[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":397},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-index-2022-10-27T23:59:59.999":3,"blognav":258},[4,52,68,82,91,100,108,117,145,171,184,205,214,227,236,245],{"id":5,"slug":6,"publish_date":7,"time_granularity":8,"hed":9,"dek_processed":10,"lede_processed":11,"has_grafs":12,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":14,"tags":20,"grafs":12,"tagsByKind":38,"locations":50},"dceec7f8-0858-47fe-8cda-31f816c33168","autumn-yale","2022-10-27T00:00:00",3,"Autumn at Yale University’s Quantum Institute","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>I’ve just returned from an absolutely gorgeous “peak autumn” journey by rail up to New Haven, Connecticut as a recently-minted Artist in Residence at Yale University’s Quantum Institute.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>Over this present academic year I’ll be collaborating with Yale students, faculty, and researchers associated with the Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) to create quantum-inspired artworks. This program is organized by YQI manager (and official rocket scientist!), \u003Ca href=\"https://quantuminstitute.yale.edu/people/florian-carle\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Carle\u003C/a>, who created the artist residency role. I’ve impossible shoes to fill, with past residents such as \u003Ca href=\"https://art.quantuminstitute.yale.edu/Artists/Martha.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martha W Lewis\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://art.quantuminstitute.yale.edu/Artists/Spencer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Topel\u003C/a>. An exciting adventure to set forth on, to be sure.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",true,false,{"id":15,"title":16,"width":17,"height":18,"url":19},"96dfb761-3ab2-41c8-a786-4da3788405f2","Autumn Path",1920,1080,"https://directus.stewartsmith.io/assets/96dfb761-3ab2-41c8-a786-4da3788405f2",[21,26,30,34],{"id":22,"slug":23,"name":24,"kind":25},"7ee0d9f1-ed26-44c8-b12d-1d5ac271c099","quantum","Quantum","topic",{"id":27,"slug":28,"name":29,"kind":25},"d295b3f7-0977-45b3-bafa-f985090bc12b","quantum-computing","Quantum computing (QC)",{"id":31,"slug":32,"name":33,"kind":25},"57c8652d-71de-4db4-8378-7494f73646d5","yale-quantum-institute","Yale Quantum Institute (YQI)",{"id":35,"slug":36,"name":37,"kind":25},"f6201325-357c-40ed-8a86-dfdea4a3428f","yale","Yale University",{"location":39,"topic":45},[40],{"id":41,"slug":42,"name":43,"kind":44},"4343886e-9c70-4f1c-80e4-366ec267d4e4","new-haven","New Haven, Connecticut","location",[46,47,48,49],{"id":22,"slug":23,"name":24,"kind":25},{"id":27,"slug":28,"name":29,"kind":25},{"id":31,"slug":32,"name":33,"kind":25},{"id":35,"slug":36,"name":37,"kind":25},[51],{"id":41,"slug":42,"name":43,"kind":44},{"id":53,"slug":54,"publish_date":55,"time_granularity":8,"hed":56,"dek_processed":57,"lede_processed":58,"has_grafs":12,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"tags":60,"grafs":12,"tagsByKind":65},"ebb4a528-3337-4d88-b50f-ccd6530d2f4d","clicking","2014-05-08T18:00:00","Clicking","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>I composed this short essay while living in London during the summer of 2012 for the UK’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.creativecircle.co.uk/\">Creative Circle\u003C/a> publication. Strange to stumble upon it again two years later, having replanted myself in New York and feeling ten years older. Thought I’d share it now.\n\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>So I was asked what makes me click. Here we go: I'm motivated by playfulness—and playfulness comes in many forms. Sometimes it's the simplicity of Atari's Pong. Sometimes it's the intellectual gymnastics of Frank Drake's Arecibo message. A blinking computer cursor. Ten measures of a steady beat followed by one low-slung accidental. Curiosity. Exploration. Creating and solving puzzles can be satisfying but creating puzzles with a beautiful reveal is even better. I'm also motivated by learning—projects can be a valuable opportunity for \u003Cem>paid\u003C/em> learning. At university one must purchase new skills. Meanwhile, clients will pay you as you learn new things. I value teaching. Some of the projects I'm happiest with have a way of revealing how they were made—a hint at the grid or the process behind it. I learned to make things by taking apart and decoding the artifacts of others, it seems good karma to return the favor.