by David | Jan 19, 2009 | economics, media, working
If you’ve been following @tangyslice (and if you haven’t, what are you waiting for, an engraved invitation?) you may have noticed that he’s back and tangier than ever. For a while there he was spending many long hours a day comforting a screaming...
by David | Jan 17, 2009 | culture, economics, media, technology
I try to rethink on a daily basis, if not constantly, but like most people, I don’t do the Big Rethinking often enough, maybe mostly around milestone birthdays, new years, yom kippur, presidential turnovers, etc. Now I’m preparing to move and going...
by David | Dec 15, 2008 | economics, media, urbanism
Apparently I’m one of the last to notice that CD Spins in Davis Square is closed. It looks like it’s been that way about two weeks, and even though I’m in the neighborhood almost every day, I just today noticed this scary sign in the window. It...
by David | Dec 1, 2008 | design, media
Yep, it’s December again. There’s no possibility of escaping holiday muzak anymore. The threat of snow is in the air. And it’s time to get to work on my new year card. For reasons I can’t really explain anymore, every year for about 15 years...
by David | Nov 15, 2008 | culture, design, media, photo, urbanism
It was a photographic version of the colorful phrase, drinking from the firehose. Thursday night I attended a lecture by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco and then Friday, an opening of a show by National Geographic photographer Cary Wolinsky, both events presented by...
by David | Nov 13, 2008 | culture, design, media
Some time last year, I first learned about Pecha Kucha from the estimable Presentation Zen blog, but it wasn’t until last night that I experienced it. Pecha Kucha, in a nutshell, is when people get together and share 20-slide presentations in which the slides...
