RIP GeoCities.

You laugh, I laugh, but GeoCities is the only reason I'm a programmer/developer/artist-critter today.

Michael Bierut via Adrian Shaunessy via DO"I remember a lesson from my first year of design school, a series of exercises that we did to learn about the relationship between the figure / ground relationship, the relationship between the thing that’s the subject of a visual composition and the area that surrounds it. For me, this is one of the most ( Read more... )

(inspired by regyt, and the fact that all my cover letters inevitably look like this, with love to teferiHello ( Read more... )

Somehow or other, probably at Monochrom's urging and Bryony Gomez-Palacio's writing, it occurred to me that in the American school system we are groomed basically from elementary school onward that we will someday have a career, meaning get a job, and we had best learn the rituals of that starting roughly in sixth grade ( Read more... )

Sketch Night last night was excellent. I did the first architectural interior I don't hate ( Read more... )

Hmmm ( Read more... )

One of our stops during arjache's splendid New York tour was Forbidden Planet, at which I finally acquired a crucial element of office decor: tiny plastic Oscar Wilde!

Mr. Wilde supposes he can get used to his new digs:

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Day 2 was lovely, though steamy-hot. I know I can't complain about heat when it wasn't actually as bad outside as it sounds like Seattle was, and when I have a/c inside. (Sorry. Not to brag.)

dymaxion coaxed me to go with her to the Pride Parade (I'd like to think I didn't take much coaxing, even if I did sleep until 11), and it turns out this building is ( Read more... )

Just closed my last bug on this project.

For catamorphism:

an IM conversation I had two minutes ago with my boss6:06 PM ( Read more... )