three kwerk-themed ruby assignments

Assignment 1 - Library View

Assignment 2 - Daily View

Assignment 3 - Weekly view

what my attention feels like

focused attention vs. parallel attention

this makes me good at finding patterns over time, and bad at finishing anything all at once.

cartoonstorm

one of the big first marketing pushes for once upon a time in brooklyn involves wry cartoon renditions of “spread the love” that could be suitable for frisbees, guitar picks, and temporary tattoos.

simplicity is the winner:

It goes both ways

but i am also rather fond of the runners-up, who may live again in the next round:

Bread and Butter

Skip for the ripples

Read all about it

Going viral

crabby

one thing about my zodiac sign that i consider to be an accurate commentary on my personality is that i like to hold on to the people in my life. not in a scary way, or anything. cancer’s claws are just naturally drawn to pull their world close about them, and carry pieces of it within their very shell. this traditionally leads to homebodies. but i can attest to a nomadic version that instead becomes very obsessed with pockets, and comfortable with the idea of traveling between a few different styles of shell. i guess that makes me a hermit crab. except that some of my shell is made of people, so that doesn’t really fit.

Cancer Walk

landscape view, 2010

Landscape View, 2010

dear BP,

today i listened to morning edition for the first time in a bajillion years and they interviewed the new CEO of BP, who is from mississippi.

woah.

mississippi is not british.

PR move much?

anyway, he talked about BP’s desire to learn from the mistakes that led to the deepwater horizon spill, which i hope is true, and he also made a point to mention that the tragedy was the result of many smaller, individually unremarkable mistakes, some of which were not directly the fault of BP.

this is certainly true.

the trouble is: corporate culture rewards the distribution of accountability across so many nodes that no one person can really understand the implications of their actions as they unfold in concert with the actions of other people who are separated across time and space. the CEO gets the big bucks because he/she assumes the risk of becoming the scapegoat if something goes wrong on his/her watch. the fact that some people are willing to assume this risk on an individual level does not automatically make the repercussions morally tenable on the societal level.

so i don’t think “it was super unlikely that this exact scenario would unfold” is a good excuse at all. when you are big enough, unlikely approaches inevitable, and if corporate culture would take that as a given rather than wishing it away, the world would be a better place.

here’s a drawling i made while i was thinking about these things and drinking my coffee:

The Lightning Rod

if i go back to school, thoughts like this will be why

Culture is alive

how to make “mismatched socks” out of construction paper

take one.

Dave's Shoes - Construction Paper

by kynthia

journal sketch — the confidence effect

The Confidence Effect

blast from the past

i recently found an old sketchbook that i started filling during grad school. here’s a funny picture i drew to blow off steam while i was working on wireframes for my capstone. it says: “email clusters! now with tags!” :)

E-mail Clusters