photography, technology & wordology
Aug17
According to Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, we are creating as much information every two days as we did from the beginning of human history until 2003. Yeah, that's a lot of shitty YouTube videos, terrible photos on Flickr and mundane, boring blog posts. Unfortunately mixed in with all that noise is a lot of beautiful, awe-inspiring and important stuff as well. The problem is how do we separate the wheat from the chaff.
May6
This is how to explain technology to lay people. No numbers, no milliseconds, nothing but a potato gun, a tesla coil and some paint. Awesome.
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Apr16
This article from Drawer is great. Its no nonsense, hit you over the head with a 2×4 bluntness makes you cringe, laugh and pray that you don’t unwittingly fall into the hack category. Good reading.
Feb18
Yup. I’ve gone and done it again. The site is redesigned – only this time it’s not just a redesign, I’ve combined my blog with my photography site (formerly http://jgardnerphoto.com). Why, you ask? A good question. (more…)
Oct19
One word. Traveling. I’ve seen so many netbooks while here in India and I’m positive that I am going to see a lot more in Thailand. There are two very simple reasons for this: it fits in your bag and if it gets stolen you’re not out $1000+. Now if I could only get one to start running OS X.
Aug6
I’ve finally updated my two year old photography website design. I’m still working on getting some new photos up but I’d love to hear what people have to say about the design!
On another note, Gina and I are setting out on our road trip (the first month of our six months of traveling) this weekend. We’ve spent the week moving out of our apartment in Blacksburg and sorting through all the stuff that we’ve accumulated over the years. I’ll be happy to be living out of a bag again soon! Keep an eye out here for pictures along the way. You can also follow our adventures at http://beansontour.com
Jul14
Another article of mine was just published on Smashing Magazine! As always, I’m having a great time replying to comments and emails about the article. Please keep them coming!
Jan12
Just a quick note. I started a new job in December with Entermotion as a front-end web developer. It’s been really great and one of the perks of the job is getting to work on the web-apps that we build under the moniker Paste Interactive. My first contribution to the Paste blog has just gone up over the weekend, it’s an article about Content Wireframing. Check it out, and while you’re at it, check out our web apps, Jumpchart and Staction. Jumpchart is all about collaborative wireframing and Staction is a people management application.
Nov26
Quick post since I’m nearing the end of my NanoWriMo novel. I’ll be back soon, I promise. This is just too good to pass by though, both from a design standpoint and from an amazing cause standpoint. Check out the video then got to their webpage and check out the stories of a few girls. The idea isn’t new (check out Greg Mortenson for more info), but I’m really glad that it is finally gaining momentum