Projects
The Creosote Journal
A hand-crafted blog of international arts, culture, and travel, founded in California in 2011.
Swimming With Piranha
I'm writing an e-book about psychedelic culture and tourism in the Peruvian Amazon.
Client Work
Colorlines Mobile
I helped create the mobile site for Colorlines.com, a prominent social justice news site.
Tech Underground Responsive Website
I recently re-branded and designed a responsive website for the Tech Underground.
Blog Posts
My New Tech Blog – Forwardslash
It’s a hybrid of the code-focused developer notebook a lot of programmer blogs consist of, and a notebook for where tech intersects with other things, like visual art or music.
Thanksgiving, Back in the Bay Area
This morning I listened to a KPFA broadcast from Alcatraz, where for years a sort of counter-Thanksgiving has taken place.
Back in the U.S.A.
At the beginning of this month I landed back in the U.S. after two years of living abroad, in Oaxaca, Mexico and Berlin, Germany. Bringing the adventure to a close was bittersweet. It was hard to be sure when the right moment was for it to end, but I’m so grateful I had these experiences, and I’m also glad to be back.
Hearing View Rheinau
Hearing View Rheinau documents the creation of a sound installation in Switzerland where textures from four seasons on the Rhine were meticulously captured.
Erroll Morris Deciphers Donald Rumsfeld
Morris is putting a microscope on the kind of false logic that should raise our bullshit alarms the next time we hear it.
Anthropocentric Technology
I’ve been thinking a lot about technology and its implications lately, and this morning I sketched out a simple framework for an “anthropocentric technology.”
On Comic Sans and Wireframes
It took me a long time to realize that wireframing tools use that most hated of fonts: Comic Sans. I got over my initial panic, and here’s why: because every font has its place.
Hans Fallada: Alone In Berlin
As you might expect in a book about German resistance to the Nazis during WWII, there are terrible things depicted: torture, suicide and murder. And yet, nobody in the novel is entirely a monster, and nobody is entirely good.
Woz, Not Jobs
The digital world needs more people in love with the creative process for its own sake: the hackers, hobbyists and tinkerers.
My Top Three Tools for Web Development
Tools matter, and these are my top three for web development.