A quote by Vladimir Nabokov.
“There’s a tyranny of the machine that seems to interfere with big-picture thought”
_why has gone. Left the intarwebs. And in the process, he tore down the house, and leveled the garden.
‘Respecting Creativity’ encourages teachers to introduce the concept of intellectual property and the debate surrounding copyright issues to a classroom discussion.
Anyone who knows me, is well aware of the variegated mayhem of my creative impulses. I get swept away by so many different ideas, some days I get pretty lost in a flurry of forking paths, not knowing…
Though I'm clearly not a fan of link whoring "best of" or "top 10" posts, I wanted to take a quick look back at the most amazing ideas and incisive commentary that exploded through my RSS reader this…
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or…
I'm looking for work. If anyone knows of a good Wellington based position for an information designer slash programmer slash writer with 10 years experience building HTML and CSS websites and 6 years…
The state of science education in New Zealand, is in dire need of a massive creative rejuvenation, but it can only occur to it's fullest once there is widespread knowledge of an irreconcilable crisis…
Positive life changes can only happen when I am able to choose when and how I work, what I work on, and who I work with.
Using design to provoke public debate about the future of cities.
Ich komme nach Berlin.
Having been trained to blithely accept the time-warp of most large website projects being drawn out over months and months, it's taken a while for me to really grasp the significance of the realization…
Various musings of the moment. Given this general theme, one could be forgiven for thinking that I'm applying a cattle-prod to myself (or at least trying to). How to Do What You Love 50 Strategies…
Apologies for the recent silence on this channel. The pipeline is rather choked at present, and I haven't completed any interesting content for a while. Recent work has been fairly frustrating and…
Well, we did it... after an incredible series of mishaps (like this) and failures to source essential equipment (like this), things actually started going really well. Our assigned genre was Crime,…
Lately, I've adopted a new strategy to stem the flow of procrastination, and have been experimenting with the Bedouin worker lifestyle. I've been doing freelance design work from home for the…
I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit. - Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker On rereading this, and pondering…
Holism and the case for utopian imagination in architecture.
P-Money explains how creative things happen in NZ.
Innovation means a new way of doing something. At least, it used to mean that. Now, it apparently means a different way of doing something.
I am a pathetic procrastinating wastrel. I'm currently cleaning up my MacBook, poking through thousands of lines of articles, half finished chapters, short stories, poems, and wondering where to…
Last year, for the first time I decided to challenge myself by publicly posting goals/ambitions for the year. As 2009 slides in to a steady state of churn and grit, it's worth reviewing what happened…
In case you hadn't noticed - it's the 4th anniversary of this website. Happy birthday maetl! Well maetl has really been around for much longer than that - it's just that it wasn't until 2004 when…
Origami has expanded far beyond its origins in step by step folding patterns. These Crease Patterns are designed to be one-step transforms from flat paper into the finished shape. Even though the…
Really? I expected better from such a radical thinker as Jaron Lanier. His recent op-ed in the NYT is just not making any sense at all. Traditionally, artists, writers, musicians have been at…
The games industry has come to a crossroads, something that is becoming more and more apparent as I engage deeper into research for my upcoming game (more on that soon). The Guardian Games Blog has…