Live demo recording of 4 new This Mess songs. These are all part of our set now, and will likely be on the next recording.
1. One Way
2. Fashion Victim
3. What Lies Threadbare
4. Void
Recorded by This Mess live in a very small room in March 2012
emenel
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works at Normative in Toronto
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Boing Boing posts one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands of all time.
The full set of my band’s first show back in December 2011. Recorded by Joe from The Mechanical Forest of Sound.
We also have a demo EP at thismessband.bandcamp.com..
(via This Mess Live at The Garrison on 2011-12-29 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive)
My experimental improvisation duo has a live album out right now! If you like post-punk guitar noise check it out.
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.
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…
My issue with “Design Thinking” this morning
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.



