P’unk Avenue
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- 1168 E. Passyunk Aveneue
- Philadelphia PA 19147
- Phone: 215 755 1330
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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…
What the heck is a front end developer?
Refresh Philly is a new organization aiming to bring the local creative community together both to broaden our skills and to work toward the betterment of Philadelphia. Or something. It's a great mission but it's a little fuzzy. Narrowing that…
t-shirt problem
Raise your hands in the air if you love t-shirts. Now stomp your left foot if you've ever rummaged through rack after rack of dusty second hands in a thrift-store-salvation-army-friends-closet to find that perfectly ironic, exquisitely vintage, super soft, one-of-a-kind…
What should a modern library be?
Last week, Ed Tettemer (formerly of Red Tettemer) gathered together a group of people for a charette to rethink the Free Library of Philadelphia's website. A little back story is probably necessary. Ed and I met last year as…
A few tenets of Metabolism, maybe one tenet of Essentialism
In 1977 the Centre Georges Pompidou opened in Paris. The design of a museum had not previously been approached with such an inverted set of goals: accommodate the public first, then consider the art. The museum was an immediate success…
The Invention of Air
Generating some excitement at P'unk Ave this week is Steven Johnson's new book, The Invention of Air. From the cover: It is the story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson—an eighteenth-century radical thinker…
DRY, DRAEE, FDLFRTE
Most of P'unk Avenue's projects are built with Symfony, a web application framework that greatly accelerates the process of developing web sites like the GPTMC Pressroom, DukeLIST and (to be a bit more frivolous) 5seven5. You'll note that these sites…
Will 2009 liberate us from Internet Explorer 6?
This is my inaugural post and I am writing about this topic because it has been on my mind a bunch lately. Really, when will this browser die? Will 2009 be the year developers slam their coffees down and say,…
Holiday Punctuation
The year-end holidays are always a good time to spread some cheer. Last year, we silk-screened on coffee bags and worked with local roasters, Old City Coffee, for our gift. This year we took the opportunity to work with…
Junto: Health
At BarCamp Philly, I attended a thought provoking session on data portability in health care led by Mark Scrimshire. As Mark reported in his post, I had no idea that I had so much to say on health care.…
Junto moved from tonight to Wednesday the 10th
Tonight's Junto on health has been moved to Wednesday the 10th as previously announced on Twitter. Our apologies for any confusion.
5seven5.com
Haiku need a home. Welcome to 5seven5. Here we are concise. Haiku must contain Five syllables, then seven, Then five on line three. Sometimes restrictions Excite creativity Through economy. We are flexible: We welcome your deep insights— Silly haiku too.…
Lubricate Your Shredder!
In some ways this post is a public service announcement. It turns out you need to lubricate your cross-cut shredder every time you empty the bin. If you are not doing that, you should start now. You can get…
BarCamp Philadelphia
This Saturday, BarCamp is coming to Philadelphia, and we are hosting the pre-party on Friday! BarCamp does not happen in a bar or even a tavern. In fact, we helped to bring it to UArts, a place that P'unk…
Free Beer!
This month's Junto is on Free Beer. We will be drinking multiple beers that were brewed for the event by Chris Matta and Howard Ross and we will be talking about that process. However, the free beer movement is…
Why not have the interface teach?
Recently Google Calendar changed the way you hide and show a calendar. It used to work with check boxes. Checked is visible. Not checked is hidden. The system worked well for me and I used that feature all the time…
Sometimes Rick Makes "Art"
This Friday I have an opening at my friend Zoe's boutique. I've been drawing my personal documents (the intricate ones with security patterns and laser-printed black letter). I have a folder full of these important personal things, they stay…
Ignite Philly
When we got back from SXSW this March we felt even more inspired to collaborate with people doing inspiring things in Philadelphia. One of the first things we did was contact Far and Vanja of The Hacktory to brainstorm…
The cobbler's children have new shoes!
It is both ironic and apropos that a web firm should have a poor or non-existent website. Punkave.com was a place-holder for the first two years and a static site barely displaying our work for the third. After the twentieth…
Mark Martucci & Justin Rauschkolb
Today, Mark and Justin showed up unexpectedly at the studio as we were closing out the day and had an impromptu jam session. Tomorrow they are playing a show at The Auction House in Audubon, New Jersey with Brian…