Research
A collection of ongoing research and inspiration across design, technology, photography, and more collected in Are.na. Over the years I've developed a deep fascination for the visual image in culture, sports, photography, internet-culture, technology and fashion. Follow me on Are.na.
cafe
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Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. ∆ Patti Smith, from M Train (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)
Time and the Future
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- it's a vibe
675“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut”
Sophisticated minds adopt simplified lifestyles; simplistic minds are drawn to overly sophisticated lifestyles.
book that should have been an essay
the myth of difficulty
Everything is easy.
Artificial Complexity
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"Goal is the removal of friction, not gamification" — Lauren Cason on her iterations through AR
(friction)
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/ graphic
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words
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Interior 2030
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Community Through the Lens
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Tennis is Life
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/ logo
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Voyager
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/ photography
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football is life
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book design
107
photography / campaign
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Mind of the Machine
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business cards
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In the Graph OS, all of your things are within your system as nodes, or items, within your graph. Emails, calendar events, articles, web pages, podcast episodes, to do lists as well as the to dos inside them; everything. And each thing may have references to, or be referenced by, any other thing. What is the net effect of this arrangement?
OS Infinity
52To be impactful, companies often need scale. But scale tends to break alignment. The bigger you get, the harder it is to keep “be good” at the center, because incentives shift toward shareholders, advertisers, or efficiency.
Life would be miserable if we only spent time in commercial spaces, because not all value can be captured and supported in a commercial context
Choice and will The digital landscape has an influence on our lives, but we are more directly affected by our personal choices. We must fend for ourselves, whether or not the technology industry chooses to deal with the implications of their work.
The Good Software
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Interface Metaphors
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Human and Their Computer
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Accidental Baroque
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Time Warped
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The computer of the future is not a product, but a place.
Spatial grocery list Organizing your groceries based on the path you usually walk through the store. Also using this idea to help you remember what to put on your list.
Spatial Interfaces
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The Good Days
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We've had roughly 25,000+ unique visitors since "going live" about five days ago. Cloudflare has served up some 60gb of data, which means folks are clicking through into the images (by design, not much data is loaded until you start viewing images in detail).
Technology only adds more—it is never this or that; it is always this and that. A quick example from my life: Twitter didn’t replace Facebook. The iPad didn’t replace my phone. My phone didn’t replace my TV. Now, I watch YouTube on my iPad, toss the video up to my TV, while checking Twitter and Facebook on my phone. It’s a little constellation of technology. But I keep asking myself: how many more things can I juggle? And for how long?