Laurie McGinley
Works by Laurie McGinley
Rubik’s cube modification
Rubik’s cube as dice
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The Butter Heads
I saw the Butter Heads for the first time yesterday. I had the good fortune to arrive when one of the dairy princesses was having her portrait sculpted in a 90 pound block of butter.
Carnival rides
Minnesota State Fair
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Elephant garlic flower
Women’s Environmental Institute
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It is time
Dear Internet,
I have had so many good times with you. You’ve filled in my down time, inspired me and provided me with hours and hours of entertainment. It has been a good ride. I’m writing to day to break up with you. I can see how co-dependent we have become and I’m calling it off. I’ll be in the woods for a few weeks so I don’t think about you. If I am tempted to read a blog, stalk someone on Facebook or catch up on Missed Connections on craigslist, I won’t be able to. I know you’ll be fine without me, and I’m so excited to let you go.
Thanks for all the good times,
Laurie
St. John’s
sunset
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Breuer abby at St. Johns
Marcel Breuer’s abby
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we love Goldsworthy
design exercise
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granite
granite
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discarded piano
discarded piano
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Graffiti
Why wouldn’t you weed first?
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Turismo para escoger
I'd forgotten about a photo shoot I did while working at elsalvador.com until I stumbled across it today on Octo Media.
This is the cover design for a magazine that had an article about tourism in El Salvador.
This is the cover design for a magazine that had an article about tourism in El Salvador.
Seven Mile Creek
Seven Mile Creek
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I just trashed half of my Google Reader feeds
Last month I saw Cullect for the first time and was very impressed. Up until that moment I was convinced that Google Reader was the best way to stay on top of news and trends in my field(s).
Five minutes ago I just deleted half of my Google Reader subscriptions in favor of migrating my reading to Cullect. Why would I do that?
Google Reader is free!
Yes! Google Reader is free. And, as Garrick Van Buren explained to me, it is a reader that is based on the paradigm of reading email. Reading in Google Reader can be stressful and it does not scale very well. The more feeds I found, the faster I found that I read and, consequentially, the less satisfying that reading became.
Cullect can be free, but there are pay scales
And you get what you pay for. Cullect is a new paradigm of reading. It uses your attention patterns to serve you content that is relevant to how you have been reading. That means that if you only have time to read three posts, you can feel confident that reading those three posts will not be a waste of time.
Cullect also lets you have multiple interests. I am interested in many categories of news, blogs and feeds. I can create several reading lists in Cullect so my reading time becomes even more satisfying. Cullect is about quality and diversity of interests.
I'm on the move. I moved my photography interests out of Google Reader today because they are already in my photography reading list on Cullect. I'll be creating a web reading list and perhaps a new architecture reading list.
How can we use Cullect in an academic setting
This is my big question. There is a lot of potential to use curated Cullect reading lists to create pools of resources. More soon...
Cullect, simplify your reading life
A short time ago I saw Garrick Van Buren demonstrate Cullect. We began the conversation by talking about APML, something I've publicly raved about. My understanding was that APML was a way to program your attention data into your feed reader. Then I met Garrick.
Cullect is so smart that it doesn't need APML. Garrick programmed Cullect to understand nine (or was it ten?) gestures that measure your affinity for a particular article. In this way, as I read posts from various blogs, news feeds and searches, Cullect tallies my behavior and begins to understand which articles I will want to see.
I decided to challenge Cullect with what I thought would be a very difficult task: show me photographs I like. I thought this would be hard because photographs don't have text that can be scanned and I generally do not care what a photo blog post says, outside of the actual photograph. Well, I am amazed. I've been working on my Cullect photography reading list for about a week now and Cullect shows me the photographs I like.
Simplify your reading life
I have been using Google Reader for about six months. I like that I can collect over 300 feeds and still get through them but I have developed some awful habits by using Google Reader. I tend to tear through unread posts and only skim headlines for interesting tid bits. Google Reader collects all my unread messages and tells me how much reading I have to do to clean up my inbox for the web. That is stressful! I've marked everything as read several times and I just feel guilty about it.
Cullect, on the other hand, has allowed me to slow down and actually read. I know that the posts will be arranged in order for me based on my past reading habits. So, if I only have time to read three posts, I can be assured that reading the first three posts in my Cullect reading list will be satisfying and relevant to my interests.
Here is a comparison of my photography reading list in Google Reader and my photo reading list in Cullect.
Have many interests
Cullect allows me to have multiple interests while letting them cross over each other. I can set up just one reading list if I am only interested in reading one topic. If I set up a reading list for each theme I am interested in, Cullect will allow me to have recommendations for each category. I can also use the same feed to fuel several reading lists and Cullect keeps my reading habits separate.
Why you should pay for this service
I know, everything on the internet is free and having a dollar sign lurking around just makes me nervous. I stumbled on Cullect in January and immediately closed the window when I saw that it was a paid service. Now that I have had a chance to play with it, I see that Cullect is a service that is worth paying for. It will allow me to collect articles, read them on my own schedule and feel assured that what I am reading is relevant to my interests.
Cullect, go test drive it today.
