The Juicy History of Tomatoes: A Brief Look Into Their Delicious Past History of Tomatoes Tomatoes have been around for centuries, with their origin dating back to the Aztecs in Central America. The Aztecs used tomatoes as an ingredient in sauces and as a seasoning in their dishes. In the 16th century, Spanish explorers brought tomatoes to Europe, where they quickly became a popular ingredient in Italian cuisine. Tomatoes were also used in Spanish and Portuguese cooking, where they were known as "tomates." Tomato Sauce Tomato sauce is one of the most popular uses of tomatoes today. It is used in many dishes, from pizza to pasta. The first recorded recipe for tom... Read Full Post
AI Robots and the Tomato: A Historical Tale of Technological Advancement The Beginnings of AI Robots and Tomato Farming AI robots and tomato farming have come a long way since their inception. The first recorded use of AI robots in agriculture dates back to the 1940s, when scientists at the University of Michigan used rob... Read Full Post
Embeddables: A Strategy to Drive Growth through Content Information spread through print and television were the primary marketing channels to grow ventures from business to religion up until the internet became mainstream in the late 1990s. Since the internet, new and clever methods to distribute informa... Read Full Post
Users are People Dammit! OMG, I almost didn’t notice, who are these people on these phones?? They are users, or at least they are pretending to be for their photographer. This photo represents seven people (users) who have no freaking clue how to use an interface, or maybe... Read Full Post
Opinions on Beacon Technology and Brand Engagement Beacons aren't working the way people think they would, or how they are sold to brands. Beacons advertising typically requires custom applications (like reward systems or loyalty programs) installed to connect to the beacon and notify the user, and m... Read Full Post
The Emergence of Marketing Technology and its effect on Digital Agencies Marketing technology is growing and improving rapidly. These new technologies are disrupting traditional marketing services by reducing labor once required for IT management, implementation, and reporting. Digital Agencies who are not ... Read Full Post
Reasons to Keep a Business Journal TL;DR: I'm a computer oriented person, but I've always keep a notebook handy for jotting down ideas or drawings. When I incorporated my first digital consulting business, I started using the notebook to take business notes as well. Now my journal is ... Read Full Post
Always Connected: Generation Z, the "Digitarians" After writing an article about Millennials (Gen Y), I couldn't help but get my thoughts down about the next generation. This article covers their age range, why they are different, and what we can start to expect from the new generation. In response ... Read Full Post
Transparency: what the millennial generation expects. This article covers how and why millennials differ from other generations when it comes sales/marketing and business management. It comes to the conclusion that transparency is key, millennials have a no bullshit attitude, and they care heavily about... Read Full Post
What is "The Cloud"? A brief explanation and history of cloud computing. The Cloud is simply a metaphor that represents:Any data or services not stored or processed locally on a personal computer or server.You can see why the terminology is confusing because this literally means everything you access on the internet is in... Read Full Post
IT: Decouple Marketing Content and Business Information I've seen major fallacies with business information during my career software consulting, which the business operators, even their "IT", is oblivious to. It's common that a business decides to host non-public information on the same server that hosts... Read Full Post
97 Years TL;DR: My Great Grandmother, Mildred (George) Brescia lived before cars were common and passed when everyone had a computer in their pocket. She raised a big family out of Seekonk Massachusetts and her life ended at 97 years old with 13 great grand c... Read Full Post
Funding a Startup with a Consulting Business Legos were a big part of my childhood. They enabled me to create endless ideas without getting new toys. Software and business are my adult legos. I've always been an entrepreneur, in the early years I used my hobbies to satisfy the itch. Building ... Read Full Post
Social Media/Communication Focus Group with University of San Diego Students TL;DR: Following the Zesty Incubator program, Professor Justine Rapp PhD lets us host a focus group with Digital Marketing students. We discuss an array of topics from early experience with computers to communication and social media on the internet.... Read Full Post
