Quotes by Aaron Koblin - Page 1

Data can actually make us more human.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Data
Humans
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When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Looks
Numb
Pie
Chart
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Communication
Growing
Social
Social Change
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Data
Focused
Humanity
Explore
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Truth Me People
Concept
Wrap
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Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Technology
Interesting
Long
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I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Musician
Sacred
Music Always Loved
Held
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Engaged
Contribute
Rallies
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Data
Enormous
Methodology
Problem
Tools
Complex
Set
Ridiculously
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Devices
Digital
Narrative
Engage
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Collecting
Creation
Data
Endless
Insight
Our Lives
Relevant
Starting
Possibilities
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I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Data
Ideas
Intrigued
Real
Relevant
Streams
Real People
Reflect
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The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Disaster
News
Scandal
Trouble
Slowly
Necessarily
Nightly
Quietly
Shout
Tends
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Animation
Emotion
Innovation
Process
Ripe
Technique
Waking
Films
Seemed
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Complexity
Data
Infrastructure
Management
Transparent
Actions
Sets
Systems
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Data
Dumped
Missing
Pie
Collection
Chart
Excel
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Vacation
Beach
Cruz
Forests
Grad
Hippie
Program
Santa
Summer
Summer Camp
Ucla
Studied
Awesome
Beaches
Camp
Hang
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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Notes
Quotations
Elephant
Films
Forgets
Inspires
Medium
Save
Thoughts
Technologies
They Say
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My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Mom
Technology
Plus
Psychologist
Thinking
Visualization
Aggregate
Influenced
Personal Level
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Cognitive
Complement
Different Things
Direct
Mood
Perspective
Stuff
Visual
Arts
Engage
Forces
Manner
Nicely
Themselves
Visual Arts
Whilst
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An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Inspiration
Motivation
Powerful
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Bike
Everything In Moderation
Inspiration
Medicine
Moderation
World
World Your Internet
Addictive
Beware
Fails
Medicines
Physical World
Ride
Sofa
Ultimately
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Engaged
Inspired
Intense
Static
Drawings
Paintings
Robot
Seemed
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Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Running
Color
Combination
Creation
Packs
Shapes
Spells
Together
Carefully
Colors
Geniuses
Send
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I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Art
Technology
Computer
Data
Exposed
Fusion
Gaming
Hands
Paint
Rich
Interests
Mix
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Art
Kids
Computers
Enjoyed
Hands
Modifying
Programming
Realised
Time Art Always
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Different Ways
New Ways
Amazingly
Connect
Further
Huge Opportunity
Push
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Computers
Imagination
Technology
Computer
Creating
Data
Dialogue
Fascinated
Found
Humans
Machines
Stories
Use
Young
Started
Just
Rules
Always
Allow
Around
Been
Interested
How
Engage
Instructions
Specifically
Using
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Horizon
Interesting Things
Something New
Truth Is
Well Rounded
Aspects
Original
Broad
Consider
Disparate
Programmer
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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Technology
Elephants
Get Well
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