This week I fulfilled a long-time goal of mine, which was to volunteer with the group that puts on Shakespeare on the Common every summer here in Boston. The closest I had gotten up til now had been to sign up for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company newsletter during one … Read More →
Category Archives: Exploring
24 hours to go!
The annual trek down to the Cape is upon us! I shot three rolls of 120mm film on my Holga last summer, and then heartlessly allowed them languish at my old roommate’s place until only a few months ago. It was such a treat to open them up … Read More →
Hey good lookin’
What have I got cooking? I’m so glad you asked. I survived my first semester teaching, in no small part due to the number of evenings spent eating Old Bay fries and making ridiculous doodles with my design peeps: I met a 6-hour old Mollie Danger, the world’s … Read More →
The Tale of Kiddie Katydid
About a year ago I took a little drive with a friend of mine up to New Hampshire. Our goal of visiting a local farmer’s market turned out to be ill-fated, but our impromptu visit to a local used bookstore was not! I immediately fell in love with this beauty, for obvious … Read More →
A collection of collections
The students in my web design class are currently working on a project involving collections. They have been tasked with gathering 10 – 15 objects or ideas that are meaningful in some way, and designing a website that presents the collection to a larger audience. As inspiration for the design … Read More →
175 Years Ago
In celebration of Texas Independence Day, I went looking for our original currency. Images from Crutchfield’s Currency.
The benefits of hindsight
I’m not sure if this is the case anymore, but when I was in college the career center offered various free aptitude tests to help its students figure out what they wanted to be. One of these was the Myers-Briggs Strong Interest Indicator (I took Myers-Briggs … Read More →
Macro
I have to admit, I’ve had some pretty memorable experiences with museums and the works of art contained there: the very crowded visit to the Royal Academy of Art in London, where at 11 I first remember understanding what “studying the light” meant after seeing half … Read More →
Everything we’ve ever written
Google released a remarkable tool this past week called the Google NGram Viewer. It provides a simple interface to over 500 years of digitized books housed in the Google Books archive, and allows you to search that corpus for different words, as well as download the data set … Read More →
Wreck ’em!
A while back, my dad digitized a large pile of old family photographs. This one of some 1942 Texas Tech cheerleaders has stuck with me more than most — my grandfather is the one on the far left — and over the last few weeks I’ve tried to do a bit … Read More →
Parents come to visit!
My parents came up to New England a couple of weeks ago to see the fall foliage for a few days before driving to Boston to visit me. The weather did not cooperate for the former, but did manage to play nicely for the latter. We had … Read More →
BOS > EWR > IAH > LCH
I’m off to enjoy some much-needed family time down in lovely Lake Charles, LA this week. Here’s to the land of lagniappe, boudin, and Community Coffee!