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Burning Man 1 of ∞

More burning man articles: a great description of the event itself, which this post doesn’t cover, If you don’t read this whole post, the message is: come with me next year to Burning Man! See photos in the previous post below. It’s here in New York City

Burning Man photos

Amazing, stunning, beautiful, new. In the moment I took few photos and I wish I had more memories in color. Lots of fun in Photoshop.

The Man Burns

24 hours till we leave. We’ll be at 7:30 and Florence. Expect a blog post and several feature-length screenplays about Burning Man. If you haven’t heard of the event, read up on it. Radical self-reliance, bring all you need including water to survive in the desert. Radical

The inexorable march to a Facebook-controlled world

Facebook just launched Places, an exact ripoff of Foursquare. I’m not impressed with their vision – it seems as if they had insight into a future paradigm, realized it, and now don’t know where things are going, so they wait until other platforms are fully developed and then rip

Sound mixer hell

“But we are shooting on the RED camera. It is 4K.” – hilarious! Thanks to Mark for finding spot-on, very funny depiction of low budget filmmaking and its deluded filmmakers (nobody I know made it, someone was asking me that.) I am happy to count myself among that demographic, but I

Triptrop NYC: heatmaps heating up

I’ve been looking for a tool to generate a heatmap of transit times from any point in Manhattan, and just discovered the awesome triptrop NYC. For any address in New York, it displays a map of transit times to the rest of the city. Very useful for sussing out

"Race Conditions" in security dialogs

Ever wonder why you have to wait three seconds to install a Firefox add-on? I’ve always thought the delay was to make sure that I read the security box. Turns out it’s more inspired than that: a hack can be created that preys on human reaction time to

In mourning of data

Data on the New York City subway system About a year ago a magnificent thought occurred to me. I had previously thought that it would be impossible for the MTA to determine what level of subway cheating there is. It would be an important statistic, useful for police departments and

A call for privacy standards

It’s easy to take a defeatist attitude towards things we once considered undefeatable, like privacy and getting paid for producing content. For the most part I agree with the argument, which goes: there are millions of people using the internet across international borders. Preventing any behavior (bittorrent and copying

What it's like to own an Apple product

to iPhone 4g or not? It has more RAM than the iPad…why would they do that to customers? Oh right, because if they released a perfect product that worked a lot they couldn’t convince you to replace it in two years. I’m also not so enthused about

It's simple: do something.

If idle hands are the devil’s plaything, then consider me Miles Davis! Those who know me will not be surprised to hear that I am writing this from an airplane in between reviewing a script, moving a website, editing another script, and watching DP reels. And listening to Regina

The ultimate web app

This program is totally possible, and to be honest I’m surprised that nobody’s invented it: A sidebar for Firefox that shows all discussion around a webpage after you browse. Every time you load a page it refreshes with information: * any friends who have shared the page * social media

2 or 3 things

So much to update on, so many blog posts on the back burner. They are coming.. For now feed yourself with Jean-Luc Godard and have a cup of coffee. While browsing for films to use in teaching a class, I came across this gem. One of my favorite moments in

So you want to be a writer?

Ted Hope posted a beautiful poem about writing that I would like to repost here. I sit and rewrite, show work to friends, but visually I have stories I want to tell. These few years in my life are my time to answer the questions in this poem: so you

Studies in Play - Harvard Ballet Company

The video and its accompanying dance are playing THIS WEEKEND IN CAMBRIDGE at the Harvard Ballet Company’s “Silhouettes” – go see them!! About a month ago, friend and choreographer Owen David contacted me about doing an introduction to his dance piece, which was commissioned by the Harvard Ballet Company. His

Chalte Chalte!

A New Yorker who stays in their borough is a sad story indeed–so today Cary, Tumy, Toby and I went into Queens on the 7 train. With so many different ethnic neighborhoods, stores, and food, it’s like Epcot but with cheaper food! We walked from Woodside to Jackson

How about a reading list?

It has been a thrilling whirlwind. I’m in Boca Raton with my family for Passover to relax, and the last thing I want to do is spend the time on the computer. But knowing that you dear readers sit and wait with bated breath for my next blog post,

On technology regressing humanity?

With themes like “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” firmly in our cultural discourse, most of us who study technology see it as an advancement in human progress at the expense of individual human ability. I tend to see the ability to look up information any time as a deterrent to

A poem

I no longer believe in hyperlinks.

Apple: a lesson in irony

Remember this? Oh the irony.

You are not a person

In a conversation about death, Tucker once said to me “you don’t ever actually die. In a very real and physical sense, each of your actions makes an impact on others. I am a different person because of you, and you because of me.” I like to think of

work hard play hard

It’s been a whirlwind of a week. Today will be the fifth day of my job working on  a major Hollywood film (the name will come soon.) I have a reverence for this director that I have for few artists and feel the same way about the source material

On the hipster

This past Saturday I was having a conversation with a friend and remarked on somebody’s very tight jeans, awkwardly cut just below the knee. “Why would he do that?” I asked, to which he replied: “Whatever, he’s a hipster,” as if a single fashion choice were enough to

Spreading joy in foreclosure

Everywhere I go in New York I see closed-down stores. Whether they are foreclosed, in search of a tenant, or undergoing renovation I assume varies by the storefront. But I do know that the broken window theory holds here: papered-up windows or cleared-out stores spread bummer around the city, and

The Evolution of Remix Culture

I love this video. Let’s do a remake of it!