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I live in San Francisco , CA. I started Photojojo & Jelly . ( more... ) email : [current year] @ amit gupta dot com see also : Flickr , -- + I'm on Twitter! Home Feed Archive May 11 11:45 am # 28 Worst ideas for food carts mrgan : Probably Puffed : baked-to-order soufflé Bubble Market : curated selection of fine mineral waters Four Feet Good : artisanal pickled pig feet Fugu-about It : freshly de-toxified pufferfish Grandma’s Candy Bowl Benihana to Go : portable, grill-and-juggle-your-own teppanyaki The Protein Pros : nutmeat and muscle milk The Pig and The Pendulum : traditional buried Kālua pig Tofu Tom : vegan whole turkey legs Olive Gardenette [Previously: Most and least threatening business-lunch dishes ] I think I’d eat at Tofu Tom every day. Via: Neven Mrgan's tumbl Jun 4 12:44 pm # 41 A New Experiment xoxofest : We know you’re anxiously waiting for news about this year’s festival, but you’ll have to wait a few more days. Today, we’re finally ready to reveal something we’ve worked on for the last six months. And we’re kind of freaking out. For the last four years, our goal with XOXO was to build a community around independently-produced art and technology. The festival is one way to do that, and it’s worked great. People have left their jobs and started new projects and companies after attending, made new friends who became collaborators, and self-organized XOXO meetups around the country. But there’s only so much you can do in four days every year. So, this fall, we’re taking the ideas behind XOXO and opening a permanent, year-round space: a 13,000 square foot industrial building in Portland’s Central Eastside. Our friends at Instrument have been supporters of XOXO since the beginning—here’s their writeup from last year—and with their help, we’re taking over the lease on their incredible workspace, a former World War II ship-building factory. We hope to bring together some of our favorite people and projects in indie art and tech under one roof, as well as a handful of startups working on tools that help people stay independent. And, of course, we’re ridiculously excited to have our own space to run weird and wonderful events year-round. This is, without question, the biggest and scariest thing we’ve ever done. It’s risky, expensive, and won’t work without you. So, if you have any interest in being a part of it, go check out the teaser site and sign up to get notified. We’re looking for independent creators and like-minded startups to join the space, and a small group of patrons to help subsidize the cost for those who can’t afford it. Like the festival, this is an experiment. It might fail horribly — or, like the festival, it might end up bigger and better than we ever dreamed. The next stage of XOXO is 13,000 square feet of raw potential. Let’s fill it together. — Andy & Andy Amazing. Via: XOXO Blog Jun 2 9:04 am # 30 Google Photos keeps making random photos into GIFs without my permission and is kind of great. This one’s jessa in Dubai atop the tallest building in the world. May 4 11:36 am # 32 Something happened last year and I didn't tell anyone» An update on my life, and news of a big change. Jan 9 12:38 am # 50 offscreenmag : Issue No10 will be on sale online starting January 20th, ships January 26th. Subscribe now . Photo by Helena Price Very excited for this. p.s. That’s me, Jessa, and Leah the dog! Via: Offscreen Magazine Oct 28 7:07 pm # 74 Based on a true story… slackhq : You might have seen the video on the home page of our website (and if you haven’t, it’s embedded at the bottom of this post). It’s pretty funny. And, just like it claims, it really does tell the story of how Sandwich Video got on Slack. Long ago we promised to publish the transcripts of the conversation that lead to the creation of the video. And now, for you dear reader: behold! Read More I love this story . Via: Several People Are Typing Jul 25 10:40 am # 38 In Costa Rica for 2 weeks for Photojojo’s annual Workcation. Took a drone, went to the cloud forest. May 28 4:04 pm # 28 techcrunch : Drone flying lesson with @photojojo in Dolores Park! #TCTV Via: TechCrunch May 12 10:40 am # 66 Filed under: Tabs I keep open in my browser. Source Apr 25 11:00 pm # 26 My bike! Spotted in St Helena a few weeks ago by ryangraves . Via: saltwater.com Apr 21 2:51 pm # 64 naveen : Wait, WUT? Every so often, when I am sitting alone with my phone (sad panda) and have some time to kill, I log into the anonymous internet: usually WUT and Secret. After spending most of the last decade on services that need your actual identity, I’ve been curious about these services that allow you to leave your real names behind. I think the late 90s were the last time I personally sought out services where I was anonymous or pseudonymous. Ever since then, I’ve been bringing together my identity into one namespace (@naveen). One of the immediate benefits in such services is that your words carry weight and legitimacy on their own. You don’t scan to see who posted it before deciding whether to start reading it. Twitter democratized things in the sense that I could post something in the same space (and potential audience) as someone else, but if he started with more followers or a bigger brand than me, you would pay attention to and retweet his post way more than mine (rich get richer). With these anonymous services, none of that matters – your words are the only thing that’s important and they carry themselves. Sometimes, you can use these services just to have a public conversation of your thoughts. Perhaps these are like the things you mutter to yourself in an empty room when you know no one else is listening. It could be frustration; things you say out loud that you don’t even realize you are saying out loud; future conversation you’re rolling around in your head; &c. (Oh god, I can’t believe I just admitted that here like a crazy person, but come on, surely others do this too.) I find that the majority of posts on both services are of this nature: things that would otherwise probably have never been captured. In the handful of times I’ve used Secret, I found I only posted things in order to maximize likes. That addictive dopamine behavior that I like so much on other social services had made its way here as well. It didn’t matter that no one would know on Secret that I was the author, but just knowing that whatever I posted was clever or funny (and other people thought so) got me to post even more things. Why do we create publicly anyway if not to be validated? I wonder if others think the same way. Further, I wonder if others post things just to be provocative and to get hearts. If so, the things you’re posting on Secret then don’t mean the same thing as an honest message, and in some ways takes away from the authenticity. (I’ve noticed incredibly funny people on Twitter tend to do this too: make up stories or anecdotes about someone they saw on the street but it just so happens not to be true. Perhaps it’s the standup comic way of telling a story.) WUT doesn’t have that problem. Because no one can give you the same kind of feedback, beyond just responding to your message with another linearly, you can’t game the system for such events. Even if you post with the intention of getting a response, there’s no interface to show you and others watching “XX post of yours had NN hearts” (or whatever). Sometimes, WUT turns into a weird game of telephone. This is especially true of this service over others in its class because there are no threads in WUT: no distinction between posts and comments. Someone will say something, and others will take it and turn it into some rhyme or repeated pattern. I recently moved WUT up higher in the notifications drawer on iOS. It now sits immediately after Phone and Messages. I thought this was very curious as I’ve never consciously done this for any application ever (even ones I am coding up and testing). I thought about this for a while, and then realized...