"I guess to make a box that’s a joy to open, you have to open a lot of boxes. That’s why that same room is sometimes filled with hundreds — hundreds! — of prototype boxes, all made by Apple’s designers. Again, according to Lashinsky, Apple always wants to use the box that elicits the perfect emotional response on opening."
We used to build cathedrals, now we open boxes.
Apple Packing Is So Good Because They Employ A Dedicated Box Opener | Gizmodo UK
"How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this level, technological progress is probably predetermined) what is going to kill them? Mostly not what they like to believe is killing them, filesharing. What’s going to kill movies and TV is what’s already killing them: better ways to entertain people. So the best way to approach this problem is to ask yourself: what are people going to do for fun in 20 years instead of what they do now?"
(Source: paulbudnitz)
Oh no! They combined a marketing image I believe in with a marketing image I don’t believe in! Whaaaaaaa!!!!
(via Disney Is Selling a Joy Division Mickey Mouse Shirt | News | Pitchfork)
Rick Ross smelling Yankee Candles at a Cracker Barrel
"Works of art are just ways to pay attention to different things, and to appreciate what is there, and more and more art is like that. Rather than creating more stuff—“Oh, that’s a nice blue!”—I mean, there are lots of nice blues already that you can focus on everywhere! So focus on that blue."
"So you may be like, “Um, I’m an artist of the minimalist school, and so I go to these openings,” but without that context of being a minimalist, I think a number of artists and musicians and writers are really just lost—they are lost. I mean, why are you doing this? Who are you doing it for? Having a little bit of a context gives you this illusion of its having meaning, but what is the meaning, really? Then it becomes beyond terrifying. What are you doing it for?"
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Criticism is doubt informed by curiosity and a deep knowledge of a discipline related to your work. Whether the criticism you receive is constructive or not, it comes from knowledge. Informed insights like “I’m not sure someone would ever pay that much” or “you may not want to outsource that given the high-touch required” may cause you to question your approach.
By contrast, cynicism is a form of doubt resulting from ignorance and antiquated ways. Industry experts will often express doubt based on an ingrained muscle memory of past experiences that handicaps their vision for the future. Cynical statements like, “People will never read a book on a computer” or “Why would anyone want to put their rolodex online?” are famous doubts expressed by experts with handicapped vision.
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