Blog Commentary: Week 5

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Preview of "Content-Aware Fill" feature in upcoming version of Photoshop. There is a God.

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Nerd Deco

Computer cursor pointer turned into a coat / cable / anything hanger. Hand-made by "Meninos" company.

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Endless USB Adapters

Only a concept. Done by Chinese designer Gonglue Jiang. Hopefully it comes to fruition. Could possibly say goodbye to the need for a USB hub?

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Awesome / Creepy Coffee Sleeve to the Rescue!















An insulating coffee sleeve that blows up into a particular shape when heated. Created by Scott Amron for Amron Experimental, Inc. Located nearby in Westbury. Nice! Doesn't explain how exactly the "swelling" works or how the resulting designs are created or controlled. Click image for full page and video demo. Overswelling in 2nd part of the video scares me.

Blog Commentary: Week 3

Avatar Review on Youtube.



Wow.

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Cardboard Record Player



















Created by GGRP Sound. The idea and the novelty of the thing sounds incredible, but that's about where it stops. Not very practical. Spun with a pencil? Who's going to have the energy / accuracy to do that for a 5-7 minute song? Nice idea but needs work. Solves one problem but creates maybe 3 more.

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Seth Godin: What you can learn from a lousy teacher

If you have a teacher (of any sort) that you cannot please, that you cannot learn from, that is unwilling to take you where you need to go because he is defending the status quo and demonstrates your failure on whatever report card he chooses to use, you could consider yourself a failure. Or you could remind yourself...

1. Grades are an illusion
2. Your passion and insight are reality
3. Your work is worth more than mere congruence to an answer key
4. Persistence in the face of a skeptical authority figure is a powerful ability
5. Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run
6. If you care enough about the work to be criticized, you've learned enough for today

Here's my list:

1. Ratemyprofessor is your best friend come registration time.
2. Find other means to learn the subject. Sit down with the material yourself. Or have the token nerd explain it to you. A bad teacher usually means a bad communicator. Or they just found a way to carry a stick without using their hands. Learn your own way.
3. RATE
4. MY
5. PROFESSOR.