05 May 2016
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27 April 2016
“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data struc- ture,” wrote computer scientist Alan J. Perlis, thirty years ago, “than ten functions on ten data structures.” He meant: focus on your data, then code around it. Applications are there to serve the data, not the other way around.
—Paul Ford in Foreword of ‘Content Strategy for Mobile’
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25 April 2016
Auerbach says wise words about image-making, but they apply equally to storytelling: “Until the subject becomes an idea, it doesn’t exist for the painter… the most tremendously tangible expression of an object…unless it has feeling… is inert and academic and studio-bound… When you’re painting, you’re making a picture… the feelings will be there if you’ve got them… really imagining and inhabiting it…”
—From Elise V’s Facebook page
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