July 2011
14 posts
“The powerful moments in a rock concert are not necessarily the loudest or most energetic ones. They’re the ones where everyone’s emotions line up — when you get that feeling that a magnet just passed over the room and all of the iron filings are lined up the same way and everyone feels this one, giant similarity between themselves.”
—
the Ultimate User Experience.
June 2011
5 posts
Link and eliminate {Geo Links}
Fun game with travel in-mind.
Enjoy!
Loving the illustration quality of this
Seven Things Designers Can Learn from Stand Up Comics →
observersroom.designobserver.com
I’m liking this .
“.A good designer is a problem solver. A great designer can figure out a way to solve a problem that’s completely unique.”
“Good design, like good comedy, is about surprise. But surprise can’t happen in a vacuum. It needs a context that establishes familiarity. If you respect your audience, you provide that context.”
“ look for lessons wherever you can find them.”
“This bit is working because I know how to do stand up, not because it’s something that’s important to me.”
OBlog does a nice job pulling design lessons from the recent HBO special Talking Funny with Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais.
Expectations and Reality.
Trying to lick your lips.
Expecation:
Reality:
Giving your crush a sexy look:
Expecation:
Reality:
Walking through a club:
Expectation:
Reality:
When you run into your ex:
Expectation
Reality:
Dancing:
Expectation:
Reality:
Chortling.
May 2011
2 posts
When your friends try to show you something funny from the internet but you've already seen it.
“Honey, I’m from Tumblr. We’re like, weeks ahead of you.”
Always happens.
April 2011
10 posts
“Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional roller-coaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You will flip rapidly from a day in which you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over.”
—
Marc Andreessen
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