Sunday, September 09, 2007
Doing
I think I've mentioned once or twice to various people that if I didn't do what I do, I'd like to make things, all sorts of things. Simple, elegant things that people would admire, use or just want because they were unique or showed off their good taste and eye for such things.
I might have to revise my alternative CV, though, as a recent team management index pegged my strengths as a "creator-innovator" - an ideas man - and said I need to work on balancing regular work and focusing on bringing my ideas into reality. In my alternative career, I'd play to that and focus on the design bit rather than the making bit.
In this reality I would have design qualifications and I would wish to walk with a spring in my step down Leichhardt St to work at icelab. Their thoughts on design resonate with me and I'm hoping repeat visits to the icelab site and the crew's cool personal sites will inspire and guide the data visualisation work I'm doing at the moment.
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Labels: Canberra, Consider, Look, Make
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Mix It Up
Tape, CD or playlist, what mixing rules do you follow? Nick Hornby put his (/Rob Fleming's) in High Fidelity:
"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind," but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules."DJ Whoo Kid revealed his in Wired.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Wrapping for Nanna
If you, like me, are procrastinating and not getting your gift wrapping done until the last minute, here's something you might want to try; a wrapping rip-cord. Nanna's old hands will thank you for it, but the rest of us will probably just tear through the paper like we always do.
[via Lifehacker]
Labels: Make
Saturday, October 14, 2006
2006 Final of the Happy Christmas Professor Ovington 1970 Plate
Now with 100% more Ovington!
Spitfires Captain accepts the plate from Professor Ovington
I made Spitfire team t-shirts for the final:
Cheers to TJ for helping me find the right WW2 RAF font.
[Tags: Soccer, Canberra, Australia]
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Fold It Yourself
I'm a big fan of DIY; there's something really satisfying about making something & then seeing someone get something out of it. Doesn't matter whether it's music, an image or food.
I made up a disc for a mate on the weekend, but how to package it remained a challenge. So imagine my joy when I found instructions for a DIY disc case. What's more, the main site lets you stick in disc info and generates a pdf with title, artist & track info as well as numbered fold lines that you can print out & fold!
Want more? Need something to keep stuff together? Fold a bowl!
[Tags: DIY, practical, origami]
Labels: Make
Friday, April 15, 2005
DIY Comics
More fun with digital photos (OS X only) [via Metafilter].
[Tags: Photography, Comics, OS X]
