240 entries under "book"

Once, seeing a child drinking from his hands, Diogenes threw away his cup and said, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living." Another time, he loudly admired a mouse for its economy of living.

[Rather than fleeing to the mountains or killing himself, he lived in the midst of a hypocritic society as the embodiment of refusal.]

[When life both inside and outside of society doesn't make sense, create the 'third space' as an alternate frame of reference, a non-answer.]

[In Bartleby's repetitions of 'I would prefer not to', there is no reason given, no reason given for why there is not reason given, and so on.]

[As fewer people find themselves with the margin of privilege to switch off from the attention economy, attention itself might be the last resource we can control.]

[Hyper-accelerated expression on social media produces value for the platform and is a form of communication driven by fear and anger as opposed to reflection and reason. They become like firecrackers that trigger other firecrackers, soon filling the room with smoke. Outrage drives engagement while publishers promote articles that fan the flames.]

[Standing apart is to take the view of an outsider without leaving, to know your enemy, to allow belief in another world while continuing to live in this one.]

[Listening to everything there is to hear includes the sounds of daily life as well as your own thoughts.]

[Bird watching is the opposite of looking up something online because you cannot request anything: the best you can do is be silent and use your senses to understand where things are happening.]

[Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for everything else.]

…mind, body, spirit? How can we balance our time more to avoid over-emphasizing the mind?

[Faux-public spaces are scripted environments in which you consume the space.]

[The capitalist mindset wants every waking moment to be monetizable via employment or evaluatable via social media metrics, which makes it expensive to spend time on nothing as it provides no return on investment.]

[Noticing how some ravens live half-in and half-out the rose garden, I realize that there is no 'rose garden' to them.]

[We are not avatars, brands, or a set of preferences. We're inconsistent, lumpy, different each day, and we sense things in a world where others sense us.]

[Reimagine FOMO as NO(S)MO: Necessity of (sometimes) missing out.]

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

The Death Instinct: separation, individuality, Avant-Garde par excellence; to follow one's own path—do your own thing; dynamic change.

The Life Instinct: unification; the eternal return; the perpetuation and MAINTENANCE of the species; survival systems and operations, equilibrium.

[It's important to identify as citizens of bioregions even more than the state does, to consider the life-forms and the relationships between then including humans, to be commit to stewardship of the land.]

[A block of text creates a certain texture based on the thickness and evenness of letter stroke, the serifs.]

[A font's point size is based on the difference between the tallest ascender (like the tip of a 'b') and the lowest descender (like the tail of a 'p').]

[Body copy tends to look better with a leading / line-height of 120% to 140% of a type's size (1.2em to 1.4em).]

[Similar character widths make for better pairings.]

[Typefaces are built for specific mediums such as print or screen.]

[If you seperate paragraphs with space, a full line break is usually too much, better to have 0.8em.]

[Within Serif fonts: Old style, like Garamond, has a tilted axis, round serifs, modulated strokes; Traditional, like Baskerville, has an upright axis, sharp serifs, heavily modulated strokes, geometrical shapes; Modern, like Bodoni, has an upright axis, thin serifs, extremely modulated strokes, geometric counters; Slab-serif, like Museo Slab, has an upright axis, even thick modulation that matches the size of serifs.]

[Short cones are absent from the fovea, which is the center of our focus and where we can best see detail.]

[Researchers found that exposure to red overloads the brain's rationalizing capacity without you realizing. Participants displayed hesitation and earned lower IQ test scores, but rates their performance the same as the control.]

[Shopping in a Target store involves being assaulted with red in every direction, and there is a joke that you cannot leave without spending $100.]

[When surveying color usage and significance in a particular culture, research the flag, religions, weddings and funerals, holidays, sports.]

[Pointillism exploits our perception of two different colored dots placed next to one another to create the effect of a different overall color.]

[Warm hues and tints pop and appear to be closer. Cool hues and shades recede and appear to be farther away.]

[Tinted purple on black pops in a more jarring way than on blue because there is a relationship between the colors in the former pair.]

[Monochromatic schemes use a single base color with various tints and shades, and tend to be quiet.]

[Analogous schemes use adjacent or alternating adjacent hues, and tend to be harmonious and quiet.]

[Complementary schemes use opposing hues on the wheel and can be more exciting.]

[Split complementary schemes divide one opposing hue into its two adjacent colors, and can be less jarring or more harmonious than complementary schemes.]

[Triadic schemes use three evenly spaced hues.]

[Colour as we perceive it is a form of electromagnetic radiation between 400-790 teraherts. It's lower than infrared, microwaves, and radio; higher than x-rays and ultraviolet.]

[We don't see pure colours. They are spectrums that our visual system approximates, which results in our experiencing of the dominant color.]

[Colour constancy refers to the phenomenon of perceiving various shades of a colour as the same, despite there being subtle differences between them.]

[Human eyes have millions of photoreceptors called cones that can be divided into three sizes and each is more sensitive to a certain spectra: short (blue/violet), medium (green), and large (red/yellow-green).]

