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First Debate Was Held Last Friday
MADISON, Wis. - Those who watched Friday's gubernatorial debate saw two candidates with very different views -- and sometimes it seemed like they had very different facts.
At times in the debate, Gov. Jim Doyle and U.S. Rep. Mark Green argued over what should be simple facts, like whether the budget is balanced.
"The reality is we're not in balance and no honest observer believes that we are," Green said.
"The fact is we have balanced the budget. The congressman's just wrong when he tells you that we haven't," Doyle said.
So who is right? Unfortunately for voters, in some ways they are both right.
The reality is that Doyle is right when he said he has balanced the budget every year he has been in office. He inherited a $3.2 billion deficit.
Doyle is required by law to balance the budget -- the state can't run up a debt like the federal government.
But Green is right to point out that the state still has a roughly $1.5 billion hole leading into the next budget. The state has committed to spend more money than it has right now.
Doyle said a stronger economy will grow tax collections to fill that gap.
The candidates also couldn't agree on whether there are more or fewer jobs in Wisconsin under Doyle's watch.
"When I took office we were losing jobs and we have been gaining jobs in Wisconsin," Doyle said.
"The sad reality is we obviously are losing jobs," Green said.
Who's right? Again, it's a mixed bag.
According to the federal government, Wisconsin has gained 177,000 jobs since Doyle took office, and manufacturing jobs are up 7,600 while many other manufacturing states have lost jobs.
Also in Friday's debate, Green threw out a new claim about Doyle's budget maneuvers involving Lambeau Field.
"In fact, he even tried to raid money that was intended for Lambeau Field. Folks, where I come from those are fighting words," Green said.
A WISC-TV analysis found that this claim needs clarification.
In 2000, Brown County voters approved a sales tax hike to fund the renovation of Lambeau Field.
By law, 1.5 percent of the money went to the state Department of Revenue to administer the tax. It turns out, the state didn't need that much and Doyle tried to move the money, about $824,000, into the state's general fund to help fill the budget hole.
Republican lawmakers shifted the money back to the stadium fund to help pay off the renovation sooner.
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How to turn around the overfishing crisis
By giving fishermen long-term and secure rights, we make sustainability a priority
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In many of the world's fisheries, poor policies give fishermen a stronger incentive to poach rather than protect. With billions of people relying on seafood as a key protein, we must change the trajectory of crashing fish populations—or risk a global food crisis.
Fixing a broken system
Traditional fishery management has motivated fishermen to catch as much as possible as quickly as possible, without regard to the long-term health of the fishery. But when fisheries institute rights-based management, fishermen become highly motivated to become stewards of their oceans.
How it works: Fishermen receive a secure share of the catch, and they agree to adhere to strict limits that allow fish populations to rebuild. This long-term ownership stake—in the form of a percentage of the fishery—is an asset that a fisherman can sell or grant to his children. And when the fishery grows, his stake increases, along with his profits.
When to fish
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Incentive to follow rules
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Rights-based fishing has already transformed fisheries in the U.S., where it's known as catch shares. Today, more than two-thirds of the seafood supply in the U.S. is sustainable, and more than 100 species are now on the path to recovery.
From Australia, Belize and Chile to Denmark, Namibia and the United States, sustainable management is creating healthier oceans that support more fish, feed more people and improve livelihoods.
Fisherman and fishery managers are now some of our biggest allies in this sea change.
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"We're catching bigger fish and getting more bang for our buck," says Buddy Guindon, a Gulf of Mexico commercial red snapper fisherman.
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The only reason I fly fish is in order to see a trout come to the surface and take a fly.
Everyone makes their own rules and has their priorities. I have the most respect for the angler that has mastered the most techniques, casts and species. If they are still having fun and sharing their passion, they are at the top of the heap.
"Gee Mister, what are you gettin' em' on?", the new fisherman asks.
The dryfly only angler looks down on the boy and taps the ash out of his pipe, "A good drift."
"Thanks Mister."
|being very new to the fly fishing scene, i was first introduced to dry flys last year and i have never tried anything other than dry flys. but i am sure this season i will get the chance to try something different, but i am a sucker for that top water action IMO.
I was pretty much a dry fly and streamer only guy until a couple of years ago. I went on a summer fishing trip up to the North Maine Woods when the fish were all deep in the holes in the streams and dry flies wouldn't get you anything. So I fished nymphs for the first time. Since then, I've found myself using nymphs more and more.
There's just something about watching a trout rise up and hit your dry fly that's really incredible. I always liked streamer fishing too since it's really a challenge to imitate how a baitfish would behave in the current of a stream.
Dry only fly fishing is a dyeing religion. There are some of us youngsters, versed in its ways, but the faith is not as strong as it once was. My granfather was one of the great priests of this failing faith. I remember, as a child, not more than 5, fishing on Mission lake, in Montana. The air was brisk, and for me, the young acolite, barely congnicent of the teaching I was recieving, was more interested in chacing young ducks through the reeds, than fishing.
My grandfather, on the other hand, cared for nothing but the dance. He was a magician with the rod. He would take his magic wand in hand, and make it dance to each command. A fish would rise, and with barely any effort, as if by will alone, his fly would float, low across the water, and land near the center of the bullseye left by the expanding riffles. The fish would rise again, his rod would ark, and the ballet would begin.
After a while, chacing birds through the bursh didn't hold my attention any more. I was captivated by the scene before me. He began to teach me. I was not big enough at the time, to cast for myslef, but I could learn where to place the fly, and how to retrieve it. I cought the first fish I can remember, on that lake, dragging back a fly that had been cast for me. A 10# 11 3/4 oz rainbow. It took me nearly twenty minutes to land the fish, and once I did, I was as exhausted as he, but from then on, I was as hooked as that fish.
My learning, under his tutalage, began then. He tried to teach me what he knew, from tieing flies to catching fish. He tied nymphs for me, and he usually carried one or two; a hare's ear here, or bever caddis there, but I can't recall seeing him tie one on. It was if he needed the temptation to resist, to prove his commitment. I do remember once or twice, seeing him fish nymphs. He would greese them up with a foul smelling paste he carried, and fish them dry. (I've never seen a hairs ear produce, like it can top water.) I learned what I could, but never became a fly fisherman. I liked to tie flys, but didn't have the patience for fly fishing. We fished often, but I don't recall anyone ever catching more fish than he did on any of our trips. It was amazing what nearly a century of experience had tought the man.
At 10, my family left our home in Northern Montana, but he, at 93, was to old, and too stubborn to follow. He still practiced his religion. The Flathead, the Milk, the Blackfoot, and Marias were his church. Over the next fouryears, Now and then, we would visit, and he would teach me as best he could. It wasn't until then, that I was willing to learn, and I studied eagerly under his care. I hooked myself more often than I hooked a fish, but I tried, and he was patient with his student. I would hear from time to time, of how his trips to reiceve his sacriments went, and hear the family complain about his disappearing into the hills. They worried he would hurt himslef, but I knew it was the practice of this faith that sustained him.
At 96, his eyes, and his helth were failing. He didn't stop at a stop sign, and had a minor accident. It was this accident, I am convinced, that killed him, not the kidney falior that ultimately took him just short of the beginning 99th year. They took his license, and thus cut him from his communion. Excommunicated, by an act of law, his mind went quicly, but the body lingered.
I remember visiting him once, shortly before the end. They had put a large plastic pool on the grounds, and stocked it with fish from a hatchery. They tied flies to ice fishing polls, and let the geezers loose. For a while, he was himself again. He cought a fish or two on a deer hair hopper. He talked for a while, and then went back to his room. I know it wasn't the same, but I think it was what he needed. A last rights of sorts, for a man of his faith.
