Urban Honking

This weekend I served as a judge for Come Out and Play, an experimental urban games festival held in a different location around New York every year. During the course of the festival, I had an experience that I think might be worth describing for developers thinking about the native apps vs. web apps debate. […]

Have you ever played poker with play money? How about pennies? That’s not poker. It can still be a fun little card game, but poker is a game of real risks, and when you remove the significance of the risks the game loses an essential element. Likewise “investing” in the market and tracking the results […]

Interno is the latest typographic offering from Wordshape. Interno is a headline typeface built from a Walter Ballmer Olivetti logo exploration drawn sometime in 1960. Work on Interno commenced in 2006, but was soon abandoned. In 2009, Eli Carrico picked it up and ran with it, completing Interno 1. I picked through Eli’s development stages […]

Interno is the latest typographic offering from Wordshape. Interno is a headline typeface built from a Walter Ballmer Olivetti logo exploration drawn sometime in 1960. Work on Interno commenced in 2006, but was soon abandoned. In 2009, Eli Carrico picked it up and ran with it, completing Interno 1. I picked through Eli’s development stages […]

This is a poster I screened for my show of posters at a show inside a show. The art show is called: “I Made 99 Posters, Bitch! (Plus This One)”: 100 Poster designs by E*Rock Opening Thursday, June 17 @ Holocene, as part of this show: A Few of My Favorite Things : An evening […]

“For people steeped in bliblical wonders and supernatural lore, alterations in the night sky, including the aurora borealis in northern latitudes, carried even greater portent. ‘Terrible sights were in the sky all night,’ George Booth of Chester recorded in 1727. ‘All my family were up and in tears, or there prayers, the heavens flashing in […]

I’ve started a new blog. It’s called Diary of New Republican and it’s a recording of my thoughts and ideas as I transition to my new political party. Originally I was going to post that material here, but I fear that I may suffer from a bout of “Regarding-itis” in this new endeavor and so […]

Give it the entire album a spin here at NPR.