Hi.

The dcurtis Manifesto

Take everything you know about the internet. Now fucking forget it.

The internet is an infant. It's a pile of crap. I'm tempted to call it defective. The W3C is worse than the UN. We need to make progress. We need to push forward. And in order to do that, we need to experiment and search out possibilities for expanding our horizons. We need to step out of the boxes we've sealed around us. There's a world outside the crazy "best practices" created to overcome horrific shortcomings of CSS. We are not confined to the way things are.

When you start to build something new, think about the what could be, the what may be, and the what will be. Don't settle, don't give up, don't get stuck in a box built by other people's misguided interaction paradigms. The internet is open and free, and that means there are no rules.

Excited to see Prefuse 73 live tonight; I listen to them all the time when designing. Here's a taste:

Alexander Graham Bell using his first telephone. Looks nothing like modern phones.

I am holding a real Emmy in my hands. Would be a good bludgeoning weapon.

Sent from my iPad nano

Not sure I can pardon your appearance, Hershey's.

Sent from my iPad nano

Sushi again, again.

Sent from my iPad nano

Wil Shipley on changing the world with design

WIl Shipley is the main developer of a Mac app called Delicious Library. Apple's new iBooks app on the iPad uses many of the same interface design elements as Delicious Library, such as the wooden shelf books are placed upon.

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As a creator, part of what I seek is recognition, immortality. I don’t work for Apple or Google (I’ve been offered jobs & buyouts) because I want the fame myself. It’s my shot at immortality. My designs are my children. So it stinks when I feel like Steve might get the fame for my innovation. I lose my children, as it were.

But your children aren’t really yours. They have lives of their own. So when your designs do change the world, you have to accept it. You have to say, ‘Ok, this was such a good idea, other people took it and ran with it. I win.’

 

Choices.

Photos of the Apple Tablet

 

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In the words of Warren Buffett

"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"