Conor O'Driscoll

@paulozoom We're hiring product designers over at @veedstudio — building tools to make video creation accessible to anyone. Fun space to be working in, fully remote, great team, growing quickly — happy to chat further if you want! veed.io/careers

📣 I know a senior designer looking for a new gig. Full-time IC or freelance, on EU timezones. World-class product, UI, *and* icon design skills, terrific craftsmanship, clear communicator, great editor of ideas — well and truly one of the best I know. DMs are open.

“Original artists have not shunned tradition, but digested it. The conflict set up between it and what is new in themselves and in their environment creates the tension that demands a new mode of expression.” — John Dewey

sure sex is great but have you ever

“You can't feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life anymore than you can stay passionately in love forever, or grieve forever for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busy work of living.” — Tim Kreider

This is the new Ship of Theseus.

“Imagine what you would like to see happen, and then don't do anything to make it impossible.” — Ron Padgett, How To Be Perfect poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/ho…

@frank_chimero on making websites that feel lived-in and bear the fingerprints of their makers: “There are plants and books and lights and seats and dust and you get the feeling it is a beautiful, functional space. There are finger prints all over it.” web.archive.org/web/2015031100…

This short essay by @simonsarris on designing more intimate spaces is wonderful. “We must learn to create the nook, to appreciate the wilder garden, to consider the power of shadows and small spaces, to welcome living materials over insensate ones” simonsarris.substack.com/p/patina-and-i…

For your Saturday afternoon enjoyment: these incredible linocuts by William Hays — theartistsloft.com

workin on a theory — film school students, you're welcome to this one

Remember “brb” and “gtg”? What quaint reminders of a time when Being Online wasn't just a permanent state.

“Draw a monster. Now tell me: why is it a monster?” — Janice Lee

@dianagetssocial 100% — even though I've read lots of well-reported, trustworthy content in digital, and lots of un-fact-checked nonsense in books!

@odrscll As someone who works in content, I don’t trust what’s probably like 99.9% of digital content out there. I prefer to read a book written by someone I know for a fact has done what they said they did and/or have a conversation with them.

Whether they are or not, some mediums just *feel* more trustworthy than others. A photograph feels more truthful than a painting. A native app feels more reliable than a web app. Information in print feels more trustworthy than digital.

“What we see in Atget's pictures is partly time.” — @MartinGayford, A History of Pictures

This limit of the technology, in Atget's hands, becomes a feature. These photographs are not just a document of a changing Paris — it is as if they are taken from the city's perspective. To a city, each of us are just… passing through.

Enchanted by these photographs of empty Paris streets by Eugène Atget (1898) But look closely — the streets are not actually empty…