On a typical day I end up listening to a bunch of different things:
Talk Radio (like WNYC, WBAI, KCRW)
Beats, beats, and more beats
The annoying whining of clients (JUST KIDDING to all my lovely clients, whose love, concern, and attention to deadlines I would not be willing to live without)
Most significantly are the Beats, the [...]
This One’s For the Hot Steppahs
Delving a little bit further into the Last.fm community, I followed a path from Pursuit Grooves (through the wilds of myspace -yikes) that led to the Coopr8 crew of folks. CoOp is London party / venue where they make it a point to play only the right tunes. This is [...]
Sometimes you just need to deviate.
Credit where it’s due: I first heard LITTLE DRAGON on the Soulsearching radio show (Michael Ruetten). And since then on both the Deviations radio show (Benji B) and Worldwide (Gilles Peterson).
The luscious voice you hear in these Little Dragon tunes is that of the remarkable Yukimi Nagano. She and the [...]
More than a year ago, in an attempt to wrangle in all the paper in my life along with the great ideas I think I have constantly marauding around in my mind, and to prepare myself for self-employment, I got into a strong productivity kick. There are many systems to do so, the one [...]
I’ve been learning mass amount of lessons as I quest into freelancedom. Some I’ve had a harder time at internalizing. For example, a loaf of bread will eventually mold in the refrigerator (I know, shocked me too!); or when you want something sweet to eat, but don’t want to spend money on fancy deserts with [...]
Fall’s rolling in ….
For a minute there, I really thought climate change was going to keep things temperate in BK until like February. Not sure why I thought that was possible … a brother can dream, can’t he?
In between the daydreams I’m grinding. [UPDATE: new term for 2008 - "crunchin" just cause grinding don't always [...]
Some joints I’ve been listening to lately courtesy of the high grade downloads at emusic.com. My thoughts on some of these tracks are after the jump….
This may sound something like a review of software – in fact it is something like a review. More accurately, this is about how I was reading some emails and was tasked with a question from a colleague that I could easily answer with a “yes” or a “no.” Nothing too interesting about that – [...]
There are a handful of sites that I check in with on a regular to keep up on code developments, design trends, design tools, and just to try and be aware of the collective consciousness of design and development entrepreneurs. Here are a few of them:
Technical Tools / Code / Standards
A List Apart
Boxes and [...]