My band has our first EP out today! We’re also playing tonight at The Silver Dollar in Toronto.
We recorded this ourselves with a very DIY setup and mixed it over the last couple weeks.
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@emenelMy band has our first EP out today! We’re also playing tonight at The Silver Dollar in Toronto.
We recorded this ourselves with a very DIY setup and mixed it over the last couple weeks.
I’ve been thinking a lot about building teams recently. In a former job, I ran a large UX team, and one of the metrics I was judged on was employee retention. If people were sticking around, I was in good shape. If they were leaving, that was bad.
Starting and running my own design business has…
Quoted from http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/11/a_quick_siri_no.htmlI’ve never actually played with Siri yet, so this example might be somewhat off the mark. And I made up the site. Still, it’s something we should keep in mind — especially accessibility specialists.
Me …
Thanks to Dave Gray for pointing this out to me during a conversation about service. This is the best and most simple rule for any person in a service position. If the police, TSA, and others used a guideline like this we would all be much better off. It really relates to a great post by Lukas Neville about autonomy and being a decent human being…
I occurred to me this morning that one of my issues with “design thinking” and the way that it has been adopted is that it’s turned into the ultimate post-modern device. It has an uncanny ability to claim credit for, or apply itself to, any type of creative or unusual thinking after the fact.
I’ve seen a number of conversations, including one on CBC radio this morning, about Occupy as a design movement, or a design thinking solution to a wicked problem. To me this feels like imposing a framework on something once it’s already happened… Occupy is what happens when people are pushed to their limits and are disenfranchised. We’ve seen this before and it will happen again. Just because the approach is different and people are thinking about how to stage a protest in a new way does not make it “design thinking.”
Is every innovation “design thinking” now? Let’s be fair to real design, and to the people who are doing interesting things that aren’t design, and not diminish their creativity by lumping it all under this new philosophical umbrella, that was intended as a business tool more than anything.
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My friend Anu from San Francisco wrote this great reflection on the Occupy protests.. one of the better personal reflection pieces I’ve read on this topic.
This song, which came out in the late 90’s, is true now more than ever.
“Publicly subsidized! Privately profitable!”
The anthem of the upper-tier, puppeteer untouchable.
Focus a moment, nod in approval,
Bury our heads back in the bar-codes of these neo-colonials.
Our former nemesis, the romance of the nation state,
Now plays fundraiser for a new brand of power-concentrate.
Try again, but now we’re confused; what is “class war”?
Is this class war? Yes, this is class war.
And I’m just a kid.
I can’t believe I gotta worry about this kind of shit.
What a stupid world.
And it’s beautiful,
No regard for principle.
What a stupid world.
Born, hired, disposed.
Where that job lands, everybody knows.
You can tell by the smile on the CEO,
Environmental restraints are about to go.
You can bet laws will be set
To ensure the benefit
Of unrestricted labour laws,
Kept in place by displaced government death squads.
They own us.
They own us.
Produce us.
Consume us.
They own us.
They own us.
Produce us.
Consume us.
Can you fucking believe?
What a stupid world.
Fuck this bullshit display of class-loyalties.
The media and “our” leaders wrap it all up in a flag, shit-rag, hooray.
Propagandhi - Nation States (by TheBenji979)
Our lovely little nook of cookbooks in the kitchen at home..
Cookbooks! (by emenel)
Punk rock might be for the young. But being punk rock is for everyone. (via You and What Army: PUNX NOT DEAD)
Once again, Michael Azerrad sums up my feeling about music and life better than anybody else.
This is one of the best short pieces about art, design, technology, and material that I’ve read. It aligns perfectly with my own thoughts on the subject, and expresses them in a way I haven’t been able to.
I found this originally through Russell Davies at http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2011/08/technology-as-a-material.html
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