Month: January 2010

  • Who cares about what you think.

    Last week I conducted a mini experiment on the NYU social network. I wanted to see how much traffic I could drive to my site by writing about Clay Shirky’s rant about women. It was not a very strong argument, but it was one that was aimed at opposing Clay’s point (which I am apposed […]

  • Sonnet 116

    So nice: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth’s unknown, although his height […]

  • Green Vs. Sustainable, Round 1

    What is the difference between “Green” and “Sustainable” Products? Well its pretty simple, Green is like the cool thing you can buy at the supermarket and Sustainable its like the thing you make with your own sweat and blood. Well maybe i’m being a little dramatic but you may begin to get the idea. Sustainability […]

  • A Rant About Women by Clay Shirky?

    Wow I guess I’m just trying to figure out why clay called me an “behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerk” All I wanted was a letter of recommendation. And then his next thought is clearly a con artist! Really! Me! And what does jail have to do with it? Is clay trying to gain a bad-ass […]

  • Level 2

  • The WAMI Dome on Make Zine

    A couple of years back I made the WAMI which is a simple digital wave modulation instrument, which really means that it can make a bunch of cool sounds by waving your hands over it. Last month I saw a blog post on it on MAKE zine. The WAMI Dome was a project commissioned by […]

  • The WAMI on MAKE Zine

    The WAMI Dome is a simple digital wave modulation instrument, which really means that it can make a bunch of cool sounds by waving your hands over it. Jonah Brucker-Cohen Wrote a brief description of it on the Make Zine Blog. Thanks for the shout out! =) Wami Dome from Oscar G. Torres on Vimeo.