tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119850882024-10-06T22:33:04.111-07:00a box.thisislarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04157349911656341561noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11985088.post-7818608432556934922010-09-28T15:42:00.000-07:002010-09-28T15:42:20.055-07:00

A college friend passed away suddenly from a massive heart attack.  We were not close after college, so my memories of him are as a young vibrant man, shot fast forward into a tragically brief glimpse of him as a family man. Finding out someone has died, when just yesterday we were all young and fearless. when we were young we were invincible, not stupid. now when we are blessed with

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photo: Ivan Makarov via FlickrHere's a poem I wrote as I approached my 40th bday this summer. I just uncovered it on my laptop's desktop:When I was youngmy skin was taut.My flesh was crispand full of comeand the air smelled of fuckingApples.I pulled against the stem and felt it giveand for a moment gravity was on my sideAnd then it wasn't.Better this than this :)

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photo via larryncelia on FlickrI just found out the other day that this photo from Flickr was used in a post on BoingBoing, following a post on a site called Neatorama about the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum. These links caused that photo to become my 3rd most popular (which isn't saying much) over the summer, and I had no idea why until I discovered the stats page on Flickr.It's cool to have

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Some going-out-of-business shopping at the local Mervyn's netted these three frames, whch self-assembled into something of an art piece once I got them home:triptych: "recession proof": 3 panels with aluminum frame, each 4ft x 4ft. Frame 1 depicts retail graphic art from Mervyn's, the defunct department store. Frame 2 depicts a blank graphic panel. Frame 3 is void of content.price: $1500Shown as

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Something interesting and exciting to share:A concept I've done for an internal design provocation / project made it's first prototypical foray out into the world last night. It took a ride with passengers on a Northbound Caltrain, thanks to a couple of fellow designers with more cohones than me: Ted Howes and Adam Vollmer.The design project is challenging ourselves to create concepts around the

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photo: the day after, headed to school, plus our cabinets came in, plus its trash day....(originally posted over at Rice Daddies, where only the coolest daddies hang out)Shhh, it's the last night of summer and the kids are in bed.Princess Pony is asleep, her thumb in her mouth. Tomorrow she’ll be in first grade. She’s out like a light, always calm in the face of new adventures. It helps that she

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Hey, I uploaded another, this is fun!

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A few years ago, it was penguin classic books set to music. Now its a Radiohead song, stripped down to a 90's ballad:

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They come in threes.Good things, or bad things. Things on the left. Things falling apart.This week, one of the two light bulbs in the fixture above our bathroom sink went out. It was the left one.This week, Mrs thisislarry noticed one of my Subaru's headlights was out. It was the left one.Yesterday, I noticed a strange egg-shaped blur in my vision, and tried not to freak the fuck out. Got to

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F'ing brilliant, and worth breaking radio silence for.Chicago designer George Aye proposes to his sweetheart with an elaborate guise involving a gallery, a non-existent artist, laser-cut foamcore, and the power of pattern recognition.

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The Ricedaddies have gone podcast! Now I can attach voices to the handles of my fellow asian american dad bloggers.The inaugural podcast is a chat among ricedaddies Poppa Large, DISL, Instant Yang, and Henri on topics ranging from "what is a rice daddy?" to "WTF is up with Azia Kim?"The sequel, just in time for Father's Day, is a discussion between Poppa Large, DISL, Instant Yang, SoulSnax, and

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Ernst Heinrich Roth (1877-1948) was a German luthier and master of a large and successful violin-making workshop in the East German town of Markneukirchen, near the current border with the Czech Republic. He was the most important figure in a whole dynasty of Roth luthiers active in Germany over many generations and to this day. (from Wikipedia)When I was a boy, my mother saved up to buy me a

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I posted on Ricedaddies about how well little league was going with Rabbit Dragon. I'm really thankful that he's having a positive team sports experience. Really though, I'm just happy with this picture of RD and his team mates! I didn't notice the composition until I uploaded the shot and cropped it a bit, it reminds me a bit of that famous photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima, with the

