Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

There is a great article by Anthony Bourdain (of Kitchen Confidential fame) called Watching Beirut Die about going to Beirut to film a show about the cuisine and culture, only to have all that cuisine and culture destroyed two days after he arrived. Everything was going great…
Then, in the blink of an eye, everything went [...]

Another installment in the ‘under-appreciation of designers” series. Eveyone has been here: you’re watching a movie or a TV show that involves someone retouching or altering a photograph and in TV fanstasy land, the most amazing CGI and cleanup is done with a few quick clicks in a few seconds of screen time…WOW technology is [...]

My status is currently up to my chin in work; I will try and be more entertaining soon with tales of exploded pens forgotten in pants pockets in the washer, running on the 59th street bridge, and “holy crap it’s nice out for once.” In the meantime,  check out a game called Gwen. Hours of [...]

Oh yeah, nobody did because he cheated.
Ah yes, the “leader of the free world” gropes the German Chancellor. Way to go asshole, betcha you made her day. Oh and when you get back, why don’t you go ahead an veto the stem cell bill that just passed because, you know only 70 percent of the [...]

My good friend Emily has been involved in a really great project in Brooklyn to provide a tutoring to neighborhood kids and the doors of the so-called Superhero Annex have finally opened. The project is an expansion of 826NYC, a program founded by David Eggers of McSweeney’s fame, and looks like a really great community [...]

I often start posts that never make it online, either because I realize I’ve written something terrible, or I just don’t have the will or energy to finish. I was looking over the list of drafts that I have in my box and since I don’t have anything better to say today, figured I’d give [...]

I dunno what it’s like in other cities, but in New York, most apartments are wired for cable. Even if you don’t subscribe to cable service, there are always a handful of basic cable stations available if you just plug in the cord. The channels seem to vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. Most of the [...]

We’re so damn politically correct these days. I say the word “retarded” all the time. And I think it’s funny. Not because I’m a monster, or because I think it’s amusing to make fun of the mentally challenged (even when people go out of their way to make you laugh at something so wrong). But [...]