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The Exit

2008-03-08T10:10:00.004-05:00

In a scene that played out all too often at work, our boss began the morning by dismissing my coworker's efforts, continuing to work deeper until he was attacking her personally. Walking into my office with tears streaming down her face she finally said she was giving up. She couldn't take it any longer. And while we both had entertained the thought of quitting we didn't expect it to happen quite

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe

2008-02-28T20:09:00.000-05:00

Was planning on hitting up the Guggenheim on Saturday with Retardo, Natisha, Jake and Malasa (and probably Sergio and Bea). That plan got shot down this morning when my boss 'suggested' that I come in on the weekend to work. Anyway, the Cai Guo-Qiang exhibition will be up through May 28th so I'll have plenty of time to visit. The first and only exhibition of his that I visited was

One dense post, hope you find something interesting.

2008-02-27T19:06:00.001-05:00

Another delayed post, started this post in mid-February. The only reason I'm mentioning this is I wish I got it out sooner, over at Ain't It Cool News, they had a clip of the Where the Wild Things Are movie. It's been yanked, no matter, apparently they are making major changes to the movie so much of the project is being redone and I think it's been pushed back a year. Fables. Jeez, I can't

IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad love fest

2008-02-27T07:41:00.000-05:00

Some of the content in this post may be a bit stale, started this post on the 16th of January and never finished it until now, just after Lenovo's official X300 announcement. There seems to be some sort of love fest between Business Week and Lenovo. In January, Business Week had a nice reflective article on Richard Sapper, designer of the IBM (now Lenovo) ThinkPad. If you would like to dwelve

Total Lunar Eclipse tonight!

2008-02-20T09:22:00.003-05:00

For the few who haven't heard, the last total lunar eclipse for us North Americans until December 2010 will occur tonight (8:43pm - 12:09am). The meat of it is from 10:01pm - 10:51pm. Hope you have your telephoto lens ready and a nice place to view it from. For more information on the event, check out this page over at NASA.

Fun with CSS3

2008-02-18T22:59:00.008-05:00

I haven't been following CSS3 much, didn't even realize some of the functionality is already implemented in a few of the current browsers. Heck, I have my hands full just trying to figure how to get things working correctly in IE. Came across the 'Fun with highlights' experiment earlier in the day.

Orange cheats on orange with banana

2008-02-17T09:32:00.002-05:00

Whistler while you work; not anymore...

2008-02-15T02:25:00.002-05:00

Yes snowboarding is this much fun. And look, everyone in the photo won't be present for round two. Sad. As I lie here beneath my sheets, slowly counting down to what will surely be a horrendous weekend, I'm looking back at the past few days with a grin. The skies teased me on Tuesday, washing the urban scape with pure swaths of white only to take it all away the very next day with a torrential

Carnegie Mellon in the news, and some art / design items.

2008-02-05T21:18:00.000-05:00

How sick is that shot from Mt. Baker up there? We are getting similar snow up here in Whistler. But the jacket is the sickest thing, the black and white dots are crazy trippy. Need more snowboarding related reading? Check out Snow Broader to see all the products coming out next year. Carnegie Mellon made it onto Core77. Ironically it wasn't the work of a CFA student that caught their

New York Giants: Super Bowl XLII Champions

2008-02-03T12:53:00.000-05:00

Mentally and emotionally exhausted right now. Whether that is due to the two long days of riding so far, or the exceptional win by the Giants in Super Bowl 42, I can't decide. Jasko and I rocked our Giants jerseys all day on the slopes. Between the two of us, we had the defensive ends fully represented, Umenyiora for him, and Strahan for me. At one point, some Patriots fan rode by screaming at

SierraSnowboard.com 5 Days of Snowboard Giveaways & THE sale

2008-01-28T12:00:00.000-05:00

Heads up people! My favorite snowboard shop, SierraSnowboard.com is having a kick ass giveaway this week. They are giving away one great snowboard per day, all you have to do is log into their forums at 6pm EST and hope that they pick your name randomly. For the grand prize on Friday, they will be selecting from their email members. Not a member of the forums? Sign up here! Don't forget to sign

Why I snowboard.

2008-01-24T16:15:00.000-05:00

People wonder why I love snowboarding so much. On a perfect powder day, I feel the same way this little guy is feeling, pure, unadulterated joy. On a side note, thank you Christine for forwarding that photo to me, and does anyone think this pup reminds you of Falkor from the Neverending Story?

Killington MLKjr Weekend. Good times.

2008-01-21T13:25:00.000-05:00

I'm completely brain dead at work right now, barely functional. I'm assuming Retardo is much the same way, except he got even less sleep than I did and he's working with sharp objects. As for everyone else? I believe soreness is beginning to set in if it hasn't yet. It's a good pain though. Enjoy it. Got home at 4am this morning after a surprisingly easy drive back from Killington thanks to

Resonate Ink Illustrations by Si Scott, and other tidbits

2008-01-16T19:00:00.000-05:00

Si Scott's Resonate ink illustrations are filled with swirly goodness. And get this, he does it all by hand! I wouldn't even be able to pull this off in Illustrator which is much more forgiving. It's rare that I devote so much space / bandwidth to one image in an entry, but I'm so infatuated with the work that I am demanding all of you to check the site and look at the other work in the

AIR is MEH

2008-01-15T14:12:00.000-05:00

What's with Apple punishing their early adopters? They are Apple's most ardent supporters, lining up hours if not days before a product release, paying full price and at times creating the artificial demand (iPhone) which garners even more free publicity for Apple. Yet they are treated like crap, e.g., the iPhone price-drop fiasco and now the $20 software upgrade demanded by Apple for the iPod

A little bit of design, a little bit of snowboarding...

