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Marco.org: Overdoing the interface metaphor

We’re often told that we should design our websites and software to mimic real-life objects. The iPhone strengthened this idiom, and Apple has been driving this home hard for the iPad.

But it’s not absolute, and it’s not always the best idea. My favorite counterexample is the typical calculator…

Another classic example of this is the music player. The big innovation of iTunes was to get away from trying to create a stereo metaphor (aka winamp) and make the playlist the center of attention. The success of iPod owes as much to the design of iTunes as it does to the device itself.

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DVblog » Jolipunk – Octopus

notational:

prostheticknowledge:

ABCD Said by PixieTea

Pop song from China - what makes this special is all the instrumentation came from a variety of iPhone music applications.

Someone should make a list of links to the apps displayed /utilized.

I want to make this kind of pop music for my art videos one day.

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nanoramas:

Cycles « CYRIAK’S AMAZING VIDEO BLOG

Another new one from Cyriak. I love Cyriak so much. Best loops around. This is like Escher in the fourth dimension.

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ericmortensen:

Louis C.K. on turning 40.

Really looking forward to seeing LCK on Friday at Caroline’s.

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moth:

The first ten minutes of MTV.

From Wikipedia:

On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV: Music Television launched with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” spoken by John Lack. Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching guitar riff written by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. With the flag having a picture of MTVs logo on it. MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history. Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong’s “One small step” quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound. At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.

Weirdest part for me is ~~Adam Curry’s~~Mark Goodman’s line at the end: “the best of TV, combined with the best of radio.” There’s been a line in Next New Networks’ materials since we began: “combining the best of TV with the best of the web.” No coincidence that Fred was involved with both.

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— Sort of Invented Here | via positiva

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World Famous Design Junkies » Star Wars on Earth

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Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix)

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fuckyeahmashups:

The Hood Internet - Decalogue (Dr. Dre vs. Radiohead vs. Missy Elliott vs. Daft Punk vs. Ludacris vs. The New Pornographers vs. Kelis vs. The Rapture vs. Twista f/ Kanye West vs. Arcade Fire vs. Three 6 Mafia vs. Sufjan Stevens vs. T.I. vs. Peter Bjorn and John vs. Rich Boy vs. LCD Soundsystem vs. Lil Wayne vs. Hot Chip vs. Jay Sean vs. Phoenix)

Ummm.. Well… Fuck. If anyone even tries to argue that The Hood Internet is not one of the best mash-up teams, I will suck twenty bleedy dicks to get AIDS and then fuck you so you could die from my AIDS. Horrible, awesome and amazing credit for that joke goes to Louis C.K.

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