[Ganglion cells antagonistically combine signals from the cones, which makes red compete with green, and blue compete with yellow.]

[There is no purple as pure and dominant. Ganglion cells perceive red and blue simultaneously.]

[Women rarely have colour blindness because they have two X chromosomes, which is where the genes for cones are located.]

[A dog may have a hard time finding a red ball in green grass because they are naturally are dichromatic, which means that one of the three cone types is nor present. This is common in mammals other than humans.]

[Some hues have wider perceptible ranges of saturation and lightness: the color space is not uniform.]

[Using a Lab color picker can result in more uniform lightness than HSB.]

[In the additive RGB color system used by screens: red and green combine to make yellow, red and blue to make magenta, and blue and green to make cyan.]

[Whereas RGB is an additive process the mixes towards white, CMYK starts with white and subtracts by reflecting light through pigments.]

[Color management between color profiles relies on Lab representation to produce colors that are ultimately not identical but metamerically the same.]

[If a shape is repeated enough times at a small enough scale, it becomes texture.]

[Use direction and organize elements into explicit and implicit lines to guide the eye from one section to the other.]

[Use contrast not only to differentiate elements: frame and give focus to light elements by surrounding them with darkness.]

There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed down two hundred times by a butler's thumb.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

[Painters design a course for the eye to move through using lines that are implied in the visual content.]

[Distinctions between foreground and background can go beyond spatial position and include things like color, level of detail, whitespace.]

[Think Vitamin uses visual prominence to create a hierarchy for your eye to move through, starting with the title/logo, followed by navigation, then the most recent post, followed by other posts.]

[Bleeding off the edge makes something appear larger and thus more in the foreground.]

[The most dominant element is like a magnet but also like an anchor that the eye repeatedly returns to while exploring other parts of the composition.]

[Geometric relationships between canvas and content help keep the viewers eye on the composition.]

[It took Gutenberg 16 years to perfect the technology for creating printed books.]

[When selecting a typeface, consider its origin and intentions as well as how the mediums influenced its forms.]

[Automation frees us from servile tasks of mechanization and makes the liberal arts mandatory.]

[Automation removes separations between subjects in learning and flips the traditional dichotomy between work and leisure: whereas leisure was the absence of work, in the age of information we are at leisure when we are most intensely involved.]

[Mass production, like mass media, is not an indication of the audience size, but of the fact that it involves everyone at the same time: amassing media.]

[Even the most clear understanding of a medium is not sufficient to be immune from its effects. To resist TV, one needs the antidote of related media like print.]

[Presentations that are too discrete or specific perform worse on TV because they leave nothing for the viewer to fill in.]

TV can illustrate the interplay of processes and the growth of forms of all kinds as nothing else can.

[Visual structures are uniform, continuous, and connected whereas mosaic forms are discontinuous and nonlinear.]

[In the tactile TV image, as with the sense of touch, everything is sudden, counter, original, and strange.]

[Non-visual mosaic forms demand participation and involvement whereas literacy enables detachment and non-involvement.]

[TV image is an extension of touch.]

[TV favours the presentation of processes rather than of products.]

[Successful TV performers blend a low-pressure presentation style with an act that requires high-pressure organizing.]

[TV is cool because it is passive, whereas radio is hot because it involves.]

[With TV, the viewer is the screen: millions of dots of light go through them and a small subset are accepted in order to create the images.]

[The movie image has more data and is accepted by the viewer as a package; the dots don't need to be reconfigured to construct another pattern. Adding more data to the TV image would make it something else, in the same way that a cartoon with details of perspective and light would no longer be a cartoon.]

[Tribal bonds in England and America had been eroded by literacy to the extent that radio did not resuscitate them, as it did in Germany.]

[The transforming power of media is easier to explain than the ignoring of this power. This may indicate a certain capacity to numb like that which occurs under stress and shock.]

[Studying media's effects might baffle those who never studied it, as with people in pre-literate cultures who might say "Why do you write? Can't you remember?".]

[Commerical interests that try to neutralize media as 'entertainment' in order to make it universally acceptable are ensuring an accelerated and maximally pervasive adoption of any medium.]

[Radio is a decentralizing, pluralistic force, as with all electric media.]

[As TV centralized, radio became free to diversify and localize.]

[When the camera moves, non-literate audiences see trees moving and buildings changing size because they cannot make the literate assumption that space is continuous and uniform.]

[The orient watches Hollywood movies and sees that ordinary people have cars, electric stoves, and refrigerators, thus realizing that they have been deprived of the ordinary person's birthright. In this sense film for them is a mega advertisement for consumer goods, where as in the occident this message is merely subliminal.]

[Radio is a hot involving medium whereas TV is cool and passive, rejecting hot people and issues. If TV had arrived before the radio, there would have been no Hitler.]

[The phonograph was initially considered by Edison to be a persistant storage for the telephone, hence the name gramophone.]

[Radio initially cut into record sales because of its superior sound quality, but then increased it after directing popular tastes towards the classics.]