A few weeks ago my wife had a bit of an accident in the kitchen with a cutting knife. As we quickly took action to slow the bleeding I scrambled to look online to see if the wound was serious enough to warrant a visit to the emergency room for stitches.
I landed on About.com’s First Aid site. And after reading some informative articles I clicked to watch this video on how to dress a wound. Would you believe that I first had to sit through an ad spot? The video is currently playing ad-free, but I’m not sure if that’s because they caught this monumental fail or if the campaign had wrapped.
You’d have to be a seasoned comic art aficionado to recognize the name Alex Niño. Even when he was his most prolific you’d have had to be reading comics like Heavy Metal, Creepy, and The Savage Sword of Conan in the 70’s and early 80’s. Unfortunately all the innovative comic art at that time was pushed to the fringe titles. And Niño’s work was clearly before his time.
This November the Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn (of all places) is hosting a month long exhibit dedicated to his work. I’m hoping to trek out and catch some of this amazing work first-hand.
November 4th - 30th
Opening reception November 4th - 2-4pm (no mention if the artist will be present)
Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, CUNY
Art Gallery - Arts & Science Building 2001 Oriental Blvd, Brooklyn, NY
Every once in a while it’s interesting to reflect on how the social web is impacting our lives and ways both big and small. Over the past few months I started to get an influx of enthusiastic reactions to photos I was uploading to Facebook from my mobile phone. At some point I think the figure finally tipped, where my non-New York connections outnumbers my local connections. These random photos, while trivial to my local friends, were a glimpse into the textured world of NYC.
I recently decided to take things a little further and upload a photo set taken with a better camera. The funny thing is, so far I haven’t gotten any reactions. I can almost see why though. There’s a certain spontaneous quality to my mobile pics. The lower resolution and the sometimes random pixelation actually adds to the charm of them. The above photos, while equally as spontaneous somehow don’t feel that way.
Nonetheless, I thought it might be nice to share them with y’all on my blog too. Enjoy.
Silently on the night of March 1st, 2008, AOL officially ended its support of the Netscape web browser. I somehow randomly ended up at the page posted to announce this. While bloated kludgy and buggy in its later days, Netscape still managed to eek out a final innovation - tabbed browsing. While not perfect, we’re still trying to create something that works better.
I have to admit, when I saw that logo of the N stepping over the horizon line it brought back many great memories and feelings of those early days of exploration and discovery. All of the sudden the world had opened up. There was this electricity, a sense of hope and wonder that you’d start your with as you sat behind your computer. Sipping your coffee, you’d type in that first url of the day and watch the shooting stars blaze past the N.
A few weeks ago my wife had a bit of an accident in the kitchen with a cutting knife. As we quickly took action to slow the bleeding I scrambled to look online to see if the wound was serious enough to warrant a visit to the emergency room for stitches.
Silently on the night of March 1st, 2008, AOL officially ended its support of the Netscape web browser. I somehow randomly ended up at the