Bay Stencil
Upload any image: get a 2-, 3- or 4-color stencil custom made for you and delivered by post Read more ›
Schengen Visa Calendar
I am almost a digital nomad. But not really. I do commute between San Francisco and Sofia every six weeks, but I’m not really nomadic. I’m more like the geese who fly south for the winter. But I keep the… Read more ›
Sabbatical Labs
Launch your next business while taking a sabbatical in Southeastern Europe with Sabbatical Labs.
A Few T-shirt Designs
Building stencils all the time, I come across subjects that make good color-separated art. Some things look better on a t-shirt than on a wall.
Prototype: Any Image to Silkscreened T-Shirt
Playing around with color-separation, and sensing that there are a few good techniques that can turn an image into a three- or four- or five-color t-shirt design… Img2Tee You can try it out, it’s all browser-side so if it runs… Read more ›
New Shoes Prototype
I have a favorite pair of shoes that I like because they fit well, and they are made from a funky leather that you don’t find every day. I bought them in Prague from some shoe discounter fifteen years ago; but… Read more ›
7commons.org
The mission of 7commons is to facilitate collaborative ownership and cooperative use of production resources that are too expensive to afford on your own too difficult to maintain too infrequently used to justify too rapidly depreciating given an individual level… Read more ›
Animating the stencil ‘How-To’
Spent a bunch of time this weekend trying to work out how to show the stenciling process using an animation of the user’s uploaded stencil. Here’s what I have so far: This is a pretty large file, and it will… Read more ›
Brindle’s Salt Marsh Cherries
Who doesn’t like sweet and salty? The inspiration was umeboshi, Japanese salted, dried plums. But for the US market, dried plums are too much like prunes. So, brined and dried cherries it is. For the last couple of years, I’ve sourced… Read more ›
Soap: Daytime TV Takes the Edge Off
Not sure why, but I’ve always found it easier to fall asleep when there’s a party going on in the next room. There’s something about the fountain of sound when lots of people are chatting away at the same time.… Read more ›
STiL
STiL is an app for smartphones that helps you capture a person, event or place using sound and images, and share it with friends, family, or the world. A stil is rich and immersive–like a video, but compact–like an image.… Read more ›