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Overall, I think it’s a good time to have a girl in the 21st century because things are changing, with more opportunities for women. But girls are still the underdog, which means they’ll work harder, and everybody loves an underdog. The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No. 2 company for years, and Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something. Traditionally, men are more like Microsoft, where they’ll just make a fake version of what that chick made, then beat the shit out of her and try to intimidate everybody into using their product.
~ Louis C.K. (via Briana Mowrey)(via david)
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Working with Arturo Castro on some ideas surrounding face substitution. The scramble suit is a fictional technology from Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel, “A Scanner Darkly”. It’s effectively a cloak that hides the identify of the wearer by making it impossible to describe or remember them. There’s a nice excerpt heretechnovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997
Scramble Suit (by Kyle McDonald)
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Sutro Tower Sunset Time-Lapse (by patrickgibson)
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Slutty-slurry-nurse-girl: “What are YOU supposed to be?”
Me: “…trust me, you wouldn’t get it if I told you.”
Happy Halloween!
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Random doodle from two years ago of an Address Book That Doesn’t Suck. Looks like someone built it: http://everyme.com/
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Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera. Woah.
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Though a long time coming, this is a sad day.
Unsurprisingly, the internet is a-twitter with the news of Steve’s passing - and I suspect it will be for some time. One striking thing about it though - and I noticed this following his resignation, too - is peoples’ individual desire to reflect/mourn the moment in their own way, but also together. There’s a really unique sense of collective loss and shared experience that I truly can’t remember having witnessed before, at least to this degree. That’s something.
I guess the other thing that strikes me as I scroll through all your favorite Steve quotes and photos; and rewatch the Stanford commencement speech for what must be the hundredth time, is the man’s stubborn, unstinting quest to put a dent in the universe — to leave behind a better world. And so there’s this feeling, too, of unexpected optimism — that maybe when a person like this leaves the world, the collective weight of loss is mitigated by the taking up of an immense mantle. That this is a man and a moment in time worth remembering; that in the truest sense of the phrase he changed the world, and that surely we can do it again.
I hope everyone enjoys celebrating his fully-lived, beautiful life by swapping Steve stories and quotes and photos — but then, back to work please. This thing isn’t going to dent itself.
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
