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  • 081808
    s h e w h o t o s s e s g r e n a d e s
  • 081808
    a self induced jet-lag
    It was an aimless Sunday. You awoke in the afternoon from a long nap. At midnight, you locked yourself outside of the apartment building. It was a calm evening in the Lower Haight until the breeze suddenly made it intolerable. Only two hours on the street before you decided to seek shelter. There is only one place nearby which stay open all night. As you walked there, you thought about the paper thin leather jacket you wore, the scarf you left sitting on your sofa, not ever having owned hats or headwear, no extra layers underneath, and the worn soles of your slip-on shoes. It should have been planned. You took a table at the back of the cafe, but the breeze still reached for you through the wide open doors. You ordered a spinach salad, a coffee. You wondered how long you could delay finishing the meal and keep your seat. The wait staff didn't care. You killed hours reading PAPER magazine which you grabbed from a stack by the door. You waited, and waited. Finally you noticed the outside had began to lighten up. You borrowed a pen. They handed you a blue ballpoint. You proceeded to perform the ritual.
  • 081008
    The founder and current master of Tree Mocking photographed here performing a very difficult mock (poseur in French) of an unsuspecting innocent tree of unknown type in the wilderness of Mount Tamlpais, California. The tree, although mocked, had no response but an austere stillness demonstrating its power against even the strongest of ridicule. Saturday, August 9, 2008. Photograph by Aynne Valencia.
    "I make no attempt to deal with the history here. Much of tree mocking and what is unconventional about it is in the preparation that the mocker undergoes before even setting out to ridicule these idle creatures. What this preparation involves cannot currently be learned in a UNIVERSITY." says Ericson.
  • 081008
    "An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization - a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the "hipster" - a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society."
  • 080908
    shift

    The desktop has had too much leeway and designing/developing for it has resulted into an innumerable amount of crap.

    The mobile device, however, offers valuable positive contraints and truly integrated hardware capabilities which lead to more powerful applications and a better user experience in general.

  • 080508
    You feel: dead sunflowers are more beautiful than alive. You kept them years after they withered. A hanging crucifixion scene under the tall lamp in your living room - until now. You don't know why you took them down. Perhaps: keeping anything for too long makes everything else feel old. Here inside a fresh, white, thirteen gallon bag, beauty enough to halt the flow of garbage. Photographed Monday, June 23, 2008
  • 080108
    08 08 08

    Once upon a time you met someone. The date was 020202. She became your teacher. Now: how to begin, again. And as with any consideration to add you must start with the emptying.

    BEGINNING AGAIN
    by Franz Wright

    "If I could stop talking, completely
    cease talking for a year, I might begin
    to get well," he muttered.
    Off alone again performing
    brain surgery on himself
    in a small badly lit
    room with no mirror. A room
    whose floor ceiling and walls
    are all mirrors, what a mess
    oh my GodŃ

    And still
    it stands,
    the question
    not how begin
    again, but rather

    Why?

    So we sit there
    together
    the mountain
    and me, Li Po
    said, until only the mountain
    remains.
  • work
    I make stuff from a design and user experience perspective. Sometimes it turns into a company.
    COMPANY
    2008 Particle (Prticle Programmatica Inc.) is a product design/development shop in SF making massively small products for the electric internet.
    Consulting projects include clients such as Apple, Azureus, Tennman Digital, various start-ups and interactive ad agencies.
    2006 Crusher (Crusher Inc.) is an independent start-up in SF producing a free web-based event invite service. Crusher is made using Ruby on Rails in a test-driven, agile development process.
    JOB
    2008 Particle Programmatica Inc., Founder.
    2006 Crusher Inc., Founder.
    2006 Freelance clients include Disney, Getback Media, see full resume.
    2003-06 Design Manager at Yahoo's User Experience Group, Sunnyvale CA.
    1999-03 Senior Designer/Design Manager at frog design, San Francisco CA.
    about
    I have a very underdeveloped sense of panic and enthusiasm. And I never honk my horn in traffic.
    PROFILE
    A professional Linkedin profile.
    A very short bio about me.
    Sometimes I use twitter when I am in solitude but soon I'll only be using Uooo for micro blogging.
    Keeping up with what I like at p0pulist.
    MISC
    An ongoing design manifesto.
    Audible Furniture
    Excerpts from the journals of Esso Edren.
    MOOD
    PHOTO

    RIDE
    1975 Moto Guzzi 850 (T3 based) custom.
    2005 Custom aluminum black bicycle.
    2004 VW R32.
    links
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