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I enjoyed this article, Justin. I sometimes find it hard to be "effective" rather than just "efficient." It's a strange line to walk, actually. In this department, we're expected to produce a lot of iterations on the same issue. While, that's a good method, and makes us efficient workers, sometimes we miss the opportunities to make something actually effective. Granted, one could say that we would choose the most effective solution. But, sometimes that message gets lost. I wish design could be instantaneous. Finishing up this animation with Mr. Smiley has left me abandon some of the more effective elements. Because I've heard the audio so many times, the humor is almost gone, and I keep designing to maintain efficiency. If someone has a good method for how to hold on to effectiveness throughout the entire process, please let me know. :o)
pay attention, give a shit. i guess keeping your eyes open is just as important as keeping them shut, letting things flow over you and embracing what you didn't necessarily want to embrace i like the part about reading books all the way through, because i always start one right before the school year, and can't finish it until the next summer, sometimes you just need to go through it, finish the thing, because why would you want to let that cliffhang until you're done with work, stress, life, when it can be apart of that process?
yeah. good call. i feel like the author has arrived at this circuitously; paying attention and giving a shit are how human beings behave when they're behaving right. kids don't need to be taught to do that. adults don't either.
in fact, i suspect that for academic and institutional purposes they need to be taught not to do that, to instead passively absorb information that isn't really that important and to then reproduce some version of it on command. afterwards, maybe they rediscover how to be engaged with the world they're experiencing instead of imagining that it's secondary to a body of dead knowledge with which they've been provided. maybe. you hope so.
the author's name is randy j. hunt, which sounds like a joke name. under the bleachers, by randy j. hunt.
matt, i'm curious how you feel about this institution in regard to being taught not to "pay attention and give a shit". is kcai any different from any other official educational institution in our method of imparting knowledge? i'd like to know in all seriousness.
are we imparting the canon of design knowledge and then asking you all to repeat that canon in the form of movies, identities, websites? if so, how can we change things to allow for a more naturalistic and personalized version of paying attention and giving a shit? i know that's a pretty large philosophical question, but i'm curious about it, and how/if it might be done within a structure like kcai.
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