Urban Honking

This blog isn’t really working. Or at least not how I imagined it would. I’ve been writing long format essays that start with a personal story and spin it into a business insight. In an effort to concentrate on the ideas, I haven’t included images or hyperlinks. Just words. I was hoping to get an [...]

Investing in a publicly-traded person carries certain risks that are not present in a more traditional investment. Specifically, the health of a person is key to their financial performance. K. Mike Merrill has worked to address health concerns by engaging in regular exercise and developing healthy eating habits (Juice & Salad™), but the fact of [...]

I love records. The problem is my young children do as well. And in an effort to allow our records to endure their childhood relatively scratch-free we’ve become a digital music household. Currently that means we move an iPod touch from room to room plugging it into various docks and speakers as we move throughout [...]

A few years ago I saw Mike Daisy perform Monopoly at the PICA TBA festival. He sat behind a desk and told a two-hour monologue that wove together Nikola Tesla’s battle against Thomas Edison over electricity, the history of the game of Monopoly, his own relationship with Wal-Mart and various anecdotes about Microsoft. For whatever [...]

Been working on a lot of video lately. We spent a weekend with YACHT making a music video directed by Mitchell Davis. We created a behind-the-scenes montage from the three day shoot that will be posted when the new music video is released. We’ve also been working with the Hot Knives in Los Angeles to [...]

Tonight, I’m auctioneering Disjecta’s annual fundraiser to benefit their curator in residence program. I’ll be auctioning off 20 or so pieces of art live, with another 30 or so available through the silent auction. This is the fifth year I’ve done it and it’s always a lot of fun. I love auctioneering, I love Disjecta, [...]

Something is going on in America, and it’s exciting. Things have finally come to a point where citizens are angry, and we’re finally channeling our anger outwards and upwards. What’s especially interesting is that out of very similar senses of frustrations have come both the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements. They have [...]

Not too long ago I wrote about newspapers and why a big part of the reason I still subscribe to a physical newsprint paper is the editorial page. In short, I love that editors choose the very best letters to publish, whereas online the same papers let anyone say anything. I don’t have time or [...]

“I read this book. It’s pretty good even if they made it in a week. Worth the fifty bucks, easy.”

&#8212 Bruce Sterling

In February of this year, I had the distinct pleasure of being invited to the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a zygote of an insti…

“I read this book. It’s pretty good even if they made it in a week. Worth the fifty bucks, easy.”

&#8212 Bruce Sterling

In February of this year, I had the distinct pleasure of being invited to the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a zygote of an insti…