Lean Brand Session 5: Discovery Towards Minimum Viable Brand Welcome to the fifth article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: Final Personas and Working Hypothesis Personal Statements & Brand Hunting Our fifth session started off with a lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe... Read Full Post
Lean Brand Session 4: Final Personas and Working Hypothesis Say hello to the fourth article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: The Emotional of Personas. Getting to know your Personas How do you get your team to know the personas really well? Have the... Read Full Post
Lean Brand Session 3: The Emotional Side of Personas You want to understand your market as real living, breathing, feeling people. Not as targets, demographics or data. Targets, demographics, and data won't buy your product...people will.—Jeremiah Gardner An emotional third article of from the&... Read Full Post
Disruptive Thinkers: Product Launch and Go to Market Strategies Doug Hecht and Sarah Kotlova, from Digitaria, spoke at a Disruptive Thinkers event. After a presentation the group of viewers split into two, and each group had time to interview Sarah and Doug. Sarah shared some years of experiences with us abo... Read Full Post
The Lean Brand Session 2: Personas and Competition You're reading the second article of from the Lean Brand Methodology series. Read about the session prior here: Branding a product with the Lean Brand Methodology. Summing up the Competition Prior to this session, our homework was to creat... Read Full Post
Homepage Optimization for Web App Signup and Login We are trying to gain sign-ups from new visitors The product we are working with is Zesty. It's a bit more challenging because there are currently two ways into Zesty. One path leads the visitor to have a developer account, the other path gives ... Read Full Post
The Lean Brand Session 1: Branding a product with the Lean Brand Methodology Jeremiah Gardner's company and Zesty both had tents at large public event. We each had speaking spots on our respective studies. During Jeremiah's speech on branding, we offered up Zesty as a branding case study for Jeremiah's new book,&nbs... Read Full Post
Public Speaking & Improvising A lot went wrong before we sat down on those orange stools and delivered our speech and product to the crowd. To start, the demographic of the crowd was not known, particularly because our speech was mis-titled on the event handout. Second,... Read Full Post
iOS7 Launch Reaction I came home to Brittini sound asleep grasping an updating iphone 4 plugged into the wall. Sound asleep she is with a death grip on her phone. I wake her and say its ok, she says "whats happening to my phone?" "I need to set my alarm" (she has to work... Read Full Post
Ode to PHP PHP first appeared in 1995. I wrote my first line of PHP in 2003. Today, this blog is delivered to you by layers and layers of PHP doing amazing things between the lines. PHP is not going anywhereFace it, PHP is one of the post 90's web oldest langua... Read Full Post
Screen Printing Class Thinking about screen printing class helps me get through daily operational problem solving. Whether it is using a limited color palette, or writing a method or class, thinking about these items in two to three planes forces me to abstract them simpl... Read Full Post
Cracking Garlic There is something about cracking a clove of garlic apart, that almost draws me to cook, just for the action of cracking. You snap of single pieces of the clove, press down on the clove with a flat blade, chop the tip off, then peel back the paper. A... Read Full Post
It's Good to break away from Computers Here is a post outside of my standard realm of art and computers. Here are some fun thoughts to challenge current technologies that have been spinning in my head. PropulsionUsing gasoline to cause controlled explosions to propel vehicles feels rudime... Read Full Post
We are Architects Today we are ever surrounded by digital interfaces. Digital interfaces are relativity new, and as a society we have yet to create standards to build them, let alone teach others to build them. Creating an interface is very much like a construction pr... Read Full Post
Zombie Daze Hand Drawn Title The new opening title for the once ZombiesFire. Zombie Daze is fun and has two Zs in it's title, which is fitting. Daze is a fun word to play with! Title was drawn and rendered in a ER waiting room, so it is very fitting. I felt like the hospital was... Read Full Post
Instagram Blog Feed made with Zesty Dominique Houriet (oo-d-a) is our fellow building designer and friend. We are soon getting the final piece of our bar installed (oo-d-a calls it Bar Zesty). When Dominique adds beauty to Bar Zesty we like to do the same to his design website, this ti... Read Full Post
