Giovanni Calabro http://www.giovannicalabro.com Giovanni Calabro's Thoughts on User Experience Et Al. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:51:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Writing for Fast Company! http://www.giovannicalabro.com/2010/02/writing-for-fast-company/ http://www.giovannicalabro.com/2010/02/writing-for-fast-company/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:48:08 +0000 Giovanni Calabro http://www.giovannicalabro.com/?p=577 I’m happy to announce I’m a design expert blogger for Fast Company.  My blog is called, Design Pragmatist and I’m looking forward to writing like crazy. My first article is, How the iPad Might Bring Us Back to Our Print Roots. More to come soon!

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I can’t for the life of me find this song for download in acoustic.  I think they did this on Howard Stern’s show as well but can’t find it anywhere.  Shame.  Great rendition of this song.

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This was a fantastic oil painting from Dan Witz.  Found this at Human Resources.

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Hugh Heart of Wired interviewed Gilliam, and it doesn’t disappoint.

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What’s frightening is that’s William Shatner. What’s crazier is I owned one of these… and enjoyed it.

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Our tree

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