Eavesdropping on the Metro North conductor chatting with an old-timer: “I wouldn’t go to a game if you gave me free tickets. I watch it on TV, but all they’ve got for me is overpriced merchandise and expensive food. And the corporate guys get boxes with $1000 seats.” The old-timer’s trying to talk him down, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'goodbye'
Anecdotal Evidence That Pro Sports Are Dead
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Open Frameworks at Eyebeam
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments
This is the hard drive that failed on me in the middle Zach Lieberman’s Open Frameworks “knitting circle” on Saturday at Eyebeam. I was typing away, minding my own business, when I got the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom…and then the Beach Ball froze. I powered down, got a grey screen [...]
Tags: calamity · edu · generative art · goodbye · hardware · mac · nyc · software · tech
Bad News and Good Advice
May 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment
This is a sad end to a wonderful project. Derek Powazek has left JPG, the photo magazine he and his wife Heather founded. The story is worth reading, especially for the grace and tact with which Derek tells the story. But I was most taken with what he learned from the whole [...]
Tags: business · goodbye · ideas
Nam Jun Paik, RIP
January 31st, 2006 · No Comments
1932-2006