Category Archives: The Wood

Site Preview: Riding Resource

A while back, a couple of friends in Atlanta called to ask if my buddies and I could help them with a site they were launching called Riding Resource. Word has it, it’s hard as hell to find a quality place to ride horses today despite the omnipotence of Google. After a load of hard […]

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Mustache Trend Report

I posted the Canadian Club stir-sticks on NOTCOT on Friday (thought more people would like it, given that I’ve been seeing them everywhere lately), and thanks to my cheap web hosting company, iPower, my site’s been, well, loading like it’s being transferred at speeds measured in baud. Note to self: Do NOT use iPower. They […]

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Canadian Club Stache Cards/Stirrers

Clever! Probably cheap, too.

Nice that they didn’t put their URL on there, just movember.com.

I suppose this is what you’re supposed to do with the stirrers.

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Things that make me smile

Launching my own site makes me smile.
So a few weeks ago, my buddies and I launched our “real” site for our semi-real side project, Hustlewood. A couple years ago, we were sitting around, two of us boozing (one is allergic) and all talking about how to build a web community around cycling. That didn’t pan out, […]

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Devil’s Lake Video

Camping, October 4th-5th, Devil’s Lake State Park, WI from guambomb on Vimeo.
My roommate is officially, like, Wes Anderson and Roger Deakins rolled into one. Oh and he has a blog now: hellapixels.com/blog/. Check it out.

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Obama Baton: Pass It On.

Ahh, so the Obama Baton. As you might know, we went from a 160-line chat to a wireframe, to a live site in under 10 days. I won’t get into the how, but instead into the why.
Seth reached out to me about two weeks ago with an idea: running the NYC marathon with a blue baton […]

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The Beer Bistro – Done

Top’o’the mid-morning to y’all. Early Friday AM, my buddies and I launched a site for our favorite bar in the West Loop, The Beer Bistro. The Beer Bistro is one of the mainstays of Madison Street (just on the other, more chill side of the expressway) and offers an incredible selection of beers, most of […]

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Welcome, Kevin.

I’m pleased to report that my good buddy, Kevin Panke, has successfully started his own blog at kpanke.com. I have to say it’s one of the better-looking blogs I’ve ever seen. The big thing at the top is going to be a Flash piece containing all his portfolio work.
I’ve worked with Kevin at Slack Barshinger, and […]

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Push Past Superreality

I love thinking, dreaming even, of the process of designing, engineering and manufacturing a product. I love watching How It’s Made. Not just because it’s interesting, but because I think there are major parallels between the product-development process and the process that we follow to create marketing materials.
In this week’s Business Week, there’s a great article […]

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Do the Hustle(wood)

I’d like to tell you all just what the heck I’ve been up to for the past year, in addition to my day-job and my little ping-pong project. It’s a thing, or a place, called Hustlewood.
About a year and a half ago, I was wearing a walking boot and living in the world’s worst apartment in […]

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