guys, cool story, sent by the user interface technology manager of symbian, who I am meeting next week for a workshop and a panel discussion. (symbian adopted the GIMP UI brainstorm method, btw). Begin forwarded message: > You might find the following interesting. Augusten Burroughs is an > acclaimed, twisted fiction author. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/garden/22burroughs.html > > On a recent afternoon, Mr. Burroughs, lanky and boyish despite the > tattoos curling around his forearms, was stretched out on the > king-size four-poster bed he has set smack in the middle of the > apartment. Draped and swagged in a manner that would please the Libyan > dictator, the bed is a sumptuous galleon and office for him. Little > seating arrangements ring the tiny room, which he decorated this > summer, downloading photos of art, furniture and objects found on > 1stdibs, shrinking them to scale and laying them out on a floor plan > using Gimp, a Photoshop-like program from Linux, the free operating > system that Mr. Burroughs compared with Alcoholics Anonymous: “You can > get help from total strangers anywhere in the world.” --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
