Most of my content is now going to show up at tumble.chrisjohanesen.com and not here. The new Tumblr 3.0 is really sweet. So beautifully simple, elegently powerful.
This is a nice video on eating locally, but how can you talk about reducing our food footprint without talking about how much more energy goes into putting meat vs. vegetables on your plate?
Shipping food via truck is actually a fairly energy efficient way to distribute food, at least when you compare it to the energy required to grow corn and soy, harvest and process it, feed it to animals (along with tons of water), then kill the animals, process them into meat, and then ship and refrigerate the meat until it gets cooked at home. Making food from animals is inherently less energy efficient than making food from vegetables—it’s built into the laws of physics.
Eating less meat and more vegetables will do a lot more to “save the planet” than simply buying food that’s traveled a shorter distance. Especially considering that all the energy involved in refrigerating the food at the market, driving to the market and getting it home, refrigerating it at home, etc. is the same either way.
I’m all for eating local whenever possible, and for eating as few processed foods as possible, but if you’re trying to make your diet more sustainable, eating less meat has to a big part of your strategy.
You must be doing something right if you release a product that is radically different from all your competitors products, and then they all immediately start copying you, and badly at that. (via BuzzFeed)
Greg.org gives a good explanation of how venture capitalism works while explaining why Damien Hirst did not get a $100 million check for his diamond-and-platinum skull.
Well the second issue of A Brief Message is out already and it’s getting a ton of buzz. I love the format, and the dynamic layouts, although I can’t help wanting more than 200 words. But maybe I’ve been reading too much of the New Yorker lately.
Kottke’s back in full force. “Bollocks to the new.” I’m down with that.
Icon Magazine collects manifestos from 50 designers including Bruce Mau, John Maeda and this perfect nugget from Peter Saville:
Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
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. I am a graphic designer specializing in interactive design, information architecture, user-interface design, and front-end development. I’m currently employed full time as the lead designer for BuzzFeed in New York City.
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