Mary Guiteras and Katie Bender presenting a short reading at Zach and Brian’s Pow Wow Two
Michael Cirino preparing ice cream with liquid nitrogen at Zach and Brian’s Pow Wow Two
Printed these shirts the other day with Billy.
This past month I was living with friends in North Carolina (more on that soon). The main goal of the trip was to jump start a new era of Stuffed Robot. We figured out a few things and will be experimenting a lot in the next several months (more on that soon).
One of the side projects Bill and I dominated was these t-shirts. 3 color run of 80+ shirts. We made our own screens and make shift printing station, Bill pulled all the ink, while I ran around setting things out to dry and prepped the next shirt.
Really good learning experience and pumped about how they turned out.
Wishful
Teaser for the David Byrne & Brian Eno documentary that accompanies the deluxe version of their album.
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Patrick Moberg provided this awesome illustration for normative.com.
When I was a freshman in college, I called Jakob Lodwick to get advice on how to proceed with the next four years of my education. He insisted that I read a book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie and that if I ever got into trouble, deny everything. He said that, “people in power very rarely know what’s actually going on.”
At the time, Jakob favored creating 30 minute videoblogs and writing one-off articles, rather then keeping a more traditional personal blog. The articles were fascinating and incredibly inspirational for someone thinking that they wanted to pursue computers and websites as a career. He approached his trade with a passionate outlook, giving off the sense that he was helping to mold the future. He gave a very unglamorous, technical job, an exciting face.
Over the past 3 or 4 years I followed his ups and downs, worked as an intern for the company he founded, and accepted an offer from him for my first job out of school. He’d always been in a position of power, me working for him.
This past weekend Jake approached me about doing an illustration for his music project, Normative. Although it was just a small illustration, it was a great experience, and one of the first times that I felt like an equal, collaborating with him on a project. I brought as much to the table as he did.
I think Jakob is someone who can inspire either the best or the worst in people. And while there is a lot of attention directed towards the decisions he makes, the much more fascinating phenomena is how people react to those decisions, and what their reactions say about them.
In the end, I checked out a ratty old copy of the book he’d suggested from the school library, made it about halfway through, and, of course, never got into any real trouble at school.
This is the Polish prostitute I helped transfer to the G train last night. We had to wait around for the F train for a good half hour and ended up talking a lot. She was a strangely good judge of character, as I now realize most hookers probably are. I said she was stupid for wearing such uncomfortable shoes. She said that it’s what guys like. I said that not all guys like that, and she said that those men were liars.
I’ve been experimenting with polyphasic sleep schedules the past week, which is, more or less, taking a bunch of short naps throughout the day rather than all at once. I think there is a Seinfeld episode where Kramer attempts it, but I couldn’t track it down.
It’s been a cool/bizarre/fun experiment, allowing for a lot of extra hours in the day. I’ve been listening to the Harry Potter books on tape, and working on 3 big projects. They’re all hovering around 80% complete, and I can’t wait to finish them up and share.
