I drink a lot of coffee, or at least I did. That was until I spent the month of February tracking my coffee consumption in excruciating detail. This past quarter, I was enrolled in HCDE 511 – Visual Communication, taught by Sean Bolan, a visual designer and design thinker who had us visualize complex data [...]
Tags: Coffee, Data Visualization, HCDE, Sean Bolan, Visual Communication
Each year brings all of us more experiences and lessons that shape our perspective as we move throughout the world. While I’ve previously written about two things that drastically changed my life this year, my reflections about 2010 over the past few weeks have yielded realizations of other major changes for me and those around [...]
Tags: 2010, designspiration, DSPN, DuroCast, Friends, TED, year in review
In the most recent Communication Arts Photo Annual, there were a number of excellence works that caught my eye, yet nothing resonated with me like Alain Desjean‘s work on the “Get Tested” campaign for One Life. The work speaks for itself, clearly and pointedly stating that “when you sleep with someone, you also sleep with [...]
Tags: AIDS, Communication Arts, HIV, Sex
I have to admit that the beginning of Sebastian Seung‘s talk on connectomes was a bit confusing. He speaks slowly and with purpose, but being unfamiliar with neuro science or connectomics, I was a bit lost. However, my confusion was abated after the first two minutes. In his TED talk, Dr. Seung outlines a map [...]
Tags: connectome, connectomics, DNA, genome, neuro science, TED, Ted Tuesday
Foreword: I do sincerely apologize for the non-Tuesday nature of this post. When you hear the word “compassion” what comes to mind? Is it helping others? Sharing? Giving hugs? Thinking about how your decisions will affect others, even if they are not directly around you? For Daniel Goleman, psychologist and author of Emotional Intelligence, I [...]
Tags: compassion, Daniel Goleman, TED, Ted Tuesday, TEDx
TED Tuesday #5 is a short video that leaves you with a lot to think about. In under 10 minutes, violinist Robert Gupta discusses his interactions with schizophrenic Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a Juliard-trained musician in Los Angeles, California. Through interacting with Ayers, Gupta realizes that music is what allows Ayers to take his thoughts and [...]
Tags: Nathaniel Ayers, Robert Gupta, TED, Ted Tuesday
I love Twitter. The reason I love Twitter is not because I can listen in on what celebrities are doing, but because my Twitter feed contains tons of posts from interesting people about interesting things. I’ve blogged about some of these before, often relating to things posted by Kathy Gill or Hanson Hosein. If you [...]
Tags: Bob Herbert, Hanson Hosein, Kathy Gill, NY Times
For the second installment of TED Tuesdays, I want to draw your attention to a talk given by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to the graduating class at Princeton University this past May. What Bezos outlines is that while talents and gifts are beneficial and can definitely guide you in your life, ultimately it is your [...]
Tags: Amazon, gifts, Jeff Bezos, TED, Ted Tuesday
2010 is my year. While it would be easy for some to agree, pointing out that I’ve graduated from undergrad, will begin my MS this fall, and am turning 21 in August, none of those things have had the impact on my life that two other events have: jaw surgery and reading Eckhart Tolle‘s book [...]
Tags: A New Earth, Healing, Surgery, Tolle