David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Creativity During the Pandemic: Pumpkin-Carving Beyond Jack O’Lanterns
Carving Using Clay-Sculpture Tools To Produce Organic ArtThe "Night of 1,000 Jack-o-Lanterns" exhibit at the Chicago Botanical Gardens was a breath of fresh - albeit pumpkin-spice-scented - air. After months of feeling trapped, increasingly bored with the...
Designing for VR Environments: Technicolor Labs Interviews Ed Moore & Me
What are the design rules in an environment where literally anything is possible? More than a year ago, Technicolor Labs, a super-cool space located in the Blackwelder Arts district of Culver City, invited the ever-insightful game designer Ed Moore and myself to come...
So I’ve Moved to Chicago…
Yes, I know. What was I thinking? After three decades on the "Left Coast," I've headed back to my midwestern roots. In 1989, I moved to California from Venezuela, with only two suitcases and $600 to my name. I had worked as a managing editor for the (now-defunct)...
Please Excuse My Appearance. And the Orca.
Yes, the amusing little JavaScript sequence that shows me getting squirted in the face by a firehose and then winking is gone. Some recent update to WordPress ganked it, and to be honest, I don't have the time right now to chase down the setting to fix it. Nor do I...
Migrating Sites & Dealing With Email: Not For the Faint of Heart
Quick hit: here's how to ensure all your past emails don't vaporize when you migrate to a new hosting service Just got done with trying to help a friend with the fallout of migrating from one hosting provider to another, and I had a couple of insights: First, email is...
A Path Forward: Teaching Entrepreneurs How To Survive
I edited the Starting Point report; we studied 60 professors in 14 countries to learn how students were being taught digital business skills Published in three languages - click to download the PDF version in English In 2019, it is more evident than ever that...