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The last update of Chrome decided to widen the pinned tabs. Apparently the reasoning was to give them a larger clickable area.
Wasn’t the point of pinning a tab to make it less visible, out of the way, why make it more “clickable”?
It’s a hideous design decision and it’s driving me nuts.
We work for the Internet. And we’re guessing many of you do too. Whether it’s researching, selling, coding, supporting, designing — so many of our careers depend on the Internet.
One argument that’s been made to Congress is that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is needed to protect American jobs. In truth, the new liabilities this bill would impose on startups could stop American innovation in its tracks.
To make this clear to Congress, we’ve built IWorkForTheInternet.org to show the world how many of our careers depend on the Internet.
If you work for the Internet, please add yourself and spread the word.
This weekend, we hosted a meeting at Tumblr HQ with top technology companies, politicians and advocacy groups to coordinate our effort to reform or prevent the well-intentioned but deeply flawed Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law. You guys have already made a huge impact in…
I thought this was pretty awesome. Charlie Chaplin’s speech in “The Great Dictator”
Give it a listen, you won’t regret it. I watched it multiple times in a row.
Because we all need a moment like this.
What I find fascinating about a case of plagiarism isn’t the actual plagiarism—I think it’s much more interesting to pay attention to the responses of the accused, accuser, and spectators.
Rex Pickett, author of Sideways, rightly points out that by appropriating AA language and using “addiction” as an excuse for his plagiarism, Quentin Rowan is trivializing addiction.
But what’s even more interesting to me is further down in the comments when Pickett defends a comment he made about genre writing being recycling:
I suppose at one level one could default to that maxim that there are only so many plotlines, but I’ve never bought into that because there’s a plethora of potentially new and original characters out there to explore. I mean, as artists, we all borrow to some extent. Hell, I’ve openly admitted that “Sideways” was inspired by, among other works, the black comedy “Withnail and I.” But mine is wholly originally. I don’t take, or even riff on, any scenes from that wickedly funny comedy. In fact I go out of my way not to have anything in my work resemble anything in any other work than I’m aware of.
Not sure what I think about this response.
(via Jessa Crispin)
It’s a matter of open-mindedness and perspective. To say that one can go out of their way to not be similar to something else is foolish.
Are not words, sentences, paragraphs the tools of writing? Is not a pencil, or computer also a tool? How is it any different from me writing something with a pencil I didn’t create, than a sentence? Aren’t we all just constructors, not really creators?
I suppose Apple owns this because it is written using a computer they created, and jointly owned by tumblr, being I’ve used their “tool” to visualize it on the internet, etc.
Plagiarism is something we need to all stop crying about. Some people are good at making the pieces. Others are good at putting them together. A few fortunate bit of us are gifted with the talent to do both. Does that make any of the three better than the other? More justified? No.
Today we are pleased to announce the release of a major update to Flavors, including the introduction of an innovative new way to share and view content from more than 30 services around the web: Social Streams.
Social Streams
With Social Streams, users can now easily follow their…
Did I mention I love these guys? Its rare I get all tweeter-pated with product updates these days, but they’ve done a wonderful job of just about recreating flavors.
Tumblr was meant to be viewed on Flipboard. I love it!
Tumblr has currently enabled a takeover that censors all the posts in user dashboards to call attention to the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), “two well-intentioned but deeply flawed bills.”
My friend Kirby Ferguson made a video about the PROTECT-IP act.
I just did. Now it’s your turn.
As a grad school dropout and a teacher at a grad program, people ask me all the time about whether or not they should head back to school. Most of them don’t really need to. What I see is that they really want to indulge a passionate curiosity to learn. To master something new, to challenge their minds, to play with new ideas, to feel driven and inspired and absorbed. Going to school isn’t the only way to do those things. Unless you want a job that can’t be had without a specialized degree (like pharmacist or public school teacher), and, unless it’s free, I usually advise people not to go. But the idea of learning independently can be daunting, so I started writing down my own strategies and interviewing friends who learn on their own, asking them how they do it.
Filed under: you don’t have to go to
collegegrad school, via @johntungerYep. This.
Hey Tumblr users! Do you run a video-only blog? We just made a theme that will play all your videos back-to-back with VHX style.
For a demo check out Casey’s new blog, cputv.tumblr.com
To install: copy this code and paste it into the “Edit HTML” section of your blog’s /customize page.
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Dear artsy procrastinators: you have a little over 24 hours to volunteer your creativity for a good cause—supporting the President’s jobs plan. Submit a poster design for our Art Works contest before midnight tomorrow and you could win a framed print of your work signed by President Obama.
