(the confidential adventures of mr. meyer and his colossal t.a., katy)
chopping the paper
Month: October 2007
Total 32 Posts
If I had the time to learn any programming language, it’d be Processing, responsible for this gem of an infograph. Now the developers have a book out and my list of excuses dwindles. ¶ “This book was written as an introduction to the ideas of computer programming within the context of the visual arts. It targets an audience of computer-savvy individuals who are interested in creating interactive and visual work through writing software but have little or no prior experience.” ¶ This is my Kryptonite, in other words.
The eighteenth Carnival of Math is up at Jonathan’s site. People talking about math I haven’t touched in years.
This is a visual essay by Cobra Creative for Clif Bars which advocates bicycle riding as an environmental good. ¶ Doesn’t matter whether you agree or not, you keep watching. The points are clear. The points are nicely illustrated. The illustrations blend and twist into each other seamlessly, which is the rhetorical equivalent of a perfect transition sentence between paragraphs. ¶ The visual essay. It is the new gold standard for communicating simple ideas to a broad, skeptical audience. Those who can write them will always have bread on their tables. ¶ I want to learn them. I want to make them. I want to teach them.
From Malcolm Gladwell, the same journalist who restored sex appeal to statistical analysis, comes an interview with Report on Business in which he discusses the demands of tomorrow’s workforce versus today’s. ¶ Some candy for the School 2.0 crowd, who should know by now that I’m always lookin’ out for you people, even as much as I bust yer chops. ¶ Money quote: “We will require, from a larger and larger percentage of our work force, the ability to engage in relatively complicated analytical and cognitive tasks. So it’s not that we’re going to need more geniuses, but the 50th percentile is going to have to be better educated than they are now. We’re going to have to graduate more people from high school who’ve done advanced math, is a very simple way of putting it.” [via kottke]