#quality through quantity

[welcometohighwater]

[welcometohighwater]

honey on the hi-fi is great, still love shannon locke’s voice so much, beautiful and gives me, like, abba vibes?  (i do prefer the greetings from townland recordings of “war!” and “falling for science” but then i’ve always like raw crunchy and fraying-at-the-hem best)

also have picked out my color palette for the summer (re: until like may IF I’M LUCKY): earthy and muted tones as always; soft creams, beau blues, and sage greens with pops of faded terracotta (so, not too far off my usual)

[welcometohighwater]

i want to be the singer in a band that covers exclusively two gallants and common rotation and like two townland songs

[zodiac-cupuncture]

The theory behind Apple's design process.

A parable which is apparently the basis of what has become Apple's design process.

Quality through quantity: the Claypot Experiment

"The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.

His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot”albeit a perfect one”to get an “A”.

Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work”and learning from their mistakes”the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay."

- parable quoted from Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland