Color My Missives

Big media players keep getting better at this whole rich content thing. Too bad the nfl player they mention in this piece was recently cut by his team.

re: writing.
On another tack: a wide angle lens can overly dramatize a photograph. Sometimes the effect is desirable; often it is distracting. In the second version of the shot, I backed up and zoomed in a little resulting in a more classical composition — straighter lines on the extreme edges of the frame. […]

It has been 13 months since I innocently walked into the co-writing process. The illusory object, a screenplay. My writing partner, Gabriel — another technophile — and I have employed all the tools in the arsenal in service of that goal: not-quite note cards, Word documents, a wiki, a cmap, fulsome amounts […]

It’s not too difficult to tell from this photograph who’s posing and who isn’t.
There was a time when we’d take pictures like this before going out someplace. But once the march of toddler steps is audible even in the rec room, then Sundays are when you show off the new wares, and the […]

To say that Life is anything less than mostly chance and surprise would be to shortchange the rangy bastard. He’s got a presence, ever, that inspires, provokes, and constipates sometimes too. More than that, he thrives at every moment with the impatience of an electron, the memory of a pulled tooth, and the […]