Steve Jobs On Changing The World
"When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
The making of a drawing that is composed of 3.2 million ink dots. It took Miguel 210 hours and nearly a year from start to finish to complete the piece. His painstakingly meticulous technique results in a stunning piece of art.
I absolutely love extremely well made products that are made (at least in part) by hand. This video shows how much human touch goes into producing a Leica lens. You now know why Leica products are typically more expensive. Incredible.
Incredible work.
Using the mathematics behind string length and pitch, it came from a simple idea: what if all the notes were drawn as strings? Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the music’s underlying structure and subtle shifts.
A beautiful interpretation of U.S. routes as a Subway map. I find this incredibly creative and very well executed. View the full size here.
TimeMaps is a beautiful travel visualization that shows times rather than distances. It works by checking your location, then locating the nearest train station and displaying trip times in rings, with each colored ring represents 30 minutes.
(Source: curiositycounts)
This simple, yet beautiful, Finnish Garden Sleeping Shed is certainly a place that I would love go to (or own) to jump start my creativity. Although, it would be nice to have a kitchen.
(Source: architizer, via cabinporn)
500 self-portraits merged together to create this final, beautiful composite. Also check out the time lapse video of each of the images. (via feltron)
