Looking Ahead to Twenty Eleven
These past few days I've been in Madison WI and St. Louis for some New Years cheer with Mary's family. I haven't posted much here because I've been finishing off a lot of thinking and a lot of reading. The reading and thinking has primarily been around 3 main topics: technology, creativity, and innovation. In pursuit of those topics, I've been reading a bunch of books, watching a bunch of TED talks, and then thinking about what it means for my own life and work. I have come to realize that I really really like creating things. These "things" could Read more…
The 2011 Vintage Roadside Sign Challenge
via vintagesignchallenge.posterous.com Mary and I will be cataloging vintage roadsigns from across the US in competition with my dad and Mary’s cousin. We’re posting our findings on vintagesignchallenge.posterous.com. Follow the blog if you want to see what we find. Here are the rules: Signs must be photographed by Christmas Eve, 2011. You must take the photograph yourself and upload it to this blog. Once a sign is photographed and posted by someone, no one else can submit it as an entry. You must get out of the car to take the picture. It must be functioning as a sign. No Read more…
I apparently like writing short novels
The Saints Go Dying is a pretty short novel, roughly 204 pages or so. The Marinara Murders, if the first draft is anything to judge by, is only 20 pages longer. Unless I find some major major issue, as I did with the first draft of The Saints Go Dying, I doubt it will grow very much. Maybe 10 pages at the most. I worry that these are just a little too much on the short side. As a published book, they’d either have thin spines, or big fonts. (On the flip side, I have heard that debut novels are Read more…
Ok, now that’s a lot of snow
Great video. [vimeo 18213768 w=400 h=225] December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.
Pedestrians are not hood ornaments
This is a good campaign from Rusty George Design. In 2004, Mary found herself on the hood of car from a driver who wasn't looking. Fortunately, the driver was going fairly slowly, and Mary was all right. But it's not a situation I want to see happen again. Via the Chamber's BIA blog.
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