Avy Faingezicht

After a long hiatus, I'm back with my street photography.

Fully vaccinated, and with most of the US reopening, it was time to get back on the road.

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We flew to Chicago for Hannah's birthday.

Half an hour after my farewell happy hour at Apple, I hopped on a car and drove to Yosemite.

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Like last time, the full roll of 36 is below, only slightly edited.

At peak pandemic stir-craziness, our friend group decided it was time for a road trip.

For fun, and to force a creative constraint upon myself, I bought an old film camera.

One of Bitcoin’s many claims to fame is the fact that it provides a strong defense against inflation, with a supply mechanism that caps the total number of coins in circulation and controls the rate at which new money is created.

Este post también está disponible en español. 2020 was a strange year.

In November, we rented a house in Indio with our friends, and drove down to Southern California.

In previous years, when fire season came around I took photos of the city skyline, complained about the raining ash, and marveled at how fires hundreds of miles away can impact our daily lives so much.

The first weekend after I got back to the US, Amol and Annabelle invited us to drive down to Monterey with them.

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For 4th of July weekend Hannah and I took a last minute backpacking trip to Hood Mountain, right on the border of Napa and Sonoma Counties.

It's been a while since the last one of these, so here I am, dropping ~200 links on you, hoping that at least one or two seem interesting.

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For Memorial Day weekend, we went on a hike that made it up for months of being locked down in our apartment.

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Everything is weird.

Back in November, when we could still go outside and interact with other people, a new trail opened in San Francisco: The Crosstown Trail, a 17 mile hike in the middle of the city hitting a bunch of neighborhoods and local businesses, climbing to many loo…

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A couple of weeks ago, after seeing the first version of John Burn-Murdoch and co.'

Over the last couple of weeks, as the western world woke up to the COVID19 threat, infographics and quickly put-together charts flooded social networks.

In one of the strangest years of my life so far, I didn't stop reading.

Last but not least, we headed to Zürich to finish things off, and then fly back to San Francisco.

After a great experience in the Austrian Alps, it was time to head to Switzerland and enjoy their mountainside.

Next up were the Austrian Alps.

After a few days in Prague, we took a train to Vienna, and hit the ground running.

Thanks to a few really good planners (not me) and a lot of excited online research, this New Years our friend group managed to pull off one of the coolest vacations I've ever been on.

Last year the holidays started off as usual, with a trip back to Chicago and Indianapolis to see Hannah's family, and a few friends.

During one of our many hikes, a few friends were saying they'd love to go down to Southern California for a Disneyland trip.

Our friends Hannah and Andrew were getting married in Seattle, which gave me a great excuse to go and explore the city.

We hiked it.

This was all around an amazing and ridiculous trip, half work, and half fun.

I had the opportunity to go to KDD in Anchorage this past August.

I'm excited to be collabrating with Dirk Brockmann again, this time as part of his Complexity Explorables project.

We know models to be untrue, but if they are close enough to reality we can use models to learn, imagine potential futures, and make better decisions.

This is the third time that I re-cap every book I read in the preceding year.

A few weeks ago, Hannah had to go to Hawaii for work, and asked if I wanted to tag along.

I guess this is what happens when I don't share what I've been listening to in over two months.

I guess this is what happens when I don't share what I've been reading in over two months.

This set of photos is a mixed bag.