Cicada Principle

Very cool article on the Cicada Principle and Web Design.

Stars – Counting Stars on the Ceiling

The Stars

Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs
Les canaux, la ville entière
D’hyacinthe et d’or
Le monde s’endort
Dans une chaude lumière
Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté
Luxe, calme et volupté

Took a taxi with jean last night
It was late, and it was raining
We live far away from eachother
And there was no desire
I think it was more the dark night,
Or some lonely feeling

When we got home, we were alone
We fell in love with that feeling
When we got home, we were alone
We fell in love with that feeling

Rain since tuesday
Barely found my way to the shop
For milk in the morning
And the news of the world had turned around
Then i heard you calling
Saw you turn the darkened corner
Then you were gone

When i got home, i was alone
I fell in love with that feeling
When i got home, i was alone
And i counted stars on the ceiling

When i got home, i was alone
And i fell in love with that feeling
When i got home, i was alone
And i counted stars on the ceiling
I fell in love with that feeling

When i got home, i was alone
I counted stars on the ceiling
I fell in love with that feeling
I fell in love with that feeling

-artwork by Gloucester, A Bottled Spider

Beck – Lonesome Tears

Lonesome Tears by peras manzanas

Lonesome tears
I can’t cry them anymore
I can’t think of what they’re for
Oh they ruin me every time
But I’ll try
To leave behind some days
These tears just can’t erase
I don’t need them anymore

How could this love
Ever turning
Never turn its eye on me
How could this love
Ever changing
Never change the way I feel

Lazy sun
Your eyes catch the light
With promises that might
Come true for a while
Oh I’ll ride
Farther than I should
Harder than I could
Just to meet you there

How could this love
Ever turning
Never turn its eye on me
How could this love
Ever changing
Never change the way I feel

[artwork by http://www.flickr.com/photos/61856080@N00/168337236 ]

Modeselektor – Let Your Love Grow

i love just about everything about this track. so beautiful.

The Killing Moon

along the same lines…
The Killing Moon

Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you’ll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you’ll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Under the Milky Way

milky way

Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight

Lower the curtain down on Memphis
Lower the curtain down all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight

Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find

And it’s something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
Leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight

Six different ways

This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I’ll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside

I’ll tell them anything at all
I know I’ll give them more and more

I’ll tell them anything at all
I know I’ll give the world and more
They think I’m on my hands and head
This time they’re much too slow

Six sides to every lie I say
It’s that American voice again
It was never quite like this before
Not one of you is the same

This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I’ll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside

the cure - in orange

Designing for Android

I recently read this article from Mobile Marketer – so true. i do love prototyping, but yeah – huge headaches. i hate testing and documenting the tests!

“Those nice little comps won’t cut it anymore We digital marketing natives have spent much of our careers mocking up ideas in Photoshop quite successfully.

Clients get to see what we are dreaming of and see the processes and workflows behind the vision. Those days are long gone now that we are living in a mobile application universe.

The linear “backwards and forwards” experience that was once “enough” is now uninspiring to clients, at best, and misleading, at worst. It often leaves too much to the imagination. And in this context, imagination can be your best friend, or your worst enemy. The solutions?

Good old-fashioned prototyping, giving the comps the animation and interactivity they need for the client to truly embrace the vision.

Creating a light-weight proof-of-concept gives us the opportunity to refine and polish a concept to perfection.

Also, “Motion Studies” are becoming a powerful tool, along with static comps, to show how screens get rendered and how data moves or becomes animated.

Sound painful? Well, it can be. After all, you could be building something that may or may not get the green light.

What is more, you have to involve everyone from UX, to design, to development and QA from the very beginning to educate them on the concept and achieve full conceptual buy-in if you hope to have flawless execution.

Though an investment, it is truly worth it to avoid clients becoming dissatisfied when they finally see what the content, interaction, and movement look like together far later in the development cycle. ”

- http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/opinion/columns/9149.html

my fav bands with female drummers

This article on Flavorwire lists out their top 10 lady drummers. So here are my personal picks of bands with girl drummer inspirations.

Carla Azar - Autolux
Autolux

Numbers (excuse the poor quality; these guys don’t have much out there on youtube)

Overcasters (this was filmed at the first show i saw of them)

Hot IQs

Yo La Tengo

Low

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

…i am probably forgetting a few more.

Raveonettes – Chain Gang of Love

Walk Away Nothing To Do
I Forgot What Doing Time Can Do
I’m On The Chain Gang
The Chain Gang Of Love
Wasting My Time
I’m Just A Prisoner Of Love

I’m A Jailbird Baby
Wasting My Time
At First Feeling Blue
Then Feeling Fine
I’m Serving Time
For Something I Can’t Do
They Call It A Crime
Cause I’m Not In Love With You

I’m A Jailbird Baby
Cause I’m Not In Love With You