A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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“ Most artists and designers I know would rather work all night than turn in a sub-standard job. It is a universal truth that all artists think they a[re] frauds and charlatans, and live in constant fear of being exposed. We believe by working harder than anyone else we can evaded [sic] detection. […] Take photographs. Draw. Write. Make bad music. It’s just an itch than needs to be scratched. Apart from the occasional severed ear or descent into fecal-eating dementia the creative impulse is mostly little more than a quaint eccentricity. But introduce this mostly benign neurosis into a commercial context.. well that way, my friends lies misery and madness. ”
A Short Lesson in Perspective by Linds Redding
Spanish artist, Ana Soler, created Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), where she suspended 2,000 tennis balls from string to appear as if following a path of bouncing through the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain.
“Total Vanité” by Francois Mazabraud. See his giant wooden sculpture of the twin towers “Les dessous de table” until March 3rd in Paris.
“ When I first quit my job to start my own company, all I had was an idea. The goal at that point was to find someone with a technical background to actually execute my idea. I suspect that many of you are in similar situations. There’s something you should know: it’s never going to happen. ”
‘Work of Art’ by Jean Claude Ades & Sam Obernik; on the album Deeply Fierce.
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“ Climate sceptics are failing to understand the most basic meteorology - that weather is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends ”
Anonymous asked: The picture you just posted isnt yours. The person who originally posted it had almost 4K notes on it, and you're a dick who's trying to steal it.
They may (or may not) have been the first person to post it on Tumblr, but simply posting an item does not imply its ownership (territorial or otherwise) by the person who posted it. Anyone who [re]posts something [almost always] has a legal obligation to correctly attribute (identify) the original creator. In my own case, when I find an item that is attributed I may simply ‘reblog’ in the way you accuse me of failing to do, however if it is not attributed I post it afresh having correctly attributed the item myself. See my earlier post on this very subject.
More notably you presume that there is only one valid way to post stuff (reblog). If a newspaper ran the same picture would you accuse them of the same, or someone (heaven forbid) on Facebook? I may have wished to publish that item for my audience in some manner of my own and thus not have the original poster’s description (and thousands of ‘notes’ attached to it)…
Maybe in the case you cite (but I don’t know to which item you refer), the poster was indeed the creator, in which case my fresh post would nonetheless have attributed the creator (as required) and very likely provided several more links to their works. There are regrettably of course some cases where I am unable to identify an original author, not least because nobody else has been bothered to do anything other than click ‘reblog’ without considering who created it.
I won’t call you a dick, because your punctuation is ~99% accurate, and your concept of moral obligations and digital ownership is worth considering.
‘Lichtreise’ A map visualisation using light painting (long photographic exposure of moveable light sources), demonstrating that powerful visualisations of data need not been created digitally (although it has been enhanced digitally).
“ when I see people complain about the process of getting free money or that the chairs in the offices are bad then I laugh, because I think they have no perspective of what it takes to build a business, how hard building a business is for majority of people ”
“ Entrepreneurship depends on a sense that the present order is an unreliable and cowardly indicator of the possible. The absence of certain practices and products is deemed by entrepreneurs to be neither right nor inevitable, merely evidence of conformity and lack of imagination. ”
Alain De Botton, The Steve Jobs MBA Unit 101: Don’t think about the present
