This and that and something else

Brain appetizers, my attic, whatever I find of interest that I want to keep. If you find anything of interest, I am humbly honored. Main blog at mardahl.dk.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co)

Upbeat tempo and zany antics from OK GO. Making this video could only have been an F.U.N. experience. Watch for an injection of Instant FeelGood(tm). :) 

HT to https://twitter.com/erikhanberg 

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Great Wall Hike - Imgur

Awesome photos from the Great Wall, but definitely not your ordinary walkabout.

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Mix-tapes labels. Excellent! I wonder if only people of a certain age understand what this means?

Source is Pinterest, which I don't use: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/364439794817173781/

I got there via Boing-Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/21/mix-tape-spine-art.html

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I loved the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". I think everyone should read it - especially those in the medical research industry.

I found these links when I searched for more information after reading the book. I am saving them here for posterity.

Henrietta Lacks and the debate over the ethics of bio-medical research: http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/henrietta-lacks-and-debate-over-ethics-bio-medical-research

Photos: http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/book-special-features/photos/

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I think I just fell in love with the Archer Hairline font.

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Komorebi - This is the word the Japanese have for when sunlight filters through the trees — the interplay between the light and the leaves.

There are marvelous Japanese words for things which we have forgotten to name in English. Other languages also have hidden gems. Find 11 others, including komorebi, at https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/94ec1b9f5741

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Dedicated to two dear people who just bought their first house together. <3 <3 <3

Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Our House (Live 1974) (by bababooey514)

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1. Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.” 3. Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. 4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! 5. When you can’t create, you can work. 6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers. 7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it. 8. Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only. 9. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude. 10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. 11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

Henry Miller's writing tips to himself from the early 1930s. Lovely. They've been circulating everywhere, so I thought I'd save them here. The full story at http://www.rebellesociety.com/2012/09/26/writing-lab-henry-millers-11-commandments-for-the-everyday-writer/

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We built her a cat tower to give her a place to seek refuge when my puppy bugs her. I think we need a taller tower

[fuck-off-fuck-off-fuck-off-deac]

that is the face of a cat with nothing left to lose

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Pure LOL when I saw the cat's face.

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Has a link to both a recording of the speech as well as a transcript.

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Love song to a librarian. Sharing for all my librarian friends. :) "Karen" by The Go-Betweens (uploaded by hanktsinanski)

Discovered in an ancient pile of bits, bytes, and links.

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Experience is in the minds of the people, not in the product itself, which is one of the reasons that the product itself is not enough. Similarly, great design is not enough. Great design is indeed required to provide the framework for great experiences, but design alone cannot do the job. The psychological environment plays a critical role, which is why great marketing is essential. Experience is subjective and illusory. It is emotion. And in products, it is essential.

Highlighted by chrissanchez in Why We Fail

Wow. This quote makes me want to read the book.

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"This is Where We Live", a sweet stop-motion film about a city and people created from the pages of books.

Description in case anyone with low or no vision stops by:

Close-up of a pages of a book being leafed through from back to front. The cover closes. It's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. A door-shape opens at the base of the book and a figure cut out from a page in a book emerges and starts walking down what is apparently a street. It looks like a business man with a hat and a briefcase. It is daytime. Other figures soon appear, all cut out of book pages. The figure comes to a small city square. All construction - walls, windows, columns, roofs - are shaped from books, and pages in books. Titles and covers provide color in this city. Night falls. The figure continues walking all the time and the camera follow him along. Now images are often dark as streets are not lit. This is a city at night with subdued lighting and colored lights at places that are open late at night. Day returns. Birds made of papers fly around and the camera moves with them up into the sky. Credits roll. Fourth Estate. Twenty-five years. www.25thestate.com

End description. The text on the Vimeo page reads: Welcome to our city - to our world - of books. This is where we live. A film for 4th Estate Publishers' 25th Anniversary. Produced by Apt Studio and Asylum Films. The film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008. Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by an insane bunch of animators; you can see time-lapse films of each sequence being prepared and shot in our other films.

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Chocolate can literally be music to your ears.

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[T]o impress, to polish things up, to make them look chic, is no design at all. This is packaging.

Wonderful Dieter Rams quote in Lennart Hennigs' slides from UX Camp Europe, June 2013. www.slideshare.net/problemloeser/2013-design-mit-nicht-designern-barcamp13engl

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TOO COOL! "Flickering water"!! Amazing Water & Sound Experiment #2 (by brusspup)