Inspirations

Reading and Read

A Geography Of Time: On Tempo, Culture, And The Pace Of Life, by Robert V. Levine

Zorba the Greek

Coils, By Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen

Coils, By Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen

Learning iOS Game Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First iPhone Game, by Michael Daley

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A Book Apart

Read these books. http://www.abookapart.com/

As a web developer/designer/architect/whatever you owe it to yourself to read these books. Each one is full of great examples and arguments for modern web design. Media queries for responsive design, CSS3, HTML5, how to handle older (ugh) browsers, how to handle newer browsers that just suck, etc. It is nice to be able to see all of the things we have picked up over the years applied as a cohesive whole, all of our skills used for the betterment of our web experience.

They are quick reads, but I think you will find yourself returning to them often.

Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the

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Impressive Oil Painting by Alyssa Monks

These are really good. Someday I paint as well as this.

Born 1977 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Alyssa Monks began oil painting as a child. Monks’ paintings explore the tension between abstraction and realism, using different filters to visually distort and disintegrate the body.

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