4.1.08

ok i remembered something.

John Maeda.
he's cool, right?

i particularly like his obsession with flowers, shown in this javascript greeting card generator; cyberorchid, and this little javascript game called oikake zakura where you try to catch the falling pieces of sakura in time.

i really like how this little calendar, which Maeda openly admits is meant to make you waste time rather than save it, reacts to the users movements, and with a click goes inbetween fall (or autumn to us brits) and summer. - umiaki calendar

"I am often asked what my term "post digital" signifies. It is a term that I created as a way to acknowledge a distinction between those that are passed their fascination with computers, and are now driven by the ideas instead of the technology. It is not an expression of Luddite-ism nor is it a loaded term like that icky "post modernism" business. If we are to consider the book by Nicholas Negroponte Being Digital as an affirmation that the computer has arrived, then the "post digital" generation refers to the growing few that have already been digital, and are now more interested in Being Human. Buying a good computer is easy. Being a good person is something that cannot be merely bought ... even on the great god of eBay." - John Maeda

1 comment:

SJC said...

That calender is pretty awesome.. i hope its purely for aesthetic reasons because otherwise i think my mind might explode :'( haha