Month: December 2017

  • Five Points – 5

    Planet Earth II — You may have caught Planet Earth I (2006).  It’s simply an incredible series about our pale blue dot floating in the abyss. However, the good folks at the BBC took everything they learned from the first stanza, plus a ton of new techniques and technology that has been following Moore’s Law, […]

  • Five Points – 4

    I’ve Moved — After nearly 13 years of calling Venice Beach, California my home, it is no more.  I’ve moved to Nashville, TN. Venice has changed over the years.  Snapchat Global HQ moved within a few blocks from my place and exclusively occupies apartment buildings as offices.  This displaced all of the folks that once lived there, creating vacant […]

  • Five Points – 3

    Need Photos For Business or Personal? — Unsplash.com is an incredibly useful resource for work newsletters and other design stuffs, but recently for my home as I’m keen to inexpensively print some large format images for wall art. They provide free premium high resolution photos.  Seriously, free.  This is their copyright disclaimer: All photos published on Unsplash can be used for […]

  • Five Points – 2

    Design Your Own Wrapping Paper — Curious about the perfect gift this season? I’m not sure I can help.  Need awesome wrapping paper? Look no further.  My friend Anselm Levskaya built a design tool for creating beautiful arabesque and geometric patterns. https://eschersket.ch/ The name comes as an ode to famous graphic artist M. C. Escher merged […]

  • 5 Points – 1

    What I’m reading — Patrick McKenzie aka patio11 on the internetz, has been referred to as one of the most helpful folks on the internet by some in the startup community as a result of his prolific contributions in writing on Hacker News and his site. This thought provoking list of a few of his tweets is worth […]