September 2010
Rob and Jesse →
Enzo has been very busy working on a series that he started over the summer. The spark that started the project was a call for a family portrait. His sketching produced a caricature of me. That drawing then found itself appearing all over the whiteboard in the Studio at TCS in a variety of not-so-kind interactions between me and our good friend Jesse. Once the summer Open Studios were over, he...
“Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“[T]he home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far short...”
– H.G. Wells
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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its...”
– Leo Tolstoy
Punctuation, emoticons, gestures, and...
A mention of Bruno Munari yesterday (and another this morning) has me dusting off these thoughts that have been sitting in my draft folder for a a few months. It starts with a summertime post from Tim Carmody, “De inventione punctus”, at both Bookfuturism and Snarkmarket that opens with:
All signs suggest punctuation is in flux. In particular, our signs that mark grammatical (and...
“I’d never go back and live in any other time than teetering on tomorrow; this is...”
– Patton Oswalt (via Frank Chimero)
“[F]orgetting is the friend of learning. When you forget something, it allows you...”
– Dr. Nate Kornell
“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in...”
– Salman Rushdie (via bettyann)
“[P]eople like to measure everything - screen size, filesize, resolution, number...”
– Neven Mrgan
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“The world is full of very average things made by people who don’t want to...”
– Brendan Dawes 