telluricAesthetic process blog
exploring symbolic undercurrents of the Philly aesthetic

47 year-old Susan Boyle wows and woos an initially cynical crowd. Amazing and heart-warming… Read More

Alright all  you Shmitten fans, get your hottest nerd aesthetic votes in, and then add some Spring to your own aesthetic with these Milton Glaser-inspired SK Read More

I love when someone invests his/her cash in a domain name, just to get a single message across to a very specific audience. Now, I don't know if it's bleak mid-winter-induced cabin fever, but around this time last year BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com came into being, answered post-haste by HillaryClintonIsYourNewBicycle.com (now an obsolete blog) and Read More

Hello new America!! Happy #Inaug09!!! For any of you who may still be following this blog, I think an update is past due, so here it is: Read More

Bianca is finishing the postcards for me!! Here is my revised abstract:

telluricAesthetic is an online gallery of user-created avatars based on perceptions of the Philadelphia cultural aesthetic. Each avatar samples the symbolic connections people make between personal artifacts… Read More

Heard this quote in my Religion, Art & the Apocalypse class last week:

To name is to destroy, to suggest is to create. —Stephan Mallarme

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Per feedback from my last crit, I asked Mike to add some ethnic diversity into the illustration mix. Here's what he gave me: Read More

New Media researcher Lev Manovich (UCSD) has just released an e-book entitled Software Takes Command. The book is on the symbiotic relationship between software and culture. The summary begins at the bottom of page 21. Read More

Finally. A thing that works!! (Well, sort of.) This is by no means ready for any kind of critique—image links are broken, CSS is wonky, yada yada.. But it is semi-functional!! Read More

So at least five people in the past, oh four days, have told me about this. (Four people actually, since Elizabethmarley and Springsteena are practically the same person.) Read More