Category Archives: Blog

Beautiful and Confusing US Open Data Visualization

From an info aesthetics article…

If All Commercials Were Like This, I Wouldn’t FFWD Through Them

Wasn’t branded entertainment christened “here” with BMW Films? Man, brands really need to get with it.

It’s About Making Driving Better, Not Doing It For Me

This company has just released an AR iphone app that you see above. And the first thing I thought was that with all of the DARPA (MIT, etc.) focus on robotic driving in recent years, where has the innovation been around making your driving experience better/safer etc.? This whole AR overlay on your driving experience…

Crop Circles in the Stock Market

I read an article in Zero Hedge a while ago about how the “flash crash” in the stock market was a direct result of “quote stuffing”, a fraudulent practice designed to manipulate stock prices in predictable directions enabled by the over-automation of the market through algorithmic trading.
Recently I stumbled upon a daily blog dedicated to…

Some Summer Vacation Photos

Here’s my summer vacation photo album. All shot with an iPhone 3GS using Hipstamatic (horrible name, great app). My only gripe about the application is that you retroactively apply photo effects and filters. Why can’t you change lenses after the fact? Use different film post-shot? I mean, it’s all a programmatic effect applied to the…

Where Are the Ants?

This reminds me of a flex-coded, corporate version the machine in Darren Aronofsky’s Pi. Only with fewer ants creating the special sauce (sorry for the spoiler but I think 12 years is past the statute of limitations). Seriously though, data-mining and trend-spotting algorithms are big business in todays T.I.A. world. And that’s fine – the…

Augmented Reality Goes to the Ballgame

Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
What’s your dream project? I asked this question to a former employer of mine and was told the following, “I’d love to do something with hockey… Some sort of augmented reality that compliments the at-game experience.” This wasn’t so surprising considering that his firm is always at the…

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore

1974 Dodge Dart Hang Ten interior. Love the stripes.

Funny Ads for Spanish Rock Festival

Every summer many towns in Spain have fiestas and festivals. This year Combarro, a small town in Pontevedra, Galicia, is having a rock festival. I’m not sure about the quality of Galician rock & roll, but I am sure the ads for this event are fantastic!

The View from Juan’s Balcony

Another great 4th in the ‘Hawk. This is a photo from my flickr set from the fireworks on the Hudson. West Side!