I don't keep the traditions, as he did. I often sin, and toss a nymph to a riffle behind a rock, when there is no hatch to match. I don't have the patience I should, and I still lack about 55 years of learning, to be the sage he was, but I make an effort. Perhpas some say, I will re-discover the old religion, and I can teach my own children or grandchildren the way, as I take my communion, on the Blackfoot, or the Flathead, or the Marias. I can always hope.
This is a thread from a long time ago. Glad you brought it back up because I'm thinking more about dry fly fishing as winter steelhead fishing is getting harder and harder to do. It's funny we have not heard from PM Flyfisher in a long time, hope he is doing well wherever he is.
For the last few weeks I've been thinking of Spring in Wyoming on my daughters ranch. A certain river is near by and it has truely huge trout that sip. I keep thinking about walking the bank, stoping sitting for awhile watching the slowly moving weed beds in crystal clear water around the springs. Swallows flying overhead indicating that a hatch is just about to start, how do they know? Green grass along the banks and the milk weed and nettles not high enough yet to have to watch that one and only false cast you get. A good cigar to ponder on all that is begining to take place a pair of good shades to cut the mind glare.
This year I will take my 3 year old grandson for a walk along the river. All he talks about is fishing for sunfish in the ranch pond but I will show him something new. He will not need to fish the river for another 3 years or so but he should know about what's there and think about it often before he fall asleep at night. If he wants a cigar I will have to say no but how do you say no to your grandson, I'll give him a puff or two if he won't tell his mom.
|I, too, am one who fishes dry flies exclusively. My favorite place to fish is the Harriman State Park on the Henry's Fork. My current favorite rods are a Winston 9' 4wt DL4 wearing a Ross Evolution #2 loaded with SA Mastery Trout Taper WF-4-F, a Winston 8' 3wt WT that wears a Tibor Spring Creek CL loaded with SA Mastery Trout Taper WF-3-F and a Winston 8'6" 4wt WT that wears a Lamson Litespeed 1 loaded with Rio Selective Trout WF-4-F.
Dries...well not only but preferred!
I will fish a dry fly on a trout stream all the time if I can. If the water is over 60 degrees and nothing is showing I will fish a dry fly as a searcher. Trout will come up more than you think.
In saltwater, where I do most of my fishing now, I loooooovvve to fish poppers. Imagine the sound when a striper over 10 pounds sucks it in! Pretty impressive.
I love the rising form too much to go without for long. I am so enanmoured with trout rising that I make it a practice to stop by numerous places to just watch them feeding during the off season. The NW is an interesting enviroment even though a lot of people think it rains and floods all winter there are some event hatches that take place fairly regular over the years give or take a week or two even in the winter.
Case in point Lake Crescent on the west end there is a beach where for years I have been watching trout (even big Beardslees) feeding on little mayflys. Middle of February seems to be the best the water so clear you can watch them cruise around right from the guard rail and watch the little mays tenting there wings and get nailed, just about everyone. Gee maybe they should cut the mayflys some slack and let me sore mouth some of the fish so a few more of the hacthes will survive!!!!!! Most of the action takes place between 1130 and 1400 obviously bright sunshine and no wind (admitedly rare) helps out a great deal. Once in awhile you have to stop and smell the roses.
Now having said all that I would estimate that apart from steeheading in the winter I fish dry or at least damp 90% of the time probably higher but I'll be conservative in my estimate. This is a very fun thread good idea!!!!!
Fish Hawk,
Yes I can see many more people are now into striped bass back east. Grew up in Northern NJ, was getting into saltwater FF in 1978 and then the big corporate transfer to the mid west occurred. Then converted from trout fishing to midwest steelhead and salmon primarily.
As i remember the striper population in the seventies was down and FF for them was really not seen in NJ. I walked off IBSP several times and got some weird stares from the surf rod guys.
Will give it another shot on may next trip back to NJ. My family is all back there, parents are in Toms River just 20 minutes from IBSP.
Love that place, have all my life. Still the same when I was there two years ago.
I love fishing with dry flies. Not like it. I really miss it , especially when fishing the salt. However, nymph fishing has saved the day for me many at time. One of the greatest rivers is the Missouri in Montana. Nothing beats it when its on. I started nymphing the river and my catch rate went way up. I love the challenge of fishing the BWO hatch fishing size 24 dries.
However, here in the East the Striped Bass has changed many a trout fisherman into a saltwater fanatic.
Your like many of us in the NW, former trout fishermen turned steelhead manics. But I was glad you brought up "where did all the old dry fly go?" It's true most have passed on and we 50 something learned from them. They were good and usually well of enough to dedicate much of their life to taking their fishing to a very high level. Now I'm not saying it's the only way to fly fish, almost every method is just wonderful. Some folks love just being on a river others love catching and releasing the fish they hook while others love to take one home for dinner once in awhile. All of it's good, healthy for the soul but I'm always trying to figure out what it was with those old dry fly guys, what it was they were after in there obsession. I would never tell them this but it was like they were seeking some type of fly fishing zen. they quietly pushed their knowledge of their hobby to the max. While living in Montana I fished with many both guiding and just hanging out on the RR Ranch. They never taught, directed or conversed in a teaching maner. They just did what they did best and being able to be around them you started to see what they were seeing and on your own you started to develope new and keen skills. It's funny but before long you yourself are obsessed with pushing your self and giving the fish as many advantages as possible. When I look back on it now I realize that my first years in Montana were fun fishing and catching many fish on the Yellowstone, I was lucky enough to live on that river for a time. But for me to go back to that fishing is tough I try and I enjoy it but I think I enjoy the company of the my girl friend or my kids more than the fishing. Trout fishing is many things to many different folks and that's what makes it so great a pastime. I just think for those who want to challenge themselves in their fishing go out West and leave your nymphs at home, you may not like the fishing but to do it once would be such a learning experience and not time wasted.
|I bet a riffle hitch and some skating action will bring those steelies to the top. I've heard of other places where the locals say the steelhead in their rivers wont come to the top but have then spoke to people who have regularly done it. I've never been successful at it but I know there are some experts out there who will sing the praises of steel on the top all day long.
Okay, my spirit is renewed, it is good to see there are some dry fly fisherman out there.
But the response has not been large compared to the number of flyfishers on this forumn. I guess we need to give it more time for response.
I myself have been dredging mid west steelhead primarily for the last 20 years, since I was transferred here from back east. It is hard to go back to trout fishing when we can fish steelhead about 9-10 months out of the year in the rivers here in the great lakes. Thanks to the summer run steelhead now being stocked heavily in Lake Michigan. Lots of great trout fishing here though in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Steelhead dry fly fishing here has a very low probability of success in the mid west.
Wonder how many steelhead and Atlantic salmon dry fly only fisherman there are? Thats another very low probability success factor but something I have always wanted to do.
|All of the western dry fly fishing sounds great and I hope I have the opportunity some time. As I said before, it may be due to the limited opportunities and times that I get to fish or the rivers that I can fish in those opportunities. I have spent many a fishing trip walking a river to find rising trout and agree that there is nothing like finding the opportunity and the right fly and presentation and landing the fish. I have found that those opportunities just don't present themselves that often where and when I fish and I have found that there are fishing challanges and satisfaction to fishing other methods. I know its not the cathing its the fishing but I would rather have a wet tight line than dry flys and dry lines.
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Very nice. Thanks
Your welcome guys, Enjoy It was great to meet him!
Good point Ted. This world is all about the negative in life. Its easier to bash someone these days than to tell them good job.
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Totally awesome!!!! Ted is the MAN! Thanks Kurt for posting that.
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You the man Ted keep fighting the good fight.
Ted is by far my favorite TV Personality on the hunting channels. He makes some great points in those segments...I actually have debated on 50lb hunting bow myself....
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Wow! What a big difference between here and the one in the hunting section.