\n\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",null,[61],{"id":62,"slug":63,"name":64,"kind":25},"85f58ce8-5378-4ab0-aba3-eaa3584857e0","writing","Writing",{"topic":66},[67],{"id":62,"slug":63,"name":64,"kind":25},{"id":69,"slug":70,"publish_date":71,"time_granularity":8,"hed":72,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":74,"has_grafs":12,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"grafs":12,"tagsByKind":75},"f5e2ef17-372b-4e89-9c4d-6d3e634acf38","raptors-in-hats","2013-07-10T16:00:00","Raptors in hats","","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>Whether it’s a hack, an eccentric debug utility, or clever marketing—there are raptors in hats hiding on \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.vogue.co.uk/\">Vogue’s UK website\u003C/a>. Load it up and then enter the fabled \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code\">Konami code\u003C/a> to manifest a strafing raptor wearing a random designer hat. That’s \u003Cstrong>Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A\u003C/strong>.\n\u003Cbr>Oddly there’s also a general debug console that can be called up by using the same sequence but switching the order of the last two taps to \u003Cstrong>A B\u003C/strong>. For the code curious, the JavaScript to trigger this raptor rapture is contained here, just do a search for “konami”: \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://d3u12z27ui3vom.cloudfront.net/Build-Vogue-master/1890-6c590b28810e/logic/site.v2.group.generated.js\">http://d3u12z27ui3vom.cloudfront.net/Build-Vogue-master/1890-6c590b28810e/logic/site.v2.group.generated.js\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>If you open up your browser’s JavaScript console you can get the actual raptorization code by entering: \u003Ccode>$('body').raptorize\u003C/code>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The analytics line of code in there makes me think it’s more of a clever marketing ploy than some hacker attack—as some supposed “news” outlets would have you believe. Ah, hype. I’ve posted the raptorize code after the jump in case it vanishes from Vogue’s site.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Update\u003C/strong>: This little \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)\">easter egg\u003C/a> appears to be inspired by a jQuery library called \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-raptorize\">Raptorize\u003C/a> created by \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://zurb.com\">Zurb\u003C/a> in collaboration with \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://twitter.com/philcoffman\">Phil Coffman\u003C/a> and \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://twitter.com/motherfuton\">Noah Stokes\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",{"era":76},[77],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},"bc376db2-c857-4a5a-81e0-a52b60067cf0","era-google","Era: Google","era",{"id":83,"slug":84,"publish_date":85,"time_granularity":8,"hed":86,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":87,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":88},"88d32007-9835-40da-bb0f-96f13a1bacec","fwa","2013-07-02T17:00:00","Roll It wins double FWA recognition","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>Creative Lab’s recent Chrome Experiment, \u003Ca href=\"/w/rollit\">Roll It\u003C/a>, is today’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.thefwa.com/site/roll-it\">FWA Site of the Day\u003C/a> \u003Cem>and\u003C/em> today’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.thefwa.com/mobile/roll-it\">FWA Mobile of the Day\u003C/a>. Roll It is a classic boardwalk game played right in your desktop’s browser and uses your smartphone as a motion controller. Play now: \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://g.co/rollit\">g.co/rollit\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",{"era":89},[90],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},{"id":92,"slug":93,"publish_date":94,"time_granularity":8,"hed":95,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":96,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":97},"26251eab-f8ac-4d43-b638-fe9b0e2ad334","pong","2013-06-27T16:00:00","Browser Pong on Hacker News","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>My old \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://stewd.io/pong\">Browser Pong\u003C/a> game (2009) is currently on the front page of \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://paulgraham.com/\">Paul Graham\u003C/a>’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/\">Hacker News\u003C/a>. It probably won’t stay there for long, so here’s the permalink: \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5951285\">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5951285\u003C/a>. Browser Pong was \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1004086\">previously on Hacker News\u003C/a> when it first launched in 2009. Odd, but flattering, to see a new conversation about it materialize.