Sabah Ahmed

read the CNN article on Gilani becoming the new PM of Pakistan

awesome job on communicating a message:

saw this on swissmiss, so true.

kinda cool. found here.

she’s an extremely talented woman who’s art and creativity has always been an inspiration. after months and months (sorry!), i finally finished her website. here, you can see her newest collection of cards that intertwine pencil drawings of flowers with geometric islamic patterns (which i LOVE!).

unfortunately, some of my favorite paintings and drawings are in pakistan, hanging in my grandparents’ house. fortunately, she goes back to visit tomorrow, and will photograph her artwork again.

Big Spaceship is on apple.com/pro in an article about our being a mac based shop and some of our processes.

exciting! when you get an outside perspective, you realize that the things you take for granted as commonplace are indeed valuable and rare.

matt and i checked out the space 1026 and cannonball press talk at the MoMA for valentines day. each artist collaboration/studio was invited to speak at the MoMA education center about themselves.

cannonball press had a well articulated keynote presentation w/bulleted points that i still remember (black and whititude, hello) and sample works for show + sell.

space had a video previously viewed by only 1 member, booklets to pass out, and organic conversation amongst the group members which came off as charming and personal.

what i took away most was crystal’s (krystle? sp? sorry) comment on collaboration. you have to be willing to let go of your work and allow others to use it outside of your control. say no to intellectual property! goodbye copyrights, we’re entering the age of collaboration.

an example of where we need some collaboration through letting go of our ideas is on pageonce.

pageonce is an aggregation site that combines your email, bank, netflix, amazon, flight, etc accounts all into 1 place, similar to netlix. comments on a technorati article nicely articulate concerns about the security (both in presence and perception). so many aggregation sites have failed at earning people’s trust, so perhaps instead of trying to find more secure code (though not a bad thing), we should COLLABORATE together to find a better, grander solution. openID + pageonce + ??? = sense of security? idk.