Ted you are the man
Thanks! Yep, I could be friends with him.
uncle ted is a class act everything that guy says is gold in my opinion
Ted is a gift to our sport. Perfect? No. Are you? I doubt it. He is so right about how he was crucified for a simple oversight and ignored for the many good things he does. That is why our "free press', while necessary, absolutely stinks in matters such as this.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - The City of Spokane prohibits camping in public areas, however the tent city underneath I-90 near the Division St. Exit continues to grow, and so far nothing has been done to check its growth.
About three weeks ago the tents started popping up. It started with a few tarps and sleeping bags gathered together, a place for the homeless to hang out and sleep. Since then it's grown, and so has the transient population.Tent City
"Anywhere from 20 to 40 or more a day," Sherry Turner, who is homeless, said.
Turner said there's even more during the night.. Despite the police threatening to relocate them, Turner said that since the tent city took root police have stopped by maybe 10 times.
To help relieve some of the more basic problems -- like sanitation -- the city moved in a port-a-potty, which might have solved the hygiene issue but also drew more people to the site.
"They came to empty it the other day, but it was so full to the top you couldn't even sit on it," Turner said.
It's illegal to camp in the city so Spokane's first attempt at relocating the group is to send in community housing and services to help find programs to get the homeless off the cold concrete. The next step is police citations and warnings, though Turner called them ineffective.
"The police will show up and they'll say, 'OK, you guys all got to go. You got one hour.' Then they never come back," Turner said.
The city won't physically remove the tents; even if they did the homeless staying there said they don't have many places to go.
"Well if the city comes through here, I don't know, but if they say 'Go, go, go or go to jail' I'm out of here," Turner said.
The city has a 10-year plan to eliminate homelessness as required by the federal government. It is also seeking proposals from social services agencies for permanent housing solutions for the chronically homeless.
One thing is for sure, just because you move a tent city like the one under the freeway doesn't mean it goes away.
- Thousands of pennies to help nonprofit school
- Hundreds 'March for Science' in Spokane
- Pink Ribbon Run will raise funds for local breast cancer patients
- STA one step closer to Central City Line
- Providence Health Care to break ground on new behavioral health hospital


text: I have come to the conclusion that a clear and methodical mind performs a lot better and accomplishes more of its goals than an angry and clouded one. It only took me ten years to figure this out. But I suppose it takes some people a lifetime to figure it out, if they ever do. So I'm not as late as I thought I was.


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Planning and preparing for an awesome time on the trail typically revolves around food in one way or another. I mean, face it.. we walk till we eat.. then we walk some more till we get to camp… and eat. We wake up, and eat. Point is meal planning is important. We will get into that more later, but I wanted to share with you one of the ways that I plan and prepare meals. I test them at home first.
I stumbled on this Krusteaz "One Step" muffin mix at our local store. It's great because you just add water.
I use silicone cups to do the baking in. You can pick them up everywhere. They are easy to clean and reuse.
Enjoy the video.
Bake some of these next time you are out on the trail.. You will not be disappointed.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


text: PolyOne Corp. is finding opportunities for its Geon HC rigid PVC compounds as a result of the startling trend of hospital-acquired infections, according PolyOne's Joe Kutka. Kutka, global business development manager for PolyOne's Geon line, spoke during the Plastics in Medical Devices 2012 conference in Westlake. As a result of higher hospital-acquired infections, or HAIs, hospitals are using stronger disinfectants and using disinfectants more frequently in general, Kutka said. This can have an adverse impact on plastic materials used in medical devices. "Disinfectants can cause polymer cracking and crazing in device housings," he said. "This can lead to fires, burns and equipment failure. [Disinfectants] can corrode electrical circuitry. All of these things can lead to more service calls, warranty claims and product returns." Steps are being taken to handle HAIs, and thats having a big impact on material selection, he said. "So when youre making a medical device and youre looking at a medical device that has a five-to-10-year lifespan, its really critically important that youre using the right types of materials that can provide the durability, the chemical resistance and aesthetic that the medical device is going to require for the next five to 10 years." PolyOne is based in Avon Lake, Ohio. The conference, hosted by Plastics News, was held June 12-13.


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03-24-2013, 08:21 AM #1Member Swordtails
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Gravel dust and bubbles.
I did a bit of a search but didn't find much.
As per my only other post, tank is brand new, no fish, not started cycling yet. Filled it yesterday afternoon.
Basically I screwed up slightly and apparently didn't rinse/wash the gravel very well and it produced a fair amount of cloudy dust. I was hoping this would settle/filter out and it is, slowly. However the dust creates nucleation points for air bubbles and has caused several of my plastic plants to float to the surface.
I will need to clean the inside of the tank as some dust has settled on the glass which is unsightly and it's covered in bubbles.
I'm assuming that if I leave it the filter will clean a lot of it out and I can wash the filter pads before starting cycling?
Other than that a large water change and wait some more?
Can I assume as this is just silicate gravel dust that it won't be a major toxic issue?
Fluval Roma 125, Fluval U2 Filter
03-24-2013, 12:40 PM #2Member Swordtails
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Nevermind. I decided it was probably a better plan to remove most of the water, wash the gravel in the remaining by aggitating it and continually cycle water through it until the 4 inches of water remaining at the bottom was clearing up. Refilled and retreated it and while I still have bubbles and understand they are normal, it is MUCH clearer now.
Going to go to the local aquarium place to see if I can get some ammonia.
some level of cloudiness is to be expected depending on the size of the tank it may take days to fully clear up, my 5ft tank took about a week even with water changes and washing the gravel completely. It will happen just be patient. cycling during this clearing up time is a good idea to. Goodluck6ft Australian Fresh water turtle tank - 2 macleay river turtles, numerous guppy at varying stages of development.
5ft 150gal planted discus tank - 8 discus, 10 cardinal tetras, 10 rummnose, 6 albino cories, and breeding RCS in tank sump and just about everywhere everything done from scratch, filtration and stand tank
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Now Rossco, where is Shelly ? Untie her and let her out of the cupboard while you blog cause you aren't tricking us with "Shelly Nowland's" witty comments this time...I think the only contraversy is 'where is Shelly'....LOL
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Day 6 - 12 June 2011:
After our nice relaxing night in Pismo Beach we had a nice long sleep in to recharge our batteries. We had breakfast at the hotel which included cook your own waffles which were fun to make but offered absolutely no nutritional value.
After brekky we went for a walk out along the Pismo Beach pier. The sun was shining and it was a really nice day except for the freezing cold wind coming off the Pacific. We would find out that this type of weather is actually quite common right along the west coast. We spent some of our hard earned cash on two Pismo Beach jumpers. They would look crap on other people, but they look awesome on us because we are very attractive.
We strolled around the town and had a look in a few more shops then we decided to head up the coast to a place called Hearst Castle built by an excentric millionaire. Unfortunately, we hadn't booked a tour and the last one just sold out. You weren't able to drive yourself up to the castle so the closest we got to Hearst Castle was a few K's away.
"Oh well, they say every cloud has a silver lining. I wonder what is around the corner?" - Shelly Nowland
Well it turns out that Shelly is a fortune teller. If we'd stayed at Hearst Castle we probably would have missed what was to come next. Just down the road we came across an elephant seal rookery with, funnily enough, stacks of elephant seals. The beach was just off the highway and there were lots of other tourists about. I'd say there was close to a hundred seals of all different sizes lounging around on the beach. They were awesome to see. Stumbling upon this is definitely a highlight of our trip to date.
We continued on our trip up along the coast on the well-known scenic route, Highway 1. This was by far the most picturesque driving leg so far with great views everywhere we went. The drive took a lot longer than it should have because we stopped at all the "vista points" (lookouts) to take photos and soak up the serenity.
