Celebrity Cavalcade

Claire and I had lunch in the park today. Beautiful weather. We passed Robin Williams on the sidewalk while I was telling a particularly animated story about shitting. I'm sure my spastic gesticulation made Mr. Williams wistful for his glory years and his glory cocaine. As if that weren't enough, we bumped into an even bigger star in the park. Imagine the luck!

Can you guess which one I was more excited about?

Ego A-Go-Go

After work last night, I went to a panel discussion hosted by the National Design Museum. The subject, "Ego", brought together three National Design Award finalists (Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher and Michael Rock) to discuss the conflict of designer and client ego when working on an account, but it quickly devolved into each designer showcasing some of their more visionary work. But you don't attend lectures to hear people wax on and on about a theme, you just want to hear interesting people share interesting anecdotes and maybe dispense a bit of personal philosophy.

That's pretty much what happened. Each panelist presented a short reel of their work, all of which was really inspiring. As near as I can tell, once a studio creates a reputation for being very avant-garde and creative, they're allowed a lot of license to do wildly imaginative design work with a real dimensional feel. The work showcased was so much more than words and pictures arranged aesthetically on a page. These people are designing and peddling complete, fully-formed ideas. And the beauty of a big idea is that it has a trickle down creative effect, incorporating a myriad of design elements and skills (video production and design, humor, fine art, graphic design, copy writing, branding, etc.).

The whole thing was pretty thrilling. It really makes me excited about the process of having an idea and then following it through to completion, for better or worse, stretching my own skill set and abilities along the way. !!! I can't wait to get my hands dirty and...and do things!

Recent Links

B'c my blog template was beyond simple editing for so long, I didn't get to offer up any remaindered links. So here's a heaping helping, with more on the way.

• The generation gap may be dead, but 40
  is still "old" in my book


• Batman-inspired "onomatopeyas"


• Awesome Japanese manhole cover art proves, once again, that the most inspiring adornment can be found in the streets, not gallery walls


• Guerilla Wayfinding idea proposes an end to urban disorientation


• Maybe you already heard about the "Britney Birthing" statue, but here it is anyway. Countdown to Internet crotch shots in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!


• The Daily News explains "distraction buys", the stuff you get to mask your condoms and hemhorroid cream


• College student spent 41 hours in a Wal-Mart


• At some point, I'd like to build one of these fractal chandeliers


• Drop Shadows, Not Bombs


• Jill Carroll is released


• "Arrested Development" is officially dead


• Inside the Gentlemen's Fight Club


• Don Pixel has a lot of small vide game distractions to waste your time

"Drugs Are Bad"

Refreshing Newness: The blog may be temporarily dead, but that's no reason why there shouldn't be new content. I wrote this a while ago and I'm posting it now. It's called "Drugs Are Bad". Enjoy it.

Blog : Redux

My blog is beyond fucked. So I've stripped off all the MySQL database and PHP whistles. Now it's just old school internet publishing, baby. And this is gonna last for a while. B'c I can't patch that shit up, I need a complete overhaul. I will continue to blog. You can shit on my flow, but you can't break it.