Adobe Ideas

The Adobe Touch apps are really growing on me. Especially Adobe Ideas. What a fun way to do vector drawing.

Work In Progress

The Interrogator

A full boom seemed like overkill, so I put this together for some DSLR interviews. It’s a Rode Videomic and pistol grip with a Zoom H2 digital recorder attached to the bottom.

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Dear Walking Dead

Dear Walking Dead,
I like you, I really do. But you just don’t get religion. A Southern Baptist church would never ever have a giant crucifix and it would certainly never ever ever have an icon of Mary affixed to a wall. You should have gone whole hog and made it a Catholic or Anglican church.

But then how would you have had characters deliver dramatic monologues to God?

Next time, at least make a kind of church that might actually exist.

Thanks,
Ian

Dusty Signs

Regenerations

Old Sturbridge Village

We went to Old Sturbridge Village this weekend. I don’t think I’d been since being there on an elementary school field trip. I think I’d like to go back to just talk to the guy in the print shop for a little while longer.

Grade Inflation

I have a master’s degree in Educational Technology and I am highly suspicious of most technology implementations in classrooms. Here’s the New York Times on one reason for my skepticism.

Turkey for National Bird

Steve Jobs

In the fourth grade, my best friend Andy and I stayed in from recess for a solid week to publish our own newsletter, The Psychotic Enquirer.

We were utterly enchanted by the fact that we could PUBLISH OUR OWN NEWSLETTER on that Power Macintosh.

It stirred in me a lifelong love of print design and beauty with it. I owe Steve Jobs, and the fine people he led to excellence, a great deal of gratitude.

Rest in Peace, Steve, and thank you.