By the way, Shelly did have a go at driving during this stint and she went really well for the first time driving on the right-hand side, although scary at some points along the windy cliff roads! All I can say is that I am a terrible passenger (I think I am scarred thanks to Josh Q), so I took over the reigns again shortly after. Shelly doesn't seem to mind too much anyway.
"I don't mind if you drive because I think men are much better at driving than women." - Shelly Nowland.
"Hmmm, controversial." - Ross Merchant.
As nice as the drive was we were very happy when we finally pulled into Aunty Barb's place in the suburbs of San Jose which we had a bit of trouble finding. When Aunty Barb's husband Mal originally moved to San Jose the population was around 50,000 and the area where they live now was all orchards. The population of San Jose is now over 1 million and the urban sprawl has definitely taken hold.
It was nice to meet Shelly's extended family. Aunty Barb is one of Nanna Nowland's many siblings. We had dinner with Barb, Mal, Francis and her boyfriend Chris. It was good just to stay up and have a good ol' chinwag before hitting the hay.
Aunty Barb and Mal had given up their room for us and also provided mini soaps, shampoo and conditioner ala the full 5 star hotel treatment. They were very generous and hospitable, this was much appreciated and it was really nice to be staying with them.
Day 7 - 13 June 2011:
We woke up and were treated to a proper coffee made for us by Francis. We met Anne, an Aussie friend of Aunty Barb's who she went to nursing school with many years ago, who was in the US for a wedding and flew into San Jose to visit Barb for the night.
We discussed what we would do for the morning and, since I was outnumbered, it was decided we would go shopping. I'd suggested going to Hooters, drinking beer and watching baseball but was outvoted.
Anyway, since we'd arrived we'd been joking about a chain of stores we had seen. They were all over the place. The sign on the store read "Ross - Dress for Less" which we both thought was humorous since I don't like to spend much on clothing.
It turns out that "Ross - Dress for Less" actually buys up all the surplus brandname stock from other stores. Shelly and I were pretty impressed. We both bought stuff but Shelly got the best bargain with a $2 Calvin Klein top. Way to go Shell...
"Ross might not look like much but Ross has everything I'll ever need to keep me satisfied." - Shelly Nowland.
After that, we went to another store called Marshalls but Shelly didn't buy anything. I took that as a compliment.
Shelly spent the afternoon relaxing by the backyard pool, reading and photographing squirrels. I finally started the blog (a week late and still catching up!).
We had dinner with more of Shelly's family including Chris, Elouisa and their three kids Brendan, Alison and Deanna. It was great to meet everyone and we got some very useful tips about San Fran and Yosemite our next destinations. It was a lovely evening.
What's that, you want more blog? No way Jose, but tune in later...
Uncle Ross and Aunty Shelly.
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Have been checking each day Rossy, and each day another disapointment, no blogs, but youv'e redeemed yourself, love reading them, keep havin' fun.
Absolutely fantastic travel blog Ross & Shelly - so entertaining - I'll be hanging around for me if this is anything to go by. xxx
Another laugh-a-minute blog Ross - you should get them published when you get back - perhaps your own travel series?? And its really great to hear how much Shell is appreciating you, obviously 24/7 living has made your relationship blosom into a stunning and fragrant flower xxx


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This is a real opportunity for the USA.
We need to support the voters who were cheated. Current administration is calling for all media to leave the country. They don't want any pictures of what they are getting ready to do to the restless citizens.
Akmadinajad(sp) is finished either way!
Makes one appriciate our Second Amendment. The only one with any real firepower in Iran is the government.


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Working, researching and playing with design, architecture and technology defines my endeavors as a designer and a human being. World politics, big cities and human relationships interest me. My favourite hours of the day are spent sitting with my machine with a big cup of coffee and designing new ways of interacting with the spaces and machines around us.
Working, researching and playing with design, architecture and technology defines my endeavors as a designer and a human being. World politics, big cities and human relationships interest me. My favorite hours of the day are spent sitting with my machine with a big cup of coffee and designing new ways of interacting with the spaces and machines around us.
Urban Matter Inc is a creative studio that helps organizations in public and private sectors create meaningful experiences using participatory media and design.
Responsibilities include working for the Innovation team on projects involving interactive and media based architecture.
Interaction Design
Work involved operating and maintaining the Laser cutter and the 3D Rapid prototyping machine to assist student and faculty art projects at NYU.
Exhibition Design, Storytelling, Design Research, Visual Design
Writing a synopsis of the past year and expressing hope for the upcoming year has become a bit of a tradition for me. I kept a journal when I was a teenager, keeping one now feels too cumbersome and self absorbed. Pitching in once or twice a year is easier. So here goes.
2015 was a year of immense learning and growth, both professionally and personally. It has been one of those years that has helped Rick and I to get on the same page as husband and wife as well as business partners. I have gained clarity on the legality and finances of our business and Rick understands the passion and idealism that goes into the kind of work that we do and want to do. On the other hand, we've been able to talk more clearly about our desire for a family and needs for the future.
There has been some of amount of self realization as well. On the work front, it was facing the decisions that we made as a company and appreciating the work that we do on a day to day basis versus saving all the smiles for the big wins. Technically there are no big wins, just small wins that lead to a big win. That iterative approach to getting things done is something I am getting to understand and appreciate. Work is relentless, never ending, there are decisions to be made and problems to be solved constantly, and we've learned to live and work on the go, and still be husband and wife. On the lighter end of the spectrum, I have been working on learning how to disappoint people, giving bad news and saying no to stuff. Apparently I have a problem with all those things but have slowly come to realize that it was important to set the right expectations. Some very self respecting folks think that assigning things their correct value is probably best.
We've worked very hard this past year. I haven't blogged on the Urban Matter site for months because we've just not had the time to come up for air. If we've had down time, it has been spent binge watching lives of more stressed out people on the West Wing. It has been a frightening, exhilarating and reflective year. If someone were to make a reality TV series on our lives where a day goes from euphoric to downright shit, within few hours, and vice versa they would have a hit series on their hand.
This past year we reinvented a project that we couldn't install at its original site, we were chosen by SXSW eco Place by Design competition as a finalist in the data and art categoryArchitectural Digest and the Atmel Blog's lists for one thing or the other, and we were finalists for multiple projects over 200K. We also enjoyed a full year in our Dumbo studio that we love, with a team that we enjoy working with. We made bold decisions and got rid of heavy baggage that was pulling us down. We stopped questioning what we stand for so its been a good run.
Our hope for the new year is to install a bunch of work, create a prototype for an exciting new product and then take some time to travel to see family and friends. Not sure how 2016 is going to treat us but as 2015 taught us, its the small steps and the small wins that defines a whole yearful of activities. Hopefully I'll get to pipe in and talk about how that is going for us.
For the past couple of years, I have been working on an interdisciplinary studio that operates at the intersection of art, architecture, and technology called Urban Matter. We are reluctant artists and most of our work in one way or the other caters to the wants of a user, community, city or a client, which probably makes us designers more than artists. Our relationship with various emerging technologies is significant. We use it for prototyping (in the shape of 3D printing, laser cutting), to create interactivity (using arduino, raspberry pi or makey makey), to tell stories (using projection mapping or LCD screens) or to simply light up a space (using LEDs and fiber optics). We use it as a tool and as inspiration. Even though most of our work comes from a place of detailed process and design research, we love the idea of using the latest and greatest technique out there to do something novel. Is technology the main highlight of our work? No, but it is a significant aspect of what we do. It seduces us and at the same time challenges us. We have a love and hate relationship with it. On one hand, the awe and wonder that can be created using todays tools and technologies helps us create interesting experiences, on the other hand, it is restricting to always rely on wifi connectivity and power sources. Maintenance of such work can be an unending list of things as well.
