by David | Jan 15, 2015 | media
Job getting you down? Maybe you need ducks. HT @io9
by David | Oct 8, 2014 | design, economics, media, photo
This summer, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to teach a business basics class for a group of artists participating in a new way to create and sell artwork, Community Supported Arts. Like its inspiration, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), CSArts is...
by David | Aug 11, 2014 | culture, media, reading & writing
Think of it as the book singularity. Casting off their physical shells, books are achieving a sort of immortality by becoming ebooks. Well, they’re not necessarily freer or even longer lasting, I guess, but they sure are easier to move from place to place. Linda...
by David | Jul 2, 2014 | media, reading & writing, technology
I was reading an ebook on my phone (soon I’ll give in and just say, “I was reading a book”) and got to a part that included a recipe. I wasn’t about the actually try to prepare it, not least because I was on the train at the time, so I...
by David | Feb 24, 2014 | culture, design, media, reading & writing
Finger firmly fixed on the pulse of SciFi fandom, io9 asks, “Are bookshelves becoming obsolete?” Seems to me the question is more, “are paper books on their way out?” and I can dispense with that questions quickly with a simple,...
by David | Feb 20, 2014 | culture, design, media
I saw a lot of art on a recent trip to New York, but I think the works that made the biggest impression on me (not literally, thank goodness) were four steel slabs by Richard Serra, two at MoMA made in 1974-75 and two at Gagosian from 2013. Inside Out (2013) at...
