feed magazine: "the butterfly effect – steven johnson talks with information-design experts jakob nielsen, bruce tognazzini, brenda laurel, and don norman about the ballot debacle in florida, and why usability matters."
i wish oliver wrede's article "designer und die brauchbarkeit" would be available in english to set a real counterpoint to this evergrowing usability-hype. it is just too hip to talk about usability and even worse, to focus on the personalities behind the buzz (which is not simply buzz all the time, i damit – heheh, beautiful typing mistake!). how does it come that we and them still need this cult of personality?
so what's that thingy called commercial design?
dzine: progressive design magazine in the usual teutonic boxy-design. ok good.*
event preview: on thursday, november 30, 2000 at 8pm barbara denk and karin holzfeind present their cd-rom "ribingu rumu – living room japan" at pen's bungalow/trixi+l, ecke glocken-/rotensterngasse, 1020 vienna. the project is about architecture and living in tokyo and kyoto. the evening features live sounds by michl veigl and photos from "24 hours new york" by nikola hansalik. the connex? long-ago lingo-limbo by p3k.
prophecy, evocation or randomness? tuxedomoon (usa) remixed & united on tour with dj hell on saturday, 2 december 2000 at flex, vienna. and: shit happens, on that weekend i will be in munich.
hey, the peops of mashica continue the wicked games they play: google as main entrance and patients that look so familiar but are restricted for nosy visitors like me.
new release by boards of canada on november 27. did not know that they already produced such a heap of records...
am i the only one who notices some strange similarities between japan-english and euroranch (i mean, besides their addiciton to glossolaly <g>)?
– good night, pa. – good night, john-boy. see you tomorrow.
i already thought it would never be solved, the secret about those few songs on that tape my english teacher sabine jones gave to me in 1996: this weird pieces of music with strange instrumentation, (too) depressive tunes and romanticistic lyrics about the modern urban world are performed by tuxedomoon, "the most european of all american bands" of the eighties.
"when the going gets tough the tough goes shopping to buy something a little nothing to fill up the hole in his heart." – tuxedomoon, "egypt" (from "holy wars")
who was first: salon digital or salon digital? the better question is: who will last? or: who cares?