October 2011
3 posts
Conglom-o: We own you.
When I was a kid I used to watch the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko’s Modern Life. (Who am I kidding, I still watch it these days). Rocko is a subtle critique to the modern world and the industrial ways of living. Today I was reading an excerpt of Arlie Hoschield’s The Managed Hear: Commercialization of Human Feeling and I was immediately transported back to O-town the city where Rocko...
Fighting for the status quo
In the last couple of weeks the Occupy Wallstreet movement has gained much more press and the campaign has been joined by several protestors from many cities in the USA and around the world. Tumblrs such as “We are the 99%” had been created and have many inspiring protests. I believe in their concerns and that they are tired of current situation of the system we’re living in,...
Think Different, Live Different
Steve Jobs’s life will mark moments in each and everyone of us. He changed the way we communicate, the way we appreciated technology, the way we thought of design. He made many of us design junkies. He made us love simplicity and changed many life philosophies with the creation of a single button. He changed industries, revolutionized every single aspect of modern life. He taught us amazing...
