Some good wine to accompany the times @ Wycombe Vineyards
Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.
William James
a simpler svpply
svpply released an enjoyable iPhone app. i’m going to make their site equally enjoyable, this is my first take in the experiment – simplifying it: drag the bookmarklet below to your Bookmarks Bar and click when on svpply.com
Bookmarklet to drag: mnml svpply (then use it here)
updates will include: storing changes in a cookie so they are consistent across page views, improving product filters ui, alongside some other thangs. feedback is loved.
from japan, with love: turntable rider. BMX + turntable + hack + stereosystem.
ambitious contrasting of styles – dope.
Lynch on Consciousness
Dig dug.
after many mental blocks, here goes the push of a beloved project.
Robotville Photograph by Oli Scarff @ the Science Museum, London.
yes
rich interactions
Fresh Fresh, 24 Hour, Fresh. (Taken with Instagram at Lower Eastside)
I met Hustle first, then Design.
HBO had a show called “How to make it in America.” It was about two twenty-somethings trying to start and successfully run their own hustle. They encountered plenty of obstacles and shady characters in trying to make their denim line happen – but eventually learned the workings of the game and built their network.
I loved that show for many reasons – the most prominent being that it reminds me how I got started in this design game – and why I love it. Early in college, I wanted to create something outside of my concentration – something a bit more tactile – creative (I was studying Philosophy at the time). I bought fabric, I learned how to sew, picked up some sweatshirts and got to work. I paired interesting fabrics to the inner hoods of the sweatshirts, a store requested them on consignment in New Jersey – it felt interesting, I foreshadowed things and named it Sleepless. I then went to a shop in Harlem with my sweatshirts in my backpack to see if the buyer of an impressive streetwear shop would place an order – she didn’t like how I didn’t set an appointment, which was intentional on my part and requested that I come back in an hour. While I waited it felt good – a prospect – validation of my product. She placed an order – I was the shit.
Some time later, I met a wonderful person who became my partner in crime, Kelly. We got into making tshirts under the Clockers name, I kept pissing buyers off by showing up without appointments – I kept getting orders, Reed Space and Union. It felt amazing to spin off products out of good conversations, learning the rules of design informally, fucking up, being featured, randomly learning a new Photoshop trick, remixing – all of the grit. Priceless.
Then I wanted to come to NYC to work and had nothing to backup my design potential except my Clockers work. I got in to a small ad agency with good people but an idiot of an art director who spent more time on Skype then the entire CS. I stayed because I had to learn and this place gave me every other resource to carry on. I eventually met one of my mentors there, hustled day in and out until I fired up enough side projects to get me out.
I reached out to a designer working at Skillshare, Jake Przespo, and he linked me to a startup with an awesome designer. The product was thin and so were their promises – I put in my 2 weeks notice shortly to work on a good idea I had. A buddy connected me with what seemed to be an interesting person and idea – what a sharp hunch it was. I’ve been working with this group of happy craftsmen since September – I’ve been learning day in and out. It’s pretty fantastic.
The lesson, my lesson? You already learned it if you made it all the way down here.
It’s persistence and a little bit of scrolling of course.
