The litter in littérateur.

Visualizing President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union

Ricky — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:56:34 +0000

Here is the speech’s full text, and here is a Wordle.

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Hanneli & Rag & Bone

Ricky — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:50:54 +0000

HANNELI MUSTAPARTA

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Charlie Brown by Loud Crow

Ricky — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:37:38 +0000

The Charlie Brown Christmas app from Loud Crow is the best thing I’ve seen on the iPad in a while. It’s surprising, beautiful, and absolutely delightful for what it is. Along with Aweditorium, it’s one of the few apps that makes a tablet feel like a special device and not simply a repackaged version of the PC.

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Real books are physical objects

Ricky — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:29:50 +0000

The reproduction has been done painstakingly, and conjures up an almost tactile sense of the handmade original. A mourner is always searching for traces of the lost one, and traces of that scrapbook’s physicality—bits of handwriting, stamps, stains—add testimonial force: this person existed.
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The sketchbook of Susan Kare

Ricky — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:44:19 +0000

Kare’s first assignment was developing fonts for the Mac OS. At the time, digital typefaces were monospaced, meaning that both a narrow I and a broad M were wedged into the same bitmapped real estate — a vestigial legacy of the way that a typewriter platen advances, one space at a time.

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The lost interview

Ricky — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:30:03 +0000

I went to the theater to see this lost interview with Steve Jobs from 1995 that was originally shot for Triumph of the Nerds and came away from it inspired. Because what other executive in Silicon Valley would ever cite Picasso and Thoreau? And that he did makes me believe that, perhaps, there’s a place in the Valley for someone like me.
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How can I find more videos like this one?

Ricky — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:23:12 +0000

Weile. By Thomas Schweigert from Leica Camera on Vimeo.

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Erin McKeown and the problem with streaming music

Ricky — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:16:09 +0000

To make the monthly minimum wage of $1,160, a musician needed to sell 143 self-pressed compact discs. To make that from Spotify, they would need people to stream their songs more than 4 million times — not humanly possible unless you happen to be Lady Gaga.

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The old Banana Republic store facade

Ricky — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:39:56 +0000

One of my favorite things about going to Stanford Shopping Center when I was a kid was seeing the old Banana Republic store.
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A few photos from the Occupy movement

Ricky — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:16:50 +0000

Taken with my Leica M8 and 40mm Leica Summicron-C. I’ll be adding more photos soon.

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