The Web's Grain

Here's what I'm thinking:

  1. I'm obsesses obsessed with the artist that Frank Chimmero mentions, David Hockney. I love his photography, but I also love how Chimero then relates it to the web. There is a certain grain to our medium, a certain way the hand is pushed, but it's comparions to Hockey's joiner photography that opens my eyes and expands the ways we think to build on the web.


  2. Quotes i like:
    1. Gaston Bachelard says: “We begin with admiration and end by organizing our disappointment.”
    2. “Many users will not wait more than a few seconds for content to load online. Anything longer than this breeds great frustration. In the realm of person-to-person interaction, however, the rules appear to change. Boredom is often replaced by anticipation. With the ellipsis, hesitation in response is indicated visually, and in real time, with interlocutors left to speculate on each other’s motives. Dialogue online therefore exists in a form of space-time discontinuum.”
    3. “Things have enough depth and worth on their own terms. No metaphors or analolgies are needed for insight, only willingness to listen to the subject speak for itself, even if it contradicts recieved wisdom.”
    4. EDGELESSNESS
      draw elements then put the box around
    5. “Convergence and simplicity make for poor gials. Instead we must aim for clarity”
    6. “Technology only adds more--it is never this or that; it is always this and that.”


    3. turn the page