Re-routing
I forgot to mention last week when I made these changes, but I re-worked the URL routing for the different media types on this site. Basically, I’ve namespaced most of the raw materials-type objects (notes, links, stills, sounds, videos, locations, recipes…) so that they more obviously belong to the user that posted them.
What used to be something like
http://www.iamstillalive.net/notes/2007/04/has_many_through_with_has_many_polymorphs
is now
http://iamstillalive.net/users/1-dylan/notes/3-has_many-through-with-has_many_polymorphs
I know. I know.
I am currently the only person publishing here, but that will ideally not always be the case (I just realized that I have to fix the RSS feeds to reflect the new structure), but the front page of the site is going to be changing pretty significantly as I Am Still Alive starts venturing into somewhat new territory.
I’d say a small portion of the images, notes, & whatever that I post will actually make it to the front page. So if you want to keep up on what Dylan (I) is (am) doing, have a look at my user profile/tumblelog/activity feed.
Artist Portfolios
We just started rolling out the initial version of the artist portfolio system over at Artlog. Just a few hours into the launch, the response has already been very positive.
→ Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact.
The manual was designed and produced as a collaboration between Tactical Tech and John Emerson of Backspace – a design consultancy dedicated to research, development and promotion of design in the public interest.
→ Join the Coop : Park Slope Food Coop : Organic Food in Park Slope
The Park Slope Food Coop, located in the heart of the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 1973 by a small group of committed neighbors who wanted to make healthy, affordable food available to everyone who wanted it. PSFC has more than 12,000 members, most of whom work once every four weeks in exchange for a 20 – 40% savings on groceries. Only members may shop at the PSFC, and membership is open to all.
→ Email Insanity & the 0.001 Challenge | 43 Folders
As I say, there must be something about email’s unusual combination of intimacy and distance that can get people very emotionally engaged in hammering out demands in an email message. And not just flames — I’m talking about people whose de facto style is borne out of an uninhibited conduit between thoughts, emotions, or desires and the email medium that helps them convert that into some kind of request.
→ "Down with Innovation" by Rick Poynor
A moment ago I used the word culture, a notoriously awkward concept. According to the critic Raymond Williams writing in Keywords, his classic lexicon, culture is used in two crucial senses. In cultural anthropology—now there’s a word the innovators love to bat around—it refers primarily to material production, while in history and cultural studies it refers primarily to signifying or symbolic systems. Combining these usages, we might conclude that culture is about things (which have a look) and meanings (conveyed by how they look). Whichever way you look at them—so long as you do actually look—these products of our culture tell us who we are. There is bound to be a relationship between impoverished ways of (design) thinking and impoverished visual form.
Sold out
It looks like products in the store are sold out again. I am finishing up a new print tomorrow or Friday and will be re-printing a couple oldies over the next few weeks.
