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This is my photographic metaphor for what a winter in Galveston has done to my psyche.
On the sunless beaches of Galveston Texas.
I selected this as my metaphor for e-learning as I believe that the e -learning provides a plethora of opportunites and avenues for learning and this maze represents the many paths in which it can take, and will continue to change and expand in the future!
This building was going to be Anglo Irish Bank's new headquarters. It's unlikely they'll be moving in now.
*Update 2nd-Sept 2010. Looks like it has finally got planning permission. Whether there's any money to complete it is another matter.
"My favorite poem, my — my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.
---RFK speech
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"Roshi came to the studio one night when I was recording 'New Skin for the Old Ceremony.' That was in the seventies. In those days I was being written off as a morbid old depressive drone peddling suicide notes. (Still am, in some circles). Roshi slept through most, but not all, of the session. The next morning I asked him what he thought. He said, 'Leonard, you should sing more sad.' That was the best advice I ever got. Took a while to put it into practice."
--Leonard Cohen
Created by Swedish artist Karl Momen in 1986, Metaphor, exhibits a 27m tall concrete "tree" with six spheres containing rocks and minerals native to Utah. A small, non-visible marker contains the words from Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy". Unfortunately for Metaphor, its location in the middle of the Boonville Salt Flats with no easy stopovers causes confusion to most passing by, many thinking that it is just a communications tower of some type. The fence was recently erected to prevent tiles from falling on visitors.
Wendover, Utah
A metaphor for election day. Months of vitriolic effort lead to one day of decision, and we'll all still be here afterwards. A scheduled irony: the church a block from the polls asks us to come back tomorrow and forfeit some blood.
It's difficult to convey how vexing this app is without actually showing it in action. All the same, I can't recall the last time I encountered a UI that was so full of inappropriate metaphors, unexpected behavior, and unclear information.
Where should we start? OK, how about that stickshift control. Seems straightforward at first...until you start thinking about those icons. What exactly do they mean? I *think* that the aircraft icon means "High performance", but what does the walking person mean in relation to the aircraft? And "Auto"? Does the ordering of the detents reflect in increase in performance from left to right? Right to left? If not, why use a shifter-and-slot metaphor?
Now let's talk about the interaction: Why did ASUS go to the trouble of making the user *drag* a faux stickshift in a slot in the first place? A horizontal click-and-drag isn't exactly the easiest motion in the world. I'd like to watch a person with motor disabilities try to drag it.
Then there's the radial graph thingy on the right....really? If you could see it change when you dragged the stickshift, you'd immediately notice that It's not easy to discriminate between different states. Call me old-fashioned, but why not a line or bar graph? Conclusion: someone in Taiwan got a little carried away with the Photoshop...remember designers, just because you *can* doesn't mean you should.
And those four larger icons up top? I bet you think you can click them. Psych! You can't. They're just kinda there for show or something. Unless I haven't yet figured out how to make them work. Which is a distinct possibility, given my experience with this little piece of bad UX.
(This is the only un-processed pic on this website)
I went with a few Ukraine friends to Beuel, a small city close to cologne, for some campfire and nature. The most exciting thing though is the meteor shower. Under the influence of various dramas I watched as a teenager, I always thought it's one of the most romantic thing to do. But since I have got a pretty bad myopia and I have not been outdoor that much during nights, I have seen shooting star only once, in my entire life. Also sadly I never watched meteor shower with a lover before either, for various reasons. So I believe it's one of the hardest things in the world to see a meteor shower, or even a shooting star.
I lay on the grass for 1 hours waiting for my beautiful meteor shower. My companions saw more than 8 shooting stars, yet I hadn't seen any! I got pissed.
' Why is it that I can't see any while you keep on spotting them?!!'
' You have to look loosely at the sky, and do nothing but to enjoy it. If you keep busy checking your iphone app for the star map and focusing on a particular one, of course you will miss it.
It's not that difficult. It's all in your minds.'
Then I saw it. I saw five!! Well it's nothing so shockingly beautiful; it's rather ephemeral. We did not manage to see the meteor shower either. But being surrounded by nice people and warm fire, it's cozy and romantic enough.
When you think of love, friendship, or other sacred and far-reaching things like goals of life, they do sound like shooting stars. -Seriously, when you try to perceive it you can not even materialize it - just like the fact that I can't capture stars with my camera. If you focus on the highest goals or the hottest girls/guys (aka. brightest stars), you miss even more beautiful things. The really meaningful things are actually quite approachable, as common as an old shoe.
I used self-reflection in this one because there is no mirror so it is not a literal reflection. This one is supposed to represent the harmful effects nicotine has on the body. It is my hand holding the Puff Bar and the shadow is supposed to look like a gun. I have seen this with a cigarette before, but now that my generation mainly uses vape, I wanted to make it more modern. This could be a literal and conceptual approach. It is more a self-reflection on how nicotine could kill you if not used with caution. I think I was successful but the poster in the back might come off as distracting. The lighting is artificial indirect CF.
Another metaphor for the human condition. This is on the side of the creepy building with the charred wood grate over the window.
Nice file name, too.
Ladies' night on Thursdays. This poster was clever in that it had a lady in traditional Arabic headgear, except that the material was terry towel material.
This picture serves as a metaphor for how I feel about my life. I’d like to think for the most part that I stick to the straightened path and do the right thing most of the time, but I like to be different and unique too. These flowers are wild flowers and can grow wherever their seed falls. These happened to fall right beside the train tracks, which to me represented how people can still live a little and be wild like the flowers versus always following the rules. I hope that I can be more like a wildflower every day.
Austin TX Dusk
Leica CL + Leitz Summicron-C 40mm f:2
Kodak E200 Slide Film
Beauty can be found by looking | grain. | mobius | infinite resolution
Photo by Taylor Hurley aka niki mobius
I spent waaaaay too much time today trying to make a creative photo out of a potato on my couch. This doesn't light me up either but I'm done for the day.
365: the 2012 edition
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4/50
Madurai Naickker Mahal. This is seen in many film song sequences (Bombay's Kannalane). It is in shambles.
I saw this pair of swim fins on the motorcycle seat and would have loved to see the motorcyclist operating (or attempting to operate) his motorcycle with them on. Visions of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
Anti-pattern: Metaphor Mismatch.
Neil, Theresa. 2011. Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications. O'Reilly Media.