November 2008
16 posts
A Poem
We all became a part of this machine.
Our carnal architecture has fused with
The steel of industry and
The
Reckless
Speed
Of modern communication.
The first gear spins the next which
Spins the next which
Spins the last which
In turn, spins the first.
But for all our spinning together
We have forgotten that we ever
Functioned as individual cogs,
Dismissing in our collective amnesia
...
‘Slam dunk.’ -Don Just
First innovation challenge presentation went really well, though im not sure it was boring enough for the judges. MBAs are robots.
Flying penis attacks Garry Kasparov →
Orbs | Flash Music Generator →
“When you’re asked to do something, don’t do it. If someone can ask...”
– Mark Fenske
Top ten MBA team
My team has advanced to the final round of the Innovation Challenge competition,
apparently making us one of the “ten most innovative MBA teams in the world.” The funny thing is I’m not an MBA student. I’m not at full liberty to disclose our two challenge topics, but we have an incredible idea for our first client and are totally stuck on our second client. The first...
“Hyperbole communicates
uncertainty.
The clients have heard
it all before,...”
– Don Just
Flexible portable displays →
Imagine having all the content you want streamed to a display. Imagine folding up that display and putting it in your pocket.
Coz and copy
He said today that with print, “you have three seconds to take a .357 magnum and go *PFKKKFJOW,*” and, “if a picture is worth a thousand words, get the first thousand out of the way first. Then the last eight are easy.” Just because we have a longer engagement with people in interactive, we should still hold ourselves to these standards. If there isn’t immediate...
“Ideas are to be pursued. You don’t wait for them; you hunger for them.”
– Coz Cotzias
Mashup music video →
Lame song, great idea. What value could a website give consumers if it’s able to know random facts about whoever is watching it and sprinkle them into content? Or, is there an intrinsic limit to what value a computer can add to something by guessing what the viewer wants to see?
“What is?
Everything but nothing.
What is not?
Nothing but nothing.”
– My caffeine-addled brain
Twitter: If you’ve never seen a computer, what does the web look like?
“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through
and the trouble I give myself...”
– Claude Monet