My friend Russ and his friend Marcus have an idea for a TV Show: Film Schooled. In their words “Film Schooled puts two aspiring teen filmmakers in a head-to-head competition to see who can produce the best film in one short weekend.” They filmed a pilot and put it in front of an audience up a [...]

A warning: The ‘before and after’ rollover is quite jarring. But it shouldn’t detract from getting a sense of how tasty these cookies appear to be. And they are delicious. My friend Kyle from Cincinnati has been making huge batches of cookies for special events, sharing them with folks or raising money for charities. White chocolate [...]

Tina (you may know her better as SwissMiss) asked if I’d throw in a tattoo design for a new thing called Tattly. I said sure because I like her and thought it’d be fun. Now I don’t have a tattoo myself, but if I did get one, my first would probably be something simple, very likely [...]

Fluidic Sculpture design. That’s what Hyundai calls the new angles and creases appearing throughout their line-up. And I’m all for it. The cars are striking (though admittedly, the angle above makes this sedan appear rather tame.) I’m guessing that with all the fancy stretching of headlamps and tail lights, eventually we’re going to see the two [...]

At Music Hall this time around, and I enjoyed it muchly. Favorite part was the closing number, Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks done super unplugged with the crowd singing along. Pretty dang awesome really.

Tim Hecker, performing at the sixth MusicNow Festival in Cincinnati. I’m sad I missed the first night, where Megafaun, Shara Worden, yMusic, Fight the Big Bull, and Justin Vernon apparently brought goosebumps to the audience. No matter, I did make it for night two and was not disappointed. Owen Pallett Little Scream

Couple friends of mine had this idea to invite a group of their friends over for dinner. Thing is, these were folks that didn’t know each other but would probably jive on some level. All we had to do was bring a dish and share something that we’re grateful for. I was so in to this. Only, [...]