there are no mistakes. just happy accidents.
You know how when you learn a new word, you then see or hear that word everywhere you look?
I just started reading the new Communication Arts Interactive Annual. The Design Issues column was fantastic and inspiring and I wish I could give you a link but there isn't one.
The Design Issues article by Laurie Rosenwald titled, "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose: What To Do When It's Too Late to Go Walking in the Woods, Get Burrs Stuck on Your Pants and Invent Velcro All Over Again." Let me indulge you....
"It is said that when the Pope asked Michaelangelo for proof of he talent, the artist responded by drawing a perfect circle.
Computers can do things I can't. Lile draw perfect circles, for example. I have a machine do it for me. It is easy to operate this machine.
Computers don't make mistakes. Given the same commands these machines yield identical results, no matter who presses the button. Because of them, things not only look alike and sound allike, they are alike. Why? Because your computer is never going to say, out of left field, the clear blue sky, and for no reason at all, 'Cashew' or 'Olympia Dukakis' or 'Bolivia.'
Or 'Trask, Radio! Trask, Radio!'"
So how weird that I was watching Working Girl while reading that article!
And that has always been my favorite part of the movie...
"Okay. See, this is Forbes. It's just your basic article about how you were looking to expand into broadcasting, right? Okay now, the same day, I'll never forget this. I'm reading page six of the Post, and there's this item on Bobby Stein, the radio talk show guy who does all those gross jokes about Ethiopia and the Betty Ford Center. Well, anyway, he's hosting this charity auction that night...real blue bloods, and won't that be funny? Now turn the page to Suzy, who does the society stuff, and there's this picture of your daughter. See, nice picture. And she's helping to organize the charity ball. So I sstarted to think, "Trask, radio... Trask, radio." And then I hooked up with Jack, and he came on board with Metro, and... and so now here we are."
I just started reading the new Communication Arts Interactive Annual. The Design Issues column was fantastic and inspiring and I wish I could give you a link but there isn't one.
The Design Issues article by Laurie Rosenwald titled, "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose: What To Do When It's Too Late to Go Walking in the Woods, Get Burrs Stuck on Your Pants and Invent Velcro All Over Again." Let me indulge you....
"It is said that when the Pope asked Michaelangelo for proof of he talent, the artist responded by drawing a perfect circle.
Computers can do things I can't. Lile draw perfect circles, for example. I have a machine do it for me. It is easy to operate this machine.
Computers don't make mistakes. Given the same commands these machines yield identical results, no matter who presses the button. Because of them, things not only look alike and sound allike, they are alike. Why? Because your computer is never going to say, out of left field, the clear blue sky, and for no reason at all, 'Cashew' or 'Olympia Dukakis' or 'Bolivia.'
Or 'Trask, Radio! Trask, Radio!'"
So how weird that I was watching Working Girl while reading that article!
And that has always been my favorite part of the movie...
"Okay. See, this is Forbes. It's just your basic article about how you were looking to expand into broadcasting, right? Okay now, the same day, I'll never forget this. I'm reading page six of the Post, and there's this item on Bobby Stein, the radio talk show guy who does all those gross jokes about Ethiopia and the Betty Ford Center. Well, anyway, he's hosting this charity auction that night...real blue bloods, and won't that be funny? Now turn the page to Suzy, who does the society stuff, and there's this picture of your daughter. See, nice picture. And she's helping to organize the charity ball. So I sstarted to think, "Trask, radio... Trask, radio." And then I hooked up with Jack, and he came on board with Metro, and... and so now here we are."