Entries Tagged as 'nyc'

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Notes From the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum (Day 1)

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
I’d like to add that I’ve recently found a highly cogent rationale/alabi for posting this raw, sloppy, first-draft-of-history note-taking in Clay Shirky’s notion of “first publish, then sort”.See? Its not just that I can’t be bothered to [...]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Notes from AIGA Fresh Dialogue 24: “In/visible” with John Maeda

Notes from the 24th installment in AIGA’s Fresh Dialog lecture series, In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed.
THE VISUAL ETHICS REQUIRED IN INFORMATION GRAPHICS INCREASE THE DESIGNER’S BURDEN FROM FAITHFUL EXECUTOR TO EDITORIAL ARBITER.
How do design choices affect the integrity of the data being portrayed? Can information graphics and the designers who create them ever claim pure objectivity? [...]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Notes from BarcampNYC3 (Day 1)

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
080315 BarcampNYC3 Day 1
How to Fund Yr Startup 1230

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Notes from Clay Shirky’s Book Release @ ITP

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
080229 Clay Shirky Book Release for Here Comes Everybody @ ITP

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Open Frameworks at Eyebeam

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 [...]

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Subway Portrait

On the R train (en route to Matchupcamp) a man across the way was sketching with a brush-tip marker. Last week I’d been chastised by One Leg Chuck for filming his performance in the Bedford L station: “These are my songs, man! It’s rude to just film someone without asking!”

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Hallo-winehouse

SHOCK! at the Horror! SCREAM at the Terror! Dressing up as Amy Winehouse was the go-to costume this halloween, and it’s not pretty…
Photos on Flickr, or see the whole Halloween set here.
Inspiration for the Winehausen here.

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Dogs Walking Dogs

I saw something I’ve never seen before: dogs walking each other.  There was a graying professor type who looked to be in pretty good shape taking his dogs down to the track while he ran.  Two dogs, both of the Benji (or Einstein from Back to the Future) variety, one a little larger than the [...]

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Splasher Exposes Self

After receiving a manifesto from “the Splasher” (person(s) unknown who’s been defacing street art around NYC over the last few months), Gothamist checks in with a lengthy critique and analysis. The gut shot is below:
A) Why are anarchists always so verbose? These “criticisms” could have been boiled down to five bullet points– [...]

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Emergency

Family emergency this weekend (everything’s fine now, thanks) and I missed the Personal Democracy Forum Unconference.  Guess I’ll head over to the wiki and try to catch what I missed.  Not as good as being there.  Phooey.