tumbletogether:

Stumbled upon this thought-provoking video about the scale of ambient computing our future likely holds. Tim O’Reilly has been talking about this ecology of computing and data since the Web 2.0 Expo last year (I recommend watching his keynote) and it remains one of the largest trends on the horizon.

As Clay Shirky says in Here Comes Everybody, “More is different” so the really interesting thing here isn’t just that a trillion is really a big number - it’s that the dynamics of interaction within the network change radically as the number of networked computers increases.

Perhaps more profound is the way the future will be less about screens we sit at to accomplish certain tasks and more about embedded and ubiquitous screen technologies. For an exceptional academic approach to this stuff check out The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space by Scott McQuire. I studied under Scott at Melbourne University and was always blown away by his ability to synthesise multiple complex arguments into pithy and profound insights and weave those insights into engaging and entertaining stories.

Of course, we can already see this trend in action with mobile phone - and especially smartphone - technologies, and more specifically with moves towards augmented reality applications. Being able to overlay contextually relevant real-time information onto our physical world will blow apart the idea of desk- or laptop-based computing for good and properly usher in a world of mobile and embedded computing.

Fun time ahead folks :)

(via papertissue)

jesuisperdu:

Toward Los Angeles

“I still live in NY but I have an apartment in Paris. I like working in places where I don’t really speak the language, where every basic thing I need to do is more complicated, and everything is different to what I grew up with. Working outside of America inspires me.” -Wes Anderson in Dazed

notsayingboo:

The basic idea behind AppBooks is to give iPhone app developers a way to sketch out ideas for the apps they’re working on without having to worry about scale or proportions. The iPhone templates printed on every other page are actual-size, so what you see is what you get.”

Designer, Adam Sarpalius

robot-heart:

gilbertville public library (via hollie-o)

annicka:

benjaminhilts:crashinglybeautiful:uncertaintimes:

Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926)

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

— Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke - Vol I: 1892-1910

texturism:

suicideblonde:

Sara Bareilles feat. Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song

This is my winter song.
December never felt so wrong,
Cause you’re not where you belong;
Inside my arms.

This is my winter song to you.
The storm is coming soon
It rolls in from the sea.

My love a beacon in the night.
My words will be your light
To carry you to me.

Is love alive?

evrt:

fourchirps:

Create Your Own Holiday Sweater

Entertain yourself with this Kansas City Art Institute greeting card, made by squidfingers.

via JP

Great find Michelle! This is awesome!

YES.

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eatsleepdraw:

Fancy Coat by draw, Gabby, draw!

I would love this coat. Dreamy.

thisrecording:

helmut newton’s ‘Vincent Price and Coral Browne’ (1989)