Archives: 2010
The Cheapest Puerto Rico Prelude
My acoustic guitar is not the sharpest instrument in my closet. It’s… “acoustically challenged.” But when I bought it, one feature stuck out to me – a popular selling point – It was free. Continue reading
Lanier Versus Shirky on Web 2.0
The cautious with a chip on his shoulder versus the overly optimistic. My dad posted an article Clay Shirky wrote on “The Collapse of Complex Business Models” (think: Rome/Babylon/America) to Facebook a while back, and I liked it, so I … Continue reading
Thunderbird Egg in Postmodern Burger
About a week ago, while eating lunch with friends, telling them about some of the criticism against Google, I explained to them why I don’t care about the great features of Gmail. My audience was all six or seven years … Continue reading
Stationary of the Third Reich
A couple of weeks ago, my friend and professor Peter Berggren asked me to do some minor research for a documentary he’s making on music in Berlin during World War II. Wilhelm Furtwangler and Rudolph Dunbar were the two men … Continue reading
German Expressionist Film
Conrad Veidt as Cesare the somnambulist, holding Jane over the city in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) About three months ago, I picked up John D. Barlow’s book “German Expressionist Film,” and have been maneuvering the library’s checkout policy … Continue reading
