Left Brain to Right Brain

Kickstarter - Light Table

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:38:04 -0400

My first kickstarter project I’m backing. I really think kickstarter is starting to morph into a new form of eccomerce. It’ll be interesting to watch over the next year.

A little over a year and a half ago I was working at...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:46:30 -0500

A little over a year and a half ago I was working at Westinghouse. Then I started coding with Speakertext, then came Artsicle. A year ago we moved in to Dogpatch Labs. Now we’ve got our very own office!

Movin’ on Up on Artsicle.

Fab.com Flash Sale: Artsicle Limited quantity.Fab.comArt...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:05:29 -0500

Fab.com Flash Sale: Artsicle Limited quantity.
Fab.com
Art collecting can be a daunting experience—from navigating the gallery scene to committing to one piece. Artsicle makes the process infinitely easier by renting out original artworks with the option to buy. A membership lets you take home art by emerging and mid-career artists for as long (or short) as you like.

changetheratio: Here it is - the video for “Raise Your Cache”...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:48:58 -0500

changetheratio:

Here it is - the video for “Raise Your Cache” from last week’s incredible RaiseCache event for HackNY. Note the ratio. There now, that wasn’t hard, was it?

Very proud of this, the product of many zany hours by myself and my co-producer Phil Di Giulio, co-founder of FrameSocket, the vid platform embedded above (shout-out also to our Mixmaster David Pakman, who took my raw vocals and auto-tuned them into submission). Startups/orgs repped, in no particular order:

Urtak, Piictu, Dispatch, Fashism, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Foursquare, Lover.ly, The Daily Muse, Honestly Now, Shelby.tv, Art.sy, The Geno.me, CityPockets, Bnter, LaunchPad LA, WantWorthy, 10gen, Sonar, The Difference Engine, Hashable, WellcomeMat, FrameSocket, Change The Ratio, Contently, NYTM, OnSwipe, KloudCo, Siftee, Hopscotch, Artsicle, Veri, TechStars, SideTour, TechCrunch, Aviary, Yipit, GirlDevelopIt, Elizabeth & Clarke, YouNow, Giftiki, Barbarian Group, Birchbox, Local Response, The Lean Startup Machine, Sailthru, Business Insider, Spark Capital, IA Ventures, HuffPost Tech, WSJ Social, The Daily, StockTwits, Uber, Wanderfly, Small Girls PR, Behance, BrunchCritic, Google, USV, WeFest, Guest of a Guest, RaiseCache, We Are NY Tech.

Lyrics below:

RAISE YOUR CACHE
(To the tune of Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”)

Hack, hack, get in the black
Get on the ball there’s no turning back
Show some stamina

Think, think, energy drink
Push some more code it’s swim or sink
Want some ramen, ya?

Founder, hacker
Venture backer
Maker, shaker
Firecracker
Trying, frying, odds-defying
This shit’s serious

So raise some cache if you’ll be here
To hack one more day
Startup underdogs
We’ll just iterate, iterate - lighting up the night
In New York City - til we get it right
But until then until then we’ll raid your stash
Just come on and come on and raise your cash!

Pitch, glitch, scratching the itch
Solving the problem to make us rich
Can’t we just cash out (cash out!)
Bootstrap, note with a cap,
Building the userbase, build the app
It’s so on right now (so fuckin’ on right now)

Rip it, zip it,
Ship it, flip it
Read the blog from that guy from Yipit
Flying, vying, Hack NY-ing
This shit’s serious

So raise some cache if you’ll burn on
Without a runway
Startup underdogs,
We will never be never be anything but lean
It’s better that than going to Wall Street
So just come and come on and make your splash
Just come and come on and raise some cash
If you’re dorky, New Yorky then raise some cash
Keep on wishin’ it, Tischin’ it - raise some cash

(Bubble? This ain’t no Y2K, baby.)

And if you’re short on the flow
And the going’s pretty slow
You can change that ratio
We can always, we can always,
Raise another round…

(Aw, foo!)

So raise some cash if you are in
It for the long haul
Startup underdogs,
Keep on making things making things - every single day,
In New York City
Techie little geeks
So - raise - some
Cache if you are here,
And you are staying
New York underdogs,
We can make it here make it here - only gotta try
In New York City
Here’s to us, NY
And together together we’ll raise some cache
With community, unity - raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise your cache
For me

******

Donate to HackNY here! Buy Pink’s Greatest Hits here!

Artsicle is hiring!

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:05:05 -0400

Artsicle is hiring!:

“Art changes people, people change the world.” Join us and help change the world. Artsicle is a company on a mission to make art accessible for everyone while also improving the lives of today’s artists. Are you ready to bring art out of the box and on to walls everywhere

"People who cringe at the privacy and data-mining implications of the Facebook Timeline ought to be..."

