A thing by film—Quarantined Italians record messages for “themself from 10 days ago” about COVID-19 pandemic 📺
I just participated in an online Toastmasters meetup and won a virtual ribbon for “best short talk” about design life in Wuhan, a friend’s commutes through northern Italy for work and Issac Newton who worked on inventing calculus during a pandemic. It’s a small world we live in.
#NowPlaying Norah Jones Sunrise music.apple.com
#NowPlaying Johnny Nash’s I can see clearly now. music.apple.com
Home sweet home 🏡
Point Magu State Beach.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
Mugu Lagoon Estuary Vista Point.
Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Pepper tree 📷
Meridian Studios.
Vista Point Dos Amigos Pumping Station.
Dos Amigos Pumping Plant California Aqueduct San Luis Canal 📷
Tejon Pass rest stop
I woke up early to a share from @YoYo_Ma I’m listening to LA rain and soulful cello. Getting ready for a turn around drive up north to San Mateo to pick up Sue. I plan to bring Goat Rodeo and Western Stars with me. #SongsOfComfort twitter.com
12 Resources for the Crisis – Science+Story
It’s a boom time — thank God — for explanatory, research-based and research-expertise content about the novel coronavirus and COVID-19.
Science+Story is a good newsletter worth subscribing to by friend and scicomm writer @rlalasz
“Trees are a brilliant multi-tasker, good for the environment, good for habitats, good for us.”
Wales launches £5m national forest scheme – with pupils' help
Watch short film Here We Stand because California’s Redwoods Are for Everyone - Outside Online In Here We Stand, a new film from the Outbound Collective and Wondercamp, influencers, outdoor advocates, and conservationists of color take a hike through Save the Redwoods League’s new property—Harold Richardson Redwood Preserve—to discuss diversity on public lands.
How China’s “Bat Woman” Dr. Shi Zhengli Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus - Scientific American Her work leading genomic sequencing indicates Wuhan lab samples wasn’t source of the outbreak via @sciam
Workshops for Online Teaching and Learning
UCLA is suspending in-person classes from March 11 through April 10. There will be Zoom drop in workshops in the UCLA Faculty Center starting today until next week from 11:30am - 2pm. Additionally, there are workshops available for faculty & teaching assistants who want to prepare for any disruptions spring quarter.
Ruined by Design Q&A 📚 Book Club Tickets, Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 2:00 PM PST - Eventbrite I
Join Mule Design on Zoom where we can have a spirited discussion about Mike Monteiro’s book, Ruined by Design from the privacy of our own quarantined space!
Futurekind: design for and by people
We need fewer books promoting design as aesthetics ‘crafted by experts’ and more books telling us that useful design can come from, and is for, everyone: “Improving lives is no longer the role only of governments and experts: enabled by the latest technologies, anyone can help to design and create products for the social and environmental good. Part manual, part manifesto, part call-to-arms, Futurekind presents more than 60 world-changing projects that, through a process of collaboration between communities and designers, are shaping a better future for us all.”
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Los Angeles Public Library - Futurekind : design by and for the people / Phillips, Robert
We have grown accustomed to two beliefs: the first, that only experts can be designers; the second, that our everyday activities are harming the natural world. Yet, with new platforms, digital communication and engaged online communities, the products we can now design - and truly need - can be made by anyone for social and environmental good. Social design can see that primary school children learn to code, and uses local information in off-grid locations to create global change. Open-source design is enabling us to re-make our world right now. Structured into eight areas of application, from healthcare to education, this book showcases over sixty projects - not the kind you see in glossy magazines or online, but the ones that have made a genuine difference to communities and lives around the world. Rather than being client-driven, as commercial design often is, each project here is the result of designers who reach out, communities who get involved and the technologies that helping people to realize ideas together. From a playground-powered water pump in South Africa to a DIY budget cellphone, each of these groundbreaking projects is presented through fascinating and life-affirming stories, diagrams that reveal the mechanisms and motivations behind each design approach, and photography that celebrates the humanity of the endeavour.
Take a cool site for a spin…
The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign www.zeldman.com/2020/03/0…
Let’s Encrypt users will need to manually force-renew once to avoid downtime. easy fix. just run following command…
certbot renew –force-renewal
Getty: Resources for Visual Art and Cultural Heritage
The Getty home page looks good on iPhone, iPad and 27” iMac. Inner sections appear to still be work in progress.