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Live demo recording of 4 new This Mess songs. These are all part...

Sat, 05 May 2012 21:53:48 -0400

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

Boing Boing posts one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite...

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:28:50 -0400

Boing Boing posts one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands of all time.

(via The Wipers’ “Youth of America” (1981) - Boing Boing)

The full set of my band’s first show back in December...

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:49:23 -0400

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)

I have ended up here so many times. (via xkcd: Reviews)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:04:06 -0400

I have ended up here so many times.

(via xkcd: Reviews)

Photo

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:24:43 -0400

I love chameleons, and this one is just plain awesome. (via...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:32:05 -0400

I love chameleons, and this one is just plain awesome.

(via Chameleon on the head of a match - Boing Boing)

My experimental improvisation duo has a live album out right...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:40:45 -0500

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...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:20:07 -0500

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.

mmilan: Taken with Instagram at Normative Inc.

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:47:52 -0500

mmilan:

Taken with Instagram at Normative Inc.

Feynman's Radio: The value of passing through.

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:57:51 -0500

Feynman's Radio: The value of passing through.:

mmilan:

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…

Updated Design Reading List | Normative - Design for Devices and the Web

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:28:46 -0500

Updated Design Reading List | Normative - Design for Devices and the Web

Bryce Johnson / brycej: "A quick Siri note" from Peter-Paul Koch of Quirksmode #a11y

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:28:37 -0500

Bryce Johnson / brycej: "A quick Siri note" from Peter-Paul Koch of Quirksmode #a11y:

thechickentest:

Quoted from http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/11/a_quick_siri_no.html

I’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 …

"Nordstrom Rules: Rule #1: Use best judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules."

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:19:35 -0500

“Nordstrom Rules: Rule #1: Use best judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.”

- 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…

Nordstrom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My issue with "Design Thinking" this morning

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:01:54 -0500

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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Post-cocious: Protest

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:42:48 -0500

Post-cocious: Protest:

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...

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:21:10 -0400

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)

Join us at Interaction12 | Normative - Design for Devices and the Web

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:50:00 -0400

Join us at Interaction12 | Normative - Design for Devices and the Web

Our lovely little nook of cookbooks in the kitchen at...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:05:32 -0400

Our lovely little nook of cookbooks in the kitchen at home..

Cookbooks! (by emenel)

mmilan: #torontoculture (Taken with Instagram at Bathurst...

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:56:15 -0400

mmilan:

#torontoculture (Taken with Instagram at Bathurst Skatepark)

Punk rock might be for the young. But being punk rock is for...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:23:22 -0400

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.