Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

Hey kids, its the time of year to play New York’s Worst Slumlords! Yes indeedy, this years contestants have been identified as being the worst building owners in the city, and boy do these guys do it with style. Insect and vermin infestations are de rigueur for the tennants, along with rotting walls, collapsing ceilings, [...]

I woke up from a dream this morning as the alarm was going off and the first thought that popped into my head was “I’ll use the unguarded Inuits!” At the time, it seemed like a great solution. Of course! Why NOT use the unguarded Inuits…because they are unguarded. It would be sheer madness to [...]

Seeing as I’m only 10mb away from maxing out my iPod, the 60 gig model with a color screen makes my pants tight. No, I won’t be actually buying the a 60 gig iPod any time soon when I can delete a couple gigs of Beatles b-sides and demos that I never listen to and [...]

A while back, I borrowed a backyard tent from a friend of mine for a barbecue. The tent is 10′x10′, which is pretty big. It collapses into a large black canvas bag on wheels which is about five feet tall and weighs about 150 pounds. The tent is still in my basement and my friend [...]

I have simply got to pickup a copy of Everything Bad Is Good For You, by Steven Johnson. I keep hearing interviews and reading articles about this book and I’m completely fascinated. For example, here is an NPR interview with Johnson about Grand Theft Auto and why it’s good for us. He’s also written an [...]

I was just sitting here thinking about nothing at all important when something occurred to me completely randomly. There was this cabinet in the bathroom back home that I always had trouble getting open. It always stuck and there was this little while plastic thingy in there that always got caught when I tried to [...]

I’ve been finding a lot of good images at the stock xchng, a royalty free photography site. Most images are offered without cost or restrictions, although occasionally you will need to ask the individual owner for permissions. Good stuff here.

Over at Photoshopnews.com there is an interesting photo essay about a visit to the hallowed halls of Adobe in California. Looks a whole hell of a lot cooler than my job. And they get beer on Fridays! They even have cute t-shirts to go with their new merger with Macromedia…