Notes

Tumblr Theme - Flyover

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:22:59 -0500

I took my first stab at creating a tumblr theme. The purpose of this was to just get me up to speed with the platform because I have a couple ideas of themes I want to spend some solid time on and create. Although I won’t be using the “Flyover Theme” myself, I think it can be useful for someone looking to give each of there individual posts more weight.

Here is the link to the theme http://flyovertheme.tumblr.com/

Photo in The National - Abu Dhabi

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:03:27 -0500

One of my photos of Minas Viejas in La Huasteca was published with Alexis Okeowo’s travel article in “The National”. Read about our adventure: Land of the Lush - The National

50 square foot map of Boston

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:28:11 -0500

There it is. I stitched it together from 40 11x17 (tabloid) slices. Each slice is a highly detailed rendering from google maps at the third closest zoom level. Example below.

Menu Mind Games

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:49:18 -0500

Menu Mind Games

Cul-de-Sac Ban, The

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:30:28 -0500

Cul-de-Sac Ban, The:

Forget cars, what about cul-de-sac pick up games. The future looks grim for tomorrow’s suburban kids.

Declassified - The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception Via kottke

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:42:05 -0500

Declassified - The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

Via kottke

414. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:54:43 -0500

414. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.:

Mmmm, morality!

My apple mod. Cherries (… and they light up!)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:05:00 -0500

My apple mod. Cherries (… and they light up!)

Super Simple v1.2- Pixelpost.org Template

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:54:00 -0500

Super Simple v1.2- Pixelpost.org Template:

I got around to fixing that browse page bug on this template for pixelpost.org. Hooray, v1.2

Mint Me - Book Return

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:46:53 -0500

Mint Me - Book Return:

I saw one of those “Fun Theory Videos” that were floating around a couple months ago and put together something for their idea competition.

This was about a month ago and I didn’t receive an email or anything but found the entry on their website.

homemade

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:50:00 -0500

homemade

via happyphototeam.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:55:26 -0500

via happyphototeam.

The Endowment Effect

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:31:00 -0500

“Losses are more bad than gains are good”

When something is given to you, it becomes part of your “endowment”. Taking a risk and losing it would be more detrimental than a potential gain.

Examples:

When purchasing a car, in one condition you are offered a model fully loaded with all the features. You are then allowed to strip the features from the car to receive your money back. In condition 2, you are given a car with no additional features and are allowed to add on options at an extra charge.

Studies prove that people in the first condition end up with many more features than people in the second condition.

This is because when given a car fully loaded, all the features become part of your endowment. The feeling of removing a feature, such as $400 stereo system, is very negative. However, if you are not given that feature to start, the emotional gain from adding a stereo system might not be strong enough to actually have you go ahead with that.

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Paraphrased from The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

"We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:26:12 -0400

“

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.

The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, the look of the public…

The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. They are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. They are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, they have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives…

Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category…

And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers…

”

- Milan Kundera - “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

"Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book,..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:07:00 -0400

“Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps the catalogue of catalogues; now that my eyes can hardly decipher what I write, I am preparing to die just a few leagues from the hexagon in which I was born.”

- Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel

New blog

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:58:23 -0400

I decided to get out of http://www.pixelpost.org/ since I want to do more than pictures now. If your interested in doing a photo only blog I highly recommend it as a platform. I designed this theme for it.

I plan on making my own theme for tumblr once I have the time.

Photo

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Goodbye for now mexico

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Goodbye for now mexico

vocho butts organized in ROY G. BIV.

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

vocho butts organized in ROY G. BIV.

My photo on NY Times "The Lede" blog

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

My photo on NY Times "The Lede" blog