Recent Blog Posts
Customer Service
post a comment | posted 4 days ago
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
Three years ago, after fielding months of frustrated phone calls from my mother to help troubleshoot her ailing PC, my persistent lobbying for her to purchase a Macintosh finally paid off. Within a week, our phone conversations resumed their normal...
The Genuine Expression of any Intention is Beauty
post a comment | posted Sep 24
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
A few photography links I've been enjoying lately:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acksonjay/
http://flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/
http://flickr.com/photos/tannerv/
"Through the Mirror" out now!
post a comment | posted Sep 12
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
adcBicycle's "Through the Mirror" remix album, on which I contributed the opening track, is now available as a free download!
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
"Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part..."
post a comment | posted Aug 21
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
"Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do w...
Anger, real steaming fucking anger can make a man verbose.
post a comment | posted Aug 1
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
This is the best bit of vitriol I have read in recent memory.
At a Starbuck's in Bangkok, I learned that a caramel...
post a comment | posted Jul 28
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
At a Starbuck's in Bangkok, I learned that a caramel macchiato is 16oz of milk, two shots of espresso and caramel syrup.
"Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it."
post a comment | posted Jul 25
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
""Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it."" - Stanley Kubrick
Of course we were freaks
post a comment | posted Jul 24
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
"SZ: Why did you never take photos of people or of faces? HB: Because people weren't our subject matter. People are a different topic.
SZ: But people are an interesting topic. HB: Maybe for others, not for us. If someone takes photos of cathedrals ...
"Never assume conspiracy when you can assume incompetence."
post a comment | posted Jul 21
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
"Never assume conspiracy when you can assume incompetence." - Edward Tufte
Merica
post a comment | posted Jul 8
Originally posted at umami has a flavor
Pretty much sums it up for the whole West Coast, frankly, but as soon as you leave California, you drop the (awesome).
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