But lets get back to the inspirational side of things. I recently saw a presentation by the amazing Anab Jain at the Design Crit Program at SVA. Her studio Superflux weaves scenarios around the future of technology. It is fascinating how true some of these make believe scenarios can be. In a way, they are almost predicting the future even if it seems to be a bit bleak. A trip to the recently renovated Cooper Hewitt Museum was inspiring in a different way. All the interactive content was done by Local Projects which is a media design company, best known for all the work they did for the 9/11 museum. The seemless integration of real time 3D with touch screen technology created quite a stir but quickly became commonplace. A reminder of when the wow dies down, things become familiar and habitual. Brighter and lighter things then take their place. It is a challenge to work in a business where a big component of the business (aka tech) changes every day, every minute.
My relationship with all things technical started early. While growing up in mostly remote Indian military cantonments, I watched a lot of TV primarily because there really wasn't a lot other stuff going on. In a way it was like growing up in an American suburb, only a bit more dangerous. Movies like Gattaca and shows like X Files were always a favorite. Scully was a role model for me and weirdly so a driving force in a lot of early decisions around career and colleges. The characters analytical mind was truly inspiring and something I hoped to emulate. 20 years later, I know that I could have never been anything like Dana Scully. But my career list did comprise of an entomologist, a microbiologist, a physicist and other similar nerdy professions. After high school when I was trying to figure out which science/engineering colleges to apply to, my father got posted to a town with a good architecture school. And that is how I landed up in an arts/architecture environment versus engineering.
After struggling at my new school for a while, I learned slowly but surely that architecture is a balance of art and technology. Behind a great piece of architecture is numerous hours of structural engineering, behind a material finish, there are material properties. Everything is interlinked, there is a science to every piece of art and vice versa. My final year thesis was on dematerialization of spaces, an understanding of how spaces had evolved from solid structures like the pyramids to the glass and steel structures of today, all because someone figured out how to create windows by creating flying buttresses. The other kind of dematerial space that I was getting really interested in, was the cinematic space or the screen space where people could get immersed in for hours and mentally teleport. There is a lot of literature around this, and if all the architecture theory is anything to go by, its good to steer clear of it when given a chance.
Urban Matter Inc is a continuation of that thought process that started close to 15 years ago as an attempt to see architecture from the lens of technology. As Archigram once envisioned the walking cities as the future of cities, it is my hope to see what is next when it comes to how people live their lives in cities and present day technology. Being true to this vision is our hope for 2015. Happy New Year everyone!
I wish I would've made a note, every time I had an idea for a new blog post. It would've been an interesting list. I've had a bunch of ideas and have been wanting to write about them these past few months, just haven't been able to get down to it. Today's attempt can be attributed to me being sick and bed ridden for two days and suddenly having some time to think about things. Yesterday I spent a lot of time watching Netflix and today I spent time catching up on a bit of emailing which I'd been avoiding for a while. It felt like the right time to write something today. A cheerful day for a blog post.
Back to topics to write about. I wanted to write about terribly important things like race and gender in entrepreneurship, roles of artists in arts organizations, our decision as a company to take up more commercial work to pay the bills. Then there were the other more personal things like importance of friends and friendship in ones life, thoughts on self respect, work life balance, starting a family, health concerns, life experiences, then the list of existential nothings like the fear of dying alone, thoughts on faith and religion, on lost time, aging, not understanding why we do what we do.
But I guess one thing which I've been focusing a lot on these past few weeks is how much time should I spend on social meida. As mundane, irrelevant and millennial this sounds, its been taking a lot of my headspace. June was a testament of me going a bit nuts with instagram and facebook. A wait of a couple of minutes for the ATM meant that I needed to check my instagram or facebook account, getting into the elevator to go up to my third floor apartment meant that I needed to check my phone, walking to work meant I needed to feverishly dig into my bag for my phone, standing in a grocery line, waiting for a drink, talking to a friend, watching TV, as if being distracted wasn't enough, I needed to be distracted from a distraction. It was endless and consistent, the feed never stopped and I never stopped browsing through it. The worst was at work. Every time I would feel uncomfortable or couldn't find the right solution to a problem, or couldn't crack something, there it was again, me typing those alphabets, f..a..c into the browser and it would auto-populate and viola, a whole lot of information for nothing, like empty calories. Weirdly so, I would keep running into people I am facebook or instagram friends with and neither of us would really acknowledge the other, so it seemed almost false and useless to spend time reading about these people or seeing their pictures in the virtual world when clearly we wanted nothing to do with each other in the real world.
I gave up eating bread for a week because gluten seemed to give me heartburn. I never really got back to eating gluten after that week. I tried the same with social media – one weekend, I decided, okay I am going to try and stop for a bit, take a bit of breather, not for day or so but for a week or so. I had to finish a couple of proposals that weekend and every time an urge to open up a social media window would arise, I would resist it. Weirdly so, I was a lot more focused, I had better ideas, my research was a lot more contained. My urge to dig into my bag for my phone kinda died. Waiting in line, meant, well.. waiting in line and feeling annoyed and noticing things. I didn't know what anyones July 4th plans were, who went where, I knew that I was working and watching the world cup at home. It was kinda relieving.
But there are no happy endings other than in Bollywood films. After the initial relief, I suddenly felt, well – a bit alone. Sometimes social media is just a way of keeping up with people who you don't phone, email or see on a regular basis, like a friend moving to a new city, or a cousin studying abroad, or a nephew beating the crap outta another kid during a taekwondo fight. These are few things I do care about.
Also, I have an eye for pretty pictures, I see a nice image and I need to share it, with strangers and friends alike so after a week or so I decided I would continue posting a small bit on instagram and work related stuff on facebook. When friends show support for a project I busted my ass on or like a video of my dog tap dancing, I do feel teeny weeny bit loved. Its awful and shallow but it does kinda feel good sometimes. I guess people like approval, like dogs like being petted. On the other hand, Its not just about being fakely liked on social media, its also about liking/supporting stuff other people post, kids, dogs, family vacations, business breakthroughs, personal projects (I draw a line at selfies though). I also like to share the stuff I believe in, like desi chics surfing and kicking ass, feminist stuff, culture stuff, art stuff.
The other day, I checked my feed after ages, and noticed that I hadn't responded to a message from a close cousin or commented on a picture my best friend from undergrad posted of us together. Its just that I haven't been checking facebook very frequently. I don't know how to figure out my social media conundrum. I wonder if I could get facebook and Instagram in a digest format so that I don't feel the need to check it constantly as if I am going to miss something.
How do I solve this? Have you solved it? How do you moderate your social media intake? I guess I'll figure it out in time but for now, I am a bit clueless. FYI, I am on twitter, feedly and flipboard all the time and I don't have any crisis going on there because these platforms are not personal for me, they are sources of information and news that I choose to follow. I do plan to write about race, gender politics, entrepreneurship, unpaid bills and existentialism. For now I just need to figure out how to not check facebook and Insta and still be able to keep in touch with people who matter.
2013 was a year of being an entrepreneur, a small business owner in the city of New York. It has finally settled in. One notices being on the outside when one's instagram feed is full of friends who work for big agencies attending their no expense spared holiday parties. Strippers, robots, water sports, expensive Manhattan cocktail bars, its all there. The smaller shops settle for disco balls and DIY photo booths but there is still someone paying for it all. One also notices the difference when one is working through the holidays and on vacation the moment the 'holiday season' ends. Oh yes! We are definitely on the outside. One other development is the quick loss of critical thinking. When you work for someone else, you can complain, you can assert how your creative spirit is being throttled by the wicked money mongers who run the company. When you work for yourself, things are a bit more complicated, a lot of your time is spent building your offering, whether it is a cookie, a spin class or an app. Being critical of the kind of work you are doing is tough because that is everybody else's job, your peers, your competitors and maybe even your mum. Your job is to believe that whatever you are making is worth its while. We did that most of last year, we believed that we could make something worthwhile together thereby kicking out the people who did not share the same values. This year we decided that we wanted to have one thing common with the rest of what we forsake to start this company. We decided that along with believing in what we make/built/conceive that people love/like/dislike, its our responsibility to make money as a business. Do businesses that don't make money even exist. I think they do, there are a lot of businesses that have investments that they can never really make good on. The other business model that does not make money was ours, where we all paid bills through our freelance income but not by doing what we called was our 'business' which was creating experience design projects focussed on data, stories and participation. Do we make money as a consulting business or start making products is still in the works. For now, the new year isn't without promise and business. There is plenty of both somewhere someplace, we just need to dig it out.
