This All The Buildings in New York print by James Gulliver Hancock just made it on my print wish list for 2013.
(via designfeast)
Stop waiting.
“Stop waiting for something to happen or for someone to give you permission to do things.”
– Kate Kendall
A quote from Kate Kendall’s CreativeMornings/Melbourne talk. Watch it here.
Lunch Box
This nickel-plated aluminium lunchbox is a beauty. (Unfortunately currently out of stock though)
Creativity
“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”
– Albert Einstein
Friday Link Pack
A short history of the animated Gif. (via James)
– Canadian photographer François Brunelle took 200 photos of people who look like identical twins—but actually aren’t even related. Wow!
– In case you missed it: Snow Fall, The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. The NYTimes created a stunning online reading experience.
– Helmet Oddity: A Supercut of Space Suit Helmets
– The Top 10 New Yorker Stories of 2012. (The slideshow format is killing me.)
– Put your photos into unique shapes with Shapely. (But don’t go overboard, ok?)
– Sweet photographic moments of childhood. (Thanks Tanya)
– How to cook the perfect Rösti. (= giant Swiss of a hash brown)
– Only 4 more days left to get on the Tattly Subscription train. Next chance will be in July.
– Geometry visualized: Demonstrating the Pythagorean theorem with liquid.
– A bicycle horn that sound like a car horn.
– Watch Portrait of an Artist: Jackson Pollock, the 1987 Documentary Narrated by Melvyn Bragg
– Incredible bartender/singer covers Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at a tiny NYC piano bar called Brandy’s – a Susan Boyle from the Upper East Side.
– Leadership is just a series of moments where you do the right thing.
– Share Wi-Fi. Earn free data. Repeat. Karma: the first social hotspot.
– British People Problems. (via coudal)
– You’re a developer and into the arts? The fine folks at Paddle8 are looking to hire a Senior Developer.
– Of course we can all live without a natural bristle laptop keyboard brush. But, isn’t it pretty?
Better Than Human
“This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines. You’ll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots. Ninety percent of your coworkers will be unseen machines. Most of what you do will not be possible without them. And there will be a blurry line between what you do and what they do. You might no longer think of it as a job, at least at first, because anything that seems like drudgery will be done by robots.”
– Kevin Kelly
From this Wired article titled Better Than Human, with a thoroughly disturbing photo.
Paula Scher speaking at AGI Open
I enjoyed listening to Paula Scher talking about how she went about designing the new Windows 8 logo.
Spacesuit
NASA’s new Buzz-Lightyear-inspired spacesuit had me stop and look.
Deliver On Your Promises
“If I can give entrepreneurs a single piece of advice for 2013 it would be to deliver on your promises. Not just to your investors but also to your team and ultimately to yourself. This is no time to be in denial. That is a lethal attribute in times like these.”
– Fred Wilson
How to make LEGO bendy:
My Sugru obsession just reached a new high after seeing this video. Sugru + LEGO = world domination!
Dress Responsively
This T-Shirt celebrating responsive web design made me chuckle. Don’t know what RWD is? Here.
(Thanks Nate)
Merry Christmas
(Thank you David)
♥ / MailChimp
A big thank you to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed.
MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results.
The all-new drag-and-drop editor makes it easier than ever to create templates that look great on screens big and small. It allows you to resize images using built-in tools. No need to open up another program just to tweak your photos. Brilliant.
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed? Learn more here.)
Outgrow.me
Outgrow.me is the first marketplace for successfully funded Kickstarter & Indiegogo projects. What a fantastic way to spotlight product designers post-Kickstarter.
(Thank you Sam)
Friday Link Pack
(Thanks Tyler)
– Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets.
– G and I cry-laughed reading the 25 funniest autocorrects of the year.
– Michael Moore has put his documentary Bowling For Columbine on YouTube for everyone to see. Free.
– A brief history of the quotation mark. (via @brainpicker)
– A great list of Leo Babauta’s favorite/essential software he installs the minute he gets a new Mac.
– Make your own DIY Map Quilt Kit. Brilliant.
– RandomMornings.com delivers you a random CreativeMornings talk at every refresh. Lovely.
– The new Flickr iPhone App is absolutely fantastic. And I learned a few fantastic app tricks in this Flickr blog post. The “Mute swipe” is brilliant.
– Made me chuckle: The Perfect Matching Scarf
– Polka Dot Frying Pan? Yes, please.
– How to Cook Fluffy, Tasty Quinoa.
– The top 25 responsive sites of 2012. (Tattly is one of them. Yay! Thank you Oak!)
– Freethephotos allows you to migrate your photos from Instagram to Flickr by simply logging in and clicking a button.
Santa Tracker
I don’t know about your kids but mine are counting the seconds until Santa arrives. Google’s Santa Tracker will help.
Kinder Surprise Egg Marriage Proposal
Whenever the conversation turns to marriage proposals, I have to share the story of my friends Lori and Matthew which entails a Kinder Surprise Egg. Matthew painstakingly took apart the chocolate egg and replaced the toy inside with a small robot figure and illustrated instructions on how to assemble him into a tiny MatthewBot on bended knee. Also inside was the ring! He then reassembled and rewrapped the egg to look virtually untouched. Fabulous, right?
Boiling Water Freezing in Mid-Air
Watch boiling water transform into a cloud of ice crystals by tossing it in the air at -41 degrees Celsius. All kinds of wow.
(via LaughingSquid)
Courage
“The more creative you are the more trouble you’re in. You have to be courageous!”
– George Lois
(A quote from his inspiring CreativeMornings talk)
Barrel Woman
Annie Edson Taylor (1838–1921) was an American adventurer who, on her 63rd birthday became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. The desire to secure her later years financially, and avoid the poorhouse, made her came up with the idea. The trip itself took less than twenty minutes. Afterwards she told the press: “If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat… I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall.”
I am speechless. What a crazily courageous woman.
Update: She was mentioned in this Radiolab series.
Invisbile Bookend
Paul Cocksdge created the Invisible Bookend, a visual illusion, allowing you to display books without any additional support. Two swissmiss thumbs up.
Oliver Jeffers
So happy to see that Gestalten did this video feature on Brooklyn based Oliver Jeffers. He is a fantastic illustrator, artist and overall thoughtful and kind person.
He gave a CreativeMornings talk in 2010, watch it here.
Use of Time
“The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.”
– Montaigne
(via this explore blog post)
Aervine
Aervine is a corkscrew and a wine aerator in one. A beautiful brainchild by William Ward, currently running a Kickstarter to get production join. I am backing this. Join me?