"Do you have to be unhappy to create great art?"
I thought for a moment. "I wouldn't think so. Why should being happy or unhappy matter if you're a great artist?"
"Okay," Jimmy continued. "Name someone who's been happy and created a great piece of art. Music, writing, painting, whatever."
I don't win many awards. Hardly any, in fact. So it was a big surprise when I won the Program Guide Cover Contest for DECA's NY Conference in high school for a second year in a row.
The main speaker was pretty surprised too, apparently. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
It's finally happened! This site has been redesigned. Oh happy happy joy joy! You can finally let go of your breath now.
This site is now centered on my Rambles, weekly stories on random topics published on Sunday nights (usually, although if life gets busy, I may miss a Sunday). I decided to make my Rambles the main attraction because that's what the vast majority of you seem to want.
(And if not, please let me know what you DO want!) (And no, I'm not going to give you free porn.)
I finally got one! An iPod! Along with a Belkin Tunecast and an XtremeMac Car Charger. And you know what?
I give them all a thumbs down.
"Don't Rebuild. Reimagine," says the New York Times Magazine of the site of the World Trade Center. And so a group of leading architects met to discuss what could be done.
"Three? You mean three? Three million. It's three million lira," Jo gasped. "That's… fifteen thousand dollars Mike."
Alfredo smiled and repeated his words in Italian again. Jo turned to me and translated, "Quality. This is quality." She nodded in unison with him.
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Here's a funny phenomenon:
Every time you put a new web designer on a project, he/she simply MUST redesign the site.
I have yet to find one that is comfortable with the current "look and feel." All of them simply have to put their own stamp on it.
And I'm not going to lie. I'm guilty of this too.
What's with the tiny fonts designers seem to love nowadays?
Have you seen them? Some of the nicest designed sites (those that are considered at the cutting edge of web design) use the tiniest of tiny font sizes possible. And they use it for their main copy too.
Weekly random rambles, musings & writings of Mike Lee in San Francisco, CA