Playing with paper a new app by fiftythree, really cool and lots of fun. Check it out.
black swan song by thom yorke video by me
Everyone at underscore will tell you that I drove them mad by adding black swan to every playlist on spotify. I just really liked it – cause this is fucked up, fucked up! – nice little ear worm. It inspired me to do this video. Its not quite finished but I thought I’d upload it to my new vimeo account.
Its my take, so I’ve probably got it all wrong. Some say its an anti-bush song, some say “everything is fucked up but hey, let’s enjoy the ride” either way, this is my take on it. I did a bit of research about black swan theory and kind of skirted around that idea. It interested me that people have actually written books on how to look out for black swan events and make them white swan events. The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that an event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight. Some examples are 9/11, computers, hitler, and facebook.
Anyway hope its not too depressing. Kick on.
How to join pintrest the biggest thing since the last big thing
Pintrest, by now you should know what it is, if you don’t well, read on. Pintrest is a virtual pinboard (yea like the in your kitchen wall), it allows people to collect and share their favorite photo’s. Users can create as many pin boards as they like, they can add their own images and they can also “like” or “re-pin” other users images.
So, with all the interest in pintrest I’ve finally got a few pin’s up, and have started to play – the easiest way to add an image to your pintrest account is to use the bookmarklet – drag it to your bookmark toolbar. When you are browsing just click the bookmarklet and pintrest does the rest for you, quite easy, still time consuming. After a few hours I already have a few things re-pinned (oh I could barley contain the excitement).
I can see the attraction, it gets quite addictive adding images, I certainly can see those of an addictive or obsessive personality letting this completely consume them. I can also see how I can use it as a tool. I’m going to start using it as my virtual scrapbook, its like bookmarks with images.
I have yet to explore the benefits of what it can bring companies but its not hard to see how this could be used for retail i.e. on person tags a dress, others re-pin and before you know it you have hundreds of people looking to buy that dress. Need to research what other things it can be used for.
How to join pintrest
You can join Pinterest by requesting an invite from someone already on the website (request an invite and I’ll send you one – use comment), or by clicking “Request an Invite” on the home page. It takes about a week to get your invite, so I suggest you do it now, so you can be more of a hipster than your co-workers.
Fashion brands inspiration
Developing design for a fashion company or brand is unique work. When people look at a particular fashion brand, they want a sense of uniqueness and style that must match the style of clothes, but also be able to portray a sense of uniqueness that appeals to their target market. Here’s a look at 30 who do it well. Creating a successful fashion line is as much about branding as it is about actual fashion design, because the two go hand-in-hand with each other.
You break it, you buy it. hell no. I break it, slowly leave it there & awkwardly walk away….Peter Griffin.
Still using and loving the flipboard app for the ipad, you can now get it on iphone, but I’m cursed with fat fingers. Check it out flipboard.com/.
When I get a bit more time I’ll do a write up for it.
Radiohead creep
Found this on vimeo, so many covers of creep but really like this one.
