joe bertino

“San Francisco has always felt like a small town to me. I told a friend it was like sleeping with a woman who smelled nice and took all your money and made you breakfast and didn’t ask for anything else. It was a pretty inaccurate comparison. The point was that San Francisco will make you [...]

I’ve read so much interesting shit this week. If I could focus on one thing for more than a couple of seconds I’d probably be able to offer some additional value here, but I can’t. So enjoy these links. Read every last word. I promise you it’s worth it. everywhere and nowhere by paul adams [...]

Had to share this: “Steve used to say to me — and he used to say this a lot — ‘Hey Jony, here’s a dopey idea.’ And sometimes they were. Really dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But sometimes they took the air from the room and they left us both completely silent. Bold, crazy, [...]

Amazing experience at Muir Beach Lookout the other day. It was a surreal mixture of sun and fog with a cool, misty breeze. I love California.    

This has been a jam-packed summer semester. I’ll have some updates re: Frogism movement and Livefyre soon, but right now I feel like sharing the two projects I’ve been working on in my metal class. The first image is a stackable flower vase or abstract centerpiece depending on how important functional art is to your [...]

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Since Instagram launched in early October, I’ve been walking around with my iPhone snapping pictures and applying filters. It’s a wonderfully simple communication tool; a perfect blend of social and creative. In the middle of January, after spending a month home with my family in New York, I decided to join my buddy Jay on [...]

Part I I have a floating problem. Call it emerging adulthood, or whatever you want, but there’s no denying my inability to settle down. I constantly fantasize about running away too. Not from stuff, but into new adventures. I love meeting new people and immersing myself in completely different cultures. I did this last year [...]

My nightstand is covered with books (and a kindle). I am great at collecting, but terrible at reading and finishing. Maybe this summer will be different. In addition to this stack of interestingness, the notorious CAM was generous enough to lend me his copy of Connected and a rave review of its content. It has now catapulted to [...]

Here is a super cool new gaming system from the smart people at New Deal Design. Check out the demo video and their stance on user-led research. “The most intriguing part of the story here is that New Deal didn’t bother with user-led research. They simply assumed they had made something people would love – like [...]