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:28:22 -0400

“People who cringe at the privacy and data-mining implications of the Facebook Timeline ought to be just floored by the magnitude of Amazon’s opportunity here.”

- Fire - cdespinosa’s posterous (via jryu)

They are as likely to do this as they are spying on EC2 and S3 data. In other words, never.
(via caterpillarcowboy)
What a brilliant move. Might facilitate a whole new way to search for content.

Life of Joe: NYC Tech Blood Drive

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:06:58 -0400

Life of Joe: NYC Tech Blood Drive:

joeyevoli:

This is the NYC Tech Blood Drive’s official announcement (click to sign up). The first drive will be Sept. 24th, 11am-5pm. It’s something I’ve organized with the help of the Red Cross, and fellow Techstars alumni Crowdtwist and Redrover. My plan is to make this a regularly occurring event…

Myself and Alex talking about Artsicle with Brian Lehrer

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:21:45 -0400

Myself and Alex talking about Artsicle with Brian Lehrer

artsicle-inspiration: Art is my Weapon. Seen on SoHo...

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:21:43 -0400

artsicle-inspiration:

Art is my Weapon. Seen on SoHo storefront.

We Love The Whitney! (Giveaway)

Wed, 25 May 2011 18:19:24 -0400

artsicle:

We’re really excited about the Whitney’s groundbreaking and want to celebrate! So we are giving away 25 Whitney memberships to the first new Artsicle subscribers to sign up by June 1st.

Find yourself some great art to rent & we’ll make sure you see great exhibits at the Whitney all year!

Go here to check it out: www.artsicle.com

The Daily Drip: Stop Panhandling your Ideas

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:29:18 -0400

The Daily Drip: Stop Panhandling your Ideas:

thenesvig:

When most people see panhandlers on the side of the road, we condescendingly think “Why don’t they get a job? You’re not going to get anywhere begging for money. Get to work!” Yet, this is what so many people do with their ideas - they put their fate in the hands of passerby’s hoping someone…

caterpillarcowboy: Ribs, sausage, half chicken delight. (Taken...

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:21:30 -0500

caterpillarcowboy:

Ribs, sausage, half chicken delight. (Taken with Instagram at Snow’s BBQ)

mikehudack: laughingsquid: How To Beat The Watson Computer on...

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:34:02 -0500

mikehudack:

laughingsquid:

How To Beat The Watson Computer on Jeopardy

Awesome.

This struck a chord with me this morning. I fill my hours...

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:28:17 -0500

This struck a chord with me this morning. I fill my hours coding a site for the arts.

The Artsicle Blog: What Your Startup Can Learn from Disney

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:06:55 -0500

The Artsicle Blog: What Your Startup Can Learn from Disney:

artsicle:

Founding a business means I’m always looking for good ideas - even while on vacation at the Magical Kingdom. Last week I saw how much we can all learn from Disney when it comes to customer service and exceeding expectations to delight users at every turn. Here are a few of my favorite lessons…

Glad to announce that my company, Artsicle, has moved into...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:09:30 -0500

Glad to announce that my company, Artsicle, has moved into Dogpatch Labs NYC today! We are really ecstatic about our new working environment and sharing office space with a lot of other fantastic companies such as Frid.ge, AdStruc and NeverWare.

Radiation. Not so scary after all.

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:04:55 -0500

Radiation. Not so scary after all.

artsicle: And we’re live! Artsicle’s private beta officially...

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:53:29 -0500

artsicle:

And we’re live!

Artsicle’s private beta officially went live this morning. We are excited about our initial site and hope you will be too. Stay tuned for more artists going live soon, as well as some additional features to allow more interaction between artists and collectors.

If you don’t have an invite yet, click here to request one!

I apologize that I haven’t been posting as much here. All...

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:04:31 -0500

I apologize that I haven’t been posting as much here. All of my time and effort has gone towards my new startup Artsicle. Check out TechCocktail’s piece on us linked above. I will be occasionally posting on Artsicle’s Blog though I doubt it will be covering nuclear power or barefoot running very often :)

Speakertext Launches!

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:44:28 -0400

From Techcrunch:

One of the big problems with video on the Web is that other than the title, description and some meta tags, it is mostly invisible to Google and other search engines. One way to make video more SEO-friendly is to add transcriptions, but that can get expensive. An angel-funded startup called SpeakerText is (re)launching today with a very clever way to automate the transcription process and attach the full transcript as part of the video player in a drop down window. You can see an example of how this works below. And if you publish a lot of videos and want to try it out yourself, we have 100 beta invites (use the code: techcrunch).