A little ray of sun every tuesday !! 🌞
Doing a master’s in design research leads you to multiple angles, dimensions, viewpoints of thoughts and opinions, here is the beginning, to bring you my research and various outwarded and inward(ed) sights to the horizon as a beam of light, as the sunlight or as the ray of sun; dhoop (धूप).
As a child when I was growing up with my grandmother, waiting for my school van, early in the morning on a non-cloudy day, she always prayed to the God of the Sun, "Surya Devta", a solar deity on the veranda of the house, feeding God with a "lota" full of water.
To grow this side hustle, I will bring you an object from the streets of Paris, and by that I mean, from flea markets or vide-grenier (garage-sale) for you to get to know a little history around that discarded and obsolete object for you to dive into its history. A tool lost forgotten, a measure of humanity’s success to way forward, in the form of a ray of the sun, give new life, waiting for a new home ?!
Bought this slick camera last year and was very fascinated to see this 110 film format for the first time in a camera, I knew I had to have it and maybe try it out as an experiment and see the results. (never got a chance but it’s up for sale on etsy, check it out)
Revue Pocket 202 Ladyset - Vintage camera is in its prime condition and will be a killer combo with the Lomography 110 films.
Big "AI" companies are "openwashing" their products to evade regulation and silence critics, but their products are neither "artificial" nor "intelligent" nor "open."
Design tokens are the secret sauce that makes design systems sing.
If you’re not in an existential crisis as a designer. Design you’re not doing it right !
- Listening to The Radiance
The Radiance by Linkin Park, produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, track 2 on the album, A Thousand Sun (2010) brought that same recording of Oppenheimer way before Nolan thought of starting his blockbuster with :
[J. Robert Oppenheimer]
”We knew the world would not be the sameFew people laughed
Few people cried
Most people were silent
I remember the line from The Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita
Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty
And, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says:
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another”
An irony, faced firsthand, last week when I was watching the live broadcast of the Moon landing of India’s spacecraft “Chandraayan-3”, the algorithm of the live subtitles was indeed in deep waters trying to translate the Hinglish, the narrator was speaking, here’s a screenshot I took :
In this age of advancement, our AI will always need polishing and we can not truly rely on them, one giant leap of mankind summed up in this single frame, contradicting its own intelligence. The people designing our digital systems and infrastructures are not working with communities on the ground level to see the new possibilities, merging two into one, unlike franglais which has turned into a meme-producing alternative catering to both French and English speakers, Hinglish, on the other hand, is embedded in South Asians or its diaspora’s daily life because initially speaking fluent English was seen as a cultural and societal upliftment which is even true today, Hindi language (or any other South Asian language for that matter) and its future is held up in the very idea of fusion and hybridness between the globalisation and identity. YouTube has failed to acknowledge that yet.
Earlier this month I bought a cheap Pentax prime lens - SMC PENTAX 1:1.7 50mm and got a lens adapter to fit into my age-old Canon EOS m, here are a few shots from my stroll in Paris.
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A little ray of sun every tuesday !! 🌞
