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For The Owner of This Dog

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A photo of a big ass dog, originally uploaded by boltron-. Wherever you are.

Photo Bags Suck Your Soul

My uncle recently asked me for some advice on getting a new DSLR and we came to the subject of camera bags. I personally hate all bags designated as "photo bags" for three reasons: 1. Insurance is a better bag I prefer to pay extra in insurance every year for a low deductible (mine is $200 for equipment and it doesn't matter if I throw my camera off a cliff) so I guess that's my bag alternative. Nice insurance. Instead of a lump sum I make yearly payments but it's not much, and is part of our business insurance. Then I just toss my equipment in the most comfortable bag I already have. 2. You have...

The Message Behind FedEx

FedEx has some new ads out on Hulu and ostensibly television. They are totally regular/mediocre ads, but shining examples of the intricate thinking that goes into advertisements. The layers in these quick spots remind me how far we have to go in the UX world around advertising our products. Here are a couple of the ads and then below them why I think they are brilliant examples for UX people with products to learn from: So the message is "we understand." That should mean on the surface that fedex is clever, and they understand business. Cool. Funny ads. But the real message: FedEx...

24 Hours in Texas

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A Graph That’s Just as Scientific as Wired’s Graph

This graph represents the proportions of US conversation topics over the last twenty years, and is just as scientifically derived and represented as Wired Magazine's recent article and graph on how "the web is dead. " The best news is that bullshit is on a massive decline as a topic of conversation. In fact, the art of bullshitting is dead, long live the art of bullshitting. Oh and I know what you're wondering, that BBD stands for Bell Biv DeVoe (thanks @ryanchris). Tufte and The Stamen Guys, wherever you are, I hope you are all hanging in there knowing that the Wired graph...

Derek Wood and The Fury

This is Derek Wood and The Fury, which is my first photo from Phoot Camp 2010. You can use this image for non-commercial applications, per Creative Commons, and you can buy a framed print by emailing me.

The Seven Levels of “You’re Invited.”

Level 1) I'll only go to this thing if you'll go with me. - Sir Grubb Level 2) I'm going to this thing and I'd love it if you came too. Level 3) We're going to this thing. Wanna come too? Level 4) We're going to this thing. You should totally go (you shouldn't). Level 5) You can come if you want to. Level 6) I have to check with so and so, but I guess you can come. - Jay Zombie Level 7) Just find me on Foursquare. There ain't nothing wrong with accepting a level four invite. Sometimes people give a level three or four  just to keep things casual, instead of dropping a level one pressure...

B-Tron 201

From my homie Craig AKA Mr. Peters.  - I can't BELIEVE I am represented as a dentist machine - the B-TRON 201 - and didn't know about it:

Five Driving Waves and What They Really Mean

Open hand SINGLE wave. Otherwise known as "the friendly wave," this is the cornerstone of driver-to-driver thankfulness. It represents 90% of all driver waves, and basically says "hey, thanks. I've got a clear head and a purpose in life, so I'm gonna wave once, and if you miss it, too fucking bad. I have driving to do." Open hand MULTIPLE waves -  The number of hand  waves you execute is directly correlated to how over-excited and thankful you are, and possibly how much of a caffeinated neurotic mess you are. Two or three waves might just mean you are really grateful to that driver behind...

Anatomical Venues on Foursquare

The wonderful people of the internet, being wonderful, have taken to putting various body parts on FourSquare as venues. Each venue has a category and some have addresses and a Mayor. Most of them have people that love to check-in there, because it's hilarious when you are scanning FourSquare to see that six of your friends have left a party to go to someone's boobs. So here are the best people parts venues that I'm aware of on Foursquare. Please send along if I'm forgetting any big ones: Maya's Hair (Theme Park) Trammell's Beard (Gay Bar) Dayna Steele's Cleavage Jessica's *Ahem* (Strip...

Everglades Camping on the Southern Most Tip of The Continental US

Everglades Camping on the Southern Most Tip of The Continental US, originally uploaded by boltron-.

Paul Meets the Milky Way

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Paul Meets the Milky Way, originally uploaded by boltron-. This is now my most interesting photo on flickr - crazy.

The Shutter Exchange

Along with two amazing photographers located in Chicago and New York, Paul Octavious and Steph Goralnick, and the ever awesome Laura Brunow Miner here in SF, I have embarked on a mission to let people control my Canon 5d Mk2 camera, see through my lens, and take photos remotely. As Phoot Camp alumni, we have completed two experiments so far. In the first, Paul art directed an entire animated photo shoot for "whimsical," a stop-motion and time-lapse animation about a woman being chased by a monster. He saw through my camera lens from Chicago, and told me how to shoot each scene and where to move...

Whimsical

Charlene Wyatt

Charlene has been my neighbor for the last two years, and I've been listening to her sing every now and then, because, well, the entire neighborhood can hear her sing. But until today I never knew where the singing was coming from. I've been tweeting some of her lyrics over the years, I think she is awesome, and I finally got the chance to meet her today. I wanted to post this to share with other folks how interesting her perspective on life is. I hope it's not perceived as exploitative or condescending to post this - I really feel inspired and look at things a little differently when I hear...