Nate Dillon

Random crap I find on the Internet.

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(via "Sci-Fi Ikea Manuals" by Caldwell Tanner, Susanna Wolff and Conor McKeon - CollegeHumor Article)

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

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(via Honest logos by @Viktor | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork)

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60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos: Pics, Videos, Links, News

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I’m at Wendy's (Manhattan, KS)

“Getting some new Gowalla pins”

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A little Illustrator-drawn infographic I’ve been playing around with. I probably could have included more characters, but I had to draw the line somewhere.

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(via Smithsonian on the Behance Network)

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swissmiss | Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

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The 15 coolest offices in the world « Blog of Francesco Mugnai

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We answer the biggest questions about Apple’s latest connection technology

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9GAG - STAR WARS: Episode IV. Retold in Iconoscope

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I’m at Kansas State University

“Trying out Gowalla 3”

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Now I, uh, like Facebook fine, for the same reasons you do (if you do), and I generally ignore its well-branded but otherwise abortive gestures toward key features that have made it famous without actually doing a damned thing—“like” being the people’s Exhibit A. But as a designer, it bothers me, not only because badly designed things bother designers, but because badly designed things in a highly successful product spur a lust for imitation. I don’t want our clients to think “like” works. I don’t want them desiring similarly broken functionality on sites we design for them. I don’t want them thinking users don’t need tools that work, simply because millions of users don’t complain about broken tools on Facebook. Tools like like and its sad little pop-up. Me no like.

Managing Facebook Like. Or not. – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

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Penguins at Stars - 11-03-10

A photo of Jermaine and I at the Penguins-Stars game with some other Pens fans.

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Artist Ray Villafane carves pumpkin portraits in just two hours | Mail Online

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Mind the GAP! | down with design

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