“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
(Source: claytoncubitt)
The wonderful new Spike Jonze animated short, in conjunction with designer Olympia Le-Tan.
California Cooler, the real stuff.
I really love this old Chiat/Day ad for California Cooler — the colors, the sound, the attitude (the girl at :40 is priceless). But my favorite is how they keep hitting you over the head with the lush drink pours — there are 7 in 50 seconds! — most sunlit mason jars with fruit and ice, casually overflowing like a beach party itself. This isn’t what the product looks like coming out of the bottle, so instead they showed the thinking going into the bottle.
I was fortunate enough to join John McElroy’s Autoline After Hours last week to discuss the new Mustang with Ford’s chief engineer Dave Pericak. The job of a chief engineer is as much one of omission as it is commission. Nearly everyone seems to want to tell Dave what the Mustang should do; it’s his job to curate only the best ideas and sell it at a profit. That’s a tough job. Based on how the ‘11 Mustang drives (I’ve only been in the V-8 but can’t wait to drive the new 305-hp V-6), I think he’s nailing it.
Warning: this is 81 minutes of straight car talk. If you’re hoping to press play and receive Dave’s words of wisdom right away, you’ll be disappointed. It’s not a greatest hits film, just regular old BS session between four guys who love cars and the car business.
“Computers & Medicine” from a 1991 episode of Computer Chronicles.
Other than the obviously cozy nostalgia that this video conjures up, I was actually really impressed with the designs of the medical hypercard program (2:00 mark, roughly). The constraints of the format back then sure created a singularity of focus. I actually think a program that simple would be quite useful today in a lot of different diagnosing applications.
- “Everything Fall Apart” video by Yoshi Sodeoka, one of my favorite digital artists who used to run the sublime Word.com and then the digital studio C404, which I had the pleasure of visiting one day about ten years ago.
