August

'Alcalde' article highlights Four Kitchens' approach to creativity and publishing

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Original Thought scan (small)

“Original Thought”
by Alcalde assistant editor Tim Taliaferro

Update: With Alcalde’s permission, I’ve posted the entire text of the article.

The Alcalde, UT-Austin’s alumni magazine, interviewed me about the formation of our company and our approach to working creatively. Wonderfully assembled by assistant editor Tim Taliaferro, the article explains Four Kitchens’ conception and philosophy (and why we’ll never again work a desk job!). Here’s a scan of the full article in PDF format: download “Original Thought” by Tim Taliaferro.

Tim did a great job assembling my meandering, self-indulgent ramblings into something approaching coherence. Here’s the full text, added August 30, 2006:

OpenID group on StumbleUpon

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Do you Stumble? Do you like OpenID? Do you love this cheesy, anaphoric introduction?

Why do we all possess only half a brain?

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It’s an old question—if not a touch psuedo-scientific—but it points to a stark divide in human psychology: are you right-brained or left-brained?

Artists and scientists rarely share the same skin, and those who do are heralded as geniuses, eccentrics, or Renaissance Men Persons of Indeterminate Gender. This split is especially frustrating when working on the web, a sprawling medium that requires two very different talents: programming and design.

Olive Garden, Best Buy, and Coca-Cola 2.0?

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Corporate logos redesigned in Web 2.0 style

Brilliant. Kinda makes me wonder when the whole “web 2.0” thing will burn itself out. I mean, haven’t we collectively satisfied the web’s considerable thirst for shiny gradients and Trebuchet MS?