An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969) by Joseph Gelmis Excerpted from "The Film Director as Superstar" (Doubleday and Company: Garden City, New York) Copyright ©1970 Joseph Gelmis, All Rights Reser

I’m a procrastinator. I’m also easily distracted, both in the short term (incessantly checking my Twitter account ) and also over longer periods. I’ll become consumed with an idea for a new project before the current one is finished. It’s frustrating for me and those around me. You’re probably…

Counterterrorism Mission Creep One of the assurances I keep hearing about the U.S. government’s spying on American citizens is that it’s only used in cases of terrorism. Terrorism is, of course, an ex

One of the things you're supposed to work out some time in your adolescence is that though you're the star of your own life, you're not the star of anyone else's. Some companies never work this out. A

Officially, Google killed Reader because “over the years usage has declined”. 1 I believe that statement, especially if API clients weren’t considered “usage”, but I don’t believe that’s the entire re

A lot of ink has been spilt over the past week discussing the design language adopted by iOS 7. It is, without a doubt, the most significant visual change to the platform since it was introduced. It’s fascinating, somewhat flawed, forward looking yet slightly regressive all at the same time. It…

[June 19 update: David Simon has been kind enough to respond at length here . He points out that I falsely stated that collecting call records requires a warrant; I have corrected that statement in the post below.] I read with interest David Simon's recent blog post in which he responds to…

“We spend a lot of time on a few great things.” — Designed by Apple in California In 1940, Ub Iwerks, the animator behind Walt Disney’s first Mickey Mouse shorts, came back to the Disney studios after

At the bottom of my recent post on App Store pricing , I ended a three-paragraph footnote 1 with this: Abolishing the “top” lists from all App Store interfaces and exclusively showing editorially sele

Louis CK has a joke where he lambasts anyone who complains about the speed of their mobile phone by saying, “Give it a second! It’s going to space. Could you give it a second?” Yesterday, during Apple’s keynote on the redesign of iOS 7, I kept thinking about CK’s joke while trawling through the…

Mad. Furious. Instantaneous rage. I’m not proud to admit it, but there is a short list of seemingly inconsequential events that give me blind, piercing rage. It’s an embarrassing list that I cannot fully share, but here’s a few: When a single key on my keyboard is slowly failing. When you chew with…

Last year, Jony Ive was interviewed in the London Evening Standard . It makes for interesting reading (despite the awful title). Our industry is in the throes of an aesthetic shift. At one end of the spectrum, there’s the stitched leather and wood of iOS; at the other, the stark, ascetic…