In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed at an American audience. At the time, Downing was twenty-five years old and living in Newburgh, New York. He owned a nursery, which he had inherited from his father, a [...]
Science fiction author William Gibson said The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed. The same could be said of Apple's long awaited iPhone 3G, which launched last Friday. Although I had pre-ordered a phone at the start of t [...]
Festivals, that is. And Oxegen was the first of the pair that will eventually include it and Electric Picnic, for 2008 and - according to my parents - the rest of my life (apparently, I'm now «too old» for festivals and should be a [...]
In my pursuit of aiding the cataloging and preservation of the California Surf Culture, I decided to donate two paintings to the California Surf Museum. They recently held and event to raise money to expand the museum and make improvements. While on [...]
