Purpose
Making sounds against the silence.
Principles
- The artist is correct.
- Respect the road not taken.
- Modularity.
- Mobility.
- Speed is life.
- HOTAS.
- see everything, touch everything
- “The best you can do between now and Tuesday is still a kind of best you can do.” (Charles Eames in Industrial Design, October 1957)
Practices
- Use filename conventions.
- Use underscores for spaces.
- Append date as "-YYYYMMDD."
- Cite sources.
- Set your field of play. Remove unneeded items.
- Only make choices that affect the final product.
- Preset many options with standards. Make the choice once.
- Look it up.
- Always be Knolling. (Bullet II from Tom Sach's Ten Bullets)
- Keep a list. (Bullet III from Tom Sach's Ten Bullets)
- Keep all projects in score order.
- A tool is worth purchasing or keeping if:
- It allows you to work faster.
- It inspires a better performance.
- It gives you new capabilities.
- It gets you hired.
- It makes the final project appreciably better.