hi there. i'm ian.

i do righteous things, offline and online.

i live and love in brooklyn and beyond.

December 21 2009

Balance.

Balance.


December 15 2009

"I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don’t notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is."

David Byrne, in 1986’s “True Stories”, a film that he wrote, starred in, and directed.

We watched at Zoya’s on Halloween, her dressed as Oregon Trail, Evan as himself, and E and I as nouveau réalisme. Naturally.


December 14 2009

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

‘we fell asleep in the middle of the fury’

sleigh bells - ring ring


December 11 2009

"Not every clocktick needs a martyr."

John Woods

Particularly appropriate, I feel, in the day and age of GTD, TODO apps, and the general weight and constant pressure of time. Unstructured time is infinitely  valuable for us all - for recharging, regeneration, and personal growth.


November 26 2009

It’s the only place I know how to bear

Thirteen years ago this morning I walked into my parents’ bedroom on an overcast and somewhat rainy Tuesday morning to find my Mother in bed, lying lifelessly still.

I froze that day, a state of mind that I’ve existed in ever since. That is until this time last year, when I finally exhaled, or perhaps more fittingly, inhaled, and came to see that my life’s journey hasn’t taken me all that far: I have not yet fully left home. In what is supposed to be the life and dreams of every teenager, and despite moving away and living in three different cities, drastic changes would be needed for me to even think of crawling mercilessly forward. So here I go.


November 20 2009

Untitled

  • Scott: Where do you get these artsy tweets and away msgs?
  • Ian: My mind.
  • Ian: Or drugs.
  • Ian: Your call.
  • Scott: The union of both?
  • Ian: Well, so actually, I stare at the drugs and wonder what I would think I would think if I was ever on them.

October 30 2009

"The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets."

Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs

This dude was on(to) something.


October 4 2009

bloodisthenewblack:
Pandora’s box.
If you gotta run, run from hope.

bloodisthenewblack:

Pandora’s box.

If you gotta run, run from hope.


July 18 2009

The Cloud Project
Seeding clouds with tasty nanoparticles to make ice cream flavored snow!

The Cloud Project

Seeding clouds with tasty nanoparticles to make ice cream flavored snow!


February 5 2009

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." — Albert Camus, French author, philosopher and Nobel prize-winning journalist

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