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the accidental artist

a preponderance of today’s mobile phones possessing cameras of decent resolution, and the addition of multiple smart phone picture pre- and post-processing applications, has given rise to a flood of accidentally good and phenominally bad digital pictures. due to the ease and convenience of online photo albums, people are sharing these pictures with everyone. we [...]

not caring works surprisingly well

It’s tempting to imagine that [you] could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying to stay under that threshold means giving those people veto power over your actions. To put yourself forward [...]

a picture is worth 140 characters

click to view full image we were stunned by the image shown above, a photo taken of an 18 afghan woman mutilated by the taliban that recently graced the cover of time magazine. while we had already heard the story, we read about an interesting point made in this post by dave pell at tweetage [...]

nothing to fear but fear itself

fear, after all, is our real enemy. fear is taking over our world. fear is being used as a tool of manipulation in our society. it’s how politicians peddle policy and how madison avenue sells us things that we don’t need." – a single man the emotional component of the sales process is strong and, [...]

when you have nothing more to take away

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE ACHIEVED PERFECTION IN DESIGN, NOT WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING MORE TO ADD, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING MORE TO TAKE AWAY.” — ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY this is one of our most favorite quotes; so much so that it currently graces the front page of our website. artist, designer and writer austin [...]