notes > observed
2008
July
Last night the lovely Leila twittered ” ‘You should buy jansens.biz’ - noah to jansens.” I, slightly inebriated, tried to buy Jansens.biz on my iPhone. Drunk me thought it worth the $19.00 investment for the humor value in owning it.
I’ve purchased URLs with much less promise of immediate gain. I […]
June
Art for a data-soaked world.
Gotta say, I hate the new full-page interstitial that greets me instead of the front page of nytimes.com. It really gets my ire up.
Interstitials are annoying in general, sure, but it’s worse on this site in particular. Why does the intrusion bother me far more in this venue than it does in other places?
I guess […]
May
Into the greeting card business, apparently.
It makes sense. It’s the fun part of making a great print ad — stop ‘em with the visual, knock off their socks with a clever line. And as an added bonus, you don’t have to worry about whether your client will buy your brilliance.
Here are three birthday […]
Thomas couldn’t believe they put up a statue of Rocky outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Not because the location didn’t make sense — Rocky running up the museum’s steps is one of the most iconic scenes in movies history. (Well, in my own history with movies, at least.)
Rather, Thomas is incredulous that […]