Urban Honking

Well! I very much enjoyed this article, which friend Elizabeth pointed me to after my mild rant against the new hipster obsession with bacon. WHAT A SCATHING SCREED is this Atlantic Monthly book review! It’s not about hipster bacon but rather about foodie culture, which is different, but still. I love it! Meyers takes foodies […]

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Vlad the Impaler has simply got everyone talking: What are some of the worst mustaches of our times? There have been some bad ones, especially if you count “The 70’s” as “our times,” and even more especially if you count “The nineteenth century,” which most historians sort of do (“the steam engine”). Wherefore, mustache? It […]

Originally aired Friday February 11th, 2011. Gary Lacrosse’s new Podcast, “Conversations,” continues with co-hosts Andrew and Richard. The conversation is about the concept of THE OLD. A discussion of Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday and the triumphant celebrations that recently celebrated this celebratory celebration. A caller calls in to discuss the actor Ronald Reagan’s illustrious career […]

Well I finally got sick. I haven’t been sick since 2005, so I feel okay about it. BUT THEN, in spite of the ire of my personal physician (Fiona M.D.), I cured myself using an utterly incomprehensible Ol’ Home Hippie Remedy taught to me by my unlicensed personal physician (Claire, University of Life): Before bed, […]

Here’s a poster Niko and I designed this fall for a lovely independent film that has been making the festival circuit for the last few months. It just got picked up by Paladin Films for national release this spring. Coming to a city near you! Trailers and stuff can be found here. — plazm blog […]

How can you make a 3d scan using sound? That’s the question that Eric Mika, Jeff Howard, Zeven Rodriguez, Molmol, and I set out to answer this week. Challenged by our 3D Scanning and Visualization class to invent our own scanning method, we decided to take the hard road: scanning using sound generated by physically […]

How can you make a 3d scan using sound? That’s the question that Eric Mika, Jeff Howard, Zeven Rodriguez, Molmol, and I set out to answer this week. Challenged by our 3D Scanning and Visualization class to invent our own scanning method, we decided to take the hard road: scanning using sound generated by physically […]

For the first assignment for my Designing for Digital Fabrication class this semester, I just performed a series of precise measurements of the Kinect and used them to compose three drawings in Vectorworks. The purpose of the exercise was to learn the process of converting measurements into scale drawings and to get started in the […]

Plazm designed this teaser ad as well as a series of posters for New York City-based Red Bull Theater’s latest production “The Witch of Edmonton.” The show was recently extended through February 20, 2011. Details on the Red Bull Theater web site. There is also a great review from the New York Times’ Ben Brantley […]