I’m on so many blasts right now. Yesterday was my first time at Boston Comic Con. I’m in the midst of grading twenty-one papers for a class I’m helping to teach at Harvard Extension School. I just figured out that a sequence of three small paintings I’m wrapping up is [...]
another new year
another new year
I’m going to use my birthday to set a goal for the year: to create 34 pieces of art in my 34th year.
hello, new year
hello, new year
Resolutions are for suckers and to-dos are for aspirants. I’m scheduling action items for throughout 2012. I’m getting things built, published, placed, and pushed through.
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
So, I finished my thesis project. It’s portbou1940.com: a hypertext narrative examining the death of German-Jewish social critic, philosopher, and dialectical historian Walter Benjamin. I’ll be working on revising the written thesis this month, and turn it in next month; the official conferral of my masters degree will be in [...]
strategy + progress
strategy + progress
Welcome to positdesign 2011! Prepare for a major overhaul to this site, and a lot of details on my masters thesis, in upcoming months. For my thesis project, I’ll be describing the death of Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish cultural critic who most people accept committed suicide in Portbou, Spain, in [...]
Im Juli
Im Juli
This month is all about production. Collaborative art with my boyfriend, making things happen in our apartment, and completing my master’s thesis proposal. This last is the biggest news. I found out several weeks ago that Harvard redeveloped my computer science degree program, changing the focus from Digital Media Arts [...]
resolution
resolution
The last time I made a New Year’s resolution was at least a decade ago, and I think I resolved myself against New Year’s resolutions. Kind of like giving up Catholicism for Lent. Anyway, this year, inspired by unclutterer.com, nubbytwiglet.com, and my paid-off credit cards, and abetted by the Harvard [...]
autumn baking
autumn baking
My boyfriend’s restaurant is a drop-off point for the Enterprise Farms CSA, which means that every couple of weeks he’ll come home lugging a giant box of dirt-encrusted organic fruits and veggies. It’s amazing, and forces us to eat and cook with things that maybe we wouldn’t have ordinarily picked [...]
Programming is just language.
Programming is just language.
Why takes the science out of programming. He says: learning programming is about learning grammar. This is, very literally, language I understand.
the world is quiet here
the world is quiet here
Because I’m making art and words and websites and plans. FYI.
time enough at last
time enough at last
I’m terrifically excited about the end of this semester and my time being my own again.
There’s just SO MUCH STUFF that’s fun that I can’t wait to start digging into. First, I need to do something about my website and blog. Every year or so I get bored of the design of my website, and this year I have a very special idea about folding them together
a found weekend
a found weekend
I dropped my programming class. And to celebrate, I bought four canvases. I began digging into (quite literally) a massive, sculptural art project I’ve had broiling in the back of my head for months. It’s top-secret for now, but David Lynch is its muse and it may end as half a diptych.
Oscar season again: A gauntlet.
Oscar season again: A gauntlet.
Two years ago, I wrote a fairly comprehensive running commentary on the 2006 Academy Awards nominations. This year, I’ve been fortunate to have access to Academy screeners and have seen over a dozen nominated movies.
Christmas morning
Christmas morning
If you have a low tolerance for sappy, you probably really don’t want to read this. I’m 30 years old, and I’m about to spend my very first Christmas away from my family. In fact, I’m about to board a plane in five hours, and will be almost as far [...]
