Author Archives: Ray
Why Are Comedians Providing The Most Relevant Journalism?
We’re in the final stretch of a long presidential campaign, which is a watershed election for many reasons. The more obvious having to do with the race and gender of the candidates. However, there are lesser ones which are important … Continue reading
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Awesome People I Met/Saw At The New York Art Book Fair
I finally made it to the New York Art Book Fair after being out of town last year. I think I learned about the first one a couple of days after it ended, which is quite typical for me. In … Continue reading
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What is the Role of the Anthropologist?
Image source: cultureby.com On Saturday, I got to hear Grant McCracken speak at the AIGA GAIN conference in New York. I documented that I was going to the talk in my usual way of writing a quick note in twitter, … Continue reading
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I Gave A Presention On Computation and Maps
Computation + Maps View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: map gis) The last week has been a little hectic. I give this talk last week to some first year Masters of ID students at UArts. The title is … Continue reading
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Seven things that everyone should know about the New York Subway.
Image source: flickr 1. If you are waiting for a train, and the incoming train cars go, packed, empty, packed… do NOT enter the empty car. The *best* case scenario is that the AC is broken. 2. The subway trains … Continue reading
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Best Movie Every Year Since You’ve Been Born.
Image source: Wikipedia entries Diva, She’s The Man, and Safe. There is a music album meme circulating blogs where people cite the best album for every year they were born. I took a different tack and did movies. Some of … Continue reading
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Call On Me.
Image source: EW.com I’m in San Francisco, for short project, this week. On some downtime, I told Florian that in my next place I live, I want to get a landline, a real copper wire one, not VOIP. He turned … Continue reading
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My Longstanding Issue With Blog Interfaces.
Something has been confusing and annoying me basically since I started reading blogs. It’s one of those slight annoying things, where a little design considering would make the issue irrelevant. When reading or searching blogs, the bottom of the screen … Continue reading
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The Politics Of The Designer.
Image source: Silverdocs In the post-Olympic, millions of people saw daily images of the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube (designed by Herzog de Meuron and PTW Architects, respectively) which are impressive structures that are now forever linked to the 2008 … Continue reading
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Fashionable Ethics.
Image sources: nymag.com, nytimes. Not the freshest topic, but worth recording, Vogue India’s August’s spread has a 16 page of photo editorial with average India people wearing luxury accessories. What’s the issue with average? When 465 million of 1.1 billion … Continue reading
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