Happy New Year All!
Its been precisely a year since my last full time job. I've completed a year doing my own thing. The new year has been good for us. Under our art collective umbrella – Artist Build Collaborative, we were named one of the 104 finalists for the prestigious Artplace grants, next to institutions like Creative Time, New Museum and Time Square Alliance. We won the Black Rock Grant this year for an urban intervention project. We were finalists for two interesting opportunities, one for a large scale project for Beam Camp in New Hampshire and the other for a project in the Stewert New Media Center in Orono Maine. None of which we won but it felt good to be a finalist.  We are working with some very exciting new people that include videographers and creative technologists for our upcoming projects. I have been consulting part time for a start up called littleBits whose mission and product I admire and love. Rick and I also completed an 8 week class around Business Plan Development that helped us understand and think financially about things that we love doing. Its helped me think of Urban Matter Inc more as a scalable business and less as I like to call it 'my own thing'.
We've also been extremely busy working on consulting gigs which for now has been paying the bills. We are hoping to grow into a more experiential company where we use storytelling, film, architecture and our technology expertise to make fun and immersive things. There are a couple of projects that we are working on that might fall in this arena. One of them is called Wise Words and it is an interactive storytelling telling installation that revolves around stories of women who immigrated to this country in the earlier 20th century. This project will be displayed as a part of the New Museum Ideas City Festival at the storefront of an amazing architecture office called GTECTS alongside another interesting organization called miLES.
All in all things are moving forward and we are working a lot. We really hope to shift our focus to more experiential work at the intersection of urban design, technology and storytelling. I've been reading a lot of Brainpickings and the post about purpose really stands out – 'How to find your pupose and do what you love'. Its a great post and some very smart people talk about why you do what you do. We are doing a lot of new things and working with a lot of new technologies and people. Its not perfect, but I want to make sure we do a lot of work and get better. Ira Glass's video on creativity explains creating good work really well. The top most priority for me is to have fun while working on something so that work doesn't feel like work but more like creating an artistic experience. I look forward to going to the studio everyday. Its come to feel more like an experimental lab where we work on understanding new technologies and creating new experiences by brainstorming and experimentation. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't. The idea is to move in the direction of monetizing the things we love to make. I hope we've moved successfully in that direction by the time I get down to writing my next blog post. For now, Rick and I both have to wrap up a number of consulting gigs which might spill into summer time. After that we would seriously need to rethink why we are doing what we are doing, what we enjoy doing most and the million dollar question – how to make money doing what we love without having to do it all the time.
I did it, I left a fairly comfortable full time job at a prestigious design firm to start on my own. This happened in April of this year. Since then I've worked on an installation for a conference, organized a fundraiser for another installation, been to Venice to showcase a project at the architecture biennale, created an animation for a bunch of scientists, worked on two websites that are in production, curated speakers for a conference in Mumbai and gotten married. Its been a fairly tough yet exhilarating ride these past few months.
While feeling trapped in a full time job, I often read blog posts and articles about entrepreneurs who were doing their own thing to get inspired. There were stories of hardship, sweat, tears, failure, doubt, triumph and patience. Holding on to every word uttered by these veterans of entrepreneurship I started out on my own and yes, its a unpredictable ride. Since I'm the person who is going the other way into Brooklyn to go to my studio while everyone else heads to more commercial parts of the city to go to their 9 to 5′s, I wonder sometimes if I am going the right way. Doubt comes easy when you are swimming against the tide. But work wise it is easier for me to go against the tide since very few things interest me and I like to do them my way. I hate authority and I certainly hate being told what to do. I like being my own boss but it does suck when that bi-weekly pay check doesn't come in.
Clearly, the work that doesn't pay is the one I want to work on since it is more interesting and when one relies on money solely from ones so called business to pay rent and bills, it gets tricky. I think the only time I thought so much about money was when I had just come to the US for my grad school or when I started undergrad school and had never been out of my parents home. The common pattern here being that one is broke when one is starting off. I am hoping that things will even out sooner than later and money won't matter anymore. Not that it does matter a lot right now, other than the fact we make our own lunches and won't probably take a decent holiday till end of next year.
So what am I doing right now? I am trying to do business development for our company Urban Matter Inc. It is a multidisciplinary creative studio. Why is it multidisciplinary ? Because doing just one thing bores me. What do I hope to achieve doing this? I hope to create, produce and get better at the craft of self expression through design and art. I believe in Ira Glass's take on the creative process about creating work and creating a lot of it. I want to put in my 10,000 hours doing work at my own terms and hope that I don't fail miserably. Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility and I am not known to be responsible so I might be in big trouble but I guess it is worth a shot. I am horrible with full time jobs. I have a problem with my temper. I am grumpy and morose and terrible when I am not happy with my work. I don't think I would ever succeed outside of this world and then I do not know if I have what it takes to succeed as a business woman.
One thing that I've been trying to think about is what we want to sell as a company. What differentiates us, sets up apart. For now, its just the fact that we have some cool participatory, community driven work on our site, most of it is unpaid, some of it was done with non profits, some of it is self initiated. I mean if what sets me apart is my penchant for cool unpaid gigs, then I am in deep trouble. But it would be terrible to do work that doesn't resonate with people. There is enough technology and connectivity out there to make a whole lot of difference and it would be great to build something worthwhile and gratifying that does pay.
I guess thats why I am where I am at, because I do get to pick and choose what I want to work on and how I want to spend my time. I've been told by friends that I look rested. Other than the fact I've been sleeping late because I make my own hours, I do get to get up and work on projects or look for projects that would make me happy. Making money off of good work should be a matter of time. Good work comes from time and patience. Hours working on something also make it better and hones it down to its bare basics and your style and voice emerges. Things are not so confusing then. Finding your voice and purpose and making money off of it is probably the best thing in the world and I hope I can get there someday.
I have been reading a lot of articles around creativity and design, passions and interests. This made me think about my job title and my interests. Are my interests aligned with my job title? Am I passionate about being a designer? Â All my adult life I have been a design advocate. However, my conclusion after my reads, is how little what we call things matter. At work today, a certain collegue was outlining how many different type of architects there were in the room, starting with content, information and technical, not to talk about the architect who wasn't in the room – the one who builds buildings.
Design is such a loaded word that I doubt that it means anything. As Jack Schulze says in this very awesome article – "Some people (they are wrong) say design is about solving problems. Obviously designers do solve problems, but then so do dentists." Since I have been calling myself a designer for a really long time, this comes as a relief. I don't want to be a designer anymore, I just want to do my thing. Titles are over-rated, and unfortunately jobs get created around useless titles and vice versa. Is it the naming convention happy society that wants to silo everything and create such demarcations. As we try to create more roles and more titles, the problems around us get diluted. Being a designer doesn't mean anything, nor does being an architect mean anything. One could have made an argument around being able to sketch or think in an organized manner but that doesn't hold true any more either. What does hold true when talking about ones creative leanings, I think is personal interests and passion. Darren Aronofsky once said that making a movie was 95% management and 5% creativity. He makes films that people like, he is not necessarily a manager, he is a film maker. His interests lie in making good films and not in managing projects but managing projects are an important part of making good stuff. Which brings me to the point that even though my title has been that of a designer for most of my adult life, I have sketched a lot, outputted a lot of documentation and dealt with a lot bureaucracy and not necessarily produced a lot of design that people have actively used. I have filled titles which necessarily haven't been my interests.
