I'm a designer, photographer, and writer living in Austin, Texas.
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Dooce
Grist
Life on the Balcony
Design Sponge
Creative Adoration
Humachine
Typocode
Hrrrthrrr
Friends (and their work)
Chris Lambe
John Keppel
David Smith
Ali Sable
Bethany Bauman
Michelle Girard
What I'm Reading
Coop : A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting by Michael Perry
Me too, Lyss
i started photographing 35mm again.
and.
i.
love.
it.
it’s been 5 years.
Me too. It feels good.
Reblogged from turn to run.
The Extraordinaries: Micro-Volunteering
Volunteering on a microscale! Help museums tag photos, translate texts, and tons more.
Looks like a good way to give back to the community when you only have 10 or 15 minutes here and there.
They even have an iphone app for when you’re standing in line at the grocery store.
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Ooooooh! Alien bugs are hovering over Austin—preparing to attack!
It sorta looks like he’s giving the peace sign though… Maybe they come in peace?
Chris Cardello was buried in avalanche while skiing and his helmet cam caught it all, including the rescue five minutes later. It’s truly chilling (pun totally intended).
(via Mother Nature Network)
Chris, let’s talk about that 42” flat screen TV you’ve been toiling over whether you should get or not…
Reblogged from Nikki J's Scrapheap.
In 1960, Joe Kittinger flew 30km straight up into the sky using a pressurized, high-altitude balloon. This very nearly made him the first man in space. He then jumped.
Reblogged from Daniel Smith.
The Boy Who Heard Too Much
An interesting (but long) story about a kid who “could impersonate any voice, memorize phone numbers by the sound of the buttons and decipher the inner workings of a phone system by the frequencies and clicks on a call, which he refers to as ‘songs.’ The knowledge enabled him to hack into cellphones, order phone lines disconnected and even tap home phones.”
Reminds me of the movie Hackers.
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Compulsion: Where Object Meets Anxiety by Chappell Ellison
A well-written story about a designer’s experiences with her OCD brother. I never even considered the challenges of designing for some one with OCD! Very intriguing.
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http://www.banthephonebook.org/
5 million trees for something we throw away? Mmm, pass.
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Car decals (on 3 sides) that say “The Secret Service” and a license plate that says “Area 51”… a little obvious, don’tcha think?
(Sorry about the crappy image. I took this with my iphone during rush hour…)
![[Personas] {link} uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
This is super cool! Too bad my name didn’t produce any results… still really cool though!](http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kompj8kGEq1qz4lk1o1_500.png)
[Personas] {link} uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
This is super cool! Too bad my name didn’t produce any results… still really cool though!
Heath Ledger in Joker prosthetics, but without the Joker makeup.
Woah. They did a good job.
Concept Feedback
Get feedback on your work! This may come in handy!
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Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival {link}, June 12, 2009.
