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29 Jan 2012

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film http://bit.ly/ADMSzb

Good-bye Awareness / Hello Wave

25 Jan 2012

Friday will be my last day here as a Product Designer with the fine folks at Awareness. On Monday, I’ll be joining the team at Wave Accounting.

I knew 2012 would be a year full of big changes when I found out that I’d be a dad for the first time back in July. I didn’t anticipate, however, that one of those changes would be career related.

I’m sure few people actually care about this news, but I feel the need to publicly thank Awareness for the opportunity they gave me 3.5 years ago. I’m extremely grateful to have had the chance to learn from the excellent people who work here and hope that I’ve left the product in a better state than it was in when I joined the team.

While it’s tough to leave, I’m extremely excited about the next phase in my career with Wave. They have some big things in store for 2012, and I’m jacked to be along for the ride.

So thanks again Awareness, and see you on Monday Wave!

19 Jan 2012

The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.

The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.

They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it.

That is terrifying.

(via screensociety)

4 Jan 2012

Love this idea:

Introducing our new game called:

“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”

The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.

Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.

Rules:

1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.

2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.

3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.

4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.

5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.

Variations/house rules:

-Starting the game after everyone is seated.

-In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players.

- Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems.

Notes:

- No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones.

- You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes.

- I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k.

- I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =).

- Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life.

They all have iPhone’s then a nokia.

via stephieluv:

(Source: lil-b, via blkgirlblogging)

25 Dec 2011

Christmas Day at the beach #latergram (Taken with Instagram at Balmy Beach Club)

25 Dec 2011

Robbyn Magby lands not one but two 720 double flips off the kicker at Riley skatepark in Farmington Hills, MI. Filmed with a Redlake N3 high speed camera at 1,000 frames per second.