“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Gustave Flaubert

Este fin de semana estuve leyendo un articulo que llevaba semanas en mi escritorio sobre “Time Management.” Y si leen el primer parafo y oración me entenderan porque termine de leer el PDF:

So you start the day full of enthusiasm. You’re excited about a new piece of creative work and
itching to put your ideas into action. Firing up your computer, the familiar stream of e-mails pours
into your inbox, burying the ones you didn’t get round to replying to yesterday. Scanning through
the list, your heart sinks – two of them look as though they require urgent action. You hit ‘reply’
and start typing a response to one of them… 20 minutes later you ‘come round’ and realise
you’ve got sucked into the e-mail zone and have been sidetracked by interesting links sent by
friends, as well as writing replies about issues that aren’t a priority for you. You minimize the email
window and get back to your project…
After 15 minutes you’re really enjoying yourself, getting into your creative flow – when the phone
rings. Somebody wants something from you…

Llegue a la inevitable conclusion de que me tengo que levantar (mucho) mas temprano. En los siguientes dias ire “posteando” mas articulos que e leido por ahi sobre “time management” y “creative workflow.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, el psicologo le a dado en el clavo a todo (libro: Flow y altres).

Bueno os invito a que se descarguen el PDF por un tio que lleva el blog Wishful Thinking, Mark McGuinness (como la chela) esta rapido de leer:   Creative Time

(photo de flickr de Rob Birze)

Y hay más fotos. Más chulis! .. vale vale, incluyo otra:

Este peazo de biblioteca se encuentra en maastricht (click en el link si no  os acordáis donde exactamente quedaba Maastricht).  Gano no se que premio  (bueno vale: ‘lensvelt de architect’ interior design prize 2007) y es obra de los arquitectos Merkx + Girod

Amigos de Internet, hoy cumplo 95 años. Me llamo María Amelia y nací en Muxía (A Coruña) el 23 de Diciembre de 1911. Hoy es mi cumpleaños y mi nieto como es muy cutre me regalo un blog. Espero poder escribir mucho y contaros las vivencias de una señora de mi edad. – (My friends in Internet, today I am 95 years old. My name is Amelia and I was born in Muxía (A Coruña - Spain) on December the 23rd of 1911. Today it’s my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog.)

La Sra. Amelia a ganado el prestigioso premio de “Best Weblog Spanish” de “The Bobs“  Tiene un blog super pro, con clips en YouTube, audio, todo tipo de imagenes, y entradas. Que coisa mejor que tener un blog.

This On The Media this week which focused on Books and print media and print technologies.

Pue, esta semana salio el Kindle e-Reader de Amazon que usa una tecnología nueva donde la pantalla no es un LCD pero un sistema que imprime pantallas (usando menos energía, aun si se acaba la pila la info en la pantalla se queda un par de días “impreso en pantalla etc) y promete terminar con los libros.

Por otro lado esta esta maquina.. que cuesta (un montón) de pasta, pero si te consigues una pa tu librería, en teoría podrías imprimir cualquier libro desde PDF a un “paperback” en menos de 10 minutos. El articulo completo (en audio) aquí.

This via Mateja @ AxE;

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-inplan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”.
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”.
This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated hanges are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and t should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such asreplasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted

Esto via el blog de ModernMechanics. Robert G. Beason sospechaba que el nuevo Iphone “podria traer un botones sensibles al tacto,  audio y video”

“The disc will be a telephone, a miniature model equipped for both audio and video service. Back in 1952, Harold S. Osborne, retiring chief engineer of American Telephone & Telegraph, envisioned this tiny instrument as the ultimate shape of the phone. In the future, said Mr. Osborne, a telephone number will be given at birth to every baby in the world. It will be his for life. When he wants to call anyone, no matter where, he will merely push the buttons on his Lilliputian phone.”

articulo completo.

Edición doble CANDY MAGAZINE con gente como Frankenstyles, James Jean. Jeremyville, Jon Burgerman & TADO, Kanardo, Patrick O’Brien, Phunkstudio, Serial Cut, Stanley Donwood, The Designers Republic, Toygiants,… Download NOW!

..va el dicho..

pero si tienen wishlists en Amazon.

Pue aqui chicha pa esa li’ta: Esto me encontre por ahí en la pagina de la Universidad de Stanford (Stanford Technology Ventures Program) que no pinta nada mal;

Design Process

Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox by Kenji Ekuan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Emotional Design by Donald A. Norman
How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Marketing

Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
Marketing High Technology by William H. Davidow
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
A Brand New World by Scott Bedbury
Influence by Robert Cialdini

Personal Brand Communication

The Brand You 50 by Tom Peters
Brag: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It by Peggy Klaus
Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence Boldt
www.presentationzen.com by Garr Reynolds

la lista completa aqui

“What we don’t know is what comes next. Some magazines, like Subterranean, have moved online; many have just gone under. Even the idea of a magazine may cease to be relevant. The only thing that seems likely is that whatever future the short story has, the Internet will be involved in it. The thing that’s least clear is how–or whether–artists will be compensated for their efforts.

There’s been no living to be made from short stories in my lifetime. But short fiction endures because it provides a way of introducing writers to new readers, and because there are stories that need to be told at that length.”

-Lewis Shiner … “is one of the great science fiction writers of the last 30 years, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Glimpses. All his novels are out of print. He also edited a seminal anti-war science fiction anthology, When The Music’s Over. Shiner was also an early cyberpunk, who had two stories in Bruce Sterling’s ground-breaking anthology Mirrorshades.”

Me encontre esto en boingboing hoy: Ted Talks una web con videos de conferencias sobre Tecnologia, Entretenimiento y Diseño (TED).. que se parece al FAD.. pero el FAD no las pone en la web (aun).. y los conferencistas son buenisimos. Estos tios de Technology, Entertainment, Design. (TED) llevan desde 1984 con este rollo.

Los chavos en Boing Boing recomendaban empezar por la conferencia de Hans Roslin que invento un software tipo powerpoint/excel pero sin la sensación estra siendo torturado: Trendalyzer (ya la compro google)

Bueno Hans, en 20 minutos de explica muy bien como paises en vias de desarollo estan echando pa lante.