2009

The reasons are:

  • Lightroom's touch up brush tool is brilliantly powerful.
  • Lightroom can export and import folders and images with all metadata, etc (rating, keywords, etc) [Aperture can export, but it cannot import files with metadata which is lame]
I don't know why, but I wish I could choose Aperture. I guess it's because Aperture is much better looking, a little quicker, and better at organizing. 

But in the end, power wins out when you need power, and Lightroom's touch up brush wand thingy is real friggen powerful. The rest is comparable.

We'll see how long this lasts… 

It’s kind of embarrassing for me to admit, but I never did see the Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog videos. Though I was warned not to miss it from @jaethan. Here’s a list of the episodes, or you can find out more about Dr. Horrible.

Act 1, Part 1

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Don’t know why this is so good to listen to, it just is.

Or, watch it at Ted

Turn organizing tasks into rewards

I had a short bout as an organizational and productivity consultant a while back. I know, it’s silly, but get your giggles out now ’cause here’s a $450 tip for you:

You know when you’ve got knowledge work to do and all you can think about is organizing your desk, or cleaning the dirty whiteboard, or cleaning out that stupid little wheel on your mouse, or browsing e-cards to send to your mom for her half birthday? You know what that feels like, right?

Well, these are rudely seductive. How are they seductive? read more →

For a month or so now, my iPhone has been playing my audiobooks out of order. Can you for ONE SECOND imagine how annoying that was? Every time a new chapter of Stephen King’s On Writing finished  (every 7 minutes or so), I’d have to stop playback, go back to the list of tracks, remember which one I just listened to and manually play the next track. Friggen lame.

Well, daddio handled the fix for you ladies and gents. Simply go to one of your regular music playlists or artists, and turn the shuffle feature on and off a couple of times. BLAMMO! Fixed.

You’re welcome and goodnight.

Really fascinating character this Yves Behar. I love this kind of horizontal-thinking problem solving with design. I also like his ideas about a company or team being “design driven.”

Or, watch this video at TED.com

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal”Yves Behar

What will it be like to receive a photo of Aiden with his fiance when he’s asked her to marry him?

#moved

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A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

A couple of pencil-outlined birds escape from a little girl´s drawing, leading us through the life she dreams of.

you can find more about the making of this video here.

Design vs. Style...

I’ve been thinking a lot about design recently, namely, about the relationship between design and “style” or “fashion.” Now, when I say ‘style,’ I’m not quite sure what I mean exactly. Nor am I sure about how design and style relate to each other… I’m sure they are related somehow… but how?

So, I plopped out this question on Twitter to see if anyone had some good answers about the subject. Thankfully, I had a bite. @hippydaddy, whom I met recently at a workshop on digital marketing, had some well developed thoughts on the subject. He emailed me (posted with permission): read more →

In a comment on a previous post about ambition and happiness, @agray posits that there is a 3rd dimention on the graph: success. I think John Wooden agrees with Aaron. Maybe this is the answer.

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