P’unk Avenue
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- 1168 E. Passyunk Aveneue
- Philadelphia PA 19147
- Phone: 215 755 1330
- hello@punkave.com
Team Togetherness
Each Friday we take a couple hours out of our day to make lunch and share new things with each other. During the week we pass an email thread back and forth to decide what lunch creation we will take…
Innovation's Best Friend: Routine
In my estimation, the best way to make innovation happen is to make time for it by making many other things in your life routine. Put your keys in the same place when you get home each day. Charge…
A Modest Proposal to Return the Delaware Waterfront to People
Last night at Ignite Philly 6, I talked about an idea that may seem radical at first glance, but I really do think is a very reasonable and dare-I-say modest proposal. I would like to remove I-95 from the…
What is the Story with that?
I realize that I ask the question "What is the story with that?" out loud or internally many times throughout the day. I like to know the backstory. Not with the goal of being nosey or assigning blame if…
Relax: The Pavement Reunion Lesson
Last night I got to catch Pavement on their reunion tour. It was a pretty magical night. The weather was perfect, the company was good, and my seats were "upgraded" during the evening so my view was great. What…
There Is No Philadelphia Blog Tax... Just A Philadelphia Everything Tax
Philly does not have a special tax on bloggers. All the outrage about this is silly and overblown. So why am I still ticked off at the city? Because Philly has a tax code that punishes new businesses, period. Many…
Freedom Press
Non-fiction writers love to incorporate snippets of French in their prose. These petits fours provide emphasis, adding cachet to otherwise dry sentences. They are often italicized to avoid confusion and help the reader with pronunciation. After all, their purpose…
You Will Be Visited By Three Ghosts
The present is experienced through the senses, mostly realtime, with some delay/buffering. The past and the future are experienced nonlinearly in the mind, via memory and extension/projection. The computer doesn't do much for the present. It, and our interaction…
Why People [I Know] Photograph
I talked with Isaac Schell after his recent opening about the motivation and inspiration for his pictures. At first he frame photography as a compulsion. A way to get an image out of his head. He later conceded that Garry…
Simile For The Camera
I've been having an ongoing dialog/freakout with myself regarding authorship and creating content. My degree is in folding metaphorical envelopes and I'm tired of licking them. I want to be a letter writer, but I have nothing to say.…
A Conversation With Katie Murken
Katie Murken is a friend of P'unk Avenue. Geoff and Alex worked with her on the Debtor's Inheritance project two years ago. She is currently the head of 2D Foundations at Tyler School of Art, leading classes in digital…
The Upside of Static Cling
Last night, in considering possible post topics for today, I emailed myself the following: Creating space to experience art, Bresson walking slowly backwards out of the room so as you want to follow him, Eno wanting to leave things…
Exactly when is it time to be awesome?
If not now, then when? If not today... Ah, but hold your horses there pardner. Back in the day, you did the same darn thing over and over. That was before you knew better. Back when you were a dumbass.…
Fun with Contextual Semantics
So, the tricky people that defined the word semantics thought they could keep things simple by limiting its definition to the study of the literal meaning of words, leaving the interpretation of figurative meaning up to the folks in…
Bike Business
Today I looked out our window and saw someone delivering Grid, a new magazine about sustainablity in Philadelphia. It spurred me to write about some ideas that I care about. If you know me, you know I am pretty…
Going Out To Dinner
When is it too much? anniversaries, tuesdays, wednesdays, mother's day, divorces, first dates, second dates, thirthieth dates, revenge dates, instead of grocery shopping, for fun, laziness, the experience, for the love of poached eggs, for the love of oysters, brunch,…
What should a modern library's website be?
Last week, I posted some thoughts on what a modern library should be, and promised to follow it up with a post on how a website could support that mission. In case you didn't read the previous post, it…
Post-Consumerist Waste and the Weapons of Mass Reproduction
I won't bore you with too much of a history lesson, but through a certain sequence of events we (you and I) have taken over the role of industry (since industry totally sucked in 2008). For the purpose of this…
The Examined Life
The start of a new year allows us all the chance to reflect on all the things we did in the last one. In this age of ubiquitous data collection methods, this habit manifests itself ways that can be…