Thinking in images
I just love when we can geek out on design. Here’s something that caught my eye in the New Yorker talking about the backlash to the recent redesign of the iconic Milton Glaser “I Love NY” graphic. So why all the tsuris? Well, first because what Glaser pursued, as I tried to suggest in that […]
Pulau Bidong
A recent text with an acquaintance made me realize that I should write down what I remember of my experiences in refugee camps. In my twenties, I remembered many more details but now, like dew at daybreak, those memories are faint. Tuan’s soon-to-be published memoir, Remembering Water, speaks to his “experiences of returning to Vietnam, […]
Protected: Down end of a start up
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Protected: Starting Again
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Technology & Nostalgia
I happened upon this old 1977 video of Marshall McLuhan where he predicts the effects of technology on humanity and I can’t stop thinking about it. I haven’t heard of McLuhan before now, but the way that we have digitized ourselves, creating alternate avatars online and giving up our corpus, resonates in a heavy manner […]
I miss
I miss sinking into a beat-up sofa in a musty coffeeshop, green awning, on the corner of my rental stoop in Park Slope, opening a book. I miss drinking coffee not for the taste but for the feeling it gave me. I miss a summer when I didn’t have a career and couldn’t have predicted […]