SciFi & Red Hook Brochure Samples

- A rocket that lets you watch its lift-off
- ROBOT!
- A crazy wound scanning thing
- This thing kind of looks evil
- Greenscreening for dummies

Design by Lisa Maione. What we basically went for was a list that flowed from one thing to the next with an easy way to reference back. Not pictured are Lisa's map and the rest of the brochure, which are really well done. (If you click on the picture, the text is easier to read.)

Two more

-Robo hugs!
-To remember those malt shop days

Getting back on track

Here's what I've been up to, between moments of craziness:
- A rainbow night light
- An airport scanner for home use
- An automated bartending unit
- A more useful approach to ionic winds
- Cheap laptops
- Floating planet lamp thingies
- A CD player with a pretty wonky design
- Russian water cannons
- A robot tour guide
- GPS tracking for school uniforms
- An SUV for little people
- Nerdy graffiti

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Will resume shortly.

Thursday SciFi

No clever titling this time around. This player looks like it was designed by the record companies as it'll totally destroy all of your CDs.

A Wednesday in Hamburg

I took the morning flight over to Germany and waited for a bus. Good thing, too, as the storm that rocked New York this morning punched a hole in my roommate's wall, so I got to miss out an all the flooding woes.

Tuesday Tooth Care

A toothbrush I really wouldn't mind using myself.

Moriarty's next of kin...

...continues his legacy of diabolical genius.

Friday SciFi & new headings

This time around, I wrote it for the kids. Also, instead of just using the days of the week to title updates for SciFi, as it'll probably continue for a while, I'll try using dates. Or maybe even something more interesting like relevant blurbs. We'll see!

Thursday SciFi & my crazy brother

Sorry, Mr. Lewinski.

Also, thanks for all the comments, bro. This isn't really a blog. It's more of an organic resume and a place where I can keep track of how many articles I've written when it's time to invoice, but it's great to know someone is actually peeking from time to time.

Wednesday SciFi & hopefully other stuff

A new article can be found here. It's about a mouse.

Also, a new month means it's time to get rolling again. The only other project I have active right now is writing fiction, though I can't post that here. But hopefully I'll have some interesting stuff to post soon.

Tuesday SciFi

Huzzah, a Star Trek reference.

Monday SciFi

Woke up a bit under the weather.

An article I wrote on Friday went live this morning. Wish I had the power to edit it as it's got some rough bits I didn't catch—my own fault—but that's all right. A second article of mine for today is here.

Thursday SciFi & my window situation

Another post at SCI FI Tech. They're going to keep me on next week as well at one article daily. Hope it holds up!

Also, I returned the Roman shade that completely fell apart and got one with a functional drawstring. So, despite what it might mean about me as a person, I am rather excited to have a fully functional blind covering each of my windows.

SCI FI Tech

My first post for SCI FI Tech went live today. Pretty groovy.

SCI FI Tech & the Brooklyn Freelance Writers

It looks like I'm going to start writing articles tentatively for SCI FI Tech. Only one a day until the weekend, maybe a few next week, and hopefully more as things pick up. Some of the guys I worked with at Gizmodo also post there.

There are a few smaller networks here in Brooklyn and New York in general that I've found, like Brooklyn Freelance Writers and Park Slope Freelancers. I'm used to talking to designers and clients, so it should be nice to meet my fellows and see how they go about it, see if anyone needs help, what they're reading, etc.

Roman shade installation & insanity

Easy end to the month. All of my clients have their invoices and I got a bit of downtime. Downtime that will be swallowed up by the two shades I've tried installing and completely mucked up.

One is stuck open, the other closed (the drawstrings came loose and fell off). I won't even begin to go over screw woes, cheap drill bits, and my electric drill almost catching on fire.

I plan to take pictures of the place so everyone can take a peak, but don't be surprised if I just have slabs of cardboard taped over my windows.

Wednesday Gizmodo (last update) & new prospects

I'm not going to continue at Gizmodo for the moment. My focus is definitely on my fiction writing and Gizmodo is the big leagues of blogging, so to speak. Certainly no bridges burned, though, the team there is great.

These are my last Gizmodo articles at the moment:
• A exoskeleton of sorts from Japan to help aid disaster relief
• Dogfight! I want one, actually
• A waterproof, floating speaker case for the iPod Nano
• This thing made me realize I have a cyborg pirate fetish

However, a friend—the same guy who gave me a chance there—has pointed me in a new direction. Keep you posted.

Tuesday Gizmodo & Red Hook

My designer friend, Lisa, brought me on to write copy for a pamphlet she was whipping together. A community in southern Brooklyn called Red Hook wants a guide of sorts for people getting off the cruiseliners there. Not that Red Hook is a bad place or anything, but it has a very narrow strip of rather incredible things to eat and see, surrounded by a residential area that could be confusing to newcomers. We've since sent the final draft to the printers, and when Lisa gets back from vacation I'll see if it's OK to post a sample of the pamphlet here.

Until then, some more Gizmodo:
• Very short bit about leaked Playstation 3 controllers
• A rather cool looking iPod dock
• Finally a computer my dad would love
• I really dig this light, personally

Monday Gizmodo & Aaron James

Right, so, getting together all of my articles proved to be a little too time consuming. In the meantime I'll keep this rolling.

Today I met with Aaron James to finalize the copy for his website. He knew exactly what he wanted in terms of language and atmosphere, so working with him was really easy.

Also, these posts went live at Gizmodo yesterday:
• A cooling pad for laptops
• A Cyberman shower radio, fashioned after the cyborg race from Dr. Who
• A coffee table with LEDs and IR sensors scattered across its surface
• More iPhone/AT&T rumors
• An Apple patent, hopefully they do something with this one

The patent article could have been better, but I was pretty burned out after reading the 34-page concept sheet Apple put together.