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Author Archives: blaise
openstreetmap
Scott Morrison posted a good article today in the Wall Street Journal about our hire of Steve Coast, OpenStreetMap’s founder, and our announcement a week ago that we’d be sharing aerial imagery with OSM. OpenStreetMap, in case you don’t know, … Continue reading
radial stripes
The brand design for Victrola Coffee on 15th is beautiful: There’s a sense of confection about it. It prints nicely, it exudes a Capitol Hill-ish steampunk sensibility, and it rhymes with those radially-striped teacup designs which are so much more … Continue reading
rudy’s
On the subject of things that land precisely on the beat, I’ll mention Rudy’s Barbershop. There are 7 in Seattle, 5 in LA and 2 in Portland. Thanks to Abra for turning me on to these guys. My opinion of … Continue reading
homage to sartorialist
“Fashion” as an industry is intimately connected to brand marketing, and in this sense seems almost by construction self-negating. If you’re being sold a “look”, then it’s not your own, and therefore you’re a consumer, not a producer. Just as … Continue reading
seafood risotto
The blog seems like a better, more permanent repository for recipes that matter than the scraps of paper floating around our kitchen. The following is from a note I printed out almost 10 years ago, attempting to reconstruct an improvised … Continue reading
solar/freedom
Perversely, or perhaps guiltily, after putting a knife in Ian McEwan in a previous post, I felt compelled to read his new book, Solar. Polished it off recently while waiting for my new notebook to sync documents. This comes on … Continue reading
on the beat
I found my heart quickening in exhilaration today as I listened to the White Stripes’ “Cannon” on the bus, from their first album. It’s Son House’s rendition of “John the Revelator”, piped through the dark metal of Zep. These guys … Continue reading
wsj
Now that the Wall Street Journal profile has finally posted, I can share the pictures I took with my phone of the beautiful “map room” set the photography crew built in a hotel near work for shooting the portrait. (This … Continue reading
zero history
Recently finished William Gibson’s new novel, Zero History, during the no-electronics phase of a plane’s ascent to 30,000 feet. It feels like I’ve read half of this book during takeoffs and landings. I have a soft spot for Gibson. A … Continue reading
ten thousand things
Last Friday brought an unexpected surprise. Earlier in the week, Michelle Gerling had accosted me in the middle of a conversation about GPS traces and aerial imagery at the Vovito coffeeshop in Bellevue, where a couple of us were rudely … Continue reading