Also, certain kinds of designs have nothing to do with my motivations and my interests. Craptastic words like design thinking and innovation make it even more difficult to call oneself a designer. Â I think all of us need to take a piece of paper and write down the correlation between what they are interested in, what their title is and what they do. If those three things don't really match up, its time to give yourself a new title, a title that matches up with what you want to do next – Storyteller is a good one and so is Urbanist. Atleast those terms outline your interests and then you can expand your thinking to make them more tactical and build something interesting people would use. Design is a verb now. Calling myself a designer feels misleading even if it comes with a prefix (interaction and such). I might like creating interactions for mobile phones that help people create good habits but might hate to create a financial analytic tool because I don't care about what people do with their finances. What kind of interaction designer does that make me then? Not a very good one.
Its time to bid adieu to just being called a designer or more precisely an interaction designer. Its time to embrace interests, passions and all the work being done in relation to our creative pursuits.
This is a question I have been trying to answer for over a year. Instead of a rant, I thought it better to do some research on the matter and get to the root of the problem. This is to primarily answer this question – Did I fulfill my role as a designer after I graduated from design school 10 years ago? Â The problem with working for design agencies is that you get caught in the design jargon and forget the real thing sometimes. Design process and methodology is as unique to designers as fingerprints to individuals. When everything starts getting standardized, then intuitive processes suffer. On the other hand, projects with no frameworks suffer from a lack of structured approach creating commotion. Which brings me back to the question – What is design? Were you and I meant to do what we are doing.
From Wikipedia
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawing, business process, circuit diagramsand sewing patterns) while "to design" (verb) refers to making this plan.[1] No generally-accepted definition of "design" exists,[2] and the term has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). However, one can also design by directly constructing an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design).
More formally design has been defined as follows.
Another definition for design is a roadmap or a strategic approach for someone to achieve a unique expectation. It defines the specifications, plans, parameters, costs, activities, processes and how and what to do within legal, political, social, environmental, safety and economic constraints in achieving that objective.
The last paragraph gives the impression that one can design the government, country, finance, healthcare and myriad other things in life. But it also sounds restrictive, where everything from legalese to politics have to be kept in mind. Design seems to feel more managerial. It feels void of intuition and feeling.
Here is another one from the Design Council of UK
Design is what links creativity and innovation. It shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers. Design may be described as creativity deployed to a specific end.'The Cox Review
Most of the results of design are visible, and that lends itself to another simple definition: 'Design is all around you, everything man-made has been designed, whether consciously or not'.
The question therefore isn't so much 'what is design and why does it matter?' but 'how can I use good design to make the world around me better?'
'Everything man-made has been designed, whether consciously or not' pretty much sums it up. Design has been over specified, there are countless fields and types of design, I was trying to come to terms with 'behavior' design and someone sprung a 'persuasive design' at me the other day. Provocative articles about the death of design thinking and user experience add to the confusion and create a frenzy. Design for social change engaged me for a long long time till designers started to make a mess of it and I realized how little I knew about international development and governance (which doesn't mean I should not be learning more about it).
I found this other slide as a part of a University of Illinois Chicago.
Design process is this case could be anything that spat out a bunch of specifications based on needs in the end. The rest of the pdf can be downloaded here.
Design is also loving the ideas you have to throw away. Â A more emotional response here.
Non-designers can design using design thinking and buying fantastic books on the subject. A nice article on design thinking in design observer – "Â One popular definition is that design thinking means thinking as a designer would, which is about as circular as a definition can be."
Then there is design build, design research, design management, design strategy none of which I am particularly good at.
Here is a one of the nicer definitions of design I found online. More here.
Design is about finding a balance. There's a Japanese word for the place in between – "maâ€. It's the interval of time between two things. It's the point in the swing of a pendulum when the object switches from an upswing to a downswing. It's the pause just between. It's the moment just before something happens, or changes, or becomes clear, or comes into focus. But not yet. It's the best part of the rollercoaster, right after the climb, and just before you fall. It's anticipation. The space between. – Ma
India won the Cricket World Cup a couple of days back, a trophy we haven't won in over 20 years. Before we won that cup, the feeling in the bar we were watching the match at, was that of dejection or lets say ambivalence. We have been known to give up when good wickets like that of Sachin Tendulkar fall. No one really knows what happened this time. The youngsters, a lot of whose names I didn't know played a consistent and thorough game. Players like Gautum Gambhir kept the game going slowly and surely eventually winning us the World Cup. It was spectacular. It was …ahem.. very unlike us, the team seemed disciplined, there was strategic thinking behind who came out to bat and bowl, no tempers were flaring and everyone including the fiery Harbhajan Singh was behaving themselves, that too *drumroll* under pressure and stress. What happened here, did we just get sick of bad leadership, was there some introspection?
This brings me back to some personal introspection. The past three months has seen me join a new job at a company called frog design, host a panel discussion for designwala, moderate another one for ARTfarm and push forward a bunch of personal projects. The past few months of madness amongst other things has led to a broader understanding of personal work methods and emotional & physical thresholds. The primary introspection being, if people push themselves a bit harder than their expectations, they can surprise themselves. There were a lot of 'I cant' in my vocabulary in the last few years. It happens when you go past the romantic stage in your career, when you start understanding your shortcomings as an employee, co-worker, collaborator and more. The only thing that can be said here is to keep a low profile and to clean up your skill by working hard on it. The only substitute to working hard is perhaps working smarter which brings me to working under stress & pressure, where the example of the Indian Cricket Team comes in handy.
Working under stress means that your adrenalin is pumping but you come across as if you have been relaxing on a beach. The quality is rare, some have it naturally and for wound up people like me, it has to be cultivated with utter discipline. I am the kind of a person who works when the pressure is on. Being able to work smart under stress and pressure has been challenging. It has taken, time and experience to cultivate a consistent work method but has been worth it because I know I won't screw up the task when the time arrives to deliver the goods. It also means that I have been able to expand my scope and incorporate more work and move up the food chain.
10 healthy work methods that I have learnt by falling in a ditch are as follows :
1. Distribute work, if you have a team, don't try to be a martyr and do it all
2. Take small breaks to relax your eyes and muscles
3. Don't blame people when they don't deliver, just don't work with them again.
4. Take some time off when a big project finishes
5. If you think the world is coming to an end, zoom out and look at the larger picture
6. If you don't get everything done on your to-do list, there is always a tomorrow
7. Forgive yourself, shit happens
8. Start early, last minute is not always good and can create unnecessary stress.
9. Push yourself harder, try and be better, be more critical of yourself, design better, read more.
10. Last but not the least, take sick days when you are sick.
The list up top is very forgiving except for number 9. Pushing yourself harder however has a lot of weight. Everything else revolves around it. Doing something that is challenging or makes you uncomfortable also makes you aware of your boundaries and your abilities. It is important to take those risks just to understand what one is capable of. If it works out, awesome, if not, then forgive yourself and move on.
Just elaborating on couple of things listed above, starting early is something which is very new to me but has been helpful in cutting down unnecessary stress, it has also helped me develop better ideas and have time to get feedback. Another interesting aspect of working on creative projects is working with people. It is good to get a good understanding of a person's skill set and limitations and limit ones expectations to that. There is no point depending on someone to do something they are not capable of delivering. This is not in the above list but stay away from people who do not care about your vision and work. If there is light at the end of the tunnel like work experience, cash in the bank, then go for it, if there is nothing, simply stay away and save yourself the self doubt negative people can instill in you.
