December 2010
33 posts
Project 365: Halftime update
Just reached the halfway point in my Project 365 experiment, and I really need to document some thoughts, observations, and general feelings to ensure the next half doesn’t suck.
Pictures of inanimate objects are boring. While they have some value in documenting my everyday human condition, pictures with people in them are more interesting (and get more response).
The experience has really...
Cara and I are watching Contact…
Me: “I’d hate to meet some ignoble gases.”
Cara: “Why?”
Me: “Because they’d just fart around OH MY GOD I JUST DID THAT.”
The 'Radiolab' Effect →
Melissa Stanley went to school for music—or rather, Music Industry. The 26-year-old recalls “taking maybe one physics class in college, and that was it” for her formal science education. After graduation, she became a director of A&R and booking at Jezebel Music, a concert-promotion outfit for unsigned acts in Williamsburg. Then, at the office sometime in 2007, things changed. “One day,”...