Jamie Chung Captures the History of Apple

Jamie Chung Captures the History of Apple:

Jamie Chung photographs the history of Apple products for Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine’s latest issue pays tribute to the late Steve Jobs and his visionary legacy at Apple. Chung’s photographs chart the history of Apple products, from the very first computer Jobs created to the iPhone and the iPad. The slideshow includes commentary from Jobs, the company’s history, and product information.

Chung captured the new and old Apple products in a computer archive in New York City. The shoot was a nostalgic for Chung as he’d once had one of the company’s older models. He says he is “glad to participate in the tribute to Jobs’s legacy.”

See more of Jamie Chung’s photographs of Apple products here.

[Beautiful.]
Source: The Bernstein & Andriulli Blog

Handlebar Chandelier By Wilfrid Wood

Handlebar Chandelier By Wilfrid Wood:

…but when someone goes to the trouble of making an awesome chandelier out of three bicycle handlebars, what can I do but post it?

Wilfrid Wood‘s handlebar chandelier was one of many pieces made from everyday stuff in an exhibit at KK Outlet titled Object Abuse. As pretty much the sweetest project there, this one probably sold, for the benefit of some local London school. KK Outlet’s Object Abuse flickr photoset

[Sweet!]
Source: Dinosaurs and Robots

Interview: Fast Boy Cycles

Interview: Fast Boy Cycles: I danced professionally for a few years, and then taught for almost ten. For a lot of that time I had a company and was making work. I went to art school (university of the arts in Philadelphia). I thought I was going to study industrial design. I was pretty disenchanted when I realized that the industrial designers weren’t that involved in the engineering side of making stuff (or really the MAKING side of making stuff). Mostly just how it looked. How it felt. So there was a lot of CAD work, and some molding of models out of plastic. Someone dared me to take a dance class one night. I did. It seemed like much more fun than the visual arts core classes I was taking, so I switched majors the next day (“you want to switch majors!?” “Yes, if that’s possible.” “have you ever danced before!!?” “Yeah… I took a class last night.”). I stopped to catch my breath almost 15 years later and realized that I sort of hated dance. When I finally ran away screaming, building bikes seemed like a safe harbor. Can’t remember how I connected THOSE dots. [Go read the whole thing. Ezra Caldwell takes great photos, builds beautiful bikes, and continues to beat cancer. In a world where “awesome” is overused…]
Source: Cycle EXIF Update

Utilitarianism. (Post Irene)

Utilitarianism.:

[The basics. One level up? Good food, Good drink, Good music.]
Source: Indexed

Thoughts for a Monday morning…

Ignore Your Critics
Turn the Ordinary into Something Beautiful
Justify Your Price
Communicate in the Language of Your Audience
Extend the Experience
Build a Tribe
Become “The Name”
Do what you think is best.
Go with your instinct.
Take risks that quickly display failure or success, you can learn from either.
Don’t be afraid of consequences. Everything has them.
Prioritize your endeavors.
Sacrifice is a necessity.
Enjoy your successes. Celebrating what you’ve done will only lead you to yearning for more.
Always ask: “What might lie over the horizon?”

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The danger in relying on sophisticated virtual design tools

QUOTE: The danger in relying on [sophisticated virtual design tools] too much is that we can end up isolated from the physical world. In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves—’I press too hard here, and it breaks here’ and so on…It’s very hard to learn about materials academically, by reading about them or watching videos about them; the only way you truly understand a material is by making things with it.

—Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design, discussing materials and the iPhone 4

[I mentioned this before. Living only in a digital, virtual world lacks balance and doesn’t engage senses that we’ve developed over lifetimes.]

Source: SIGNAL VS. NOISE

Notwithstanding…

A headline from the New York Tribune: Notwithstanding a few drawbacks, there is still much to be thankful for this winter. (Click on the Tribune logo to see the headline in all its glory.)

David Bransby, photographer.

Brought to you by the Library of Congress and flickr.

[And little ol’ me, but, well, ya know. atmo, etc. ad infinitum.]

Yesterday and today

As it should be, some things don’t change.

This year’s favorite things

In the tech category, Rails 2.3, Redis, and the Engine Yard Cloud. offerings have got to top the list of things that improved our ability to deliver products and simplified solutions for us. Github also tops my list of services that have become a way of life. The tech world spins quickly though. Curious to see what’s next. In all cases though, it’s not the tech or the code but the people. All these projects or companies have seriously dedicated people working on them. *That* is what makes these things go. Rock on people.

harriman local loop

Starting line with Team Fatty at the Livestrong Challenge Philly
Fall riding rocks

Laying down some fresh tracks in the snow