It’s Friday night and I’m kind of stoned from the medication my dentist gave me (for having two wisdom teeth removed).  I just went on Tiny Gigantic and read a post by Axel, who asks the question, “what comes after money and commerce?”  He points out that our current trading system (barter, money, credit) has [...]

Mr. George Saunders has a new book (The Braindead Megaphone, a curious cover by Rodrigo Corral) out and he had a reading at the Barnes & Noble at Chelsea tonight. We got there just in time, but not in time for a good view. We were way in the back and I could [...]

Excellent info-graphics from Things magazine.
I read about Red Cross’ Super Crack campaign in the SJ Mercury News while I was out west last week.  Natural (or manmade) disasters do happen, and it’s in our favor to know how to deal with it.  I don’t, and I am completely ignorant of even basic first aid.  I’ll [...]

Via Letters of the New Yorker,
Banksy, as profiled by Lauren Collins, is surely a talented artist, but the moment he makes a brushstorke on property that doesn’t belong to him he is a vandal and a criminal. It is an unfortunate truth that the notoriety given to Banksy and other graffiti vandals by media [...]

This is a continuation of my last post about “The Art of Book” at the 92nd Y.

(Photo courtesy of Chaim Jaskoll/Mittelmitte Photography)
After the three presentations, all four superstar designers came back on stage to answer some questions from the audience. Two questions stood out for me. One is about which book cover (current [...]

I’ve been receiving a lot of mail lately asking for donation. I’m a bit annoyed at the volume of the mail (who sold my name and contact information?), and found some of the mail unprofessional - giving me gifts so I’d feel guilty to have to donate. I’d rather have receive some mail [...]

Here’s another look at Conscience, a multimedia piece we created two years ago with Benedict Fernandez, who was Dr. Martin Luther King’s photographer in the last year of his life.
Conscience, the Ultimate Weapon
The video is about 19-minute long, with photos taken by Mr. Fernandez of the protest movement of the 1960s. We took the [...]