Another Birthday

Recently posted on Facebook: Thank you all for the recent birthday wishes – it’s appreciated. It’s a little tough because 2 days after my birthday – the 18th – was the 1st anniversary of my mother’s death, and that’s going to be kind of a thing for the rest of my life now… as some…

David Letterman

Honestly it’s been years since I’ve watched any real late night ‘talk show’ but I feel now, as a man closer to my 50’s than my 20’s that tonight there’s going to be some sort of mechanism — some sort of rollover — some large metal lever will be turned and the late night human…

Michael Jackson, Music, and Using What You Got

The King of Pop must’ve been a fantastic, musician, right? An entertainer since he was 7 who had performed for millions, recorded a slew of albums and topped the charts for years must’ve been an accomplished musician, correct? Turns out that even though he could dabble on keyboards and guitars he couldn’t read nor write…

DunkDog

Dunkdog was a website that tracked and ranked basketball players in a highschool age league.   Using Wordpress, custom post types were created and linked together in order to facillitate the player and team database and rankings. Player post types utilized categories as data points such as height, weight, position and class to link to…

Mix Financial Platform

From January to September of 2011 I was the sole front end developer for a new global financial application built from scratch for a Hong Kong based company called Investlab. Created as a cost effective solution for bankers and their clients to access global markets, it was architectured in a very modular way, with nearly…

Unrabble

From June to October of 2010 I worked on a really interesting project that a whole new spin on the hiring process: Unrabble. What made this so interesting was the way it automated the hiring process to cut down on the time spent shifting through a ream of resumes. In a way, it’s like the…

About

…and I am an organic life form having an ongoing digital love affair.The Beginning After I graduated from 8″ superheros, or 2″ Star Wars figures — or the one year I got the entire 12″ set (and was able to play with them pre Christmas, expertly removing them from their wrapped boxes and returning them…

Gumbo == Flash Builder

Adobe recently announced that Flex will now be known by Flash Builder; my feelings about this are mixed however.  There were many times I had to explain the differences between Flex and Flash (and, saying ‘Flash’ in that sentence I mean the capital ‘F’ Flash CS4 authoring vs the little ‘f’ flash which is the…

Scratching Augmented Reality

I caught this post over on Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Music that shows another example of Augmented Reality being used in an extremely cool way.  Todd Vanderlin updates us on his little virtual dj projects and demonstrates how he’s using augmented reality for his scratching.  Now the only scratching I know would usually entail some…

geek tech: the sixth sense

Was watching this insane video from TED where Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry of MITâ??s Fluid Interfaces Lab show how one can become a gargoyle from Neal Stephensonâ??s â??Snow Crashâ??: wearable tech that is the aware of the userâ??s environment – for instance projecting amazonâ??s rating of a book one is thinking of purchasing, or…

Un-Christian Bale

Thereâ??s a little audio clip of Christian Bale losing it on the set of Terminator 4 that started floating around on the internet yesterday, this link courtesy of Tyler Durdenâ?¦ Whatâ??s sweet is that only 12 hours later, DJ RevoLucian has already set it to music so that you can your groove on while CB…

Truth and Beauty

I just finished watching this presentation by medical illustrator and animator David Bolinsky â?? posted first on the TED site back in July, and lately refreshed on motionographer â?? and thought it was worthwhile pushing it here. ** originally posted on scribemedia