kevin twohy

This is a picture of a sandwich.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:36:11 -0800

This is a picture of a sandwich.

"Once his concept was selected, Ota worked with the Japanese fire safety commission and the..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:38:32 -0800

“Once his concept was selected, Ota worked with the Japanese fire safety commission and the government to fine-tune the design. He remembers presenting 58 variations of the running man, tweaking the angle of the legs after a member of the committee objected to a figure that looked like he was sprinting out the door. The goal, Ota recalls, was to suggest that people should “run slowly.””

- The big red word, the little green man, and the international war over exit signs.

The Complete List | TIME Magazine - The 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to Present

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:09:24 -0800

The Complete List | TIME Magazine - The 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to Present:

I’ve read 26 of these. 74 to go.

‘Clean City’: São Paulo Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads In September of...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:29:26 -0800

‘Clean City’: São Paulo Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads

In September of 2007, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis was scrubbed of almost every type of outdoor advertising – even pamphlets. It’s all part of mayor Gilberto Kassab’s quest to eliminate visual clutter, making the city itself the focal point rather than colorful, increasingly desperate marketing campaigns.

My Grandmother and Grandfather, circa 1940.

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:57:03 -0800

My Grandmother and Grandfather, circa 1940.

I want this to be my job. davemorin: This is neat. brit: I...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:18:09 -0800

I want this to be my job.

davemorin:

This is neat.

brit:

I don’t watch a ton of music videos these days (thanks to MTV rarely playing them anymore), but this little gem from OK Go is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe even since their infamous treadmill video, which is now up to nearly 50 million views on YouTube.

I’m definitely going to have to watch the “Making of the Video” for this one - must have been a physics geek’s dream.

"I could try and get more legitimate mural work, but scaling a drainpipe is still probably a lot..."

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:30:35 -0800

“I could try and get more legitimate mural work, but scaling a drainpipe is still probably a lot easier than getting an original idea past a committee.”

- Banksy (via dpstyles)

Shit

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:18:43 -0800

I completely missed Black History Month.

‘This is a movie of a super-cool “painting”...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:43:52 -0800

‘This is a movie of a super-cool “painting” hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best (and all the others are very similar). It’s called “Paradoxymoron”, by Patrick Hughes’ (via Flickr)

This makes my brain inside out. faxmachines: Hundreds of...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:25:33 -0800

This makes my brain inside out.

faxmachines:

Hundreds of sprayed wooden blocks, stop-framed to within an inch of their life make for an abstract feast. Rogier van der Zwaag’s last six months has been spent making the next three minutes of your life an absolute joy.

Navigate your way through user photos in Street View (the...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:32:19 -0800

Navigate your way through user photos in Street View (the future)

I’ve seen worse.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:50:56 -0800

I’ve seen worse.

Don Norman: The three ways that good design makes you happy

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:23:58 -0800

Don Norman: The three ways that good design makes you happy

Very cool concept video from the Touch project playing on the...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:21:39 -0800

Very cool concept video from the Touch project playing on the concept of digital ‘nearness’ — reminds me very much of this analog version.

Lot of action right now.

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:03:48 -0800

Lot of action right now.

"The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a..."

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:04:27 -0800

“The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of causing the information to be publicized widely and to a greater extent than would have occurred if no censorship had been attempted. As early as 1993, John Gilmore observed that “the Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.””

- Streisand effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Feynman Algorithm

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:05:27 -0800

hereharehere:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think real hard.
3. Write down the solution.

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Guy offered me a beer against a dollar. I like my odds.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:18:23 -0800

Guy offered me a beer against a dollar. I like my odds.

The time has come, the Walrus said.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:02:15 -0800

“Nearly five years ago—back when Flickr was still in its infancy, and Facebook was on just a few college campuses—we founded Tiny Pictures with a view to helping people share experiences as they happen.

Radar was born a short time later, and focused on delivering a real-time, mobile stream of pictures and conversation shared by you and your friends on any phone…long before the iPhone made this a far easier experience to develop.
From the beginning, the pictures shared on Radar weren’t necessarily “photographs” as such, especially when cameraphone quality was laughably poor. More often than not they were a way of sharing a status update with your friends, or ‘checking in’ somewhere, or somehow conveying more than just the content of the picture.”

Back before the world began TwitPic-ing (indeed, before the prevalence of internet-connected cameraphones was widely accepted as a Really Big Deal), Radar set out to be the best mobile photosharing/commenting platform for small groups of friends. I’m very proud of what we built with Radar, and I think we created something that was really unique and special at a time when it was difficult and scary to resist what Everyone Else was doing. In fact, I still think that’s true.

So it’s with a heavy heart that we announced today that we’ll be winding Radar down over the course of the next couple months. You can read the full announcement here.

To the many, many, people who had a part in making Radar into a living, breathing, frivolous, profound reality: thank you. Please don’t be a stranger.

I’m excited for what’s next.

I like this building.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:39:00 -0800

I like this building.