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Preparing for Hurricane Sandy, West Village, Flatiron, Union Square, Monday October 29, 2012.

Learned today that the Timekeeper at NYU passed away a couple days ago.

I was featured in Gizmodo yesterday talking about photography, digital innovation, camera photography, why we photograph, and shooting “summer”, in How Your Cameraphone Can Beat a dSLR: Every summer, Boston comes out to play.

Andy Warhol, Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

This is where it happened.

I actually missed the shot just before this because Lenny got too close to my camera and smiled at me straight into the lens.

When you think “I want to…”, what do you do?

When I hear people say “mobile will be huge” I cringe: mobile is already huge, and has been huge around the world for many years.

The Lytro isn’t just a new camera, it’s a new medium.

Last October I spent an evening with 30 photographers, directors, videographers, sound engineers, producers, and editors through a Collaboration Speed Dating event led by Miki Johnson.

Good to see Techcrunch write this weekend about data and its potential impact on ecommerce.

A couple weeks ago I wrote about how the crowd is disrupting the photojournalism industry.

The opportunity of digital intent.

It’s not Life’s responsibility to make our lives great, happy, meaningful, fulfilling, enjoyable, adventurous.

From a bitly announcement the other day: “Bitly has an office?”

Continuing a meme, below are my cities in 2011.

A couple pertinent notes about the future of photojournalism from Where have all the photojournalists gone?

Back in October I learned about the Theory of the Nine Rakes from Eric Marcoullier (@bpm140) at TribeCon.

Unsilent Night is an open procession of boomboxes simultaneously playing four tracks of Phil Kline’s composition Unsilent Night, creating a “mobile sound sculpture that is different from every listener’s perspective.”

A look into a recent Capital One promotion using Klout, which highlights an important reality about Klout: marketers need Klout as a metric of influence and a way to allocate dollars, resources, and promotional rewards more than they need it to be 100% ac…

A couple weeks ago I tweeted something like “what’s the end-state for the abundance of clip, save and share web apps?”

From Quarterbacking Made Simple, a story about how the San Francisco 49ers simplified the playbook for quarterback Alex Smith not by removing options from the playbook, but by eliminating the “sight adjustments” and little deviations that made on-the-fly…

We’re all here today to talk about taking our passions to create big ideas to release to the world. [1] Making stuff is easy and important; it’s hard to start to get yourself over the hurdle, to get over the fear of putting yourself out there, but it’s im…

At TechCrunch Conference, Talk of a Bubble: John Exley, a 22-year-old marketing coordinator, talked about the state of technology with the effervescence of a lottery winner.

Darren Herman wrote a great summary of Paul Graham’s keynote at the Y Combinator Ad Innovation Conference that we attended earlier this week.

From Founders Fund’s manifesto explaining their investment thesis, What Happened to the Future?

If you’ve walked through Washington Square Park in NYC, you’ve probably seen the man who feeds the pigeons as they climb all over him.

Yesterday (June 20) I heard about OpenPhoto, a project to build an open-source photo storage and sharing service currently looking for funding on Kickstarter.

From the days of spending a Sunday simply reading the Times.

A couple weeks ago I tweeted: Information -> Intelligence -> Wisdom.

One thing I love about Ross Hill’s letter.ly newsletter are his reports about technology and ideas he finds interesting and the “next step” implications of them.

Interesting to see three unrelated articles about manufacturing in Wired’s recent issues: “Made in America: Small Businesses Buck the Offshoring Trend” and “In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits”.

So, Facebook’s raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs (new investor) and Digital Sky Technologies (previous investor) at a valuation of $50 billion.

Continuing a meme, below are my cities in 2010.

Whenever I hear a new bit of news from a cross-sectional study about the differences between Baby Boomers and Generation Y, or Generation X and the Millennials, or any cross-generational comparisons, for that matter, I call bullshit.

An old fav, me taking a picture, Kiarash looking up at Andrew taking the picture.

Wired Magazine, Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution: [Daniel] Pink: We have a biological drive.

As I sit here scanning my email, full of requests and things to do for a wide variety of things, I keep hearing “Do less” run through my head stronger and clearer.

When I hear the words “social entrepreneurship”, the first thing I hear is “entrepreneurship”, not social.

Yesterday in the NY Times, For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path by Stephanie Clifford: Mr.

Roger Martin, in the Harvard Business Review, The Age of Customer Capitalism: Modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras.

Continuing a meme, below are my cities in 2009.

I love the street stall eateries in Asian cities.

In January I released a financial model for startups to help entrepreneurs model and understand the story behind their business.

At TribeCon 2009 in New Orleans last week I got to participate in a panel discussion about how to embrace making yourself uncomfortable for personal and professional growth.

Edward Carr in Intelligent Life Magazine, The Last Days of the Polymath: Isaiah Berlin once divided thinkers into two types.

Alain de Botton, in A Week At The Airport: A Heathrow Diary, after discussing the brutality of airport car parks and their unforgiving fluorescent lights, We may ask of our destinations, ‘Help me to feel more generous, less afraid, always curious.

I was introduced to The Tuttle Club by Alan Patrick at SXSW.

It has been a busy Fauxtokina [1] this year with a raft of camera manufacturers announcing their new digital cameras.

Visiting the Rila Monastery outside Sofia, Bulgaria wasn’t in the original plan; sitting in my hostel in Sofia, I didn’t even know it existed a mere couple hours away.