"Advertisers deploying QR codes are like people in 1900 wanting transportation to be faster, saying to themselves, “Well, we’ve got horses and we’ve got roller skates — I think we’re on to something! It seems gimmicky, but we’re innovating."

— “QR Codes Are the Roller-Skating Horses of Advertising” — Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic

This hi-def photo of earth (the highest resolution image available from NASA Goddard Photo and Video) is just gorgeous. Download it for free. Space photography rocks.

This hi-def photo of earth (the highest resolution image available from NASA Goddard Photo and Video) is just gorgeous. Download it for free. Space photography rocks.

"You can say it’s in two all you want, but why is the harmonic rhythm so not in two? The harmony changes like every three bars, dude."

Jeremy Denk is best known in certain circles as a concert pianist and music instructor. But man, the guy can write.

From “How to Prepare for a Concert

Give me something to read, MacDiva

I’ve been fooling around with Pinterest, and while I get its greatness, I also feel like I’m spreading myself too thin by being there.

Nevertheless, my book recommendations seemed to be popular. And I’ve been looking for an easy way to replicate what I’ve started on Pinterest on a site I already use.

Thank goodness for Otlet’s Shelf, a Tumblr theme that makes quick work of book and film recommendations.

So if you’re looking for something to read or watch, may I suggest MacDiva Suggests.

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Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit: Are we thinking about urban planning all wrong? - Slate Magazine
David Ogilvy was a boss. Of course, after reading the letter here, I’m wondering who Ray Calt was.
(via Letters of Note: I am a lousy copywriter)

David Ogilvy was a boss. Of course, after reading the letter here, I’m wondering who Ray Calt was.

(via Letters of Note: I am a lousy copywriter)

Stunning 3D portraits of dancers in tension. Click through to see the two videos.
(via Flash moves: the 360 degree dance project | Stage | guardian.co.uk)

Stunning 3D portraits of dancers in tension. Click through to see the two videos.

(via Flash moves: the 360 degree dance project | Stage | guardian.co.uk)

WOODKID - Iron (by WOODKIDMUSIC)

Katana pup

Katana pup

Worlds passed through her camera. Veiled women in the Middle East. The Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in Texas, on a macramé chair cover. A street barber in 1960s Afghanistan. Political prisoners in Soviet psychiatric hospitals. Mothers and children the world over, from Cuba to New Jersey to the deepest Chinese countryside. She took peyote with the Navajo and photographed Vanessa Redgrave’s naked arse. She took pictures of Queen Elizabeth II, on the cusp of middle age, in turquoise beneath a rain-blanched sky. She shot Paul Newman, at an acting class – white socks and T-shirt, loafered feet on a chair, intense gaze.

If these sound like clichés of colour supplement reportage, that’s because she was one of those who invented those clichés
(Quote via Professional Photographer: Eve Arnold Profile Photo via tout ceci est magnifique: Mangano @ MOMA)
Worlds passed through her camera. Veiled women in the Middle East. The Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in Texas, on a macramé chair cover. A street barber in 1960s Afghanistan. Political prisoners in Soviet psychiatric hospitals. Mothers and children the world over, from Cuba to New Jersey to the deepest Chinese countryside. She took peyote with the Navajo and photographed Vanessa Redgrave’s naked arse. She took pictures of Queen Elizabeth II, on the cusp of middle age, in turquoise beneath a rain-blanched sky. She shot Paul Newman, at an acting class – white socks and T-shirt, loafered feet on a chair, intense gaze.
If these sound like clichés of colour supplement reportage, that’s because she was one of those who invented those clichés

(Quote via Professional Photographer: Eve Arnold Profile
Photo via tout ceci est magnifique: Mangano @ MOMA)