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“I am Charlie”

Sorry to be ringing in the New Year with something so tragic and dire but as a former photojournalist and rational citizen of the planet, this is For Charlie Hebdo and the journalists who died needlessly, shamefully, stupidly in Paris on January 7.

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The Biomechanics of a Food Craving from a Neuroindustrial Perspective

So I’ve been doing a thing called Whole30 since September 1, wherein you only eat health-promoting food for 30 days and then systematically reintroduce, less health-promoting food (aka everything you really love to eat) so you can observe how stuff like gluten and sugar really make you feel. It’s a bit like doing a clean re-install of your operating system, physiologically speaking. It’s all very scientific and I’ve done

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Americana :: Waiting for the Parade

Today is Memorial Day in the U.S. and a good day to reflect on the sacrifices and service of men and women down through the decades who put themselves in harm’s way. I purposely avoid politics on Foolish Fire but occasionally I’m struck by images that may be construed that way, although what I like about this particular image is not only its equal measure of amusing and poignant

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The Big Game Around the UC Logo Controversy: Haters 1, Designers 0

The AIGA, the largest and most reputable voice for graphic design, weighed in on the University of California logo controversy with a rather scathing article on it’s web site. Turns out though that the articles’ main source, Christopher Simmons of Teaching Design fame, isn’t so upset about the logo, but more about reactions by the thousands of anti-logo petition signers, Facebook comments and even trained his sights on the

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Note to self: There’s not only enough, but a lot more where that came from

Occasionally I need to make visual reminders of ideas I don’t naturally embrace, because in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I still doubt there will ever be enough. Enough time, money, ideas, clients. Even after 11 years of playing in the sandbox and getting paid for it, I remain unconvinced that the whole idea of “universal abundance” isn’t just the purview of idol, western, affluent navel-gazers who’ve

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No two ways about it I’m addicted to that girl in the Art department

Today is Sara’s and my 16th anniversary. Yay…our marriage is old enough to drive. Anyway, I stumbled across this old photo and it brought me back…. It was taken at the company Christmas party, a few years before we were married. The year was 1992. I was newly and awkwardly single, still slightly traumatized by the whole idea of dating again so stepping out in public took a lot

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