Lots of interesting tidbits (especially about being Asian-American) in this article about the loose-cannon, on-the-cusp food celebrity, Eddie Huang. But this tidbit in particular got my gears going: He talked about weighing two alternative routes to video stardom: his planned basic cable show versus a project to be produced and distributed independently online. Are there [...]
Rational people hate Instagram. Its popularity seems driven by any of a series of insolvent whims—misplaced nostalgia, vanity, herd mentality—there’s no sense that it does anything real. This is why Instagram users are derisively branded as “hipsters.” I mostly accepted Instagram’s popularity, while dismissing it personally. The photos generated by the app did feel more [...]
I’ve always been into comics and graphic art, but I’ve typically followed titles that deviate from the hero-in-tights model. Also, I’m kind of a sucker for following a story “from the beginning,” so it’s always been a bit of a hurdle to jump into a long-running title that’s well into the hundreds of issues. However, [...]
After more than 4 years of fighting alongside the leading Internet freedom advocates on the planet, I’m leaving to work with a team that’s creating unprecedented, everybody-wins scenarios in the world of gaming. It’s very much a case of leaving one dream job to start another dream job, and as such my emotional state in [...]