November 2009
16 posts
Yelp For Help
Almost every week I turn to Yelp to research restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area. After trying to find a reliable food blog to guide me, I resorted to Yelp to give me reviews from normal restaurant goers such as myself. Last weekend, my boyfriend found a promising Japanese restaurant called “Minako Organic Japanese” in the Mission district. Since we have tried countless places in...
Sample Fashion Plate
Having a friend who works as a wholesale rep I usually get the scoop about sample sales around the city. On Wednesday night I was eating a pork belly taco at Big Star (to be reviewed soon, trust) and ran into one of my friend’s colleagues who told me about two simultaneous sales at Grand and Leavitt happening the next day. Fighting a bad cold with pork and whiskey, an old Irish remedy learned from...
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BOAT: Setting the Paces (Magic Marker, 2009)
[PNW POP] BOAT | Listen while drinking a tallboy of Rainier followed by a mug of french press
Three big releases from three of the more popular indie groups (Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Animal Collective) have taken up a lot of space in |unintentionally| squeezing out some of the more catchy, chord driven, jump on your bed tunes that have seen releases in 2009. Seattle’s BOAT...
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So That's How He Dies?: Complex Character Deaths,...
I’m a kind of data junkie but I wasn’t always one. In undergrad and graduate school I studied the least ‘data’ friendly of academic disciplines: religion. My life was spent reading and writing papers and analyzing the cultural production of texts. Blah blah *insert euphemism for overly intellectualized b.s. here* In my post-grad school life, I have worked and currently...
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Redesigning Nabokov: 21 New Takes on a Dead...
The Design Observer Group has become one of my favorite blogs. Period. Authored by some truly intelligent and talented people, the posts of the DOG blog are always as insightful as they are visually stunning. While doing my daily industry reading via my Google reader, I read John Gall’s (art director for Vintage and Anchor Books) post about redesigning the book covers of Vladimir Nabokov....
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Paul Octavious' "The Things I Saw from JFK ✈SFO."
Paul’s work is interesting and visually striking. His work has a kind of nostalgic, almost timeless feel to it. It reminds of events and people I can’t quite place but who are familiar nevertheless.
Anyway, I am a sucker for travel photography like that of Octavious’ “The Things I Saw From JFK to SFO” series. Each time I am on an airplane I attempt to photograph...
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Social Media Digest #3
Apple Begins Fixing App Store Approval Process Via Mashable.
Expect Caffeine (Google’s new and improved search engine) After December Via Matt Cutts (an engineer at Google).
Painting with Flickr Via Matthew Hurst (Data Analyst extraordinaire). Teaser: “Cartogrammar has an interesting post describing using photographs tied to locations to interpolate average colours in a map. By...
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We Are Local Author || Lauren Campbell
Lauren is a recent Chicago transplant to Boston, having just embarked on an exciting three years of law school. She studied the reintegration of Berlin post-Reunification (in part via media), which subsequently led to landing a research analyst position studying the use of media in corporate communications, primarily as a tool for creating and sustaining brand positioning.
Interested in the...
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We Are Local Authors
Meredith Adams-Smart holds a BA in English from Kalamazoo College and like nearly everyone she knows with the same degree from that fine institution, she works for a non-profit. While she had hoped her current role as an assistant to the director of a Jewish Community Center would yield some fine office fashions reminiscent of “Mad Men” she alas has had to find other outlets to express her love of...
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We Are Local Author || Meredith Adams Smart
Meredith Adams-Smart holds a BA in English from Kalamazoo College and like nearly everyone she knows with the same degree from that fine institution, she works for a non-profit. While she had hoped her current role as an assistant to the director of a Jewish Community Center would yield some fine office fashions reminiscent of “Mad Men” she alas has had to find other outlets to express her...
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The '5 on Social' Questions:
‘5 on Social’ are guerrilla style interviews with random people in random cities about social media and their social media practices. The authors of We Are Local will ask the following five questions of their interview subjects. Subjects cannot have the questions explained to them, only repeated. They may only ask ‘Yes or No’ questions of the We Are Local author...
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About We Are Local
WHAT:
“We Are Local” combines hyper-local blogging with critical inquiry to explore what impact social media actually has on people’s lives. A number of “social media experts” claim that social media impacts people’s decisions on everything from what to wear to what to brand to buy. Although this may be true for some people, We Are Local doesn’t believe...
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We Are Local Author || Christina Dennaoui
Christina Dennaoui is an American rapper, digital strategy maniac and all-around tweed clad bad-ass. Only she, with her old man prowess, can make wearing tweed blazers and driving loafers nothing short of miraculous. Her old man swagger, coupled with unnecessary intellectualism and a penchant for kitsch and serial commas, made her a hit at all of the graduate student parties she attended while...
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We Are Local Author || Rachel Berkowitz
I’m a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the departments of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature. When I’m not reading or writing about dead Germans, I work on my elaborately cultivated quirky intellectual persona by watching movies, moving in circles and scoping out scenes. I also like to hype the chosen people. Rachel’s ‘Beat’: I...
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We Are Local Author || Emma Rogers
Emma Rogers is the product of Portland, Oregon’s rain and a current student at the University of San Francisco, studying Art History and Arts Management with a side of Independent Cinema. She is a food & fashion culture enthusiast. Her favorite place to meditate, in San Francisco, is by the jelly fish tanks in the Academy of Sciences. Also, she is currently trying to conquer all of...
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We Are Local Author || Rita M. Rogers
Rita Rogers grew up on a houseboat in the majestically musical town of Portland, Oregon. She currently resides in Seattle where she is working towards her M.A. of Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington, pulling espresso, riding the bus, and giving into the umbrella.
Rita’s ‘Beat’: casual observations of living in the PNW with a heavy helping of bourbon...