Marco Velardi and Mike Meiré talking about magazine design:
Category: Interface Culture
A Tribute to Doug Engelbart
I do remember.
I do remember a night in 2005 when I had the opportunity for a telephone call with Doug Engelbart.
Douglas C. Engelbart. 30 January 1925 – 2 July 2013
It was a very special call for me to talk with Doug personally. A precious moment in life. I was aware of his contributions to hypertext and to his pioneering research for graphical user interfaces. Now it was the time to prepare a session for the upcoming reboot7 in Copenhagen that I was going to moderate. I simply wanted to adjust wavelengths. It was so much more.
Doug came to an end by saying, “Now I have exhausted you.” – Dunno. Maybe speechless, thinking, energized, thankful, happy.
Ted Sherlock Holms latest case
Ted Holm Nelson offers an explanation about the identity of the originator of Bitcoin. How would Sherlock Holms have approached and solved the case?
Update: Obviously Satoshi Nakamoto is not a pseudonym at all. /via Dave Winer
HDR Photography
A brief intro to HDR photography
What is HDR? A high definition range photo is computed out of a set of regular photos with different exposure rates. In an optimal case, you have taken a series of 3 to 5 photos with different aperture value directly with you camera. When I took most of my photos, I was neither aware of HDR, nor about this feature of my camera.But even if you start with just two source images, one too dark
then the combination can be an impressive new image as shown in the header above.
I use Apple Aperture as the host application for the Nik Collection. Its filter HDR Efex Pro 2 does the job of combining the images. It offers plenty of tuning sliders to create images from hyper-realistic to artistic.
The Filter is the Message
Nora – Snapseed Portraits by mprove
I am convinced that the Medium is the Message. For me it means that you perceive the world in terms of the tools and media you know, and what you have experienced until then. When we take photography for instance, your skills, the camera, the film, the objective have a fundamental influence on the subjective way how you take photos.
The darkrooms of the analog era have been replaced by Photoshop and recently by all the filter apps on mobile devices. It is quite remarkable that a quite banal photo can be turned into something special with a twist of a finger. In fact I prefer filter apps that offer more than just a set of predefined effects. I want to be in control, sort of. I want to have the options to express a certain mood while pushing the virtual buttons and slide the virtual throttles. And I want results that are still surprising and unique.
Now we’ve gone full circle. Because the images that resulted from prior use of the filters have an impact on the photos that you will take in the future.
Blue Harbor – Popsicolor Gallery by mprove
Red Nose – Snapseed Gallery by mprove
enjoy your life
– mprove photography
The Internet – A Warning from History
Hang on iPad
Since I am exploring the possibilities of the iPad, I wanted to be able to play the Hang. ThumbJam offers a very good sampled Hang instrument already – but the typical layout of the metal U.F.O. was missing. Orphion recently introduced a layout customization, and virtual Midi allows to send the signals from Orphion to ThumbJam.
Oh yes, BTW, this is my first Prezi’ntation to explain how the things work together.
I’ve uploaded my Hang and HandPan layouts to the Orphion Universe. It should be easy for you to pick them up.
vienna dreaming
dreaming
of writing a poem dedicated
to some one reading the lines in front of the screen
of some one in front of the screen
surfing the web, watching some pixels
uploaded
selected
taken with a camera while browsing through a museum
of three guys watching a painting
of a woman standing in a street with lanterns
watching two people carrying a barrow
painted by a painter
dreaming
12 Lessons by Jobs/Kawasaki
12 Lessons Steve Jobs Taught Guy Kawasaki
- Experts are clueless.
- Customers cannot tell you what they need.
- Biggest challenges beget the best work.
- Design counts.
- Big graphics.
Big Fonts. - Jump curves, not better sameness.
- “Work” or “doesn’t work” is all that matters.
- “Value” is different from “price”.
- A players hire A players.
- Real CEOs do demos.
- Real entrepreneurs ship.
- Some things need to be believed to be seen.
NY@40m2
“The new equation is less stuff and less space equals small footprint, more money, and more happiness”