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Posts Tagged ‘2007’

Stamen ‘07

In Weblog on 16 January 2008 tagged 2007, san-francisco, stamen, Work with 2 comments

Eric just posted a review of what we got up to at Stamen in 2007. My second Thanksgiving at the end of November 2007 marked the end of my first year in San Francisco; 2 months after that it still feels new, fresh and exciting.

The variety of projects and clients at Stamen over the last year or so has been extremely satisfying. I probably won't get a chance to write them up thoroughly for myself, but I'm proud to have had a hand (large or small) in all the projects Eric wrote up (and several more besides!).

Here's to 2008!

Proof that narrative is hard: A 3 month Flickr summary

In Weblog on 24 December 2007 tagged 2007, Flickr, Photos with 2 comments

(I started posting to Flickr again, after almost a year without photos. Lots of these shots are thanks to Ben's magic powers, the convertible dérive.)

One or two dinners and brunches at Suppenkuche:

One or two games of Settlers of Catan:

One or two nouns too many:

Artists messing with tissue cultures:

The canals of Venice, Los Angeles:

Downtown Los Angeles, from afar:

A Korean Temple on a coastal hilltop:

The port that sustains the sprawl:

And the cranes that keep it moving:

Meanwhile, I learned a language that nobody knows:

But not the one that this city prefers:

Reflections on their reflections:

Bill Clinton has a library:

The Northern Irish peace process has a chess set:

Hillary wanted to be a nuclear scientist:

Bill wanted to be a cowboy:

People have a very different attitude to animals than I do (part I):

People have a very different attitude to animals than I do (part II):

San Francisco has secret pockets...

... full of junk:

And views!

But fog! And palm trees!

I have seen a Hitler teapot:

Having palm trees outside the studio still stuns me:

As does the radical change in building style, one hour away:

I have seen the Bay Bridge from a funny angle (part I):

I have seen the Bay Bridge from a funny angle (part II):

That fog again, a curious accent:

A curious contrast:

And in between colours:

Now live music is rare:

But epic:

The transport is suprisingly European:

Meanwhile, brief returns to London take me straight in at the top: