Christopher’s Blog

• What’s Ethical? The FBI/Gawker/AT&T Story, Ralph Nader, and “Hackers” June 11, 2010
  A caveat to this entire post: I’m not an expert in computer or network security. That said, I do earn a living doing software development. Light stuff, to be sure. Mostly games. Lighthearted stuff. Not a lot of heavy work, in terms of security. No bank databases involved, you know? In 1966, the US had [...] […]
• Travis Millard at Google – Video May 26, 2010
  As hoped for (see the post on Travis Millard at Google), a video of the entire talk has gone up! To repeat myself: Travis talked for about 40 minutes about his art and how he’s found an audience for it: the why and how of the galleries and companies that have sought him out. (Travis told me [...] […]
• Megan Whitmarsh video March 22, 2010
  Artist Megan Whitmarsh is profiled on a video by The Creative Lives this week. If you haven’t seen her art before, I’ll just rip my own description of her work from the Narrow Books site: Threadwork house parties with boom boxes and yetis are iconic without being parodic; it’s a cute reworking of pop detritus [...] […]
• Aww, books. March 18, 2010
  Just in case any of you are feeling blue about the future of printed books, here come some videos to make you feel better. Oddly, both published to youtube on the same day last week. The first one is a clever wordgame, as you’ll see if you stick with it. The theme is ultimately desperate and [...] […]
• Writing “Funny” March 12, 2010
  I’m currently at work on two comedic pieces, and so I’ve been quizzing my comedy and sketch friends to see what kind of “book learning” they’d been taught that I could cannibalize. Most of the stuff I’ve found helpful, but nothing so much as a simple idea that you find a character’s weakness or source of [...] […]