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At FOO Camp I met Bruce Wyman, the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum (He occasionally blogs on the Museum’s site.). For the past few years at UX Week, we’ve had museums (first in D.C., now in SF) share with us how they desig

In my post “Crime dramas shot in the city,” I mention my love for High and Low (my personal favorite Kurosawa flick.) Well, I just found out that on Tuesday Criterion releases a new 2-disc special edition of the film. Their prior DVD rele

There’s a lot happening yon Adaptive Path way as we gear up for UX Week 2008. We’ve just announced the actual super final completing of our program, including Jury Hahn, and the presentations we’ll get from the folks at the Explora

This past weekend, I had the fortune of attending FOO Camp 08, O’Reilly Publishing’s confab on their campus in Sebastopol. FOO Camp is the original tech “unconference”, where there is no pre-set program. There’s an empty

One of the emerging themes of FOO Camp 08 dealt with people’s relationship with the data they create in their life. It began with the first session Saturday morning, where Esther Dyson lead a discussion on “user-generated metadata.”

A few posts back, I linked to a video of Bullitt’s famous car chase geocoded. As a near-San Franciscan, one of the things I love about Bullitt is the use of real San Francisco locations. I recently rewatched the mother of all shot-on-location c

This is comparatively old webernet news, but I finally saw these Japanese anatomy scrolls, and as a fan of macabre medical illustrations (I loves me my Mütter Museum), they’re quite compelling. (The blog post in turn links to the original files

I just stumbled across an amazing album of historic San Francisco Photographs on Calisphere. I’ve been digging through online collections of old SF photos, and most are muddy, brittle, damaged. These are in amazing shape and startling clear. So

Just found out about these folks in a review of the upcoming Animation Show 4. In America, they’re best-known product was the Coca-Cola ad “Videogame,” which I unabashedly love. In clicking around their filmography (requires a littl

In catching up with various media after my vacation, I got around to listening to a BusinessWeek Innovation Podcast with graphic design luminary Steven Heller on The Business of Web Design. Given the podcast’s title, I wasn’t at all read