February 2008
73 posts
January 2008
29 posts
New neighbor
An opera singer moved in next door and our dividing wall is thin. Subsequently, my life has become unbearably dramatic. While I’m making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, he seranades me as his lover betrothed to another man. During Netflix night, he laments the death of his brother Giuseppe killed in a hunting accident. It’s really getting out of hand.
My favorite Sundance 2008 movies
The Wackness Coming-of-age tale set in New York City, 1994. Teenage pot dealer trades dime-bags to a psychologist for weekly therapy session. Stars Ben Kingsley, who alone makes it worth watching. Baghead It’s a new twist on the campfire story that starts ‘So, there were four people in a cabin out in the woods…’ made by the Duplass brothers, who also made Puffy Chair in...
I'm looking for an extraordinary place in NYC to...
I hope Fred Wilson has a recommendation.
Apes & Androids sold-out record release show gets... →
“If Queen had been an underground rock band from New York, it might have sounded something like Apes & Androids, whose style is as entertainingly bombastic — slick harmonies, horn sections — as it is simple and visceral. The band plays the Mercury Lounge in celebration of its new album, Blood Moon.” — jakoblodwick
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This RSS feed aggregates my Tumblr posts, photos, videos, bookmarks and video rentals. It’s simply the best way to stalk me.
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the [Amazon Kindle] is, the fact is that...”
– Steve Jobs This reminds me to mention the great article on literacy in New Yorker’s Dec 24th’s issue called The science of reading and its decline.
Apes & Androids' new album Blood Moon is now for... →
My favorite album of 2008. It’s also available on iTunes if you want to preview the tracks or buy it there for whatever reason. Trivia: I designed the ‘shopping cart’ in collaboration with Patrick Moberg.
“MySpace, with its cluttered layout, can suggest an online incarnation of the broken-windows theory—surface disorder begetting actual chaos.” (from this week’s New Yorker) Oh Gladwell, you keep popping up everywhere like a state fair whack-a-mole. I’ve never really thought about applying the broken windows theory to web design, but it makes total sense. Careless design...
My year in cities, 2007
I stayed at least one night in each. Here they are in order: Road Town, Tortola New York, NY* Vancouver, BC Whistler, BC Palo Alto, CA Park City, UT Austin, TX Los Angeles, CA* Hot Springs, CA San Diego, CA* Watercolor, FL Portland, ME Bar Harbor, ME Fort Wayne, IN Salsipuedes, Mexico Paris, France Bogotá, Colombia* Leticia, Colombia Anapoima, Colombia Royal Oak, MD* Black Rock City, NV South...
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Sundance
Yo, I’ll be there Jan 18-27. You going? Reblog this and let’s form a crü ( — zachklein Dear Zach … that’s awesome! I’ll be there from the 20th-28th! I was going to post something similar to this, since I figured I must know someone else going … we’re going to be doing daily video updates for Indy Mogul. — justin GUYS! Don’t go to Sundance!...
Sundance
Yo, I’ll be there Jan 18-27. You going? Reblog this and let’s form a crü.
Some figures I heard in India
2 million Indians have broadband access at home 46 million access the internet via their mobile phone 9 million new mobile subscribers monthly There are only 55 public WiFi hotspots in all of India* This made me think the onset of India’s massive internet adoption will resemble nothing like America’s initally. Every home won’t have a Dell desktop, DSL connection, and World of...
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