashion. In The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr argues that we have become incredibly adept at flitting from one thing to another, filtering, selecting and absorbing little bursts of information as we go. The screen environment, with its many competing nodes of interest, encourages this kind of scanning and scavenging, and we readily embrace every kind of electronic information source, priding ourselves on our quicksilver modern ability to multi-task." Rick Poynor in This Post has Been Declared a Link-free Zone

I find that it is very difficult to read on a screen, concentration is constantly interrupted. It's like getting sucked into a wiki wormhole, jumping from one topic to another and never fully understanding anything. Twitter is the biggest example of this constant jumping, i couldn't be bothered reading a whole article most of the time, I feel like Karl Pilkington on the Ricky Gervais Show. It becomes dangerous when you just read the headlines, because sometimes you get the wrong end of the stick.

Dont complain, SING!

more complaints choir

Searching for the Cyborg

Electrocyte Appendix from Revital Cohen on Vimeo.

Everything is a Remix: Matrix

Everything Is A Remix: THE MATRIX from robgwilson.com on Vimeo.

Walt Disney "Education for Death" (1943)

American propaganda film about Nazi german education. Kind of disturbing but with that touch of disney magic that makes you feel.

The future of computers in 1966

The New Humanism

"The conscious mind hungers for money and success, but the unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence when the skull line falls away and we are lost in love for another, the challenge of a task or the love of God."

By DAVID BROOKS in The New York Times.

Powering the Kitchen

Powering the Kitchen – GE tracked the energy consumption of five major home appliances for a month, then visualized it

Periodic Table of Typefaces

from Cam Wilde

Star Wars mind trainer

Bleep Bloop review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHA4j66MCa0&feature=related

The Importance of Typography Education

An article i found on the online edition of Communication Arts,

It's not how we teach typography,
it's how we learn typography
by Dr. Shelley Gruendler

http://www.commarts.com/columns/its-how-teach.html

I really feel that typography is a subject that is crucial to my education as a graphic designer, yet i know close to nothing of it and by the looks of it, won't have a chance to develop it during course at uni. shame...

BAFANA BAFANA

won the game but not the cup, still proud to be South African!

not exactly how i remember it...

Virgins for Sale!

I came across this article about a new documentary/Reality show, that are literally going to sell off 3 virgins to the highest bidder.

I think reality TV has reached a new low! It's not even the hint of prostitution that bothers me, what a person decides to do to their body and how is totally up to them. It's the fact that they want to broadcast it worldwide, is nothing sacred anymore?

One of the virgins that has come forward, said that she wants to change the way people view sex. WRONG she wants to make a shit load of money, nothing more. What kind of message is she giving us, that it's okay to publicise such a intimate part of your private life for a good fee?

What ever your view on virginity, it doesn't matter, it's the fact that we seem to forget that television, internet, pick your poison... has lost it's sense of boundaries.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2966984/Virgins-sell-sex-on-reality-show.html

perception and reality

There is a big difference between perception and reality. The way we understand our surroundings is so unique to us as fingerprints. What is real? Can we find reality in the earthly plane? What we see is what we believe, but what if what we see isn’t real?

When we wander the city streets, locked in our own bubble, we don’t see what goes on around us. We don’t perceive what we don’t find important, like the one legged beggar that greats us every morning or the women of the coffee shop that cleans the steps as we go by, we don’t see these things yet they exist and are more real then the music we listen to on our iPod that we know off by heart or the email we check on the train on our way to work. When we consider a subject as controversial as religion and spirituality, where what we see isn’t important, many of us don’t understand, but many follow it blindly. We believe in so many things that can’t materialize, why does spirituality baffle us so?

Living in a city is different from living anywhere else; we expect a certain kind of interaction with our surroundings and with the eclectic bunch of people that populate it. The first time a person is confronted with city life they or optimistic, they find great joy in the small details, as we grow accustomed we grow cold, we individualize, we surround ourselves with the artificial to be in contact with the world with out having to actually live the harsh reality. The city becomes a blur and we become alone.

We continuously circle the problem of reality, what is real? What do we perceive? Can there be a universal image of one place? And most importantly where are we going? What if the extreme artificiality finally consumes our life completely? Should we be scared?

Alice in Bummerland?

There has been big hype about this movie, I finally went to see it and was a bit of a let down. Being a Burton fan I felt like i wasn't watching a tim burton movie, the image was there the story wasn't, it was predictable and a bit boring.
too much fuss, good imaging, but lacking a good story

lazy bug

don't you hate it when you're sick and don't feel like doing anything at all!

I could be doing so many cool things with all the extra time, but im sooo lazy -_-

Twilight Vampire

Genius Burton

I still like him anyway xD

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia'

is the fear of long words.

#291 (2) - Feb 5, 2010 03:37 PM by Shwetank, Maharashtra, India - Facts - OMG! (262) - (0)

losing sanity...

it happens to all of us creative peoplz, the way we can get so involved in our project that we can actually lose control of our mental sanity.

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