The modern age. Just the occassional pressing of buttons. Press a button and things happen. A photo by Jürgen Klauke.
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Secret writers' room at the NYC library →
One of the best parts of this distraction free writer’s room is that it has no wifi *bliss*
This should happen when you’ve been on Tumblr for consecutive hours.
That would be a nifty feature.
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…It’s narcissistic. It’s a poor substitute for real-life relationships. It’s a genius marketing platform or a procrastinator’s dream. It’s simply another way to communicate. It brings us closer. It drags us further apart.
— ‘Is it time to switch off?’ Alexandra Carlton, Madison May 2010. (via lanipauli)
John Mayer did a one week digital cleanse in January →
Now celebrities are jumping on the bandwagon. I think we might be onto something.
Perhaps one of the bigger trends we will see in the coming years is the overall pruning of one’s online social network down to a manageable level where real interactions between real human beings start taking hold again. Maybe true success in these online social circles will not involve metrics like amount of connections or how many times something happened, but rather how powerful and poignant something is to the specific target market.
— Intimacy 2.0 | Six Pixels of Separation (via somethingchanged)
It’s important to get away from technology and experience the world. You’ve got to see your world, see your community, see what’s not being said what needs to be said. That’s probably the best way to figure out what you’re going to say. For me at least, it’s impossible to have any good ideas while sitting behind a computer. Ideas come from life. As Hemingway said, “I have to live to work.
— Jonathan Harris, Beyond Flash link via Amanda Mooney + somethingchanged
I find that Blackberry people, their eyes, their pupils don’t focus… they always hold it in their hand, because that is what Blackberry commands them to do. And they listen to what you’re saying & they compare to what is on the Blackberry – which is more really more interesting here. I think there is more buttons here than on your face.
— Jerry Seinfeld describes Blackberry owners in this interview with Conan O’Brien.
