If you’re ever in Miami and want to check out my work in action, probably the best place to start is over at The Lab, …
Merry Christmas!
Something to think about in the New Year: I was always searching for something, some sort of higher truth or state of being that always …
Do people really want to be "Everyone"?
It always excites me to see someone trying to shake up the art industry, so I was sad to learn about Jen Bekman’s fine art …
Make Every Work Of Art Like It's Your Last.
“Live each day as if it were your last, for one day it will be.” Though Marcus Aurelius’ Third-Century advice sounds terrific, it’s probably the …
"The New Certainties": Minimalism, Motivational Speakers & Looking For New Stuff To Believe In etc.
[The “Hughtrain” cartoon, 2004] I’ve been seeing a pattern emerging. Here are some of the main ingredients: 1. That Marfa, Texas, one of the great …
A Message For The Next Generation:
[Note to young, creative types, just leaving college: I wrote this post just for you.], It’s a very sad and poignant story that’s already been …
Frivolous Complexity
Aaaargh. Don’t get me started on complexity; don’t get me started on “Stuff”. Everybody wants to be successful. The bad news is, we are trained …
"The Web We Lost" and the Commons
The big Web story last week was about how Instagram just removed its API from Twitter. My old friend, Dave Winer (he is also one …
Print is the new Artisanal
It happened again: More mass layoffs as the illustrious old magazine, Newsweek discontinues its print edition. And the blogosphere rings out with with the usual …
Please Give To The American Red Cross. #Sandy
[PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DONATE HERE. THANK YOU.] As you all know, gapingvoid’s New York connections run deep. So of course, we wanted to help make …
The gapingvoid Manifesto, a work in progress
[One of the pieces we did for Techcrunch etc.] The gapingvoid Manifesto, Draft One. [This is what we have so far. Jason (our CEO) wrote …
The gapingvoid Value Proposition
[More thoughts on “Business Needs More Art”:] I doodled the above cartoon/line just now… Maybe it’s just as simple as that: gapingvoid art is a …