Check-ins and located tweets and photos for this day
- Photos taken Friday 21 September 2012
- Links for Friday 21 September 2012
- Jonathan Meades: Architects are the last people who should shape our cities | Art and design | The Guardian
- In fine form. “It is the business of attempting to create places that defeats architects. Architects cannot devise analogues for what has developed over centuries, for generation upon generation of amendments. They cannot understand the appeal of untidiness and randomness, and even if they could they wouldn't know how to replicate it.”
- The portable-infinite: David Markson interview
- From 1996. “The new book is not even a monologue. It's a semi-non-fiction, semi-fiction.” “People still do [write fiction books], and good ones, but I don't know why. It's been done.” (via Rodcorp)
- Ray Booty obituary | Sport | guardian.co.uk
- Sounds like a good chap. First cyclist to do 100 miles in under four hours (in 1956). Stayed an amateur. Had cold porridge in his drinks bottle
- Benjamin Hubert Studio
- Some interesting furniture and lights made with many different materials and processes, what Matt J told me about. Some nice prototypes, manufacturing and sketches if you click through to later images.
- Salary survey 2012
- A survey of “creative and marketing professionals” - basically all the roles in agencies, as far as I can tell. Both permanent and freelance.
- Teaching about the Future: Amazon.co.uk: Dr Peter C Bishop, Andy Hines: Books
- New, expensive, book from my old futures professor and an alumni who now also teaches at Houston.
- 8 reasons you should give talks | Final Bullet
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A comment posted on another site on 21 September 2012. Permalink
On the negative side… while it's great for the speaker, for all the reasons you cite, the idea that everyone should “get up there” makes me wince slightly. If I've paid to hear people speak I want to hear people who are really, really good at what they do, or really know a lot more than most people about their subject. From an audience-member's point of view I don't want lots of people going to speak at things just because they want to. This is why I rarely speak at things - because I assume there are plenty of people who know more than me about almost everything I know something about.