Thinking The Sounds

From Tricycle Magazine:

Many people have some ambivalence about silence; they fear it, or don’t value it. Because we only know ourselves through thinking and speaking and acting. But once the mind gets silent, the range of what’s possible is immeasurable. So first you taste the silence. Then you realize that it’s not a vacuum or dead space. It’s not an absence of the real stuff; it’s not that the real stuff is the doing, the talking, and all that. You get comfortable in it and you learn that it’s highly charged with life. It’s a very refined and subtle kind of energy. And when you come out of it, somehow you’re kinder, more intelligent. It’s not something that you manufacture—it’s an integral part of being alive. And it’s vast. We’ve enclosed ourselves in a relatively small space by thinking. It binds us in, and we’re not aware that we’re living in a tiny, cluttered room. With practice, it’s as if the walls of this room were torn down, and you realize there’s a sky out there.

Larry Rosenberg, The Art of Doing Nothing

Laptopograms: Expose prints with your laptop screen! | Photojojo.

Here’s the gist:

Aditya Mandayam developed this exciting new way of making prints: press photo-paper against your laptop screen, flash the screen, and dip the paper in developer, stop, and fix.

I’m always excited by seeing how people mix digital and analog technologies to come up with new ways to create.  There are so many possibilities for those who can look at technologies in unexpected ways.

50 Fantastically Clever Logos | Design Shack.

There are some amazingly creative concepts in this batch of logos.

This is a great look at the evolution of our technological world and how our brains and society have morphed to adapt.

I’m especially intrigued by the concept of “email apnea”.

May I have your attention please? – Linda Stone – SIME 09

From BoingBoing:

Here are some different ambient sounds.

Put Jello in an anechoic chamber and this is what you get….