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Caro Griffin

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A Chicago-based developer spending most of her time in a classroom. Find me at carolinesyrup.com + @carolinesyrup
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Wrangling high quality photos from dev clients has always been hard. It used to be working with too-small images, then crappy cell phone pics and now, thanks to Instagram, there's a lot of forcing square images into rectangular boxes.

Big Cartel recently redesigned their blog and I immediately zeroed in on this photo when clicking around. It's a super simple tactic for making an artist's Instagram fit their featured image area.

#stealing this#design tricks#web design#big cartel
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... Nerds now have money, power, and status. The biggest, fastest-growing companies in the world are run and staffed by us, and mainstream culture has shifted from mocking us to respect. Startups are sexy. We’ve won. And that’s where the problem lies. We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire. We got where we are by ignoring outsiders and believing in ourselves even when nobody else would. The decades have proved that our way was largely right and the critics were wrong, so our habit of not listening has become deeply entrenched.

Why nerd culture must die by Pete Warden

#currently reading
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Every maker is dependent on somebody! You might be depending on investors, or your Kickstarter backers or your day job or Patreon or your spouse or your subscribers or your 1,000 true fans or your mom, but unless you are an independently wealthy and incredibly reclusive maker, you are depending on someone. It might be for money, or for emotional support, or obsequious fawning, or external deadlines so you actually get stuff done, but you’re depending on someone, for something. In the vacuum of space, no one can help you make. But you should know what you need from other people.

Erin McKean, Independence and the Creative Life

#currently reading#creatives#funding
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Because it primarily points outward it’s a record of what an experience looks like, rather than what the person who had the experience looked like when he stopped afterward and arranged his features into his pretested photo face. The result is not as much a selfie as a worldie. It’s more like the story you’d tell about an adventure than the photo that would accompany it.

The term "worldie" is dumb but this story about GoPro going public isn't: We Are A Camera: Living the GoPro life via The New Yorker.

#currently reading#gopro
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A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film

This is proof that film form is not set in stone. People don't stop inventing this stuff. And, right now at least, I see a big problem we haven't solved yet. And a very level playing field for anyone who wants to go for it.

I once saw a play that mounted flat screens above the stage to display text messages between characters and have had a passing interest in this topic ever since. This video by Tony Zhou is a really nifty look at some of the things filmmakers are doing to show the digital pieces of our lives on screen.

I only wish Chef hadn't come out so recently because I'd be interested to see it compared to some of these other examples. Social media, particularly Twitter, played a big role in the movie, and I think it did a good job integrating a half-dozen social networks without it being clunky.

#video#film#television#videos i tipped
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Calls for “transparency” and “accountability” have meant more administrative and judicial supervision. In turn, power flows to impersonal institutions (agency review boards, courts, and so on) and away from elected leaders who can get things done—and who can be punished at the ballot box for delay and disappointment.

The Transparency Trap by David Frum via The Atlantic

#politics#currently reading
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Manueluv and I are convinced Agent K is Coulson’s father. Hell, MIB is even owned by Marvel. 

Welp. Never gonna unsee this.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiit

HEADCANON ACCEPTED SO FAST I THINK I BROKE SOMETHING

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Guys - who do you think told Phil all those stories about Cap?

THIS POST IS OVER 2 YEARS OLD AND IT JUST. GOT. BETTER.

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Everything here wanted to be something great, even if it didn't know what, or how, or why. Chicago had achieved nothing yet, but it had built the set for all that it wanted to become, and it was selling tickets. More than anything, Chicago yearned.

Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas Dyja

#currently reading#chicago#third coast#thomas dyja
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