Meditation and Epoxy, for Example
Yesterday, I took the time out of my insano, crazy day to sit and meditate for a while. It's something that I used to do daily while living in LA -- I mean, come on, how else do you cope with living in LA? But recently, I have fallen out ...
March 4, 2010 – Day of Action in Defense of Public Education
Coordinated statewide demonstrations are taking place in California today, where students, teachers, and parents are protesting deep budget cuts to public education. A lot of the media coverage has focused on state universities, but students at all levels are involved.
I happened upon this protest, held by local school kids along ...
Disrespectful Advertising
I was riding my bike home tonight and I took a quick shortcut through a quiet neighborhood near St. Luke's Hospital. Cruising down the block, my eyes were suddenly diverted by a series of obnoxious hot pink American Apparel ads. The ads were wheat-pasted all over the boards surrounding a ...
Poison Oak
The last couple of weeks were consumed by poison oak. My fiancee went camping and came home covered. Soon, it was all over me. It was a severe enough case that we both ended up on steroids.
You itch (obviously). Your face swells up. Your eyes swell up. It hurts ...
Haiti
Some House-keeping First
WordPress
For those who aren't reading this via RSS reader, you'll see that I'm in the middle of installing a new WordPress theme. I'm kind of halfway there, so bear with me as I fiddle. Also, if you haven't already seen it, how awesome is it that according to ...
Fixpert in 2010
Fixpert is going to be significantly different in 2010. I'm not sure what it will look or feel like yet, but I don't plan on continuing down the same route that I'm on. I feel that I've changed quite a lot in the last couple of years, and this change ...
No More CrapSense, er, AdSense on Fixpert
Well, you all were very patient with me last month, as I ran ads everywhere on this site: (god-awful) image ads in the RSS feed, text ads on the homepage and on article pages.
As a User Experience Designer, it was a good experiment for me to run, to go ...
NY Times Special Edition
This is a great idea. Here's a fake edition of the New York Times, with an idealistic reporting on a parallel universe, or possible future. I love that they include this piece: New York bike lane system expanded dramatically.
Designing Your Own Christmas
I'm back, at last, from my Great Holiday Tour 2008. This holiday season took me to:
The Sierras
Richmond, VA
Charleston, SC
SF, San Jose, Marin, various places in the area
Mendocino, CA
Corvallis, OR
Lincoln City, OR (generally, up and down the Oregon Coast)
Portland, OR
Things that I did differently this year:
Travel by train
No gifts
No Christmas tree
Also, ...
Is this FOX Biting Banksy?
Ok, at first I thought this was FOX ripping off Banksy:
But in fact, I checked Banksy's official site and it seems it is one of his pieces.
More Banksy magic:
Seen in NYC via Michael Sporn Animation
I Got Laid Off
It happened a few weeks ago -- three weeks to the day. The company I was working for laid off about a third of their employees. We were a wee startup of about 25 people, funded in part by Sequoia Capital. If you've followed tech news for the last couple ...
Be More Ridiculous All the Time (not just Halloween)
Dali. I never cared much for the particular aesthetic of the man's paintings -- although I totally appreciate the roll Dali played in the Surrealist movement and its resulting contributions to the art world, and bla bla blahhhhh.
But that's not what this post is about! NO! It's a reminder to ...
Skate Graphics and A Personal History of Skateboarding
37Signals has a post about the history of skateboard deck graphics, including a cool slideshow that they put together.
~ via Drawn!
I'm really glad to see folks in the web design community giving a nod to the influence that skate culture and artwork had on our generation of designers and artists. ...
OMG, Now I Know What ESPO Looks Like
I saw Beautiful Losers several weeks ago at its San Francisco opening. I must say, ESPO's appearance in the film, and just his persona was such a thrill, I'm a long-time fan. I seem to remember seeing a lot of ESPO stuff up in Philly in the way-back-whens, maybe even ...
Banksy Show in NYC
Banksy's got a show up in the N-Y. It just opened last Thursday, October 9th and it's his New York City debut! Can you believe it? Seems he's been around fu-eva, why he drag his feet for?
Details
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill (google map)
89 7th Avenue (between Bleeker ...
Life Updates
Hi all. OMGosh, I know, I know, I haven't posted in friggin' AGES! Let me get you up to speed on what I'm up to, and what's up with Fixpert.
Living in San Francisco
If you follow the site, you already knew that I moved up here in March 2008. I LOOOOOOVE ...
Fixpert Live Redesign in Progress – YUI Reset CSS Added
I don't have much time for tweaks tonight, but we're using YUI at work so I'd like to use it on Fixpert too. I've just added the YUI Reset CSS and you can see the effects. Purty ugly so far, but prettiness will come soon. In the meantime, YUI is ...
Live Redesign, aka Do I Have the ‘Nards?
Do I have the 'nards -- or in my case, the 'ovs to start fresh with a Sandbox bare bones WordPress theme and just little by little design up from there? Let's find out!
Big Changes Around Fixpert
Ok, ok, omg, I'm sorry. I've been so busy. I swear. What, with all the, you know, having to eat lunch and get sleep at night and things like that, things have just been bananas! No really, I've been quite busy since moving to San Francisco. I'm almost settled in ...