Running lists of things

Things I’m really bored of:

  • Designs w/ pizza in them

  • The word “awesome” used to describe the kinds of things a particular designer or company makes

  • Urgent deadlines

  • Sloppy dev teams

  • Being asked to talk, meet up, or put together a proposal for someone and never hearing back

  • Pretty much all TV commercials

  • Working too much

Things I’m really stoked on:

  • Community-focused design projects

  • People running for local office

  • My go-to dev team

  • The First Day of Autumn

  • Launching some projects that have been going on for a VERY long time

  • Project Runway Season 15

  • Vince Staples

  • NOFX playing Omaha in November

  • Affect Conf + PDX + OCT

The Top 10 Albums of 2015

These are the ones that left the biggest imprint. The albums that, when I look back on this year, I can feel them shake my being and alter the standard course of my day-to-day trajectory. Without further ado, in no particular order:

And if I could have 11, I’d include Wolf Alice, My Love Is Cool. But thems the breaks.

The Top 10 Albums of 2014

Here they are. The most beautiful, most interesting albums that have truly touched my soul and gotten me through a year of great joy, great sadness and much learning. In no particular order:

Notable mentions for the best songs not on this list include “Kingdom” by Common, “Black Out Days” by Phantogram and “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” by Run The Jewels.