In our white Ford Focus from Arizona we sliced the majastic fog that holds the glorious san francisco bay captive like a brother suffocating his sister with a pillow. Like most of the best things in life, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge is over before you know it. A hidden country road. tree lined, with two lanes of traffic brings you the golorious entry of that red wolly mamouth who beckons you to cross the bay on his suspension back.
Lately I’ve been experiencing an onslaught of significant “lifetime experience” moments. …

The NYC based, video sharing site known as Vimeo has come to the west coast to grace us with the presence of some of their users’ greatest videos. Usually the transition goes from big screen to the small but rarely is the opposite true. The SF Vimeo meet up was the exception to this case, finally breaking free the avatars and videos I had so loved from their digital prisons and out into the sunlight…

Remember all that talk about the Human Genome Project in your A.P. Bio class and how the wake of such a discovery would finally propel the discoveries of vaccines for cancer and other such terminal diseases? Well apparently the sheer amount of data produced by the mapping of the human genome has become such a gargantuan task that tech-giant Google has been asked to step in and take the reigns. David A. Vise writes of all this and more in The Google Story…

I am finally here, here in Berkeley amongst the weird, strange, progressive, one-of-a-kinds that comprise this population on a hill. First impressions stick, and if there’s one thing I will be unable to fathom, it will be temperatures below 50 degrees. The lack of rain causing a supposed drought in Northern California seems to be generating endless amounts of consternation among locals, yet to me it just seems the exact embodiment of the Californi-way…

I’ve always considered the concept of analog vs. digital artwork and how it affects the user’s experience. In this post I look at the artwork of two individuals and their own interpretations of how quality influences the work they create…