interesting article delving a bit into the design process behind the BBC websites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/02/a_new_global_visual_language_f.html
Seems like they did a really thoroughly considered job. Poor dears even covered their windows with printouts...
Yea we contained our madness to a room that we covered on three walls including the door.
But it wasn't as big as that space above. And not so many post-its.
continuing along the in-depth-discussion theme, here is a pretty interesting article about the state of contemporary academic music by Miller S Puckette (one of the original designers of Max/MSP and PD):
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/m209/puckette.html
"Although our music is complex to the point that few people can listen to it, we certainly do not offer the world's most complex music, merely the world's most unlistenable music. To compare our music to that of north India by asking which is the more complex is simply ludicrous. However, ours somehow sounds too complex. This may lie more in qualitative aspects of our music than quantitative ones; we might have a different kind of complexity (or perhaps it's just plain obfuscation) from that of other musics. The West's skill in classifying, combining, dissecting, structuring, and constructing has led us to world leadership in manufacturing, medical procedures, and electronic circuit design; yet our own population turns to a music which derives more strongly from the African diaspora than from our "own" musical culture."
Yann I liked the post that you wrote up on your brother's blog (that references the quote above). The act of navigating a forrest via sound is amazing.
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