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The Influence of Art in Design

by kartooner on March 2, 2007

Over the past cou­ple of weeks I’ve eluded to the fact that I will be par­tic­i­pat­ing on a panel at this year’s SXSWi called The Influ­ence of Art in Design. Here’s a descrip­tion of the panel (straight from the horse’s mouth): Fine arts (…)

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High-rise Evacuation Methods

by kartooner on January 25, 2007

There was an A&E doc­u­men­tary on the World Trade Cen­ter the other night, discussing–as well as criticizing–the early plan­ning phases and con­struc­tion of the WTC. It also focused some­what on the short­com­ings of the WTC, such as stair­wells hug­ging the core (…)

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How I came to tolerate MySpace

by kartooner on June 20, 2006

For years I’ve held off open­ing up, or rather cre­at­ing a MySpace account:“kartooner on Myspace(View my pro­file on MySpace)”:http://www.myspace.com/kartooner purely for rea­sons to pre­vent exploit­ing myself or oth­ers. How­ever, I came to the real­iza­tion that when you look past the neg­a­tive aspects (…)

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Teachers, Wii and Spore

by kartooner on May 18, 2006

Here are a few ran­dom thoughts that I’ve had through­out this week, that on their own could poten­tially be expanded, but for the time being will remain in crys­tal­lized form: Ele­men­tary Schools and Teach­ers Ever since I accepted a posi­tion work­ing as a cleaner (janitor, (…)

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