Game Levels Illustrated for Zombie Daze! I'm continuing to hand render the Zombie Daze game, it's a lot of fun. Posted here are a couple level renderings: swamp (which became rocky field), football field, forest, suburbs, and graveyard. Each is roughly sketched with pencil, then filled in w... Read Full Post
Flying Zesty Logos!! A little bit of the mootools arsenal and some css transistion makes for good fun with an animated gif as a background image on random spawning divs!... Read Full Post
The opening screen for Zombie Dayz Drawing the screens is a blast! I've continues to do so. This particular screen will come when a level is complete. You can see an area for stats, coins, days, a tweet button etc. In the center of the sign will be a short journal entry about th... Read Full Post
Common Diner Logo Child-hood friend, Ben Tabor, is opening a co-op diner in new orleans called Common Diner. I threw together a logo for the dinner. Looks like the logo might not fly, but its a good one to post anyhow.... Read Full Post
Zombies Fire == Zombies for Days When browsing about the apple store about a month ago, I stumbled across a game that was featured called "Burn Zombies Burn". I felt that the name was too close to Zombies Burn, so i elected to stop working on the game for a while. Then the name Zomb... Read Full Post
Scuba Divers Chase Google Maps Van These gentlemen in Norway time the google maps van perfectly and chase it down wearing goofy scuba gear! Since it was published google had blanked out the men chasing the van in scuba gear. Check is out here before it updates... Read Full Post
ZombiesFire! Sometime in July 2010 I had an urge for another attempt to design and develop a game. ZombiesFire! was the name. The concept started on a Plane ride home and came to fruition after 15 or so sketches in the moleskin. I wanted to design simple throwbac... Read Full Post
Logos designed in 2009 I had moved out to california end of summer in 2008, up until mid 2009 there wasn't much to document. Joey Nees had joined me end of 2009, many of the logos are a combo of our ideas with his final execution and me making changes to appease the client... Read Full Post
Business and Design in 2010 5%!o(MISSING)f something is better than 100%!o(MISSING)f nothing. 2010 was a long, awesome, and crazy year. In the beginning of the year I had Joseph Nees still working with me in the new Jetscram office on 320 W Ash. Joe moved home in Q2, then lande... Read Full Post
Logos Designed in 2011 Here is a sampling of the logo/icon work I created in 2011... Read Full Post
Zesty Launch Party After 2 years of development we are throwing a public bash for Zesty! Â Friday, November 30th, 20121045 6th AvenueSan Diego, CA 92101 Â Expect drink and good times! ... Read Full Post
Bamboo CMS Bamboo was the most packaged and CMS I've created prior to Zesty. It had it's own analytics platform (which eventually lead to it's demise). The design was nice and clean. It had dynamic graphs using JSON and FLASH. The original site can be visited ... Read Full Post
Kilroy Lives Kilroy Lives was about what people write in private. The concept was to collect bathroom graffiti and categorize it. All graffiti is to be categorized and tallied by location/city/state. This was one of my first opportunities to deal w... Read Full Post
Fall Semester 2007 Fall 2007 upon my return from Sicily I felt like a new person. I was fortunate enough to swap out some mandatory design and drawing classes with a screen printing class and painting class with Professor Tony Miraglia, whom I traveled to Sicily with. ... Read Full Post
7lbs2ounces 7lbs2ounces is a developing project that revolves around stories written by friend and war veteran Ben Tabor. Having been close to Tabor since elementary school, his stories were tough to bare; my goal is to share them with others. Sources provided b... Read Full Post
Summer in Sicily Summer in Sicily was a study abroad program run by UMass Dartmouth Professor Tony Miraglia. We lived in Messina off the coast of Reggio Calabria. The experience was invaluable. Tony was forcing much needed color into my work. Mixed media art is liber... Read Full Post
Fold For an art history class, i put together a 3D typeface and wrote an essay on it. Unfortuntely that essay is not in my records, but i still have some nice images from the Unfortunately.... Read Full Post
Fall Semester 2006 At the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Laura Franz taught Typography I. Janine Wong taught Typography III. Yoon Soo Lee taught Graphic Design III. Being a mid-year transfer student from UMass Boston, I had to take Typography II and Gr... Read Full Post
Spring Semester 2006 Spring 2006 Marks the first semester at UMASSD as a visual design/letterform student. Prior to the transfer, I started my College Level education at Northeastern University studying Computer Science (which I presumed was coding video games) and then ... Read Full Post