The irony. Let’s use Spec work to support Job creation???? I guess what we do as Illustrators and Designers isn’t worth paying for.
More sketches for work. And now for some housekeeping: first of all, happy birthday Mary Blair (and my cousin Daniela)! Second of all, I’d like to take a moment to address an issue that keeps popping up on my twitter feed and blog roll - the issue of whether, as artists, we should do work for free. I am very hesitant to ever do free work unless it is for a worthy cause that I sincerely believe in or if it is an unpaid internship, in which the experience is a form of payment. Recently both the Obama campaign and Moleskine have asked artists to submit their work FOR FREE, when both of these “companies” (I guess I can call the Obama campaign a company now… since companies are people under campaign donation law?) have more than enough funds to actually hire designers. To quote Rolling Stone magazine, “The design industry has been hit as hard as a lot of other groups… We need jobs too.”
Fellow artists, working for free can be a more seductive proposition than you might think - you may believe you are getting something more valuable than money out of the experience, but please, think long and hard before working for free, because “free” is a price that no one else can compete with. It forces all of us to lower our costs, and essentially makes making a real living out of art near impossible.
I should add that I love Moleskine notebooks and I most always vote Democrat, but this blatant dismissal of designers as real hard-working, job-seeking Americans by asking professionals to work for free is insulting. (And the poster for the Obama campaign is for JOBS CREATION, no less - the hypocrisy! Moreover, I would have expected Moleskine to have more respect for artist and their careers - sheesh!)
I’d like to quote Luc Latulippe’s Google+ discussion on this matter because he perfectly sums up the difference between volunteering for pro bono work and participating in a contest that asks for free submissions: “Spec-work should not be confused with volunteering, even—especially!—when disguised as a contest. Spec-work is about being asked to work for free, by dangling a tiny sad little rotten carrot as a potential reward. (“Hey you’ll get great exposure!”) If creating strong compelling graphics is important to a project or cause or business (in this case: promoting job creation, of all things), then why not treat seriously, and pay someone to do it right?”
Being an artist is a job, and creating art is hard work, hence the term artwork. Fellow artists, please don’t sell yourself short by buying into the idea that you don’t deserve to get paid just because you enjoy your job.
Nuff said.
Tumblr is raw humanity.
Quantum Levitation demontrated by the School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University. Dang.
The world gives us so few who provide a way for us all to see in new ways. It always hurts when they leave. The effused sadness that has spread through the internet from the news of Steve Jobs’ death is to be expected. We lament when things are taken from us, and I’d say that Jobs’ death (like…
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs, a true visionary (via hrrrthrrr)Steve Jobs: “How to live before you die.” Very inspiring. RIP.
A dose of perspective, thanks Steve!
“Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.” — Apple
Photo: Jobs in 1982 by Diana Walker (via: jedsundwall)
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- Tumblr was meant to be viewed on Flipboard. I love it! http://t.co/PddYRPeU
- Photoset: austinkleon: I just did. Now it’s your turn. http://t.co/HC4xhAm4
- DNS down across America, originally Cox, but now my Comcast is doing the same. #dnsfail
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Repositories
- An open grid system for use with the LESS stylesheet language, based on, but not bound by the 960.gs1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed May 16, 11
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- Blogger, Designer, Problem Solver, Creative Thinker, HustlerDesign | Tuscaloosa, Alabama Area, USSummaryWith a love for the creation of beautiful things and the drive to solve problems, I strive to take the least amount of elements and achieve the greatest possible impact in the projects I am a part of.
I have a multi-dimensional background in various creative categories, from Photography & Videography to Design & Development.Specialties: Graphic/Web Design, Illustration, HTML, CSS, UI Design/UX Design, Copywriting, a dash of jQuery, a splash of PHP, and a hint of RORExperience- Oct 2010 - PresentDesigner & Developer for Multimedia Services / University of Alabama
- Jan 2008 - PresentFreelance Web/Graphic Designer & Developer / The Internet
- May 2008 - Aug 2010Designer/Developer (Student Worker) Office of Information Technology / University of Alabama
- Aug 2008 - Jan 2010Graphic/Web Designer & Developer @ Creative Campus / University of Alabama
- Feb 2008 - Jan 2010Lead Web Designer/Developer @ Creative Campus: The Missing Ink / University of Alabama
- Jan 2008 - Apr 2009Lead Web Designer/Developer @ Center for Public Television & Radio / University of Alabama
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2006 - 2010University of Alabama
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Interests:Design, Web Design, Graphic Design, Print Design, Project Direction, Creative Direction, Film & Video Production, Writing, Musical Performance & Production, Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Journalism/Magazine Publication, Blogging, Instructing, New Technology, Augmented Reality, Social Media
