Tourists – Bright Moments
Fred sent me a note over the weekend turning me on to this band. Can you feel the horns from Beirut and the fun from Arcade Fire? That’s because Kelly Pratt played with both.
So good.
Month: October 2012
Sandy
The tweets, posts and photos of Sandy’s impact is crushing.
It is extremely sad to see NYC go through another devastation like this.
I’d encourage you to donate to the Red Cross and do you best to help out. They need our help.
Also, please share in the comments if there are other organizations helping with Sandy relief that need donations as well.
Thanks.
last night we carved up some pumpkins
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
Steven Johnson
His favorite part of putting away the patio cushions for the season
Modern day shoebox
I’m sure I’m dating myself quite a bit, but I fondly remember the days of going through old photos in a shoebox.
Grabbing a chunk of photos and flipping through them was wonderful. It felt good and was my own little time machine.
As we have moved from analog to digital we have sort of lost that shoebox feeling. All my old prints have be digitized years ago. New photos and things we create are shared and then forgotten. And the shoebox went away.
Facebook introduced something called Timeline within the past year but I never use that thing.
I love Twitter but it is designed for in the moment. The here and now. It’s not designed to back and review all of your tweets from last year as an example.
There are some apps that have the “shoebox” feeling though.
Tumblr has a feature called Archive which is lovely. Just add /archive to any Tumblr users url and you get a beautiful overview of your stuff. Here’s mine. I’m sure my stuff may not touch you, but its something I appreciate very much. It’s visual and inviting. Just like the old shoebox. If you use Tumblr, give it a try.
Timehop is a service that connects to your Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter and Flickr. It then will send you a daily email with your status updates, tweets and photos from exactly one year ago today (and two years ago). They just launched an iPhone app last week that delivers that same experience but in a beautifully designed app. You can share annotate memories or share them.
The stuff we create every day and share privately and publicly is so precious. Bringing them back and delighting us is something special.
Bring back the shoebox!
great video from google supporting gay marriage
“This is the civil rights issue of our generation”
Make your voice heard.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them
Ernest Hemingway