In an exhibition yesterday, a work by a Bangalore based artist Sujoy explored the future of urban landscape in the context of farming. The painting showed buildings with their terraces being used for farming. Huge bill boards on the buildings read “Space available for farming. Contact …” , “Soil available for farming. Contact ..” etc. Quite an interesting work.
In Karnataka, 2023.78MLD (Million Litres/Day) of sewage is generated, but the treatment capacity is 55.62MLD i.e just 2.75% of the sewage that is generated. Really scary.
(Source: pib.nic.in)
Travelling in a bus by the window
About a month ago, we decided that we needed to give the front-end of sendhub.com a face-lift. The site looked a bit dated, and it just didn’t feel as snappy as we wanted it to. All pages were rendered almost entirely on the server, and only a couple of places used Ajax to pull in data…
Sir Jonathan Ive in an interview -
Q: Do consumers really care about good design?
A: One of the things we’ve really learnt over the last 20 years is
that while people would often struggle to articulate why they like
something - as consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where
has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and
greed. It’s one of the thing we’ve found really encouraging.
Q: Users have become incredibly attached, almost obsessively so, to
Apple’s products - why is this?
A: It sound so obvious, but I remember being shocked to use a Mac, and
somehow have this sense I was having a keen awareness of the people
and values of those who made it.
I think that people’s emotional connection to our products is that
they sense our care, and the amount of work that has gone into
creating it.
(Source: thisislondon.co.uk)
Going to flood street with friends.
And the response:
But do you know how to swim?
damnyouautocomplete!