Archive for the ‘The Generalist’ Category
Colorado 2008 Voter Guide
In: Denver| The Generalist
28 Oct 2008Officially, we’re one week out from election day 2008. But, as Kirk Johnson wrote in this article for The New York Times, the process of voting is changing. Colorado voters are increasingly using early voting and vote by mail as options to going to the polling place on election day. It makes a lot [...]
We Need to Talk
In: The Generalist
29 May 2008It’s been a while, so I thought we should chat. I’ve been ignoring you for a while, and I thought I should explain why.
I know, saying that we need to talk sounds more than a little threatening. Few phrases strike fear into the heart more than hearing those words. It sounds like the end of [...]
The Old Cemetery is Dying
In: Denver| The Generalist
6 Feb 2008Riverside has been dying for a long time.
One of the first cemeteries in the american west designed as a park, with paths for carriages, and trees for shade, and roses, for a generation or so Riverside served as the resting place of the pillars of society, territorial governors and mayors and pioneers and publishers. [...]
yes we can
In: The Generalist
4 Feb 2008Will.i.am of the black eyed peas produced this music video with the help of numerous musicians and hollywood types. The celebrity component is a bit superfluous (I’m not sure what Scarlett Johanssen is doing in there), but all in all it’s pretty compelling.
Tomorrow, I will be caucusing for Barack Obama.
The end of consumer culture?
In: Design| Environment| The Generalist
30 Jan 2008Should designers work toward the end of aspirational consumer culture? Can the design industry, broadly defined, reposition and reinvent itself to provide value and sustainability while still creating desire?
When I was at Northwestern, I took some classes from a Professor of Philosophy, David Michael Levin, who once asked us whether having a choice was important [...]
the gift
In: The Generalist
26 Dec 2007Hadley did this illustration for an article written by Sam Lipsyte and published by the New York Times. The article is called The Gift and it’s a tough read, but probably most appropriate during the time of year when we consider what really matters in our lives.
In the story, Sam recalls the time he [...]
a luminous fog
In: The Generalist
17 Dec 20071. The Night Sky
Mankind is proceeding to envelope itself in a luminous fog
- Italian astronomer Pierantonio Cinzano
Kipple drives out nonkipple… No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot.
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick, 1968
(via 43 folders)
Pierantonio Cinzano’s 2001 atlas of artificial night sky brightness estimated that [...]
thoughts while chopping onions
In: The Generalist
26 Nov 2007When the weather starts getting colder, there’s nothing better than some homemade onion soup. It requires chopping a lot of onions.
In “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius“, Dave Eggers talks about how best to chop an onion. I was never quite sure what method he and “Toph” decided was the best. I have my [...]
Words for Writers
1 May 2007I was talking to a couple of writer friends the other day, and they asked me about the value of blogging, and more specifically the value of blogging for writers. I mentioned that there had been an article on the subject on the visual thesaurus website.
It turns out that neither of my two writer [...]
Colorado Parkour
In: Denver| The Generalist
13 Apr 2007jhh and I watched “Casino Royale” last week. The verdict? Daniel Craig makes a decent James Bond. The movie got incredibly boring once they started playing poker. And the opening scene was one of the best action sequences I’ve seen in a movie in a long time.
It turns out that the opening sequence is [...]
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