A transmission from the deep south.
For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.
— Good advice from Tumblr co-founder David Karp, in a frank and wide-ranging interview with Inc.’s Liz Welch.
I think we were all thinking, ‘Man, I wish something new would happen. I wish someone would take a chance.’ And whenever I say that, I always go, ‘Why don’t we? Why don’t we be the ones to do something, to take a chance or whatever?’
— Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. (via Frank Chimero)
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein, just in time for the madness that will be FullCodePress this weekend. Wish us luck. (via Meagan Fisher)
People die and things change but sometimes you wish they didn’t, or at least that they would hold back and the world would stop turning just for a while. But that would mean that there was no longer work to be done. Paul was clever and funny and moody and brisk, and he left early. He had things to do.
— From Chad Taylor’s heartfelt tribute to Paul Reynolds, a local strategist, broadcaster and all-round institution who passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. Rest well Paul.
New York artist Sophie Blackall illustrates missed connections.
Talking about meeting people who speak in sentences and have complicated lives and make great things and care about a lot of the same stuff you do. That’s the thing.
— Merlin Mann on the importance of getting face to face with one’s heroes.
A short film written and directed by Shawn Morrison, produced by and starring Garrett Murray. Watch in HD.
Photographer Max Wanger poetically captures A Cup of Jo’s Joanna Goddard and fiancé Alex soon after their engagement in Los Angeles. The colour and tone of the set is perfect. (via Aja West)
Second in the series, this time in New York. (via Luke Seeley)
Cabel Sasser (on the left of the far right shots) on branding his wedding. Top job.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
