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Remembering Steve Jobs

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200

”Power and sex!” Those were the words with which Steve Jobs introduced the first Powerbook made out of titanium in 2001. That was just the beginning of his second coming. Before that he had already rolled out Macintosh, NeXT and Pixar.

Jobs was a controversial personality, but one thing is certain – by instilling his charisma to make his products sexy, he reclaimed technology from the hands of technocrats.

Also, despite being neither designer nor engineer, Jobs excelled as the ”ultimate end-user”. Henry Ford once claimed “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Steve Jobs never asked for faster horses, or cars for that matter – he demanded his personal jetpack.

In his last outing as Apple’s CEO he attributed the company’s success to the polygamous marriage of technology, liberal arts, and humanities. No mention of business, growth or profits there, yet this oblique approach yielded massive success.

One more thing… What really ought to resonate within the design and tech community left behind is Jobs’s ability to articulate advanced concepts in a very inclusive way. One of the best examples of this was when he said ”Computer is the equivalent of bicycle for our minds”. And this was inspired by a scientific article on energy-efficiency of condors, humans and humans on bicycles. Thinking different is a polygamous affair indeed.

The circle is now complete

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

From 1.0 To Windows 8, How Far Microsoft Has Come… [Humor]

Disruptive typographic artwork

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Accompanying the iPad edition of “Composition No. 1” by Marc Saporta – a book that can be read in any order.

Antipodes

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0200

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes

Uncanny valley

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

More cowbell!

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Don’t care what you want – this is what you need. ($)

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Visions fade

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Picture above is from the film ‘2010’, so it’s not HAL – but…

On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight I finally have an excuse to point out to the excellent blogpost on Kosmograd: Why 2010 wont be like ‘2010’

Whereas HAL looked out into our world, today we look into the world created within the computer. […] Our ambition seems to have shrunk to the size of a touchscreen tablet. Expect a monolith of a very different kind.

Good night song: Miljoonasade – Fly on Juri Gagarin

Harmatia

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200

the Greek word for error or failure, used by Aristotle in his Poetics (4th century BCE) to designate the false step that leads the protagonist in a tragedy to his or her downfall. The term has often been translated as ‘tragic flaw’, but this misleadingly confines the cause of the reversal of fortunes to some personal defect of character, whereas Aristotle’s emphasis was rather upon the protagonist’s action, which could be brought about by misjudgement, ignorance, or some other cause.

Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms via Answers.com

Picture by Chris O’Connor, choipaint.com

What to do today?

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

… from Benjamin Franklin’s majestic daily plan. If you need just a break, have a look at James Bond’s rehab routine.

Finnendämmerung

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Bedrock: Sell storage space for nuclear waste?
Security: Join NATO?
Startup: Sell it to Google, Microsoft or Swedes?
Project Expertise: Always hire reserve officers to run the show?
Go (???): See Travel Freedom?
Russia: Finland makes a great flyover state for gas pipelines?
NokiaSoft: See #3

Image source: Tivi.fi via Google Translate

Fever

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Ladies on velocipedes

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The Gentleman Cyclist writes:

But there is something more to this obsession than just unadulterated lust involved here…..something about the sort of woman who cycles. Such a woman must at the very least have a high degree of self possession to adopt such a liberating and physically demanding form of transportation. The real attraction for me lies somewhere in the allure of a female who understands the joy and fulfilment that physical engagement in the moment can bring to human beings.