backwards from now

September 18, 08 - Deconstructing Esquire
So Esquire’s big cover is kind of silly, perhaps a bit simplistic, and underwhelmingly lackluster. The implementation of the technology glares with a vulgarity that forbids any sort of design coherence with the sophisticated, evolved feel of ink on paper

September 13, 08 - Julian Bleeker on Design
One of the questions that I wrestle with is the question of design - what it is, what it means, what place does it have in an increasingly engineered and technical data-centric atmosphere? For me and my main area

July 22, 08 - A poorly edited missive written on an iPhone while speeding through New Jersey on a train
Like hundreds of other new media douchebags I am - thanks to the “exciting” new WordPress app - writing this post on my iPhone. So - who gives a shit? I don’t really - it’s kind of pointless. Unless of course

June 11, 08 - Not stupid, different. The cover story that Nicholas Carr should have written for the Atlantic
Nicholas Carr’s latest cover story in the Atlantic has sure kicked up a lot of dust - and for good reason. The article is a worthy read - Carr makes some great points and he is entirely correct about

May 22, 08 - Don’t buy a Kindle - get a library card. A response to “The Digital Future of Books”
I’ve been on a McLuhan binge of late. Every day on my train ride into work I read one of the twenty pamphlets that comprise the collection McLuhan Unbound from Gingko Press. I won’t trouble you with the

May 13, 08 - MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
This video by Italian graffiti artist Blu is absolutely beyond words. I can’t imagine how much work something like this entails… I’m just glad that there are creative folks out there doing it. MUTO a wall-painted animation by

May 5, 08 - Finally something for you magazine people out there to think about.
While I hate to sound like chicken little - and though the print is dead meme is way overplayed - I had to post this quote from Steve Frye. In a sidebar in the current issue of Publishing Executive

April 29, 08 - Clay Shirky on Gin, Television and the Social Cognitive Surplus
This is a fairly short, extremely relevant speech given by Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 conference on April 23, 2008. It’s an absolute must view if you want to understand the ongoing shift from passive to active, participatory

April 24, 08 - My vote’s a bet in a football pool, five on the red, six on the blue.
Wake up fool there’s no time for a shouting match. That’s the next line after the headline of this post as it sits in Mike Doughty’s sublime anti-war tune Fort Hood. Embedded above is the newly

April 21, 08 - I’ve got my shoes on backwards, that’s all
An interesting video by my friends William Mallory and Jessica Licciardello made it’s way into my inbox today. It’s the video for the song “Shoes” (a catchy romp if there ever was one) off of William’s latest album I