http://www.foreignerd.com Tech, Philosophy, and Expat Life Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:34:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Holidays + work + visa application process + travel = blog slowdown. In the meantime, of course, you may find me on Tableau Terrible, or Vectorobot. Frohe Feiertage! UPDATE: My new design portfolio is now online! Find more about cheap calls to india. http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/12/03/time-for-gluhwein/ It was exactly one year ago today that I and nine others resigned from Integral Institute in a blaze of glory which would come to be known as "Black Tuesday". I had been working up until then as a graphic designer for the non-profit organization, which was founded by philosopher ... http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/28/black-tuesday-one-year-later/   Apologies for the blog slowdown: I am scrambling to get my papers in order to extend my stay in Germany, and have just taken on two large (and paying!) design projects which will keep me very busy. In the meantime, I suggest the following: Volume 2 of Tableau Terrible: my webcomic ... http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/26/mit-entschuldigungen-zu-meinen-lesern/ http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/24/david-lynch-incites-riot-in-berlin/ For the past three months I've been making great strides in the formal complexity of my design work. I owe this to the regularity of the open-ended "exploration" sessions I've made time for since coming to Berlin. These sessions are beginning to bear fruit. Meet VECTOROBOT, a new blog dedicated to ... http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/20/meet-vectorobot-my-new-experimental-design-blog/ Like most nerds, I grew up playing with Legos. Not the big, prepackaged theme sets, mind you, but piles and piles of generic bricks. My brothers and I would spend hours and hours erecting elaborate fortifications, only to summarily destroy them through the use of equally elaborate artillery. Other toy systems ... http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/20/lego-bricks-and-wolframs-theory-of-everything/ It seems you can't go anywhere in Pop Culture these days without running into some variation of the Post-Human Scenario. From The Matrix to Houellebecq to Battlestar Galactica, the idea that humanity will soon be overrun by its immortal, A.I.-enhanced offspring is rampant. Yet not all scenarios are alike. There seem ... http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/19/post-humanity-four-possible-scenarios/ Graphic from a project I'm working on right now. You'll note the obvious debt to Battlestar Galactica, my current favorite show. http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/14/space-opera-super-stars/   Photo of my painting space from this evening. Sometimes it's good to unplug and just kick it analog-style. Thanks to Rands for the diatribe about the "nerd cave", by the way: suits me to a T. (And yes, that is Lyotard book on the shelf. No, I haven't read it.) http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/13/my-painting-cave/ Momus has just written a post on his experience of the Alexa mall in Berlin I looked at a few months ago. Apparently, Mr. Currie doesn't like the "me" that is produced by the mall that he visits. He instead gravitates towards the "radical, liberal, sexy" self that is produced ... http://www.foreignerd.com/2007/11/12/hipster-hyper-consumer/