Ok, it’s officially Zeppelin Friday.

I love this film.

There’s a great discussion on Quora on, Why is there such a stunningly short supply of designers in Silicon Valley right now?
All the responses are insightful, including Mike Davidson’s:

This is not a supply problem. It’s a demand problem. There are more talented designers in the world right now than there have ever been; more than enough to supply all of the startup ideas that are actually good ideas.
As well as Willie Lim’s:
Designers are not only short in supply because of demand. Designers who can cope with the quick, ever-evolving demands of the technological landscape are rare to begin with.
The technical skills required just to be considered for a visual design position are high in today’s world and the positions available in the Valley aren’t always compelling to the sophisticated designers they’re looking for.
The elusive “rockstar” designer you’re looking for isn’t interested in playing on piece of wood with a few wires stretched across it. Unless of course you’re Jack White and then you start your own band.

John Carmack from ID Software shares his thoughts on the new Kinect for XBox One at Quakecon, calling it, “A zero-button mouse with a lot of latency on it.”
As someone who’s currently working on an application for XBox One, I’ve seen the v2 Kinect firsthand, and that’s a spot-on analogy.
Kinect, at least in it’s current form, is still half-baked.
It’s also tiring and not gratifying to stand around and wave your hands with no haptic feedback. Kinect is one of those technologies that seems awesome in concept and in movies like Minority Report.
The reality is something different.

BGR has unearthed leaked photos of Apple’s next-gen iPad:

FanaticFone has just published fresh pictures of the next iPad’s rear shell and has found that its frame measures in at 24 centimeters by 16.8 centimeters, which is slightly smaller than the current-generation iPad that measures in at 24 centimeters by 18.6 centimeters. FanaticFone also notices that “the distance between the border and screen of the iPad 5 is much shorter than the former iPads'” and now measures at 3 millimeters…
The distance between the border and screen of the iPad 5 is much shorter than the former iPads!
Sweet fancy Moses!*
Talk about a scoop.
I’ll need some time to process this.
*hat tip, George Costanza, again.

…off Kanagawa

BGR asks, Does Nokia have a backup plan if its bet on camera quality falls through?
My question is, does the Lumia 1020 have equally amazing camera software for their camera hardware? The interplay of software and hardware is how one fully experiences a device.
It’s like bragging about a car with 800 horsepower that can’t make turns.

If I keep letting all these saved links pile up, my computer will most definitely burst. Some of these have been sitting around a while, sorry if you’ve seen them already.
The Car Crush – “I believe there is a car crush waiting out there for everyone, and if I’m doing my job then you will find it here.” Amen.
X: The Unheard Music – I’m a documentary junkie, I have to carve out some time to check this. via The Loop
Speaking of documentaries, PressPlayPause looks interesting too, and you can decide if you want to download it for free or buy it on iTunes or Amazon. Bold move.
Designers’ Friend – Super nerdy portfolio site.
Brackets: From Comp To Code – Badass tool for devs working with PSDs from us nit-picky designers. On that note, Macaw looks cool too.
Small Victories – “Small Victories is a simple way to make a website out of the contents of a Dropbox folder.” Interesting.
Videry – Curated Videos for Designers

—George Constanza

thanks Frank Chimero

Omnicom and Publicis are joining to form Omega Supreme.
Damn.

John Williams is confirmed to score the seventh Star Wars movie.
It’s impossible to think of my childhood and not think about John Williams. He scored the theme songs for two of my favorite movies as a kid, Star Wars and Superman.
He also scored: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, to name a few.

AMC has launched #MadMenMotto on Facebook. It features quotes from the series on red, white and black backgrounds.
It’s a great idea. I love it.
I did something similar a few years ago on Tumblr, except I superimposed quotes on screenshots of the scene I pulled them from:





I’d love to pick up where I left off on season 3.

Matchbook Tees