Oct. 31 2010

Little Times

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

- Andy Warhol

(via Liz Danzico’s CreativeMorning talk this morning)

having 930a calls everyday means i’ll likely not make it to a creativemorning anytime soon. for shame, but, i’m glad tina posted this - i can relate to it a lot lately. sure, it talks to paying attention to detail but it also goes with something that’s been in draft for a while:

waiting for other shoe to drop matters less when you’re okay with where the next step takes you.

it’s weird trying to come to peace with the inevitable, especially when you don’t know how it will unfold. or, you know exactly how it will work but you can’t place your finger on the right trigger/decision to make.

i know this is vague but it’s a post that is referencing lots of intertwined items.

what else is new, right?

(first item posted directly via Instapaper)

Jun. 01 2010

attention to detail.

Even with cheap printed books, you can tell that someone proofed every page. With many e-books, they’ve clearly just been run through a converter with no proofing whatsoever. This is especially true for backlist Kindle titles from Amazon — the formatting is just atrocious.

this will be fixed, i’m sure but it’s certainly indicative of an unintended separation while innovation, in general, is hurtling forward.  part of how we live, as a species, is connecting to the environment around us using all of our senses.  touching a screen and magic happening is nice but it doesn’t engage you completely.  there is nothing tangible interacting back with you that engages all of you at once.  you’ll see something, you’ll hear something - but you won’t physically feel anything.

we still need that.  we’ll always need that.  things go wrong and our balance is shifted.  why is running away and going on vacation, “unplugging” so hot right now?  it’s that balance that has left our everyday lives.  we’re chasing when we can easily bring it back.