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In the modern world of information overload, you must manage your energy wisely. Otherwise you will slide into a state of reactionary workflow, (where you act impulsively rather then proactively), and simply try to stay afloat.
Scott Belsky, Founder/CEO of Behance
I think Vine is great, the simplicity of the interface is also it’s constraint in terms of flexibility. Trollback + Company has provided another viable option for creating great gifs and stop motion animations with Step. There’s a lot of flexibility. You can record video or take individual stills and assemble them on a timeline to create an animated gif. In order to streamline the interface with all these additional options Trollback has cleverly incorporated swipe gestures to save and delete videos. Step allows me to do one thing that Vine doesn’t. It allows me to save my animated gifs and videos to my camera roll.
"Visual artists, poets, and musicians are releasing free content online faster than ever before. There is an athleticism to these aesthetic outpourings, with artists taking on the creative act as a way of exercising other muscle groups, bodybuilding a personal brand or self-mythology, a concept or a formal vocabulary. Images, music, and words become drips in a pool of art sweat, puddling online for all to view. The long-derided notion of the “masterpiece” has reached its logical antithesis with the aesthlete: a cultural producer who trumps craft and contemplative brooding with immediacy and rapid production."
Brad Troemel, Athletic Aesthetics (via photographsonthebrain)
Interesting!
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"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort"
"A couple of years later, Ev and I quit. I had joined Google before the IPO, so I was leaving lots of valuable shares behind. But my move to Silicon Valley wasn’t about a cozy job - it was about taking a risk and reinventing myself. My first startup had failed. But my next startup was Twitter"
We Are All Made Of Stars