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photo: hubwear on emyduck via flickrGeorge Aye, proprietor of Hubwear out of Chicago, sends word that:We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of our brand-spanking-new website! It has been in the works since the winter.The best, shiniest new features of the site are:* Live preview of your routes - on real shirts worn by real people.* Updated colours for mens, womens and kids.* Kids! OMG,

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photo: plastigami by Andy LeeThe thisislarry clan headed up to the Maker Faire today, between our now-standard Little League game Saturday and a pair of birthday parties for friends of Princess Pony on Sunday afternoon.Stacks of mind-blowingly cool stuff, from DIY mechanical frog dissections hosted by Ambidextrous magazine, to the giant human-powered nose-picking machine, to an experimental duo

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I really respect when a public figure goes out of their way to be simple and truthful. Steve Jobs' commencement speech two years ago at Stanford stands out in my mind. Roger Ebert, of the famous thumbs, says something true and simple and brave in explaining that he wont be missing his 9th annual Overlooked Film Festival even though he's battling complications from cancer:"I have received a lot

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above: Calder's EagleWe were in Seattle over Easter weekend, visiting my brother R's family. He is the best host (a character trait his brother did not pick up) and somehow he knew I would enjoy going to see the Seattle Art Museum's recently opened Olympic Sculpture Park. Not only that, it was a searingly blue day, and warm like summer.I got off a few decent snaps, but looking thru the rest of

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(Mrs. thisislarry, Twizzle, DISL, and Rabbit Dragon, in conference)Darn,I had just written a stunning piece of prose about how cool it was to meet Daddy in a Strange Land, La Dra and the Pumpkin, the Super Ha's and Ash, Honglien123 J, Little Goose and Sweet Pea, Kimchi Mama Twizzle and Honeybee, and writing sensei Susan Ito at Yerba Buena gardens in The City, when my !@#$% Mac froze up and all I

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A friend died suddenly this last week. It was quite a shock. I didnt know him very long, but we had worked pretty closely together on a couple of projects last summer. He was a gentleman and a good person. I haven't been able to bring myself to go into the building where his office is. He had many good friends there, who I cant face just yet. That would mean moving past the willful denial

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-One-I read this article in business week about the dubiousness of carbon credits, and I hate to say it but the article made perfect sense:"Nature does not fall for accounting schemes."You cant simply buy your way out of your carbon footprint. All of these celebrities and organizations claim a zero carbon footprint by throwing money at the problem, without actually changing any behaviors that

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Branko Lukic, an extraordinary personality as well as a impressive IDEO alumni, once described my engineering skill as "strong, like a train." I can't say I live up to, but doesn't it sound great?Branko emailed me to tell me that the book he has been thinking about for years is coming to life:After almost 10 months of intense work (and 5 years in preparation) I am pleased to announce the first

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Hey, it's been a while.While I figure out what to do here, let me express my happiness that Ricedaddies is celebrating their 1st blogaversary, with a book review contest.I've been honored to be on the list of writers for ricedaddies for half that time (wow!)!And, for reasons peripherally related to my day job, I had a chance to imagine a magazine which didn't exist. I came up with this riff on

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Been busy here in the thisislarry tower. Not even time to give proper comments to all the good posts on ricedaddies.The project which took me travelling this summer has ended, and the new one begins next week, with a trip to Michigan, not Ohio.Some good news to write about, for a friend of thisislarry's: Hubwear, the t-shirt line promoting storytelling thru airport codes, has gone both viral and

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Wouldn't you know it, metacool says today starts the inaugural National Design Week, and I am in London and Munich until its over (and its already tomorrow here, so take that).And then daddytypes has to tell us about the Frieze fair, which I am missed because I didnt know what it was until Friday night, er, I mean, I opted not to attend this year ....

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In London this week & weekend on business, in trendy Clerkenwell to be precise, at the Zetter hotel to be absolutely precision. The weather has been exceptionally lovely, and I just got to spend the day talking up some colleagues I've not met before, capped off by beers, mojitos, and gastropub food.Stopped by the muji store to get covetous japanese design goods in the heart of the UK.On tap for

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