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Web Designer tips
Just a quick one for the clippings file: I wrote up a few quick tips about choosing typefaces for the web (or any screen-based project, really). Nothing major, but some ideas to chew on. This is from the web typography...
The new era of type
In my official capacity, I wrote an opinion column for the latest issue (no. 192) of Computer Arts magazine about the state of digital type. I'm not sure if the article will be posted to their website, so just to...
Typodarium 2012
I contributed to the Typodarium 2012 calendar with Copse and Astloch....
FAQNP #3: A Queer Nerd Travel Guide
I contributed an article to the zine FAQNP for its third issue, “A Queer Nerd Travel Guide”. My photo feature, “A Type Nerd's Time in India”, is a look at how well (or for the most part, how badly)...
Archival material: NYC edition
A decade ago, which is essentially a lifetime ago, the New York Times had a web-only site about living in New York, and featured me in a weekly column about homes/apartments in the city. While I'm impressed that the article...
Grateful Grapefruit
Grateful Grapefruit: The “zine for horny nerds” (the other one besides Pink Mince, of course) gives us a little love.Â...
The Everyday Experiment
The Pink Mince astro-buddies, as featured in Andew Slatter’s journal The Everyday Experiment...
The Pink Mince mood board
We’re in excellent company over at It’s Nice That...
The many faces of Sparky
My career seems to be at the point where I rarely need to tailor or tinker with my CV (or résumé in the American parlance), but I need to rewrite short bios over and over again. that’s a good sign,...
Oh yeah, Pink Mince
For the past year or so I’ve been working on this little side project that I’ve been meaning to write more about -- a zine called Pink Mince. I was waiting to see how it went, and whether or...
Stranger in Stranger
Well, looky-looky at the cover of this week's issue of The Stranger: The photo, taken by a pseudo-pornographer I know, is in honor of Hump! 2, The Stranger's 2nd annual amateur porn contest. I’m sure that boy-toy model Jeffy up...
Body Type
Click here for a few more peeks of the inside of the book, put together by my pal and colleague, Ina Saltz....
Another Kind Word
And somehow I missed yet another glowing review from CyberSocket back in February. Thanks guys!...
A Kind Word or Two
Thank you, Cybersocket, for the very kind words: "POSEABLE THUMBS: We couldn't offer a tour of seedy but effulgent art-porn without neglecting the consistently superb Poseable Thumbs, whose Tom of Finland-derived action figure sex remains to be both hot in...
One More Twas Shot
And we have another appearance of the 'Twas photo with this review from the Voice. Again, there's a disappointing lack of credit, but I’m more convinced than ever that the photography has really been helping this show get as much...
Full Color, but No Credit
Another juicy placement for the photo I shot for 'Twas... in this week's Time Out New York. No credit, sadly, but it's a flattering nod to get that much of the page, in full color no less....
'Twas the Voice Before Christmas
I was pleased to get a credit a different 'Twas... photo in this week's Village Voice, but they spelled my name wrong. With a name like mine I’m usually happy if they get it 90% correct, but I’m a little...
Don't People Get Paid for This?
Stuff another item into my file of press clippings: it's another photo credit in the Times. Man, I should try and get paid for this stuff at some point!...
Twas My First Photo Credit
I’ve got one more notch in my belt as of this weekend: my first photo credit in the New York Times. Sadly, the photo didn't show up in the online version of the article, but you can check it out...
Striking Poses
There was another nice write-up for the Thumbs in the November 2005 issue of AVN (Adult Video News). Although I knew this was coming out, it slipped my mind until after the fact, so I never grabbed a copy for...
In Case You're New to This Place...
In case you've ended up here after reading James Withers' New York Blade article, "Blog Star Confidential" — WELCOME! I hope you enjoy the show. Speaking of enjoying the show, you really ought to read more about the WYSIWYG Talent...
Posed and Unzipped
This awesome review from the August 2005 issue of Unzipped is probably the best one of them all (my reviews for Poseable Thumbs, that is). They obviously get it....
X-Factor
Huh, looks like the Thumbs have gotten another write-up in X-Factor magazine: Hardcore action figures PosableThumbs.com The final Star Wars movie has hit the theaters and other summer blockbusters are not far behind. That can mean only one thing. Well,...
HX Site of the Week
Hey, did anyone catch this? The May 27 issue of New York City's HX magazine featured a write-up about the Poseable Thumbs: SITE OF THE WEEK G.I. Joe Type ISO Same poseablethumbs.com Handcuffed studs, boot-licking slaves, leather-clad muscle queens —...
Fleshbot Spot
A little bird told our pal at Fleshbot about the Poseable Thumbs, and it's led to a delightful jump in traffic and kind remarks. I just may be on to something....
Magazine Whore
Finally, an explanation for the cryptic, snarky e-mails I’ve been getting from random people I know the last couple of days. I discovered that a personal ad of mine that’s been floating around Nerve for a while was inexplicably picked...
As Featured in the New York Times
Go and see what the Rumpus Room actually looks like in this article, which containa lots of cool pics of the pad, as well as the most unflattering picture of me ever seen by human eyes. It's a very complimentery...
As Featured in the New York Times
A little bit of spotlight is shining into my basement this morning, thanks to this article about my pad on nytoday.com, an offshoot of the New York Times site. The article itself is a bit weird: It's loaded with little...
A Little Plug
Eagle-eyed New Yorkers will be able to spot a picture of me on page 52 of the current issue of Time Out New York (the 1/25-2/1 issue, with the ski bunny on the cover). Nothing very glam, just an unflattering...
The Critics Praise Sparky
Fame! Fortune! Well, neither, actually. But it's cool at least. Thanks to a well-placed word or two from Jonno, Rumpus Room was picked as "site of the week" by New York's own free fag rag, HX. (Of course, the issue...