I am not trying to write an 'eat, pray, love' here. These are simply the ways in which I have been able to create a conducive environment to work in while working a full time gig and numerous side projects. Having a hobby helps as well but I don't have any and don't plan on having any. I do want to travel more and get an understanding of the services and design across the globe.
One more thing that has struck me is actually doing the work and designing the product if you want to make it. There is no point in waiting for the right time to make something happen. If you have an idea, atleast sketch it out, send a few emails out, sense its feasibility and your attachment to it. More often than not, you will abandon it, however if you don't, then it could be a live product. Something that you thought of, designed and created. Even if the product fails, atleast you tried vs being one of those people who are always saying 'I thought of facebook before Zuckerberg did'. Those people are the worst and you don't want to be one of those because then you would be a wannabe and no one wants to be wannabe. Amen.
I am starting a new job at a global design agency called Frog Design in Jan and along with the nervousness that comes with starting a new gig, I am reassessing my role as a designer. According to me, the definition of a good designer is someone who can come up with simple solutions to complex problems. I was at work a couple of days back and it dawned on me how instead of understanding how to solve problems, I have always worked around them or chosen to ignore them. I am not really creative when it comes to things in my life, for example, if my machine is choking, I just work slower, I forget to update the OS for my phone since it seems to work fairly okay without the updates till I get locked out of an application that needs me to update, I watched analog TV till the cable company cut me off and then I reluctantly switched to digital, I wear my shoes till the soles come off and wear my sweaters till the elbows are frayed. One would call me a laggard in technology adoption lingo and just sloppy otherwise. I would say that people learn to live with new things when the older technology, sweaters and shoes just wont do. However, if I am the person who has always watched television with commercials all my life and formulated a strategy behind doing something fun, like play with my dog everytime a commercial comes on, then I am probably not the guy who is going to come up with the idea for TIVO. That is because I have decided to work around the problem and not on the problem. How do the lives of designers influence what they design at work ? How can we solve other peoples problems when we sometimes work around our own. I have often wondered about that.
There are people who are naturally creative and then there are people who are taught to be creative. One of the first exercises I was given at the undergrad design school I went to, was to draw the rear of an elephant. I could always draw well but if someone asked me draw an elephant, I would probably draw a side view. But envisioning an elephants backside was tough. It was about thinking in three dimension, that's what architects do and my parents had chosen to send me to a school that was to make one out of me. Luckily architecture was not that tough, since I went to a modernist school based off of principals taught in Bauhaus, a bunch of it was about the play of straight lines and planes and there weren't any more elephants to be drawn. The point here is that you can probably be really good at aping the masters of modernism but suck at drawing the elephants behind. One is a learnt process and the other one needs you to use your imagination. I think people who use their imaginations are better designers which brings me back to my first point about solving problems. To draw an elephants behind, I would have to move my focus from the side of the elephant which is how I saw it in my second grade spelling book and consciously move myself to the back of the big animal. The same thing applies to working on other peoples problems and hence designing. You just have to take your lazy ass out of that couch and imagine yourself in someone else's shoes, someone who is bothered by commercials in their TV shows, someone who doesn't have a dog to pet, what would you do now in the other person's shoes? That's what designers do, look at other peoples problems and try to solve it from the other person's perspective.
Having started my career in architecture, I now think I should have stuck to it. It is easier to take liberties with architectural spaces and pass off ambiguous spaces in the name of artistic license. Not so much with technology and software, I don't think any users would appreciate smart ass art projects swimming around in their software when they are trying to organize their finances or buy plane tickets. Being a user experience designer and working in technology is a bigger pain in the ass than I thought. Technology is ingrained in our life and we use it to do practically everything, from paying bills to looking for restaurants to writing blogs like this since a lot of us don't have hobbies anymore. The point is, being a late adopter incase of technology and trying to design for an increasingly advanced technologically savvy crew of users is tough. If it was up-to me, we would still be wearing a bunch of atrocious looking augmented reality helmets fighting imaginary predators and fancying ourselves to be the future of cyberspace. Cyberspace however looks very different now, it does involve total immersion and interaction but through social networks and mobile technology. Design has humanized technology contrary to my revolutionary futuristic cyborg predictions. The interesting thing about humanizing technology is that you can give people the power to not only interact with it but give them a whole system to work within. So designing technology actually is about solving a problem. For example, book your Zipcar over the internet, put in your location, find a parking lot close to your house, use your magnetic key card to open the car, use your mobile phone app to increase or decrease the number of hours of use and look for security numbers to open parking lots to return the car. The user uses multiple technologies here to solve a problem, which was to get from place A to B. By the end of it technology was used as a means to an end and not the other way round.
This brings me back to my point of people adapting to anything if it serves the purpose. Before the phones has the capacity to store numbers, people memorized phone numbers, calling someone meant knowing their phone number, watching TV meant, dealing with commercials, using a computer meant being tethered to a physical space. My concerns about being a good user experience designer with a track record of late adoptions in technology have been laid to rest. If I need to buy the latest and the greatest, I will buy it, till then I will make do with technology that works for me since being a designer shouldn't involve changing my life, like being an actor shouldn't mean living a role when the actor goes to bed or eats dinner with his family. My creative memories as a child are not about playing video games or the Wii, they are about drawing endless imaginary scenes with chalk on the cement floors of our house in Madras. They are about watching my brothers build stuff out of random containers, boxes, bottles, that my mother used to keep for us to play with after she had used up whatever was inside the bottle or the containers. Chalk, cement floors and random lids and containers kept us pretty involved and entertained, they were a means to an end. We learned to draw and build without using a computer, without any real toys and without any real fuss. I would like to think that designing for people is like that as well, its not about using the latest and the greatest, it about using the most appropriate, if you are given a project to design a toy that can teach a child to draw well, remember chalks and cement floors have their magic too. Technology does come first but only to the technologist, not to the designer and certainly not to the user.


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I'm pulling for whoever is killing Muslims, even if it is other Muslims.
You are an outstanding human being.
They ask what would Jesus do, and that is often the answer.
their military successes haven't been that impressive in recent years, right?
I don't like their food. Now this is just crazy talk.
the original jews were arabs. Judism is a religeon not a race. Muslims didn't exist 2000 years ago because it hadn't been invented yet.
The Jews didn't really do anything to deserve or earn the land,money,or weapons...did they?
what did the Palestinians do that they deserved to have their land taken from them by the Western World?....Not have big enough guns?
Truth of the matter is: If not for oil, the Middle East would be the biggest stain/blight on this planet. And with oil, it is still the biggest stain/blight on this planet
What did the Arabs do to deserve the windfall bonanza of oil they enjoy? NOTHING. Truth of the matter is: If not for oil, the Middle East would be the biggest stain/blight on this planet. And with oil, it is still the biggest stain/blight on this planet. Secret: it isn't because of the Jews... The hypocrisy of everyone defending the muslims is amusing as hell. I would venture to say that the majority of the posters on here defending the muslims would have been buried neck deep and stoned long ago. Yet, they hate Israel. Go Figure????
Boy, Israel sure is making things better.
If it wasn't for Israel, they would be fighting each other....Iraq/Iran. Iraq/Kuwait.
But when the Ottoman Empire was defeated by British Empire forces after the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in 1918, the Arab population was met with what it perceived as betrayal by the British. The British and French governments concluded a secret treaty (the Sykes-Picot Agreement) to partition the Middle East between them and, additionally, the British promised via the Balfour Declaration the international Zionist movement their support in creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Historically known as the site of the ancient Jewish Kingdom of Israel and successor Jewish nations for 1,200 years between approximately 1100BC-100AD, the region now had a large Arab population also from the 7th century. When the Ottomans departed, the Arabs proclaimed an independent state in Damascus, but were too weak, militarily and economically, to resist the European powers for long, and Britain and France soon established control and re-arranged the Middle East to suit themselves.Skyes Picot Agreement: Division of Territory
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