2008-01-13T08:35:00.000-05:00

Missed this announcement back in December. John Maeda will take over as the president of RISD in June! Back at Carnegie Mellon I attended one of his lectures and came away disappointed and even though I've been having issues finishing his short book, The Laws of Simplicity, his CV is still pretty stellar and I'm sure all of design academia will look closely at how he affects RISD. Hope it won't

Voltron Found!

2008-01-10T18:37:00.000-05:00

A killer find! Earlier in the day, my coworker was looking for a place to safely store some custom frames that were delivered. Since she had no room in her office / guest bedroom, I look a look around my office / guest bedroom and looked underneath my Andover Secretary. I never explored the drawers there and was stunned to find several boxes of Japanese robot toys. Among them, the Golden Idol

Splendid! SPLENNNNDID!

2008-01-08T23:08:00.000-05:00

Remember the Bearded Cap by V�k Prj�nsd�ttir I featured two months ago? My sister surprised me earlier in the evening with a belated Christmas gift. I sort of ruined the surprise. She left the Scandanavian Grace website up on my laptop at home along with the MTA website. When I got home and saw that she had gone to Williamsburgh, I promptly called her to ask her to track down the Bearded Cap for

Quick hits: Wanted, Whale Hunt, Designers Accord

2008-01-07T23:07:00.000-05:00

Wanted, read about this movie a few months back in an issue of Wizard. At the time all the hoopla was about the Iron Man movie (aftermath from the fan trailer that was released at the Comic Con). I was amazed that even with a pretty star-studded cast, the Wanted movie still slipped under my radar. It was one of my favorite mini-series during college and as with most popular comics since the 90s

Colorblind

2008-01-06T23:46:00.000-05:00

Over dim sum on New Year's Day, my friends and I chatted briefly about color blindness because one of them was colorblind and his girlfriend was wearing a dot test shirt (similar to what is pictured). Yeah I guess she was trying to stick it to him heh. I mentioned to one of the other guys at the table that there was a recent blog post that covered the subject very well, providing examples of

The Submarino

2008-01-03T22:27:00.000-05:00

Steamed milk + bar of dark chocolate = The Submarino (melt the bar into the milk) It's such a simple idea that I'm surprised it isn't more popular here. I'm not even a big fan of chocolate (other than the Silk Chocolate Soymilk I'm always carrying around), but since the jaunt through South America, I've been downing cups of milk and chocolate every time it dips below 40 degrees (the last two

Snowboard Art Contests

2007-12-27T09:08:00.000-05:00

Dropping a quick note for the few that are interested and the fewer that will actually have the time to put something together. May not have the time to enter Artec's and Burton's contest but you should have plenty of time for the Salomon contest. Ride's contest is already done... Ride Snowboard Art 6 Contest Artec / Sony (01/07/08) Burton Art-O-Photo-Tron 13.000 Design Contest (01/25/08, must

Giants Hit List: Coughlin, Gilbride, Manning. And who trade away Ryan Grant?

2007-12-19T07:24:00.000-05:00

2-10-NYG 38 (14:49) 27-B.Jacobs right tackle pushed ob at WAS 45 for 17 yards 1-10-WAS 48 (12:16) 27-B.Jacobs left end to WAS 48 for no gain 2-10-WAS 48 (12:00) 27-B.Jacobs left end to WAS 47 for 1 yard 1-10-NYG 33 (9:44) 27-B.Jacobs left guard to NYG 37 for 4 yards 2-6-NYG 37 (9:05) 27-B.Jacobs left tackle to NYG 41 for 4 yards 1-10-NYG 46 (7:56) 27-B.Jacobs up the middle to NYG 47 for 1

Thoughts on LED clothing applications

2007-12-06T06:41:00.000-05:00

The LEDs developed by Osram employ thin-film technology, making them less than 1 centimeter tall. I think there are very few instances where you can cluster LEDs and make it look presentable and this piece obviously isn't a success. Light bulbs and flashlights are fine, you hardly look directly at the light source. The same applies to the Audi R8 though the look may bother some individuals

Art in the Lower East Side, the eh, yeh and jeaaaaahhh

2007-12-02T07:14:00.000-05:00

Eh. Sam and I met up with Tran yesterday after dimsum and made it into the New Museum without having to wait on line; thanks to tickets provided by Tran and the nice ladies manning the entrance who allowed us to slide in. That was fortunate because I would have been pretty peeved if I waited on line for the pieces making up the Unmonumental Exhibition. Not only were the pieces unmonumental, they