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Latesummer
Peekskill, NY.
Happy Fall, everyone.
A valid question
You know, you don't just take, import, slowly curate, sit on, hang out with, critique, and then upload 43 photos that you took over the past month or so without questioning the point of what you're doing.
I used to use Flickr. Pretty heavily. And I posted to a lot of groups, and I tracked what got views, etc. I like Flickr. But it never really stuck. Flickr (or at least my interaction with it) depended on developing new networks. None of my friends really used it, and the way I generated views was by interacting with other users. So, time passed, and eventually I ended up on Instagram.
Instagram offers a way to interact with people I care about. But the story that's told within the app is a purely collaborative one. It's some weird average of the perspectives of the people that I follow, whose individual profiles I rarely - if ever - look at. And I'm happy being a part of a larger narrative, but I also want to create one of my own. One that I curate, and that I'm fully responsible for.
Which is to say: Instagram is great, but the story doesn't belong to any individual user.
I'm not sure of a product that allows an individual user to create a story like a traditional blog does. Perhaps Tumblr does, but I always used it as something between Instagram and an RSS reader - but with a powerful reblogging function built in.
Regardless, it's clear to me that I'm operating in a world that's a few years old. If anyone has any ideas for how I should be modernizing, I'm all ears.
Midsummer
everywhere.
old photos
recently
in my life, around & about.
my desk, recently
lotta clutter, but i kinda like it :)
coaching/specs
days
for a few years i've been keeping daily task lists in Field Notes notebooks. my style has developed into a form, and this page is kind of exemplary of that form.
test ride.
last week.
triboro
you can call it whatever you want, but it'll always be triboro to me.
three cool things about randall's island:
- it forms one landmass with ward's island, to which it was joined by landfill in the 1930s. by - who else - Robert Moses' Parks Department.
- pedestrian/cyclist entry by the southern section of the triboro bridge is pretty dramatic while staying mostly on a human scale. the majority of the span has a handrail but no guard, so you get an unobstructed view of randall's island to the west, astoria to the east, and hell's gate to the north.
- the island is *hopping* on a saturday in early june, and it's really nice there. the breeze off the east river is delicious, and the reggaeton is charming, and anyway you're there with friends and a football and cheap beer, so who's complaining.
my workspace, recently
1. one's primary focus is to understand, and then achieve, what is important to himself.
2. what is important to me is, to a significant extent, my career.
3. most nights, i find it of great importance that i spend a few hours focusing on my career.
4. sometimes, when one is focusing on one's career at night, one needs a drink.
5. white wine is nice in the summer, even if all you've got is a whiskey glass.
6. mic6 tooling plate makes for a pretty nice coaster. also it's useful when you're measuring things.
7. seltzer with a little orange flower water and a slice of lemon is also pretty refreshing.
8. folks who do 3d design and *don't* use a 3d mouse are crazy.
9. moisturizer is important.
10. things that smell a nice way are nice. my candle kinda sucks but it works in a pinch.
1. thumbtacks are cool. i got some aluminum ones that i like, and i like using them.
2. cork is cool. i got some raw cork bark when i was in portugal a few years ago, and i like it.
3. managing a tackboard is weird. also, tacks aren't a great way to hang coiled-up iphone cables, but they work in a pinch.
4. spare buttons are totally inconvenient to keep. so you're at your desk and you just pin them to your tackboard.
5. i've gotten two tickets on my bicycle in the past 6 weeks.
6. books are dying.
7. books are kinda nice.
8. if you're going to make a book, make it specific to paper. paper is a great medium to display high resolution data, which makes it great for graphics, layout, texture, etc. it's not particularly great for words.
9. whatever. i have a couple of books in my place now. i rarely look at them. i did just get the 2012 Feltron Report, which is really beautiful and which i'm super excited about.
10. i live on top of a loud, bright corner. which has its pluses and its minuses.
11. curtains are effective but the means for procuring and installing them are inconvenient, and the design options that are available are limited.
12. linen is available by the yard for pretty cheap. and it lets a nice amount of light in.
13. the street is still loud and bright, but if you want to live with perfect environmental control, you can totally just find a cave and move there.
and now, it's summer
so this outfit becomes my go-to "around the block walk" getup for like the next three months straight. which is great.
notebook
more to come.
mornings
libo and i are currently the epitome of a-guy-and-his-dog-who-hustle-hard-but-ultimately-work-at-home.
brickwork
my father is becoming quite the brick expert these days.
spring present
spring past
time was... 2012.
riding
recently.