December 31, 2012
Drewbot: Habits are Cues for Innovation

dbreunig:

Prior to the Model T, before Henry Ford supposedly said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have made faster horses,” there was an entire industry making faster horses, applying technology according to convention not according to potential. Such behavior continues today, and…

This is a great run down on times when innovation is stalled because of being tied to old habits. I think that cameras are still a bit stuck in this rut. Lenses are still built to focus on a flat piece of film. DSLRs look just like film cameras. In the next five years we are finally going to see cameras that have forgotten their film roots and get in to some more innovative image capture configurations.

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December 30, 2012
ovadiaandsons: Pearl Regatta, Tahiti Yes please.

ovadiaandsons:

Pearl Regatta, Tahiti

Yes please.

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Pirated Architecture

heyitsnoah:

Apparently Zaha Hadid is working on a new building in China and it’s being pirated … AS SHE’S BUILDING THE ORIGINAL. This sounds like a weird William Gibson future world:

But the appeal of the Prtizker Prize winner’s experimental architecture, especially since the unveiling of her glowing, crystalline Guangzhou Opera House two years ago, has expanded so explosively that a contingent of pirate architects and construction teams in southern China is now building a carbon copy of one of Hadid’s Beijing projects.
What’s worse, Hadid said in an interview, she is now being forced to race these pirates to complete her original project first.

[Via Ed Cotton]



.. via NoahBrier.com: http://bit.ly/12UWA24 ..
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December 8, 2012
artist-advice: “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.” -Chuck Close Image from Wisdom

artist-advice:

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

-Chuck Close

Image from Wisdom

(Source: wearethedigitalkids)

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November 26, 2012
Power of Making - Victoria and Albert Museum
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September 1, 2012

Better Names for Things - pleated-jeans.com (by pleatedjeans)

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July 11, 2012

Solid.

OUTLINES “I cannot think” music video

(Source: vimeo.com)

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May 6, 2012

Beastie Boys - Glasgow 1999 (FULL) 

(Source: youtube.com)

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April 11, 2012

(via Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - We Almost Lost Detroit on Vimeo)

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February 24, 2012

(Source: kqedscience)

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