Pavel Samsonov's slide at the IA Conference: Information architecture is the scaffolding that structures thinking and supports coherent decision-making for all functional roles
What a treat to get to meet @spavel.bsky.social at the IA Conference in Philly last week; his ways of saying and framing are so full of compassion for people who do this work.
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#IAC26
#lookingatmypicturesfromlastweek
Quote post with your favorite fictional coded or literal stoner
ACAB does apply to policing the border of the term "jeep"
.. says I, a Renegade owner, who them ducking people also exclude and insist is just a friggin FIAT!
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...
The Latin at the bottom reads: "Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing."
#Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day
The competence porn point here is fascinating:
"Someone asked famous rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen what it's like being the greatest guitarist in the world. He replied, 'I don't know. You would have to ask Glen Campbell.'"
-@ThePaDaddy on YT
A rusty stainless steel bollard
Rusty Bollards is my new band and / or porn name
The equivalent of a "Tizla strategy" for the US would be Mitt Romney running on a platform of overturning Citizens United, banning gerrymandering, court reform, and jailing half the administration. And I mean, if that were how ol' Mittens were rolling, I'd at least hear him out!
A street sign about where to enter into some kinda of enclosure: ENTRANCE
I have the same issue with
Frascari uses Isidore’s etymology linking sapor (flavor) and sapienza (wisdom); to “have taste” on this line of analysis is literally to have wisdom.
Not to avoid thought.
“Taste is the body’s intelligent pleasure in materials and making, and architecture only becomes meaningful when it is designed to be tasted—touched, dwelt in, and abductively understood—rather than just seen”
Marco Frascari
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste..
.. your taste is why your work disappoints you”
— Ira Glass
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#IAC26
“the mind… grows bored with ideas but will never leave off fondling phrases”
Hugh Kenner
A jungle one
A plantation?
Another plantation
Rousseau
Picasso blue period boy dancer
Bosch
Matisse mural
Manet painting
Barnes-gasm
Sticker on a mailbox in Philadelphia
Who knew the modern version of hiding Jews in your attic would be letting your door dasher hide in your living room?
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
"Seduction is stronger than power because it is reversible and mortal, while power, like value, seeks to be irreversible, cumulative and immortal."
- Seduction
< better angels
Franklin Fountain
“Show Me Something Real” in pink neon enclosed in a heart shape shot through a window with a lace curtain
Picture of a dummy of What Will Be Has Always Been from the Architectural Archives at Penn
Oh, nothing … just a pasted up dummy of RSW’s 2nd book on Kahn.
Scully is not credited like that in the as-built / published 🤔
The speech is called Learning About Learning and I stopped playing it after about 10 mins to try to better ensure it won’t break when they digitize it for me 🤞
Cassette tape with hand lettering RSW USC
About to listen to a tape of a speech by “Ricky” Wurman at USC in 1977
