Lee Brenner, of digital design firm thirteen23, prefaces his main points of a talk about borrowing cinematic techniques when designing software from my favorite director: “It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them.” -Jean Luc Godard How appropriate it is to begin this discussion with a quote from a director who […]
“Find out what you’re passionate about,” said Nick Campbell as he opened his SXSWi panel “Be Creative, Get Paid”. It’s no revelation to hear that in order to be happy, you need to do something you are passionate about. Passion is something that Nick Campbell possesses. Campbell brought up something that is relevant to all […]
Sitting in a room full of people, you can tell the bikers from the non-bikers. Skinny jeans are dead giveaway, as well as the choice of pullover outerwear, and those who are wet from the ride on a rainy Austin day to the Austin Convention Center for the last day of SXSWi. What do we […]
Our team prepares on early Sunday morning. This Sunday morning was particularly early, considering the time change… we lost an hour. We check in with Dr. Cindy Royal, our professor, and with our technology to make sure everything is charged, connected, and ready to capture, blog, post, tweet, stream, etc. Aside from the panels, […]
How does one go about writing on a panel entitled “Blah Blah Blah: Why Words Don’t Work”? Well, to apply recently learned knowledge, let me draw a picture of my problem: Dan Roam, of Back of the Napkin fame, discussed how verbal thinking has limited our problem solving skills for the past couple of centuries. […]
“It is 6a.m. and you are dreaming of electric sheep,” said Dan Willis, of SapientNitro. In the imagined future, when one wakes up from dreamland, he or she will simply thrust a hand into the air and digital sensors will project onto the hand an assortment of information including time, weather, family vital information, and […]
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is […]