haydenchambers

Scale is important. Artists used to try and represent things, the invention of perspective was mind blowing, Skill up to hyperrealism stage. But the camera did away with a lot of that endeavour and artists began trying to explore emotion, sensation, paint for paint's sake, the ACT of painting and mark making itself. Jackson Pollock is a great example of a road marker along the way. The act of the brush, the removal of 'the artist', the canvas size growing. In 1970 the year this was started Robert Smithson created 'spiral jetty' - artists making statements more grandiose and more timeless. In some ways there's similarities with the more ancient works like the Nazca lines, but I think this work is best described by the term Magnus Opus in the article - The greatest single work of an artist, writer, or composer. It's an endeavour, a feat, and literally great in scale.

There have been misses (as well as obvious hits) all through his career. No one recalls the completely round puck mouse? It’s wishful to think of it as a recent decline. I hope there’s a return to being really functional. Thicker, longer lasting, quality over shiny OR bright plastic

ah, thanks for the headsup

you want me to give you my twitter login plus do it on an insecure page?

This 'trap' is really old... namely treating design as some sort of lipstick on the pig. Design doesn't consist in producing attractive photoshop files. In web UX is an intricate part of the design process and vice versa.

edward de bono has already hit this nail on the head http://www.amazon.com/Simplicity-Edward-Bono/dp/0140258396

the inconsistancy between page templates is mindblowing

there were some films too close to call but I wanted to see the result.. eg "lost in translation" vs "adaptation"

also would be good to have a filter eg "only show most controversial" or "only show scifi"

nice... except for the semicolons... i guess you're not minifying your code afterwards?