Reading, writing, learning, working
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My career (so far), visualized again
Back in 2019, I did the first visualization of my career over in this other post. It’s been a few years, and I’ve been hankering to use Illustrator more, so I decided to update the visualization. I’m really happy with how it’s turned out. I’ll write more on the topic later, but just going to […]
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The Ars Technica Infrastructure
The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company. I just read the article Behind the scenes: How we host Ars Technica, part 1. Of course, let me start by thanking Ars and Lee Hutchinson for posting and sharing this info. My first impression is that their technical infrastructure is, well, pretty […]
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The very impressive Ferrari F40 vector illustration
I was perusing Hacker News the other day when I came across this blog post by a Matt Sephton. The post was about a famous (in various circles, at least) vector illustration of a Ferrari F40, original artwork by David Kimble, vector recreation by Dave Rumfelt. What a beautiful piece of technical art this is: […]
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Disney’s Land by Richard Snow, part 1: A supportive history
This is my first post in a series of planned posts about the book Disney’s Land by Richard Snow. This series of posts will constitute a kind of “book review”, but perhaps not a typical one. My goal is to just explore my subjective reactions to the book, how the subject intertwines with my own […]
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Muhammad Ali and the meaning of Self Respect
I recently started watching the Ken Burns film on Muhammad Ali (I tend to watch things in 20-30 minute chunks, so I’m not done yet). Even after having watched just the intro, I had some thoughts I wanted to share. Consider this post similar to those “reaction videos” you see on YouTube, but a serious […]
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Abstract photography
(Really, this is about abstraction in visual media in general — photography, painting, illustration, etc. — but I will focus more on photography). I’m not officially schooled or trained in art theory, but my homespun definition of abstraction is very direct: Abstraction is when the composition is more important than the subject. Me To me, […]
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Harry Benson CBE on spontaneity in photography
“I dislike studio photography because it’s not spontaneous. Anything you could go back and do five minutes, five months or five years later is not a great picture; you’ve lost the spontaneity… Studio photography is not really photography — it’s dress designing.” “To me, a good photograph is a glimpse and gone forever. It can […]
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Kanye West portrait (work in progress)
I started working on a portrait of Kanye West back in 2017, but I never got around to finishing it. Now, I haven’t finished it quite yet, but I did make some progress that I wanted to share: Big thanks to Serif for making a very nice Illustrator alternative in Affinity Designer. I found it […]
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Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a Turnaround
The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company. I recently read the article Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a Turnaround. It’s online, so read it yourself too. It was originally published August 2019, so it’s not exactly new. The tl;dr of the article is summarized in this chart:
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Clubhouse, Pocket Casts, podcasting, audio, and more…
The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company. This article crossed my Medium feed today, on the intention to sell Pocket Casts. In the responses, Tanner Campbell made the interesting point: