artists-village asked:
After living in LA for a couple months, thoughts on the differences between the West Coast and East Coast?
The most notable differences are the weather and the general attitude. It was 84°F yesterday, on January 4. We went rollerblading on the beach the day before Halloween. After coming back from visiting family in New Jersey over the holidays, where it was in the 20s, we went hiking on January 1 in Topanga State Park in t-shirts. I grew up in Seattle, where it was drizzle and gray every day for the first 16 years of my life, and then spent more than a decade on the east coast where it was snowing and windy and freezing for half of the year and humid as all hell for the other half, so Los Angeles has been a godsend.
Attitude-wise, this place is the polar opposite of New York. People are almost too nice. They say hello to you on the street, they know how to stand in lines without cutting you off, no one is trying to screw you out of something at any moment, it’s pretty clean and everyone seems fairly genuine. It was hard to get used to at first.
In just twelve short months:
Personally, professionally, and by just about every other metric, 2011 was the best year of my life. I can’t wait to see what 2012 has in store.
You can view all 264 photos I posted in 2011 on Flickr. For those of you who want even more photographic fun, subscribe on Facebook, where I post more (albeit less polished) photos of us and our adventures.
Wife, my glasses, mom’s puppy. Christmas, 2011.
Google has been adding a lot of features to Hangouts that make our weekly status meetings more enjoyable.
Anonymous asked:
I read that you use the Withings weighing scale. Are you happy with the accuracy that it provides?
I love the Withings Scale. It’s accurate, fast, well-designed and simple. Once you set it up to use your WiFi network, from that point on you just stand on it whenever you want and it reports your weight, BMI and fat percentage and then invisibly uploads that data to your Withings account where you can view all of your data charted in one place.
You can also sync your data to Weightbot and have it with you, if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
Seattle, Day One
Part one of a weekend trip up to Seattle a few weeks back.
Music is “Breakneck Speed” from the album Champ by Tokyo Police Club. Shot with Canon 5D Mark II, edited in Final Cut Pro X.
Mount Saint Helens from the air, from our flight back to LA a few weeks back.
I hope I’m wrong, but I think this is just the difference between putting your dog down and letting it free on a distant mountain road.
