So the Wiggle is more than a flat path. It’s a community. The Wiggle says: You shouldn’t be riding alone. Here — all of you — stick together.
Great to see Robin Sloan on NYT. Also, learn something new everyday. I didn’t know about The Wiggle.
Another excellent post by @robinsloan. This time, it’s on
the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again…
Also known as the flip-flop. Who knew?
I would add one more excellent example of this type of flip-flop. I’ve admired the work of the extremely talented Richard Koci Hernandez (or @koci) for many years. And his recent collection of photography goes through this ingenious flip-flop process. Like me, he didn’t know it had a name.
Koci was kind enough to share with me his process and how he gets many of his images to look so analog.
- Shoot photo - digital
- Print out image - physical
- Scratch print with knife - physical
- Reshoot the image with iphone through and old camera viewfinder- physical/digital
- Post to Instagram
Similar process with these images:
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/koci/7277106694/in/photostream/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/koci/6752936421/in/photostream/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/koci/6463050759/in/photostream
Brilliant and beautiful. Check out the rest of his Flickr photostream.
So I wish more people were making tools for a specific creative purpose rather than for general consumer adoption. I wish more people were making tools that very intentionally do not scale—tools with users by the dozen. Tools you experience not through a web signup form, but through pathbreaking creative work.
We develop a number of templates and tools… so this line of thinking speaks to me. Well said, @robinsloan. Super smart. Thanks.
