Archive: December 2006
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Design / The Beatles & collaboration in music, web · Dec 7, 22:01
A lot of collaborative work goes on at Cooper (where I work). Designers team up to understand a problem, or to envision a better way of solving it. Sometimes, we collaborate with clients to figure out what’s possible and where possibility and desirability meet. In any case, it’s hard to trace back any particular idea [...]
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Thanksgiving remix in flickr, new york, san francisco, the ancient past · Dec 7, 01:45
Thanksgiving 2006 came and went, attended by friends, family and the customary dramas.
An East Coast / West Coast feud flared up in the week before the holiday. Gabriel (East) sent what some in the West perceived as “a salvo across the bow” in the form of a PowerPoint presentation (a slide of which [...] -
NYT / JFK to Manhattan on foot in new york, urban · Dec 6, 21:33
“People don’t know where they are anymore, “ [the writer Will Self] said, adding: “In the post-industrial age, [walking] is the only form of real exploration left. Anyone can go and see the Ituri pygmy, but how many people have walked all the way from the airport to the city?”
This is from A Literary Visitor [...]
