Tag: NYC
New York, New York, a hell of a town.
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Cold Storage
Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.
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My Glamorous Life: The Unexpected Samples
If you’ve never fallen gently asleep to jazz ballads, only to sit bolt upright because a horse is shrilly whinnying in your ears, you should try it some time.
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Of Books and Conferences Past
Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
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9/13/01
“I’m reassuring myself that New York City is still here.”
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead: artist Dan Licht
In 1999, I had the good fortune to work alongside Dan Licht at an NYC digital startup called SenseNet, RIP. Back then, although still in his early 20s, Dan was already an accomplished art director and digital…
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My Glamorous Life: Sunday Repairs
For about a week, now, my bedroom floor has been torn up due to under-floor flooding created by a malfunctioning window air conditioning unit. The A/C unit began leaking during the summer months when I…
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Flying North
I was in the Austin airport, looking for my gate, when a raspy voice rang out.
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MFA Interaction Design deadline
Today, January 15, marks the first application deadline for students to apply to the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts. The school will continue to accept applications on a rolling admissions basis…
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Running woman and madman
Two incidents mark my morning walk to work.
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What happened here
This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has…
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…
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The SXSW Diet
A minute later she came back, revolving them a few inches from my lips.
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Dear anonymous
Nicest fuck-you ever.
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Lord of the Rains
I saw the bus doors closing. I saw a strange lady taking my daughter away.
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Girl. Dog. Night. Day.
A series of incidents.