I'M JUSTIN DICKINSON

I make things that go on the Internet. I live in Brooklyn and design at the Vimeo. Here's my life online:

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vimeo:

Today is a big day - one of the biggest in the short-ish history of our small-ish company. For the past year (37 years in Internet time), we’ve been working nonstop on a project that we’ve desperately wanted to tell you about. Because, frankly, it’s all about you. Our willpower muscles are pretty much at the breaking point right now, and so we are doubly ecstatic to finally let the tiger out of the satchel and make this officially official announcement: We built you a new Vimeo.

To learn more about these new big things in more detail, head over to vimeo.com/new. It’s also the place where members can sign up to try the new Vimeo as we roll it out over the next few weeks. Go ahead - you know you want to check it out!

This is big news. Go see what all the fuss is about.

Look at that. There’s a new Vimeo.

Read more here and here.

josephschmitt:

pile:

THIS FOOTAGE WAS ASSEMBLED FROM SOURCES OPERATING UNDERCOVER AT GREAT RISK.

Big, BIG announcement tomorrow. And here’s the mandatory blurry-cam photo to prove it.

More evidence. Something is coming.

ridiculouslyawesome:

blakewhitman:

BIG release tomorrow morning. Like, really big.

Not sayin’… Just sayin’…

I’ve already said too much.

Baller (Taken with instagram)

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever. So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: “stole”) other peoples creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they’re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it’s all based on being able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other peoples rules. The reason they are always complainting about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are.

mattjames:

The popped dog collar.

Someone help me make and sell this. OR someone make and sell this and then someone else help me sue that person.

Matt, I will go into business with you selling these. To Kickstarter!

vimeo:

If you see this big red alert on Vimeo today, it’s because we’re trying to save the Internet. Join the fight against SOPA and PIPA at http://americancensorship.org

coketalk:

This silly little video is an epic violation of international copyright law, and while watching it makes me inexplicably happy, posting it on my site also makes me an evil, evil pirate under the current markup of SOPA.

This post would technically qualify as a federal crime, and without a crack team of intellectual property attorneys on retainer, I might find myself staring down the business end of a court ordered domain seizure initiated by the Church of Scientology on Will Smith’s behalf.

I’m only a little bit kidding.

Fuck Scientology.

Fuck the police.

Fuck SOPA.

Worth reposting (and since my original post embed doesn’t work any more).

This is so, so, so good.

arainert:

laughingsquid:

The Obliteration Room, Kids Cover All White Room in Polka Dots

I can’t express with words how much I love this project.

This is fantastic. What a wonderful concept.

I want to build a time machine and add this to my WBER mix in 2006.

sabertoof:

If not now, then when

Archer - yups and nopes (by itscrawford)

When’s season 3 come back?

It’s a Deftones kind of day.

toptumbles:

Best Wins of 2011

False idol (Taken with Instagram at Le Comptoir)

Pickle backs (Taken with instagram)

Loggin’ Jubilously (Taken with instagram)

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January 20, 11:41 AM

Decimation was a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman Army to punish mutinous or cowardly soldiers. The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning “removal of a tenth”.

A unit selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots, and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. The remaining soldiers were given rations of barley instead of wheat and forced to sleep outside the Roman encampment.

Because the punishment fell by lot, all soldiers in the group were eligible for execution, regardless of the individual degree of fault, or rank and distinction.



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Decimate has a much more specific, numeric meaning.

So does myriad.

January 19, 03:10 PM

The question “What shall we do about it?” is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

This applies particularly to the problem now before us. How are we to heal the split between “I” and “me”, the brain and the body, man and nature, and bring all the vicious circles which it produces to an end? How are we to experience life as something other than a honey trap in which we are the struggling flies? How are we to find security and peace of mind in a world whose very nature is insecurity, impermanence, and unceasing change? All these questions demand a method and a course of action. At the same time, all of them show that the problem has not been understood. We do not need action yet. We need more light.