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",{"era":98},[99],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},{"id":101,"slug":84,"publish_date":102,"time_granularity":8,"hed":103,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":104,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":105},"af3247f5-05ec-4ae7-9834-0bdf949d5211","2013-06-24T17:00:00","Racer wins double FWA recognition","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>Creative Lab’s recent Chrome Experiment, \u003Ca href=\"/w/racer\">Racer\u003C/a>, is today’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.thefwa.com/site/racer-a-chrome-experiment\">FWA Site of the Day\u003C/a> \u003Cem>and\u003C/em> today’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.thefwa.com/mobile/racer-a-chrome-experiment\">FWA Mobile of the Day\u003C/a>. Racer is a multiplayer Chrome Experiment built for mobile browsers—a slot car game that unfolds across multiple device screens. Get out your smartphone or tablet and load up \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://g.co/racer\">g.co/racer\u003C/a> in your mobile browser to play now.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",{"era":106},[107],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},{"id":109,"slug":110,"publish_date":111,"time_granularity":8,"hed":112,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":113,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":114},"123fee79-cfd5-4e3f-aa74-4862f8937f4f","adobe","2013-06-03T16:00:00","Racer—Cutting edge project of the week","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>Creative Lab’s recent Chrome Experiment, \u003Ca href=\"/w/racer\">Racer\u003C/a>, has been awarded Adobe’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.thefwa.com/adobe/tcea/racer-a-chrome-experiment\">Cutting Edge Project of the Week\u003C/a> by the FWA. Racer is a multiplayer Chrome Experiment built for mobile browsers—a slot car game that unfolds across multiple device screens. Get out your smartphone or tablet and load up \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://g.co/racer\">g.co/racer\u003C/a> in your mobile browser to play now.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",{"era":115},[116],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},{"id":118,"slug":119,"publish_date":120,"time_granularity":8,"hed":121,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":122,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"tags":123,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":132,"locations":143},"7e40cac5-f349-40c4-b877-d3b05f1c1489","adc","2013-05-06T00:00:00","Apple store talk tomorrow, 6:30pm","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>I’m speaking about my work tomorrow evening—Monday, May 6th at 6:30pm—at the \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/\">SoHo Apple store\u003C/a> in Manhattan. This is part of the ADC’s Young Guns series of talks (\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://adcyoungguns.org/magazine/adc-young-guns-apple-store-soho-stewart-smith\">see ADC blog entry\u003C/a>). Should be fun. The store’s schedule says I have from 6:30 to 8pm—way too much time. Let’s keep it short and sweet (maybe 1/2 hour?) with some Q&A at the end if that seems worthwhile. The content shouldn’t be much of a surprise: some favorite project highlights, random rants, and so on. Just walk up the glass stairs to the second floor where you’ll find some theater-style seating and a big screen.