Ideas

Are QR codes are dead? I have not heard anyone tell me a good QR code story–although I have a good one involving the DC Metro and Where’s Waldo. What are some ways to breathe some real life into these little black and white boxes? So every one is getting smart phones. So every business [...]

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Harvest Vs Fresh Books While Fresh Books might have a few more features and seem a bit more intuitive, Harvest ended up being the way to go for my freelance design business because it allows for unlimited clients at the base price (~12/month). Fresh Books cuts you off after 25 clients and then charges you [...]

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After about a year of dilly-dallying, thinking, poking, and cataloging I have finally launched mortarandpencil.com. The project began when I started noticing all these ad-hoc games, riddles, and contests were happening all over the web from 4chan, Reddit, and Facebook. It was inspiring and funny to see the way people would submit variations to games [...]

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Just got back from a rock & roll bar mitzvah in Denver, Colorado, and I had time to get two new episodes of the Thinking and Driving series up. Zombies and Solar Flares (Episode 5) – An NPR talk on solar flares taking out our power grid got me thinking about viral videos for the [...]

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Calling all people!

March 2, 2011

From sending photos of office supplies attacking people to zefrank, to /b/tards on 4chan drawing stick figures finding ways to get cake on the opposite end of a void, to designers creating quick posters based on the theme of ‘Empty‘ for WordIt, people are participating in creative acts everyday online in these ad-hoc (unorganized), spontaneous [...]

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The Rise of Vertical Video

February 21, 2011

If it is not a trend yet, it soon will be.. Or I am starting it. Vertical video, or portrait video is on the rise for a few reasons. People have quicker and better access to record and upload video these days but there are no restrictions to holding your camera a certain way. Many [...]

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