Flipboard is a damn, clever iPad app. It takes streams of content such as Twitter, Facebook, various RSS news feeds and transforms the assortment of text, hypertext and pictures into an enjoyable experience. Flipboard uses a newspaper-like metaphor for pulling content together and users swipe to flip pages. Tweets are artfully rendered, and those that link to articles elsewhere, the articles are expanded. Logging into Facebook makes browsing the Newsfeed like you’re catching up on your friends with a digital late edition newspaper–minus the spam of quizzes and Farmville clones. Further, if logged in to Twitter or Facebook, you can comment and interact with the content. What’s interesting is that the web page fades away and content becomes forefront to the experience–which is how it should be.
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Flipboard
Flipboard is a damn, clever iPad app. It takes streams of content such as Twitter, Facebook, various RSS news feeds and transforms the assortment of text, hypertext and pictures into an enjoyable experience. Flipboard uses a newspaper-like metaphor for pulling content together and users swipe to flip pages. Tweets are artfully rendered, and those that…
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1000 Fences and Gates
1000 Fences And Gates by Jo Cryder should contain the subtitle Wrought Iron of the American Southeast. The majority of the pictures are snapshots and hardly vary. I’m not sure if it meant to be a coffee table book or a sampling for Southern belles to fence in their magnolia trees.
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Art Space Tokyo, a Kickstarter postmortem
After a project, it’s a good thing to capture your thoughts on how you did. This includes everything from the initial idea, the the steps you took to get everything together and complete it, for better or worse. Craig Mod did a writeup about the whole process of creating Art Space Tokyo using Kickstarter as…
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Inception deconstructed
The Awl deconstructs Inception as a movie about making movies, or the act of creation. Like 8½, Inception is a movie about making movies; it’s not that the whole movie “is a dream,” though, but rather that the whole movie is an allegory of creation. Upon second viewing, the metaphor for creation makes sense across…
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Sleigh Bells – Treats
Sleigh Bells, creators of my summer album pick, consists of rip roaring guitars and bass heavy beats intertwined with cooing vocals. Treats spans for a few minutes over a half hour, and on first listen, can be overwhelming. It’s loud. Bone rattling loud. Indie kids in their Prius can go head to head with the…