\n\u003Cbr>\n\u003Cstrong>Monday, May 6th. 6:30pm\u003C/strong>\n\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/\">Apple Store SoHo\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps?q=103+Prince+Street+New+York+NY+10012&ll=40.725592,-73.997968&spn=0.003472,0.006947&hnear=103+Prince+St,+New+York,+10012&t=h&z=18\">103 Prince Street\nNew York NY 10012\u003C/a>\n212 226 3126\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",[124,128],{"id":125,"slug":126,"name":127,"kind":25},"d18a9caa-bac8-4cb0-8c13-2889e4656451","talk","Talk",{"id":129,"slug":130,"name":131,"kind":25},"fca9c0fd-a10a-4328-a1f6-e20a1669a040","young-guns","Young Guns",{"era":133,"location":135,"topic":140},[134],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},[136],{"id":137,"slug":138,"name":139,"kind":44},"0e0dec4c-b640-44c4-87a3-021c133c9eed","new-york","New York",[141,142],{"id":125,"slug":126,"name":127,"kind":25},{"id":129,"slug":130,"name":131,"kind":25},[144],{"id":137,"slug":138,"name":139,"kind":44},{"id":146,"slug":147,"publish_date":148,"time_granularity":8,"hed":149,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":150,"has_grafs":12,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"tags":151,"grafs":12,"tagsByKind":164},"984e704b-6dd1-44af-a4cb-2a287665e3d1","asciilyricvids","2013-03-01T05:00:00","ASCII lyric music videos","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>ASCII lyric vids are music videos made primarily of a song’s lyrics rendered as computer text and animated over time to pair with the vocals. [\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII\">What is ASCII?\u003C/a>] These pure lyric vids are distinct from representational ASCII art vids which use glyph shapes as abstract textural components, rather than as text meant to be read. These genres are not mutually exclusive, however. [\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art\">What is ASCII art?\u003C/a>] To celebrate being blown away by the new\n\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petula_Clark\">Petula Clark\u003C/a> video, here are a few notches in the genre listed in reverse-chronological order. If you know of more \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://twitter.com/stewd_io\">do mention it\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",[152,156,160],{"id":153,"slug":154,"name":155,"kind":25},"4bb9b9c6-8cfb-4dcd-b466-3235e3b397ab","ascii-art","ASCII art",{"id":157,"slug":158,"name":159,"kind":25},"0f266460-ac8e-47c7-9d34-40a7937dfdba","jeds-other-poem","Jed’s Other Poem",{"id":161,"slug":162,"name":163,"kind":25},"3bec360c-5f78-47f0-91f9-28c84d909bac","music","Music-related",{"topic":165,"era":169},[166,167,168],{"id":153,"slug":154,"name":155,"kind":25},{"id":157,"slug":158,"name":159,"kind":25},{"id":161,"slug":162,"name":163,"kind":25},[170],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},{"id":172,"slug":173,"publish_date":174,"time_granularity":8,"hed":175,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":176,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"tags":177,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":179},"4752ac12-ce6c-4e1d-9c42-65039251d3ab","bone","2013-02-20T09:08:00","AIGA BoNE Show 2013","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>I’m excited to be on the jury panel for this year’s \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.boneshow.org/\">AIGA Best of New England (BoNE) Show\u003C/a> biennial design competition alongside \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.elliottearls.com/\">Elliott Earls\u003C/a> and \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.tenazasdesign.com/\">Lucille Tenazas\u003C/a>. The three of us will be milling about—drinks in hand?—for the casual \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.boneshow.org/\">Meet the Judges\u003C/a> event this Friday evening. We’ll talk a bit and perhaps even have some fancy objects to share. (So do come down and say hello.) It’s the BoNE Show’s 10th anniversary, after all.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>For an added slice of sunshine I’ll be at Boston University meeting with design students in some capacity for the majority of Friday morning and afternoon. You can hit me up with questions (or disenchanted meanderings) via Twitter: \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://twitter.com/stewd_io\">@stewd_io\u003C/a>. Non sequiturs—if you were curious, this is \u003Ca href=\"http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/\">what Google Glass feels like\u003C/a>. And finally, today is Kurt Cobain’s 46th wouldn’t you know.