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# ✱ 5ives 012
- URL: https://www.trxl.co/2014-5-23--5ives-012/
- Published: 2014-05-23T15:08:07.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-25T00:26:03.000Z
- Author: Evan Troxel
- Tags: 5ives, #sqs, #Import-blog1, #evantroxel-me-com

### 1\. [How to get the best out of photo apps on your smartphone](http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2014/may/08/how-to-get-best-photo-apps-smartphone-video)

Dan Rubin, editor-at-large of the Photographic Journal and an early Instagram adopter, takes a tour of London to test some of the best smartphone photography apps. \[...\] – and offers some cool tips and tricks of what you can do with those shots afterwards

### 2\. [Where the Twin Towers Stood](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/where-the-twin-towers-stood.html?%5Fr=0#)

The September 11 memorial and museum’s location at ground zero in Lower Manhattan is one of its most notable features, according to Steven M. Davis, a partner at Davis Brody Bond, the lead architects for the museum. “If you think about the notion of a traditional museum as an icon which contains exhibits, here we have the inverse,” Davis says. “These are exhibits that are in fact the icon.”

### 3\. [Design Is About Intent](http://rampantinnovation.com/2014/05/13/design-is-about-intent/)

Intent means purpose; something highly designed was crafted with intention in every creative decision. Frank Lloyd Wright explained that intent drives design with the credo “form follows function“; P&G calls this being “purpose-built.” The designer is the person who answers the question “How should it be?”

Overarching intent is easy. The hard part is driving that conscious decision-making throughout every little choice in the creative process. Good designers have a clear sense of the overall purpose of their creation; great designers can say, “This is why we made that decision” about a thousand details.

### 4\. [The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever](http://apps.npr.org/commencement/)

### 5\. [Can These $20,000 Houses Save the American Dream?](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the%5Feye/2014/05/19/rural%5Fstudio%5Fbuilds%5Fbrand%5Fnew%5F20%5F000%5Fhouses%5Fin%5Falabama.html)

Our goal was to design a market-rate model house that could be built by a contractor for $20,000 ($12,000 for materials and $8,000 for labor and profit)—the 20K House, a house for everybody and everyone. We chose $20,000 because it would be the most expensive mortgage a person receiving today’s median Social Security check of $758 a month can realistically repay.

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## And a quote for the weekend:

> Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.  
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> — Franz Kafka