heif

May
18th

Sat

I saw a group of five people wearing Google Glass, all silently staring off into space. I couldn’t tell if they were wirelessly having a conversation through their eyeballs, or just bored by the presence of real humans in front of them

— At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom - NYTimes.com

(Source: screenshotsofdespair)

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

— Frida Kahlo (via theonlymagicleftisart)

May
17th

Fri

‘I realized if I did this in isolation I wasn’t going to succeed,’ he said. ‘So, I thought if I created a community then I could find people that would be able to teach me and I’d have a lot more success.’

— Organizer Timothy Reuter on the DC Area Drone Usergroup - via PBS Newshour (via meetup)

thejogging:

Charging, 2013

Reference to cubism

☁

(via kenmat)

at Meetup HQ

May
15th

Wed

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Bryan Lee)

May
13th

Mon

(via kenmat)

tech-sense:

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. /HT @rhyshillman

Apr
28th

Sun

To create a culture of innovation in their organization or city, not to create a place with more new innovative ideas, but a place where more of the innovative people and ideas they do have can land on good ground.

— http://www.buffalorising.com/2011/02/the-problem-of-innovation.html

Schmidt: These are people just like us. They’re trapped in a bad system, but they are human beings. They have the same perfection and brilliance and foibles and intuition and that we do. So the sooner we can get them the tools to get themselves organized, to get the corruption addressed, to get the healthcare better, the better off we’re all going to be.

— Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on What’s Next for the World | Wired Business | Wired.com

Apr
26th

Fri

humansofnewyork:

“People need to communicate more.”
“How so?”
“They hide too much. From themselves and from each other.”
“Is there something you’re hiding that you wish you weren’t?”
“Probably. And I’ll probably keep hiding it.”

Apr
25th

Thu

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together… We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner…We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is of the sort we intend.

— Tim Berners-Lee

As long as the assumed purpose of media is to allow ordinary people to consume professionally created material, the proliferation of amateur-created stuff will seem incomprehensible. What amateurs do is so, well, unprofessional—lolcats as a kind of low-grade substitute for the Cartoon Network. But what if, all this time, providing professional content isn’t the only job we’ve been hiring media to do? What if we’ve also been hiring it to make us feel connected, engaged, or just less lonely? What if we’ve always wanted to produce as well as consume, but no one offered us that opportunity?

— Clay Shirky (via restreitinho)

Mar
31st

Sun

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don’t need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,
Enough to last till the end of time.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don’t need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen, lord, if you want to know.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
No, not just for some, oh, but just for everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7uh15s23nQ

(via mlcastle)