📝 Writing

• 🏞️John Muir's Quest to Save the Great Outdoors

  The Sierra sunrise that sparked John Muir's quest.

• 🖨️We're All Makers Now

  In a vibrant corner of Manhattan, innovative technology is merging creativity and community.

• 📚Portfolio | Andy-Crouch.com

  A visual journey into the work of a nationally-known author, speaker, and editor, focusing on their impactful contributions.

• 🍽️Dinner with strangers

  Alain de Botton explores how religions foster community and encourage connection with strangers, inspired by rituals like the Catholic mass and Jewish Passover.

• 🎶New Years Rulin's

  Reflecting on Woody Guthrie’s poignant New Year’s resolutions reveals the bittersweet trade-offs of artistic pursuit. "SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY" serves as a powerful reminder of the familial sacrifices behind the music and culture he created.

• 🌍Technology is not the enemy (uncoolness is)

  An exploration of how technology's role in language preservation is changing perceptions among indigenous communities.

• 🌍Man/Woman/Boy/Girl

  Exploring the juxtaposition of creative discipline and artistic representation in a global context.

• 🎶Secular praise songs from Western Kenya

  A fascinating exploration of The Kawere Boys, a popular Benga group from Kenya, showcasing the interwoven relationships between artist and patron through music in Luo culture.

• 🔮Yearning to know the end of the story

  Exploring the intertwined nature of identity and destiny through the lens of prognostication.

• 🎓Portfolio | Advent Letter

  As a proud member of the alumni organization, I am excited to share some reflections on our community from the past year.

• 🌸Drawing and the telephone

  Quoting David Hockney.

• 🎸My charango

  A journey into the world of the charango, a unique Andean instrument, as I reflect on my musical exploration and the cultural significance behind it.

• 🎨Guarding Matisse, photo by Andy Freeberg

  An exploration of the unique experiences of women who oversee Russian art museums, specifically highlighting the patience required to engage with art on a deep level.

• 🔍Same goes for grace?

  Quoting Lawrence Block.

• 🎭It creates no wealth or goods

  Exploring the complexities of play, work, and art through Roger Caillois' insights on the nature of leisure and productivity.

• 🎬Subtractive creations

  Exploring the beauty of cinematic silence and the art of subtraction in storytelling.

• 🙏Even if the hymns are impossible to sing

  An exploration of David Foster Wallace's complex relationship with faith and skepticism, revealing his struggles with church and belief.

• 📚Language that does not forget the world of nouns

  Sven Birkerts reflects on the enduring value of novels in a digital age where concentration is a challenge to be fought for.

• 🎨Drawing Cash

  An interactive site allows users to contribute frames to a rotoscoped music video of Johnny Cash's "Ain't No Grave."

• 🎥To take a work of art & to lavish time on it

  A reflection on the art of slow viewing and reading in our media-saturated world.

• 🎨The Jolly Flatboatmen (detail), by George Caleb Bingham

  A reflection on George Caleb Bingham's vibrant portrayal of labor and camaraderie in the 19th century.

• 🎨Street Musicians by William H. Johnson

  William H. Johnson's vibrant art captures the essence of street musicians, blending folk influences with expressionist techniques.

• 🕰️The traveler’s game

  Reflecting on the challenges of experiencing other cultures through time, Lévi-Strauss contemplates the fleeting nature of understanding and perception.

• 🎨Jason Holly

  A captivating piece that blurs the lines between custom design and found object inspiration. "Love this. It made me slightly less happy once I saw that it was a custom designed-for-designers design rather than a found object. But only slightly."

• 🧩Portfolio | natebarksdale.com

  A reflection on the design process of my previous website version, inspired by my word search business card and utilizing the Moveable Type platform.

• 🎭Twenty years of unintended consequences

  Quoting the Simpsons.

• 🎬Our year in culture - Books, movies, and music of 2009, part 1

  This piece explores personal favorites in film, literature, and music from 2009, weaving together experiences and reflections on art and culture.

• 🎨Counter-Terrorism … for Kids!

  A lighthearted embrace of Comic Sans in the context of children's content.

• 🌦️Low Rising, by The Swell Season

  Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová explore the blend of joy and sorrow in their new album as The Swell Season, highlighted by the whimsical video for "Low Rising."

• 🚉If you board the wrong train ..

  Quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

• 📽️Home Movie Reconstructions 1974/2004, by Elliott Malkin

  Elliott Malkin's "Family Movie" revisits 1970s Super 8 footage, merging past and present through shot-for-shot reenactments.

• 🌍Uncool no more

  Exploring the evolving landscape of cultural influences and what it means to be "cool" in a world of diverse options.

• 📜The list doesn’t destroy culture, it creates it

  A reflection on the importance of lists in shaping culture and understanding the infinite, inspired by Umberto Eco's insights.

• 🧩The private languages of Lego

  A reflection on the unique vocabulary developed by children during Lego play and the importance of naming in their imaginative worlds.

• 🌍Sites

  Exploring the intersection of culture, art, and commentary across various mediums.

• 🍹Wham! It’s delicious

  Inspired by the passionate soda enthusiast, I'm diving into the world of unique flavors like Bana-nina Tropical!

• ✉️Circadian writing

  The similarities between email and letter-writing reveal more about communication patterns than universal truths about human correspondence.

• 📸Wedding Preparations, Davao City, Philippines, by Ryan Anson

  This photograph beautifully captures the blend of activity and stillness during a wedding moment in Davao City.

• 🚗Vector portraits, by Andrew Bush

  Andrew Bush's freeway photographs capture the intriguing intersection of private moments and public spaces in our highway culture.

• 🎤Perils of a great preformance

  In the realm of operatic improvisation, the influence of early recording legends like Enrico Caruso has overshadowed the art of individual expression.

• 📚Moby Dick, a book about computers

  Exploring the whimsical errors in Google Books' categorizations reveals unexpected connections in literature.

• 💧Her loosened tongue employ’d

  This newsreel captures the remarkable story of Helen Keller's journey into the world of language, guided by her teacher Anne Sullivan.

• 📖In the beginning was the story

  A profound reflection on the interplay between human and divine storytelling.

• 🔨Tools = possibilities

  Quoting Kevin Kelly.

• 🎨So many different kinds of lines

  This exhibition beautifully showcases the informal yet profound artistic expressions of the Middle Ages.

• 🧩Portfolio | Word Search

  I enjoyed the creative challenge of designing a card centered around a letter grid, complete with a playable word search on the back.

• 🌜Le voyage dans la Lune, by George Méliès

  Celebrating the 107th anniversary of Georges Méliès' iconic film, Le voyage dans la Lune, and its intriguing connections to the 1969 moon landing.

• 🌍Beautiful litany

  Quoting Wislawa Szymborska.

• 🎨Untitled, by Joseph Cornell

  A reflection on the art of Joseph Cornell through the lens of Octavio Paz's poetry.

• 📚A reading language

  Kerala's near-100% literacy has fostered a rich culture of literature and reading, creating a vibrant community of writers and readers.