The Wall Street Journal recently did a piece about Andrew Silton, a man who spent 30 years in the asset-management industry and retired in 2011 with at least 75 spiral-bound notebooks with about 600 drawings created during that timespan. Puzzled? Don’t be. While doodling is often considered a byproduct of… more »
Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 Earthquake…
May 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In his post of the 7 stories to read this weekend, Om Malik gave a shout out to Jack London: The story of an eye witness: Jack London, a San Francisco writer, wrote about the 1906 earthquake that almost destroyed the city by the bay. This is amazing writing from… more »
SF’s Green Street & TV of Tomorrow Innovations…
May 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
We got word (via the TV of Tomorrow newsletter) that a Hackathon (http://hack.tvot.tv) is taking place from June 22 – 23 (all day Saturday and Sunday) at the offices of Ignite Video, 202 Green Street, San Francisco, California–the actual facility where Philo Farnsworth invented electronic television more than 85 years… more »
A Doodle Worth Checking Out: Meet Saul Bass…
May 8, 2013 by 1 Comment
On May 8, the Google Doodle honored the 93rd birthday of Saul Bass, a great 20th-century American graphic designer, who created the corporate image and memorably stunning logos for numerous American companies. Per the website www.bass-saul.com, Saul Bass was, first and foremost a pioneering 1950s Hollywood designer, the founder of… more »
The Diary vs. Personal Journal in the Digital Age…
April 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Laura Hazard Owen wrote an interesting piece for PaidContent about the role of a personal journal in the digital age. Her journaling experiences were of the keyboard input nature: I sat down at the big old desktop PC in my family’s basement, opened a new Word document and started my… more »
