I was fortunate enough to spend this past holiday weekend hiking in the wilderness of Maine. We were in the vicinity of the 100 Mile Wilderness which is a section of the Appalachian Trail that does not cross a paved or public road for 100 miles. While out there you can’t help but have thoughts [...]
When we were all busy singing “Shake it like a Polaroid picture” along with OutKast a few years ago, we probably didn’t foresee the tumultuous future in store for Polaroid. With Polaroid film costs spiking to around $5 per page, it might be wise to treat the metaphorical photos with a little more care. Polaroid [...]
Monday night I went to the Piazza at Schmidt’s in Northern Liberty’s which is an “80,000 square foot open-air plaza with free events year-round, surrounded by three new buildings including 35 artist’s studios and boutiques, four new restaurants, 500 apartments and 50,000 square feet of office” (you can read more about the Piazza here). Since [...]
This year, I had the opportunity to author the visual identity of the Soundset Music Festival in Minneapolis, which took place last Sunday. The criteria were that it would be used on many different media, and it had to have a somewhat broad appeal (not specifically “HipHop,” since next year it would encompass more kinds [...]
While the employees of 160over90 may not officially hold the world record for highest jump, neither does the man who actually has the unofficial highest vertical jump. Yan Zhi Cheng, a Chinese Acrobat, holds the unofficial record with a whopping 96.9 inches in 1988. To learn more about other records and brush up on your [...]
Today, I continue a long-standing tradition of wearing my favorite aloha shirt to work to usher in summertime livin’. Unfortunately, nobody takes me seriously when I wear said shirt. Maybe they will when I jam this up on the conference room projector. And start wearing a chest holster under my blazer. Enjoy yer Memorial Days.
