Parker Ehret

obsessed with technology. can't live without music. fascinated by filmmaking and photography. write the occasional song. build themes for tumblr. spend my time learning and creating at TBWA\Chiat\Day.

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  1. this is great. really really great.

     
     
  2. good: Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning? Sweden’s Vittra Telefonplan says goodbye to the “conventional classroom” and focuses on creative design. This means in place of desks, there are “sitting islands,” and students can collaborate with peers in “the village”—a tiny house for group work. Check it out on GOOD→  …we obviously need to rethink eduction. this is a great place to start.

    good:

    Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?

    Sweden’s Vittra Telefonplan says goodbye to the “conventional classroom” and focuses on creative design. This means in place of desks, there are “sitting islands,” and students can collaborate with peers in “the village”—a tiny house for group work.

    Check it out on GOOD→ 

    …we obviously need to rethink eduction. this is a great place to start.

     
     

  3. just when I thought microsoft couldn’t possibly be any dumber, it goes and does something like this… and totally redeems itself!

     
     

  4. all this content

    what happens with all this content? what happens with all the stuff i’ve “liked” and bookmarked? most importantly, where will it all end up?

    i currently have a twitter for little thoughts, tumblr for big thoughts, flickr for film photos, instagram for mobile photos, i use gowalla as my social passport, i have vimeo for big videos, and now viddy for mobile videos.

    that’s 7 sites that i add content to. 7 places that i bookmark content, and 7 places where i “like” things. 

    i consider myself a minimalist, yet have now become an online pack rat. different accounts filled with years of uploads, and hearts, and thumbs up, and stars.

    but why?

    what am i ultimately gonna do with all of that content?

    what am i gonna do with the 200 photos that i like on flickr? …or the 300 blog posts on tumblr, and dozens of photos on instagram, that i’ve hit the heart button on?

    something needs to happen with this content.

    i didn’t “like” things because i wanted to make someone else feel good, i did it because at that moment i sincerely felt attached to that piece of content.

    somewhere, on each site, it’s all been archived.

    something should be done with all that content, but i really have no idea what to do with it. 

    i would love hear people’s thoughts and ideas on this matter.

     
     
  5. oh-so-coco: THIS IS THE FUTUREThrough my new friends at tumblr headquarters I’ve recently come in contact with a very talented new photographer named Jamie. She and her boyfriend create these unique images she calls “cinemagraphs” - more than a photo, but not quite a video. Mark my words friends, this art form is the way of the future. i’m not much of a reblogger, but this this pretty amazing.

    oh-so-coco:

    THIS IS THE FUTURE

    Through my new friends at tumblr headquarters I’ve recently come in contact with a very talented new photographer named Jamie. She and her boyfriend create these unique images she calls “cinemagraphs” - more than a photo, but not quite a video.

    Mark my words friends, this art form is the way of the future.

    i’m not much of a reblogger, but this this pretty amazing.

     
     

  6. this guy wins the totally awesome bad ass of the day award.

     
     

  7. google face-recognition

    google’s upcoming mobile app will identify people’s faces in order to access their personal information…

    soon after, i’m sure there will be an app that uses that technology, and once that person is found, it will run a google search for any public information (facebook, twitter, foursquare, etc…). it will search tweets for geo tags and four square check-ins and any info it can pull from Facebook.

    within seconds of snapping a photo, you’ll know where someone lives, what sites they are on, what sites they visit, what they like, and everywhere they go.

    as far fetched as it seemed at the time, you’ll probably get a read out very similar to the one Arnold Schwarzenegger got in the Terminator.

     
     

  8. reinventing the web browser

    as software and applications have advanced, i think the one thing that hasn’t advanced the way it should is the web browser.

    if you put safari, chrome and firefox next to each other, aside from subtle differences, they all pretty much look the same. and, they all pretty much give the user the same web browsing experience.

    a bar across the top, tabs, minimize buttons, boring, boring, boring.

    i think the web browser should be more visual. it should offer the user multiple sources of information with minimal clicking, and it should be constantly adapting to how the user is using the application.

    in the past, i’ve talked about a curated web browsing experience and as time has gone by i’ve come to believe in it’s importance. if there was a set way that webpages were viewed, like on an ipad, it would be a better experience for the users, designers and developers alike.

    with all that said, i put together a mock-up of what i think the web browser should look like.

    it always takes up the whole screen, with the page you’re currently viewing at front and center displayed at a fixed width. tabs are now open pages on the left. social media is always streaming on the right. backgrounds and foregrounds lighten and darken as the user interacts with the browser. navigation adapts and slides into place.

    this is how i want to experience the web.