1. My weekend plans: Murder out and ride this modded Huffy up in the woods!

    My weekend plans: Murder out and ride this modded Huffy up in the woods!

  2. Came back from CA with this song

  3. 15 May 2011

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    I need to make three hires: Game Developer, AR Developer and 3D Modeler/Animator  →

    goodjobs:

    I’m collaborating with Encyclopedia Pictura to develop an AR app. EP will direct artwork and gameplay, so you can count on the experience to be a stunning complement to your work. We’ll release iOS first, then Android.

    We need three more folks to get started, all candidates must be based in…

  4. I spend four days a week up in the woods about 90 miles outside of New York City. I’m building a house. There is a small town nearby, it’s really just a four-corners, and the other day I attended my first town meeting, of any town ever. I was surprised to find their government so earnest, to observe my neighbors practice an atom-sized form of community organization with such devotion. It made me feel that my world view is one-dimensional, that for my entire adult life I’ve focused on Internet enterprise and I use a lens that obscures everyone as a user — and here are many people succeeding with basic democracy and civility, and they’re ignorant to the optimism for technology solving all that I represent. Related, being up there makes me realize that when I’m in the city I judge myself, and my peers, by my and their abilities to be productive and wealthy. When I’m away, the criteria for what makes me successful is far more complex: What have I done for my spouse, my neighbor, my community? How have I worked to rise the tide, to improve the livelihood for those immediately around me, how can I serve them? — I wonder. I feel good when I prioritize these thoughts.

    I spend four days a week up in the woods about 90 miles outside of New York City. I’m building a house.

    There is a small town nearby, it’s really just a four-corners, and the other day I attended my first town meeting, of any town ever. I was surprised to find their government so earnest, to observe my neighbors practice an atom-sized form of community organization with such devotion. It made me feel that my world view is one-dimensional, that for my entire adult life I’ve focused on Internet enterprise and I use a lens that obscures everyone as a user — and here are many people succeeding with basic democracy and civility, and they’re ignorant to the optimism for technology solving all that I represent.

    Related, being up there makes me realize that when I’m in the city I judge myself, and my peers, by my and their abilities to be productive and wealthy. When I’m away, the criteria for what makes me successful is far more complex: What have I done for my spouse, my neighbor, my community? How have I worked to rise the tide, to improve the livelihood for those immediately around me, how can I serve them? — I wonder. I feel good when I prioritize these thoughts.

  5. If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened, and in complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not ‘studying a profession,’ for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (via jacecooke)

  6. leehamaral asked: what do you do?

    Always create value, I hope!

  7. soxiam:

    Amazing video with a capital “F”. Watch it.

    Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage (by Survival International)

    Vimeo is so rewarding!!!

  8. This hurts. I’ve been extolling my hometown Fort Wayne to anyone who would listen, for a decade now, and then Kimmel  exploded my groundwork with this powderkeg.

    Seriously,  great place to live. Birthplace of the NBA and gas pump, Johnny Appleseed’s burial place, and generally home to the friendliest folks in the world.

  9. Essentially, he understands that men are happy to have their shoes resoled again and again, and that they’d like to buy shoes that deserve it.

    — Inside Kate and Andy Spade’s New Business Venture - New York Magazine

  10. I’m heartbroken to hear from my brother that the 160 year-old North Java Inn in my mom’s hometown burned down. It is especially meaningful for us because our grandparents owned it for long stints during their lifetime. I always hoped my brothers and I would run it some day. Over the years, The Inn vacillated in its use and clientele as a boarding house, watering hole for rowdy motorcyclists, and most recently one of the best places in rural Wyoming County to eat wings, drink Genesee and watch the Buffalo Bills play their hearts out. We’ll miss you, you old dog.

    I’m heartbroken to hear from my brother that the 160 year-old North Java Inn in my mom’s hometown burned down. It is especially meaningful for us because our grandparents owned it for long stints during their lifetime. I always hoped my brothers and I would run it some day.

    Over the years, The Inn vacillated in its use and clientele as a boarding house, watering hole for rowdy motorcyclists, and most recently one of the best places in rural Wyoming County to eat wings, drink Genesee and watch the Buffalo Bills play their hearts out.

    We’ll miss you, you old dog.

  11. Jimmy Driftwood playing on his famous homemade guitar.

  12. You want a wonderful project? This is a wonderful project.

  13. I’m hanging out in Northern California this week with Encyclopedia Pictura and friends.

    (Source: vimeo.com)

  14. My first classroom I teach entrepreneurship to students in the Interaction Design MFA program at School of Visual Arts.

    My first classroom

    I teach entrepreneurship to students in the Interaction Design MFA program at School of Visual Arts.

  15. Bradley’s gonna become a “spy” whose “espionage” consisted of making the activities of a democratic government visible to its voting population.

    — Bruce Sterling’s thoughts on Wikileaks