In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking
New York Times on P-town’s thriving restaurant scene.
NPR : Miracle Mystery Fruit Turns Sourness Sweet
“Lemons instantly turn from sour to sweet. Even a bologna sandwich turns to cake.”
Grid Layout - Javascript grid overlay
A flexible and easy way of overlaying grid columns on your design while coding it up. Helpful!
SFGate Culture Blog: The Cinematic Orchestra coming to Bimbo’s
Oh damn, I’m totally going to this. Will be interesting to hear what they sound like live. Instrumentation: drums, double bass, piano, guitar, saxophone, laptop and voice.
Vintage Oregon - The Willamette Valley is becoming a wine country destination unto itself
Hey, Willamette Valley in the news. Covered in the SF Chronicle for its rising reputation in the wine world.
Fallingwater
Beautifully done virtual fly through of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Makes me want to visit it. Wonder how precise a recreation it is - did he grab topo maps of the site?
Pasta&Vinegar ยป (Lovely) street hacking
Continuing the cute street art theme. Apparently (pedestrian?) traffic lights are mounted chest-height in Lyon, France.
Roadsworth (Monoscope)
Tom says this is “far too clever” and I agree. Unexpected!
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.