Keystone Habit Transformed Housing Color

I'm listening to the audiobook The Power of Habits by Charles Duhigg, and he talks about how Alcoa's focus one simple change, improvement of their safety record, transformed the company into a efficient profit-making machine. An unexpected result, flexibility in the coloring of manufactured aluminum siding for houses, helped to reduce waste, lift profits, and exemplified better communication patterns.

Review of the book on Huffington Post
Charles Duhigg: How 'Keystone Habits' Transformed a Corporation

Director Amanda Pope

Quote of the day from director Amanda Pope:

"You need to develop your ability to go and do the most difficult thing in front of you because it’s a more interesting way to live."

From a panel on women in the film biz from the 2010 Santa Barbara Independent Film Festival.

Grayson Cox, The Water is Fine

Our friend Grayson Cox at Gasser & Grunert on 19th Street in Chelsea. So freakin' smart...

Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh at 

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art.

Cecile Bart in Geneva

 

Cecile Bart: Suspens at Geneva's Mamco Museum

Drawing Machine v1.0 Chad D. Curtis

Drawing Machine v1.0 Chad D. Curtis on Vimeo

Stefan Sagmeister at ICA Philadelphia

Stefan Sagmeister at ICA Philadelphia

America Underwater

Blog where Americans are sharing their stories about owing more on their house than their house is worth
America Underwater (http://america-underwater.tumblr.com/)

Fuck Yeah Brutalism

Famous example of brutalism just north of New York City in Orange County, New York, about to be replace with unoriginal colonial-wannabee structure that looks like the architectural equivalent of clipart.

Pfaff & Rydingsvard: Zygmunt | Art21

Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard: "Zygmunt" | Art21

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

Legoland Copenhagen

Organized by color.

Drawing Machines

drawing machines on Vimeo

My mind's on drawing for reasons to come...

BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep

BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep

Amazing. This is exactly what I do...

Kevin Slavin on Algorithms

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world | Video on TED.com

Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves

Isaac Julien, link to 2010 Guardian review

Just saw Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves at the ICA Boston. Amazing. Attacking a topic like victims of globalization in a nuanced way that resonates and invites dialog.

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus on Vimeo

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus on Vimeo

Code as weapon.

Interview with Marc Downie

How long...Interview with Marc Downie

Tracing Mobility

artlaboratory -berlin.org - exhibitions
Daniel Belasco Rogers and Sophia New

The Searchers II

Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
American Sikh with portrait of Guru
Gobind Singh, at an international Sikh
boarding school (Amritsar, India)
2006
40 x 50"