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24 hours in a day
Posted January 17th, 2008 at 10:20 pm. There are 0 comments.
I like 24 hour timekeeping. It makes quite a bit of sense, as evidenced by its use by highly precision oriented organizations such as the military and the railways . They also work particularily well in locations where there is not a good sense of night and day, such as in submarines and in mines as well as in situations where you have multiple “day-night” cycles per 24 hour period, in space.
2007 Cities
Posted January 1st, 2008 at 11:02 pm. There are 0 comments.- Jersey City, NJ (Home)
- Solden, Austria
- Munich, Germany
- New York City, NY
- London, England
- Pontiac, MI
- Portumna, Ireland
- Cleegan, Ireland
- Dublin, Ireland
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Kassel, Germany
- Montreal, Canada
- Big Indian, NY
- Brooklyn, NY
- Buffalo, NY
Sean has such Scandinavian Grace
Posted December 30th, 2007 at 6:25 pm. There are 0 comments.
I found the bestest hat evar! But I did not buy.
at Scandanavian Grace
touching
Posted December 27th, 2007 at 10:23 am. There are 0 comments.
nothing to say. i will do as is said on the card from now on.
Personal Annual Report
Posted December 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pm. There are 0 comments.The last two Januaries have brought the release of Nicholas Feltrons Personal Annual Report. And I anticipate this January we will see 2007’s version. I really like them as they sum up a years worth of living, more than 1% of ones life, into charts, graphs and symbols. Stripped of much of the stuff that make people interesting, their peopleness really, we are just a collection of data (presented in a wonderful info-graphic style) as google knows. With the raw data we can tell a story by filling in the blanks, making inferences and conjectures, building that person back to whole. I do not know Nicholas but what he has told me (and everyone) has allowed me to build up a pretty good character in my mind, which I am sure is wrong, as it would be because I made it up.
The real reason for writing this, is that I am planning to attempt the kind of personal documentation achieve by Nicholas as part of my attempt at being interesting. It won’t be the only thing I will be doing, but it is the one that will require the most dedication. We’ll see how it goes.
Sending Cards
Posted December 26th, 2007 at 3:34 pm. There are 0 comments.
We sent out cards this year for the holidays. apologies if you didn’t get one, tracking down addresses seems to be the most difficult task. In recent years cards didn’t get sent, due to time constraints, business or the usual suspect laziness mixed with some forgetfulness. I really like the idea of sending cards out to a whole list of people, especially if they are getting something you made. It is fair to say the potato stamped cards will not win any design awards but it was a joy to send them, writing a personal note to the recipients. Maybe in the new year I will send cards out for fun. I know have one batch at least.
Will it Fly?
Posted December 17th, 2007 at 3:36 pm. There are 0 comments.Tractability, Obviousness, Deepness, Wideness, Discoverability, Monetizability
Structure for evaluating you new product idea.
Ben Rubin – Movable Type – NYTimes Building Lobby
Posted December 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pm. There are 0 comments.
Popped in to escape the wind, knowing that the New York Times lobby contained this gem. Two things I really liked – the emphasis on the number, slight delay and then the context of that number. And the depth created by the lighting, shadows and reflections behind the screens and the reflections in the screens themselves.
Walking from London to New York
Posted December 4th, 2007 at 6:10 pm. There are 0 comments.From an interview with Will Self,
He would hike for hours through the exurbs of London until he reached Heathrow; next he would scramble up an oily embankment and scoot around a chain-link fence to dash straight into the airport terminal; then he would sleep on the plane, for all purposes erasing the flight from memory; then, once he reached JFK Airport, he would sneak along a service road, hoping not to be apprehended as a terrorist, and begin the long trek to the Lower East Side. Will Self, the son of a Yank and a Brit, was about to sew two cities into one imaginary metropolis.
Will Self, the author of a book the book Psychogeography:Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place on the polite rules against having sex in the private cabins aborb the new Airbus A380
That sums up the attitude toward flying: Put people in a metal fuselage, throw them up into the sky, haul them across thousands of miles of sea and desert, and then you expect them not to get excited. But it is exciting. It is.
I have to agree with him, I still think flying is exciting
Eyebeam Hackshop : make blog
Posted December 3rd, 2007 at 1:47 pm. There are 0 comments. 
Mouna and I taught a Eyebeam Holiday Hackshop, and made lasercut zoetrope lantern kits
Photo nicked from this post on the Make blog
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