Category Culture

A brief update on my work appearing in attack ads

I’ve yet to receive a response from the Bill Russell campaign, although the promotional graphics for the ads on their home page, which feature frames from the ads that use my photo, have been taken down as of this afternoon. I don’t know if this is a coincidence.  The YouTube ads remain up as of [...]

Justice in cycling, cycling for justice

I’ve been trying to get back into cycling, not as an athlete — I’m no athlete — but as a commuter and for recreation. This morning I found myself relating to issues brought up today in a New York Times’ article about Times Up! tactics and sites like MyBikeLane.com, which are responses to automobiles regularly [...]

Revisiting Refresh

Tonight I quietly resurrected my attendance at Refresh DC. The first one I went to took place in a meeting room at the Library of Congress. My former colleague Jackson Wilkinson spoke at it, evangelizing Microformats — something he had recently encountered and gotten us both interested in as an extension of our shared desire [...]