According to the plans announced with fanfare seven years ago, Silverstein and I should have been craning our necks at five skyscrapers, including America’s tallest tower. We should have been jostled by commuters surging in and out of a spectacular, $2,000,000,000 train station. And, all around us, there should have been a gentle, cascading sound from the 9/11 memorial, two waterfalls laid out in the footprints of the Twin Towers, a whispering reminder of 2,752 people murdered here.
I’m posting this out of an overwhelming frustration. What’s wrong and what’s right? Honestly, I feel, this is not only a “national disgrace” but a disgrace on the entire free world. At least the US is doing well at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games, right?
For our first show-date after having our daughter Jette Sweetheart back in April, Dani bought us tickets to go check out The Horrors when they played at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, PA last week. Simply said, they were and are brilliant!
A few weeks behind but if you’re interested there’s a new Radiohead song available for download. And, by the way you should be interested. Thanks for the tip Andrew!
These are exciting times for all involved and I'm very pleased to be part of the coming together of some of today's best minds and greatest talent in standards-based design.
On a personal from the first time Greg Storey reached out to see if I'd be interested in doing some work for Airbag up until now, my life has felt like... well... I'm not exactly sure what it's felt like... but it's been an excellent experience thus far.
The individuals whom I have had the pleasure of getting to know at Airbag, now Happy Cog West have been some of the most inspirational people I have ever met. It is a thrill to work with those who make the impossible possible. Those who create something from nothing. Those who strive for excellence on any given day. And those that understand the need to play xBox 360 at least once a week to let off the steam that comes with constantly kicking ass.
The future looks good, heck the present looks good! And in this day and age typing those words makes me feel like anything is possible.
Today marks my 33rd year on spaceship earth. I am now the father of a beautiful little girl named Jette Sweetheart, who was born on April 30th of this year. And as of May 28th, 2009 I will have been married to the lovely Dani Lin for 10 years.
Having a baby girl and watching my marriage go into the double digits is a bit overwhelming to say the least, but I love it. My life is healthier and richer than ever before, and for that I am grateful.
Things I’ve learned:
Good things happen to people who do things. (Thanks Dad!)
No matter how old you are there’s always someone older saying; “wait until this happens…”.
Slow and steady wins the race.
It’s not location, location, location, it’s family, family, family.
Sleeved in collaboration with Swiss artist Ivan Liechti from the design studio DIY (http://www.diy.li) it features psychedelic, candy-coloured artwork based on the unusual zig-zag 'Razzle-Dazzle' deception camouflage used in WW1 and WW2.
Tomorrow, I will be out of the office. Airbag has generously invited me to get lost for a day. A very kind; “Thank you!” And fyi: Home base has been notified and I am in the clear to vacate.
So we are all up to speed. In a few weeks, I will become a dad – Good Gracious! – for the first time. May 8th is the expected due date. The baby or “Ministry of the Interior” – as I have been calling her (do not ask me why?) – is doing great and according to the doctor is on track for a normal delivery schedule. We cannot wait to meet her, but as for now, there is still a small blip of time remaining before the next chapter begins.
This celestial alignment of variables gives me a window of time to stop (very important) and reflect on the last… oh, 32 years of my existence. That said, I will have my cell phone on me if you are my wife and you need to reach me.
I will be on some beach somewhere in Southern California staring straight into the vastness that is the Pacific Ocean. I will listen to the surf and participate in existence as life for me, slows down for but a moment.
See you all on Wednesday.
Oh and one more thing: Greg, I promise to not knock over any drug stores.
Ian Brown’s first solo album “Unfinished Monkey Business” from 1998 starts up in my early millennium Sony MDR-V300 headphones… Wait… have I had these headphones since the 90s? Hmm… maybe, maybe.
So this is my new site. I had a flicker of brilliance with one of my older sites. It got a bunch of attention from css style galleries but in all honesty it didn’t feel much like me. I’m not sure anyone is like me, but I have racked my brain trying to come up with something me, something that feels right, a site that I won’t get bored of in under 1 hour.
fyi: Don’t go into the studio without having written a song if you want to make an album.
Kinda the way I felt when I pulled the curtain on this site almost a year ago. I thought that it could be a “dynamic” process, something that would just evolve and be super fantastic, a no brainer. Alas, it ended up being a train wreck after train wreck of ideas. Which is tough to say, but if you have ever had the opportunity to design for yourself with no real concern for time you might find yourself fall into the same pit.
That said, life remains magically dynamic and things have changed. I am older, and shortly I will be a father. Amazing people have entered my life and have been monumental encouragers of my work. I tip my hat to all of you, you know who you are.
So here we stand. I type as you read…. Hopefully you will be patient with me as I work through my inner demons and try to focus the site on something worth while.
The report from the interior is two thumbs up. Engines are a go, and we are prepared for our second mission.
Life is good, what can I say? But that said, something has to emerge. A product of all these years, thoughts and struggle. So, I move ahead with new clarity and a passion for exploration.
This site is currently at some percentage under 100 of functionality and new features will also soon be added. I ask you to be patient, not as patient as you have been up to this point but still patient with this site as I get all my ducks in order.
