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PaperTweets

jonah — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:01:37 +0000

Hand deliver your tweet in a pop-up card. Or create one from your biggest idol and put it on display on your desk for passersby to admire. You are about to be very, very cool. 10kApart 10 kilobytes is not a lot of space. A tiny image for example. But it could also be a pretty [...]

Building a Time Machine

jonah — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:32:42 +0000

you missed it The Experience You’ve followed the directions on your mysterious invitation, and are ready to re(pre)incarnate as your past or future self. You enter through the blue door, stepping into a tiny white room that hums with the whirring and ticking of a machine. In front of you is a wooden panel [...]

3D FishBirds

jonah — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:30:31 +0000

Use your arrow keys to rotate the entire block You aren’t seeing the magic above because your browser doesn’t yet support 3D transforms. Try using Chrome or Safari. Katrina recently was part of a panel on mixed-race identity at the Brooklyn Historical Society where she spoke about her project, FishBird. While discussing ways to remount the piece [...]

Campaign in a Bottle

jonah — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:44:41 +0000

Three weeks ago I embarked on a little campaign to garner eyes and votes for my .net Best Site of the Year nomination (SophieHardach.com). If you look at the 10 nominees in this feature article, you’ll notice I’m the little-engine-that-could in the lineup. Inspiration I started sketching ideas that fit thematically with Sophie’s site trying to [...]

Molly And Luis

jonah — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:20:04 +0000

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SophieHardach.com

jonah — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:24:01 +0000

We launched SophieHardach.com to introduce Sophie as the young and promising author she is through her first novel, The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages. The protagonists’ journeys provide the metaphor for the lateral movement through the site, along the meandering dotted line. The rolling waves move below as well, recalling the opening [...]

Mama Kwan Approved

jonah — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:37:27 +0000

We can’t all be Mama Kwan Approved, or at least we couldn’t, until now. When Katrina and I left the Dumpling Iron Chef (backstory below), our bellies nearly bursting like and with many of the dumpling interpretations we’d eaten that night, the thing that remained on my mind was Mama Kwan’s approval – and so I [...]

Space Challenge

jonah — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:13:58 +0000

Outside of our home there was always a stickball game in action. The homemade ball was often lost, hit high over one of the neighbors corrugated tin roofs. And then the game would pause as little Paulo disappeared into the house to gather materials. Usually they balled up newspaper and wrapped it heavily in [...]

Remembered by her students

jonah — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:37:07 +0000

A few days after we arrived in Managua to work with ATRAVES, Katrina and I were invited to come to a memorial service for Lauren Wilkinson. Before arriving we’d heard that the community had lost an important member of its community, and before we jumped into the bed of the pickup truck to go [...]

fishbird sketches

jonah — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:02:04 +0000

I’m not sure how it happened, but I imagine that one morning over our morning, noodle soup in Laos, Katrina simply said, “what if we wrote a kid’s book?” And since then, I’ve been in love with the idea. It just seems, well, perfect. I can’t say I truly know what that means… the process of [...]

open 1:1

jonah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:16:09 +0000

Open 1:1 is a non profit that helps schools deploy 1 to 1 (student to computer ratio) solutions. As their name implies, they utilize open source tools, which makes their ambitious goal financially feasible. They wanted the right logo to help spread their message. Something simple and iconic. Bold but not too sharp. Something [...]

while i was back

jonah — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:16:37 +0000

I saw a grafitti artist in Buenos Aires who used one simple stencil of facial features over and over in a horizontal sequence. I loved the idea and filled up a page in my notebook toying with variations of the concept. Often when I flipped by the page on my way to jot something down, [...]