What happens to a free nation and a freedom of spirit when the economy is so bad families are forced to go on food stamps in order to survive? Freedom dies in growling stomachs.
Continue reading → American Hungering: Starving Freedom on Food Stamps
Have we met our match in inventing our own assassins? Is it part of our evolutionary, technical DNA, to foster devices that intend to kill us? Have we have created a death wish covenant with technology?
Continue reading → Android Assassins: Inventing the Death Wish
Is Starbucks a brand in declination and a failing business? Has the reality of paying $8.00 for a latte finally hit bean bottom of a pitless pocketbook as people realize they can no longer afford fancy coffees if they can’t first pay their mortgages and mounting credit card bills?
Continue reading → Starbucks in Declination: Brewing Trouble, Not Coffee
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! 
Will you be drinking into drunkenness today?
Are you wearing green right now?
Will you be pinching those who aren’t wearing green?
Do you even participate in this non-holiday celebration?
Is Saint Patty’s day about honoring the immigrant in parades across the country?
Or is this day more of a mainstream religious reminder how dangerous it is to let foreigners step foot on our sacred land — land originally founded by Native Americans
— to only create sub-cultures in a group core and foment niche gangs that create economic stratification and propel black market futures?
Can you decipher the gibberish in the title of today’s post? If you under 15-years-old you certainly can. If you’re over 40 — you might need a clue.
Continue reading → Contextual Texting: ou812 prolly 153 2mr 4eva
Eliot Spitzer — Client Nine — is now forever known as “The Empire State Governor John” — after getting caught up in an FBI/IRS sex ring sting where it was discovered he appeared to be cheating on the wishes of his wife while smashing the dreams of his three daughters and vetoing voter faith by simply seeking sexual release with a call girl.
The nature of the designer in society is to give shape and form to the abstract.
That means if an abstraction requires an unidentifiable form, the designer must work to provide cultural clues and provoke shared norms to make that unfamiliar form recognizable in the abstract unknown.
The designer’s strength is in the semiotic — but the world runs on the semantic — and so the designer must become the ultimate translator between the real and the imagined.
That transliteration of economy leads to a richness of the human spirit and a flying out of the depths of worldly compromise.
If form is a factor that shapes vision, then the designer constructs the bones of the living.
Without design, we collapse into ourselves for a lack of infrastructure and we suffer the loss understanding indicating what we are and where we are going.
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