Help my friend, Christopher Robbins, bring back the WPA.  For everyone’s sake.

A really cool stop-motion from my SF friend Tony Benna, with Adam Avilla, for MusicID.  The second video is a ‘making of’ and I think I may like it even better!

Chris Robbins had a few questions for me regarding the Personal Manifesto that I posted awhile ago.  He brought up some interesting perspectives, so, with his permission, I’m posting our dialogue here. Chris had the following questions for me: Hey J Joe. I’d love to talk a bit about this list. Wanna parlay? http://www.aestheticdialectic.com/archives/604 (btw [...]

From the Institute for Applied Autonomy: This week Nike unveiled a cool “new” chalk-writing robot used to print messages on the road during the Tour de France bicycle race. The trouble is, the robot isn’t so new after all. The Nike Chalkbot is nearly identical to the “Streetwriter” we began developing ten years ago. Since [...]

Pete Froslie sent me this email: JJo What the heck– I had the most f*cked up dream last night because it started on the fake star trek ship in vegas– when we were there years ago. Went into a time warp and you had to cut my hair real quick, because it was long.. Then [...]

And when I say “a hand” I mean a round of applause…because, clearly, she doesn’t need any help lifting weights.  She’s been training for like, a minute, and she lifted 36kg in the (unfortunately named) Snatch event and 45kg in the Clean and Jerk (really,  I’m not making these names up). Go Rachelle!!

Oddly enough, my video “How to Open a Bottle of Wine without a Corkscrew” has over 10,000 hits on YouTube. This is from well over a year ago so watching it again was pretty funny.  I’m not sure why I was reversing the drill instead of using it to pull the cork out..I think I [...]

We leave before being left and after being right. A manifesto for forward thinking by Lauren Mackler (and my new tattoo).

I love the work of Audra Woloweic.  We had a year overlap at RISD (she graduated in 2007).  Here are instructions for her piece Freckle Exchange (which I really want to do!). Freckle Exchange Choose a freckle on someone that you love (Don’t let any blemish go unnoticed) Ask them to choose one from your [...]