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",[178],{"id":125,"slug":126,"name":127,"kind":25},{"era":180,"topic":182},[181],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},[183],{"id":125,"slug":126,"name":127,"kind":25},{"id":185,"slug":186,"publish_date":187,"time_granularity":8,"hed":188,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":189,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"tags":190,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":199},"5a44dfdd-fa11-4187-b603-c4fe9dd89708","transactions","2013-02-16T01:00:00","On exhibit in Berlin: Trans_actions","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>My 2011 collaboration with \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.bernd-lintermann.de/\">Bernd Lintermann\u003C/a> and \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://warning-office.org/\">Robert Gerard Pietrusko\u003C/a>—titled \u003Ca href=\"/w/transactions\">trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09\u003C/a>—is currently on display at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in the \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.adk.de/de/projekte/2013/Nothing_to_declare/\">Nothing to Declare\u003C/a> exhibition until May 26th. For more information, video, images, and a complete list of collaborators on the original piece see \u003Ca href=\"/w/transactions\">trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",[191,195],{"id":192,"slug":193,"name":194,"kind":25},"189d57cd-b29a-4469-87b8-f5aedbfc8c16","robert-gerard-pietrusko","Robert Gerard Pietrusko",{"id":196,"slug":197,"name":198,"kind":25},"ff894783-cff6-4c66-b837-4d90627ad9c8","zkm","Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe (ZKM)",{"era":200,"topic":202},[201],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},[203,204],{"id":192,"slug":193,"name":194,"kind":25},{"id":196,"slug":197,"name":198,"kind":25},{"id":206,"slug":207,"publish_date":208,"time_granularity":8,"hed":209,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":210,"has_grafs":12,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"grafs":12,"tagsByKind":211},"dc59c270-127b-4173-8015-f65d528c0930","twelve","2012-12-12T05:00:00","A cleaner grid of time","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>I declare this day—Wednesday, 12 December 2012—\u003Cstrong>Pythagoras day\u003C/strong>. As the calendar marks 12-12-12 we ought to reflect upon the majesty of Base 12 as Pythagoreans are wont to do. (Ridiculous / lofty / over-reaching tone is entirely intentional.) To that effect I present a modest manifesto (unfinished and ill-advised) for calendar revision inspired by the beauty of twelve’s divisibility.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-code\" chunk-index=\"1\">\u003Cpre>\u003Ccode><h4>Redefining Time</h4>\u003C/code>\u003C/pre>\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"2\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\n\u003Cp>The measurement of time is a human right. Measure itself shapes the experience of that which is measured. It is with these two convictions that we engage our current popular system for measuring time.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It is not the goal of this proposal to be absurdly radical—to propose non-linear measurements of time or uselessly abstract definitions, however poetic. Rather, it is the goal of this proposal to be modest and sympathetic to the current Gregorian system by insisting on simple improvements and even reaffirming aspects of the current system after investigating alternatives.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>This proposal is divided into installments of investigation. This current installment in particular investigates the division of a year into both months and weeks. It does not investigate the location and measurement of an epoch nor does it propose a fixed location for the year (for example beginning a year in mid-winter as the current system does versus beginning on the first day of spring.) It does not propose a new system for dividing days into hours, minutes, and so on.\u003C/p>\u003C/div>\u003C/div>",{"era":212},[213],{"id":78,"slug":79,"name":80,"kind":81},{"id":215,"slug":216,"publish_date":217,"time_granularity":8,"hed":218,"dek_processed":73,"lede_processed":219,"has_grafs":13,"hero_replaces_hed":13,"hero_image":59,"grafs":13,"tagsByKind":220},"e1092412-7e37-41d3-beff-6fc40c8ce42a","google","2012-07-28T02:00:00","Google Creative Lab, NYC","\n\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk kind-prose\" chunk-index=\"0\">\u003Cdiv class=\"chunk-pad\">\u003Cp>We've closed up shop in London and hauled it all back to New York City, the greatest city on Earth. We fired the fake interns and parted ways with the fake partners. We're not even \"we\" anymore—or never were as it were. Stewdio will continue to exist as a non-existent entity whilst collaborating with real actual people and organizations, just as it always has.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>Beginning next Monday, however, my primary focus will become Google Creative Lab. 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