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Creativity During the Pandemic: Pumpkin-Carving Beyond Jack O’Lanterns

Creativity During the Pandemic: Pumpkin-Carving Beyond Jack O’Lanterns

by David | Oct 20, 2020 | Design, Sip With Assurance

Carving Using Clay-Sculpture Tools To Produce Organic Art The “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...
Designing for VR Environments: Technicolor Labs Interviews Ed Moore & Me

Designing for VR Environments: Technicolor Labs Interviews Ed Moore & Me

by David | Apr 1, 2020 | Amusing Nonsense, Digital Migration, Sip With Assurance, UX/UI

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...
Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

by David | Jun 9, 2018 | Amusing Nonsense, Digital Migration, Foodstuffs, Gulp With Enthusiasm, Sip With Assurance

Like many journalists turned multimedia world travelers, I envied Anthony Bourdain. It seemed like he had the greatest job in the world. Travel to amazing places, hang out with the smartest, most interesting people around, eat delicious, innovative food, and get paid...

Tech Writing in the Voice of an Erudite 19th Century Gentleman

by David | Feb 15, 2018 | Amusing Nonsense, Gulp With Enthusiasm, Mobile commerce, Sip With Assurance

If we’re going to have to suffer through endless TOS statements, they might as well be fun to read I seem to have struck some kind of nerve this week in responding to a whimsical Tweet referencing something that we are all guilty of – losing focus while...

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