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2010: A New Hope

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A new year brings a bounty of hope—for new attitudes, new projects, new directions. In the past year, my intentions were to play more live shows and focus on finishing select tracks to my satisfaction. Mission accomplished.

Rather than make predictions or resolutions, here are some of the things on my plate and/or on the horizon for the year ahead (not all related to this site, FWIW): taking delivery of a blinky, new monome grayscale 64; composing generative pieces using Nodal, Ableton Suite 8 and Max for Live; finishing up a new EP for commercial release; posting more free podcast mixes; turning my generative sketches into fully interactive works; selling original prints and artwork; reading J.G. Ballard‘s complete works and making a dent in my reading list; devoting more time to my Geometry Studio, Sympathy for the Robots and The Silent Stars projects; developing some ideas into a viable, sustainable business; brewing some homemade beer; eating fresh, local cuisine; staying more plugged in and chilled out. Opa!

Link love for August 17th

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We Are The Friction (above) is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

A short manifesto on the future of attention.

The mystery of Times New Roma.

Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award.

Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and thrive in ever-changing organizational environments.

Top twenty finalists of ReBurbia, a suburban design competition.

Growing ideas in the garden of innovation.

Photos of the last suppers of inmates on death row in the USA.

The Font-as-Service.

Bruce Handy on Mad Men.

Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland.

Book bytes

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I had some time over the holidays to do a lot of reading, mostly short stories and graphic novels. Here’s a list of recommendations:

Elseworlds

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After a few false starts trying to get into some books on my to-read list, I switched strategies and have been rediscovering graphic novels. Besides some sparse interest in my youth and again in college, I never really got into reading comics. These days, I’ve been interested in the various ‘story worlds’ that exist in different mediums: novels, television, cinema, video games, and graphic novels. So, here is a short list of some past and recent recommendations: