In this video, Ira Glass talks about being young, having taste & ambition, and being dissatisfied with the work you do.
It takes a while, it's gonna take you a while, it's normal to take a while and you just have to fight your way through that...you will make things that aren't as good as you know in your heart you want them to be, and you'll just make one after another…
I've been thinking about this brilliant piece by friend-of-DLB Greg J. Smith all day. Are there subjects for which information graphics are Too Much Information?
[T]he precision with which this graphic schematizes the death of a man is unsettling.
This past Friday, Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run for the Winter Olympics. Saturday, the New York Times produced this visualization of the circumstances which lead to his death on the track.
I was struck by the experience -- a man reduced to an abstraction, a projectile -- which one manipulates towards the last frame: a photograph showing the moment of his fatal collision. I found the juxtaposition, and my participation in it, troubling.
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