Light, here, means awareness to be aware of life, of experience as it is at this moment, without any judgement or ideas about it. In other words, you have to see and feel what you are experiencing as it is. And not as it is named. This very simple “opening of the eyes” brings about the most extraordinary transformation of understanding and living, and shows that many of our most baffling problems are pure illusion. This may sound like an over-simplification because most people imagine themselves to be fully enough aware of the present already, but we shall see that this is far from true.

Because awareness is a view of reality free from ideas and judgements, it is clearly impossible to define and write down what it reveals. Anything which can be described is an idea, and I cannot make a positive statement about something-the real world-which is not an idea. I shall therefore have to be content with talking about the false impressions which awareness removes, rather than the truth which it reveals. The latter can only be symbolized with words which mean little or nothing to those without a direct understanding of the truth in question.



- Articles: On Being Aware - The Wisdom Of Insecurity
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snprickett:

I guess if I could be anyone right now I would be Eva Green (smoking Vogues? Wearing Carven?) in this photo, but I would also keep my dirty half-blonde hair.

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Street Art by Max Zorn Making of Tape Art (by MaxZornTapeArt)

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Senior Web Designer at Vimeo
Design | Greater New York City Area, US

Summary

I have spent my career as a jack of all trades for design and development. Beginning with my role as technical developer for a large agency and continuing with my experience as a Senior UX Designer at an NYC startup my jobs have always required multidisciplinary proficiency in interaction and user experience design as well as proficiency in project management, product development, and marketing/social media initiatives. I’ve spent my time on agile, small teams that share responsibilities for quick turn around and can iterate until perfect.
Specialties: Design: A combination of Illustrator, Photoshop, and in-browser design using CSS frameworks and Firebug. Front-end Development: CSS, HTML, DHTML, Javascript, jQuery, 960 CSS grid framework, custom designed CSS frameworks. Wordpress and other CMS systems. Amazon Simple Pay, Paypal, Volusion, and Magneto for e-commerce solutions.

Experience

  • Apr 2010 - Present
    Senior Web Designer / Vimeo
  • 2008 - Apr 2010
    Senior UX Designer / FiLife
    FiLife is a personal finance Q&A destination where people can get their financial lives straightened out. FiLife was recently named #27 Most Innovative Company by FastCompany magazine.

    FiLife is an DowJones/IAC venture.
  • Mar 2006 - Dec 2007
    Interactive Developer / Martino Flynn

Education

  • 2001 - 2005
    Rochester Institute of Technology
    BS in New Media Information Technology

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Interests:
UX, design, technology, social media, mobile design and development, social gaming, entrepreneurship, NYC, Brooklyn, food, cooking, Apple, photography

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January 25, 06:52 PM

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January 25, 12:07 AM

feliciaday: The new Vimeo redesign is totally rad, look at that video player!! http://t.co/zWFQzyF3

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Amyslysly: Well, this should never have happened. http://t.co/M8abUEIA

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January 24, 11:27 AM

buttlord: toilet review: porcelain chair connected to sewers, novel experience. i dont think it will catch on w the public tho. keep shitting on floor

January 24, 10:44 AM

danrubin: This entire page (and the video itself) are a fantastic way to introduce the forthcoming Vimeo redesign: http://t.co/PXB0h3VQ

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December 18, 11:09 PM

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lukeMV: I need to commission a friend's knitting enabled grandmother to knit me an ugly sweater for Christmas 2012.

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December 17, 10:32 AM

Amyslysly: Driving around Brooklyn in a gold Escalade listening to Lauryn Hill.

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kellyoxford: Ladies, if you don't hear Mortal Kombat's "FINISH HIM" before sex, you're doing it wrong. http://t.co/I3mz1Hxe

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kellyoxford: Humble yourself today by squatting over a mirror.

December 08, 11:47 AM

kellyoxford: Scary to think that my kids could become adults who mix up your/you're and I’ll have wasted 20 yrs because I have to kill them.

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