- ARCHIVE / Discussion
- Don’t You Have to Be in the Room to Take My Pulse?
I had thought about getting a digital photo frame, but had been kind of on the fence because I couldn’t be bothered with the hassle of plugging it into the computer or sticking a flash drive into it to upload photos to it. So when Kodak recently released the Pulse digital frame with WiFi I [...]
- Perfection Ain’t Perfect (or The Scourge of Hyphens)
I was in the Sony Store in the mall, looking for replacement rubber tips for my in-ear headphones. While the guy went in the back to retrieve this low-demand, low-cost-but-easy-to-steal item, I watched a bit of Iron Man in high-def Blu-Ray on a big Bravia. I haven’t made the jump to high-def yet. I have [...]
- Here’s to the Crazy Ones
I have an uneasy relationship with advertising. On one hand, as a graphic designer, it can be very satisfying to reach an audience with your message and have them respond in the way you want them to (becoming informed, taking action, making a purchase, and so on). On the other, when used to drive an [...]
- Look Out
I’ve never had much use for religion. My parents were not religious. It wasn’t that we were atheists. We had some sort of generalised belief that there was something more than this. It just seemed wrong to deny that there was more than this life we have. Like we would be eliminating the idea of [...]
- He Ain’t Eight-and-a-Half by Eleven, He’s My Brother
It’s been a time of reassessing my creative work, brought on by a change of the day job back at the end of September 2009. In some ways it’s meant jettisoning some things that have been gathering dust on my shelves for many years. In others, it’s meant investing in some new tools. Case in [...]
- Take Two Tablets and Call Me in the Morning
I recently read a piece on why consumers won’t buy tablet computers by Rafe Needleman of CNET. The points that stuck out for me are: High cost for a new technology that many will be unwilling to pay for Typing on a touchscreen keyboard is an ergonomic nightmare It’s a tween device, more powerful than [...]
- The Perils of Choice
The grade nine science trip to Calgary was pretty cool. Four-and-a-half hours by school bus (without seatbelts, woohoo) from Cranbrook to Calgary at some god awful early hour. A visit to the planetarium, another to the zoo, and a stop at a shopping centre (I think it was Chinook, but I can’t really recall), and [...]
- That Place on the Hill
When I was a younger man, I thought being book smart made me smart in life, but I was absurdly stupid about the latter. Much of my life has been spent on my own and social interaction is something I find challenging to this day. I’ve never quite found my comfort spot, but at this [...]
- A long time ago, in a lake far, far away…
So, that summer I was 10 and I found the watch in Peckham’s Lake outside Cranbrook, BC. Dad said Timex might be interested in hearing about it, so I wrote them a letter and they got back to me. Dad and I were flown out to Toronto by Grey Advertising, then Timex’s Canadian agency, where [...]
- More Raymond Chandler by Tom Adams
This is a follow-up to my previous post on Tom Adams’ covers for the works of Raymond Chandler. Approximately 10 years after the covers, Adams’ teamed up with crime novelist Julian Symons on The Great Detectives in 1981. The book was written as a “Whatever Happened to…” for famous fictional detectives. For Philip Marlowe, Symons [...]