waiting patiently, originally uploaded by combustionchamber.

corridor, originally uploaded by combustionchamber.

I was watching the movie Transformers last night with my wife, occasionally rattling off the names of the various aircraft that show up – A-10 Warthog, F-22 Raptor, MH-53 Pave Low…. and on and on. She asked me how I knew all these names and I explained it was the result of growing up with a father who played flight simulator & war games (OK, I played them too).
As we watched the movie, I decided to read up on these aircraft on Wikipedia, since my knowledge was very superficial. As I skimmed through a few articles I began to get really frustrated and realized why there’s people bitching about how the openness of Wikipedia isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Here’s an example from the entry on the F-22 Raptor (emphasis added):

The opportunity for export is currently non-existent because the export sale of the F-22 is barred by American federal law. Most current customers for U.S. fighters are either acquiring earlier designs like the F-15 or F-16, or else are waiting to acquire the F-35, which contains technology from the F-22 but is designed to be cheaper and more flexible.

Currently? Current to what? Granted, this entry is probably not the best since the subject of the entry is still fairly new, but at what point in the future will someone decide to update the wording to reflect events that have transpired?
While you can see when an entry was last updated, is that the best way to check on relevance and accuracy? My friend Bryan suggests setting an entry as closed after it is completed and that not be editable until a certain point in the future. While Wikipedia has explicitly policies and guidelines – the website is open and thus, errors will show up. Given the amount of entries, not all errors are going to be found in a timely manner.
Keep this in mind if you’re a teacher, student, or just someone reading up on aircraft you saw in the Transformers movie.

I came across the photography of Rengim Mutevellioglu on QBN. According to her portfolio page on Krop Creative Pro, she’s 17 years old.
Even if she was 37 years old these photographs would still be amazing.
Whatever the case may be for the enigmatic Rengim, great work.

So the most popular cameras on Flickr are Canon Rebels and iPhones (oh, and Nikons).
I can’t say I’m too surprised. On my iPhone (or any mobile phone with email) all I have to do is email my custom Flickr email address and it posts my shots right to my photostream.
It’s actually become part of the process of shooting photos with my iPhone – shoot-and-email… shoot-and-email….

Uniqlo Try (via PSFK)

I was talking with Victor and John the other day in our office at Roundarch about Adobe’s products and the problems we’ve been having with them as well as our ideas for what they could be.
Victor took it upon himself to crystallize the discussion very nicely:

Adobe’s software offering is growing so robust, and their control of the content creation pipeline so complete, that they need to look to another model for what the future will look like precisely because there no longer exists a sensible explanation for why Photoshop does not allow me to create a non-closed vector shape with a stroke – other than software bloat. Enter the case for an aggregated experience – with a twist.

and:

Imagine the Adobe footprint/OS as a (relatively) low cost software that bootstraps the ability to use other Adobe content creation modules at a metered rate – let’s say yearly for instance – with an integrated way to dynamically load modules from the cloud, as needed/wanted to your local machine through a subscription service.

diller scofidio + renfro (via Pentagram)

My friend Jory has an interesting new project going on called birdsinthemorning.
The idea?

It’s really quite simple. One moment captured everyday and made available for download on the same day. A daily glimpse into my life over the course of a year.

These moments are also available as a video podcast on iTunes.

Yesterday I traveled down to DC with my boss to do a creative workshop with a new client. Since I’m now working with more corporate clients than I have in the past, I’ve noticed a few things (although not all these apply strictly to the corporate environment):
– Windows Vista takes a very, very, very long time to boot up on my boss’s ultra portable Dell laptop
– Windows Vista takes a very, very, very long time to shut down on said laptop as well
– I have not yet seen an elegant solution to the issue of plugging in electronic equipment in conference rooms – EVER
– Acela Express trains are enjoyable to ride and preferred to flying
– I can get much more work done on Acela trains

The site of photographer Chris Woods. It’s a great example of Flash used correctly – its simple and easy to navigate. Just use your arrow keys. (via changethethought)