Brian Kerr

The world is too much with you, so allow yourself to find comfort in:

• images — analog devices, a catalog of ACME products, delicious guacamole, the Faces of Unsolved Mysteries, thrift store hell;
• words — not mine; and
• your village — the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway, “coworking” “town hall”, Startup Weekend, the Washtenaw County Workers’ Center.

(tags: acme ann arbor faces fight 'em until we can't guacamole hell images unsolved mysteries words ypsilanti)

From Community and Privacy by Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander, partying like it’s 1965:

Until one stops using popular or generalized words to describe specific objects and events, one will continue to be deceived by the associations with them and will fail to arrive at the essential functional aspect of things and places that is the planner’s actual concern in problem — analysis and design.

(tags: analysis arrival aspects concerns cybernetics design essence events failure function functional aspect objects places things words)