6 Months With Ouya
Released in late June 2013, the Ouya video game console was going copy the Apple App Store business model, tweak it slightly (try Apps for free for a limited time), be ‘Indie-Developer Friendly’, and...
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Gamechanger – Bill Budge
December 31st, 1995, the last of Bill Watterson‘s Calvin & Hobbes cartoon strips ran, ending a 10-year run of brilliance and influence over a new-generation of cartoonists. Watterson left the industry he didn’t really...
Lego Cuusoo “Back To The Future” DeLorean
Lego began their Cuusoo program in 2008. Roughly translated from Japanese, Cuusoo means “wish”, and that’s kind of what Lego hopes to grant to some of their most ingenious fans. If you are unfamiliar,...
House of the Sun – the Mars-scape of Haleakala
Early in the morning we started the journey. It’s only 27 miles to the top, but the road, completed in 1935, is narrow and full of switchbacks. And bicyclists. And buses. And cars and...
‘Station 51’ from TV’s “Emergency!” in Carson, CA
LA County Fire Department Station 127 is been dedicated to Robert A. Cinader, who was the creator and producer of Emergency!1 (as well as work on Adam-12 and Dragnet). While we take paramedics for granted today, they...
Musee de l’Armee – The Army Museum of Paris
Created in 1905 and, currently, containing over 500,000 items spread over 12,000 square meters (just under 130,000 sq. feet), the Musee de l’Armee in Paris is gargantuan. Its collections are separated over historical periods,...
Fire from the Sky – Meteor Crater
About 15 miles west of Winslow, Arizona, you turn off at the aptly named Meteor Crater Road exit. Nothing is here, save a large and friendly service station, too big for something this close...
Gamechanger – Spy vs. Spy
Antonio Prohias was the most celebrated cartoonist in Cuba, winner of multiple awards, and especially known for his biting political cartoons. In 1959, Fidel Castro honored Prohias personally, but by 1960, Castro had himself...
