An interesting perspective (RANT) on the Future of Interactive Design from a former Apple User Interface designer. Some very cool "potential technologies" on display in the video and pictures included in the post. The author argues that the future of innovation should go beyond hands interacting with pictures under glass but should take into account the wonders … Continue reading The Beauty of the Non-Linear Browse
Fernando Fever
So far from los angeles, and yet it is spring in the metropolis of greater los anchorage and amidst much talk of lost languages and subjugated minority groups and there he is big screened in hotel lobby, smiling laying two thick fingers along crimson stitching and my television defenses go down swinging i am overwhelmed … Continue reading Fernando Fever
I Think again of those ancient Chinese Poets
This review originally appeared in the Juneau Empire. I Think again of those ancient Chinese Poets: poems by Tom Sexton. 59 pages. University of Alaska Press, 2011. $14.95 Once again, former Alaska Writer Laureate Tom Sexton has produced a work that is simple yet eloquent, one that will lead you from your chair to a … Continue reading I Think again of those ancient Chinese Poets
Your Local Library
What does your local library mean to you? Do you recall your first visit, your first card? OK so the link to this great conversation from Think Out Loud on Oregon Public Broadcasting got shared on every librarian in the state's Facebook pages last week, but as I haven't been getting to the blog often enough … Continue reading Your Local Library
Wired and reading Wired
Brought home the April 2010 issue of Wired from the library to learn more about, "What Kind of Cyborg do you Want to Be?" And in the process poured through the pages, well designed, richly aesthetic and effectively romantic to hear the story play out between print and digital content. Will the tablet save the … Continue reading Wired and reading Wired
Jonas Lamb 