I was wondering: which ressource, which text / book / picture / chart / video / film has excited, enlarged, enlightened or exploded your everyday mind-space / your bubble.
and is worth sharing
(I am talking about intellectual input, not about distraction or Memes)
I’m not a product designer but I’ve always enjoyed seeing product designs on Lemanoosh and it has inspired me to think about things like materials, furniture, light fixtures, etc. in different ways.
I also find a lot of inspiration and intrigue browsing historical buildings/artifacts/art within the the Culture Heritage & History section of Sketchfab.
For me I learn a lot by “play & hands on exploration” so being able to navigate real world, captured objects via photogrammetry has really allowed me to learn a lot while not being able to travel to the destination itself! The fact also that you can visit locations that were captured before they were destroyed such as the Temple of Bell in Syria is really interesting to me.
Just my two cents for some digital inspiration lately.
I really like the books American Shelter by Lester Walker as well for good illustrations of american building styles throughout modern history and The Golden Thread about some history of Solar Energy Harvesting.
@michaelvollrath
I don t now why, but your post reminded me on some photos I found on a research about concrete molds about 18 years ago. ( it s a pity they are no longer available online as an entire collection and the licence / copyright is unclear )
I love the way the analogue photos are composed - I love how the people a caught in the right moment / from the right view… it is not only the shelter that is a exiting work - it is also the photos…
New South Wales, Australia. Architect, Dante Bini. Construction of Ashbury Public School administration building, 1973. Photographs: Max Dupain. Private archives of Dante Bini.
the European tv-channel arte.tv has some fantastic documentaries Politics/SocietyCultureScience
One of the last, that I really found great, is not at the moment and can only be found on youtube in german: Forschung, Fake und faule Tricks Franck Cuveillier / Pascal Vasselin 2020
This is maybe a bit left field, but I’ve really been enjoying what The Blindboy Podcast does to my brain. It’s hard to describe what exactly it is, but it almost feels like the opposite of contemporary vapid internet /media “content”. This recent interview might help:
I like to listen to Isaac Arthur on nebula.tv - at the moment Colonizing Black Holes | Nebula . I’m also watching other channels on nebula.tv. There is a huge catalogue of interesting stuff there.
I also like learning new programming languages and paradigms. I have been playing with moldable development using Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com/) and picked up Zig (https://ziglang.org). The latter one I’m learning while going over https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html . And learning new natural languages, done a bit of Korean and Esperant (along with a dash of Swedish and French).
