Guns and Elmo

Hello, I'm John Pavlus.

This is my internet mood board. Click any entry to embiggen.

In real life I write about science, technology, and design. I also run a production company called Small Mammal.

(FAQ: The name comes from a brilliant photograph by Kenneth Cappello.)


I disagree, but… touché. 
[Note: “design” isn’t just “a guy in confrontationally architectural eyewear either entertaining me visually or forcing me to pay attention to certain things”, and it’s a damn shame most people see it that way. Which is often designers’ fault.]
[Note2: I don’t disagree with the assertion that volunteering at a soup kitchen will help save the world, too.]

I disagree, but… touché. 

[Note: “design” isn’t just “a guy in confrontationally architectural eyewear either entertaining me visually or forcing me to pay attention to certain things”, and it’s a damn shame most people see it that way. Which is often designers’ fault.]

[Note2: I don’t disagree with the assertion that volunteering at a soup kitchen will help save the world, too.]

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    building where I work whom I would love to send this to. Said one such person recently, “I’m really
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