I've noticed (and hated) the color shift in Photoshop's 'save for web' for years. Usually, its not so bad and I just deal with the subtle variation. However, recently we created a new home page graphic for Corkboard which uses a gradient that goes from orange to yellow. The save for web destroyed the orange to a point where it looked dirty and unprofessionally. Fortunately I'm not the only one with this problem. I was able to find the article The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift which documents how to correct the color shift. It turns out Photoshop attempts to color correct your image by converting the RGB mode when you're not looking. Booo. I'm not sure why they do this. Possibly to standardize across monitors and operating systems? I'm not sure exactly sure but I hope you find the the article as useful as I did.

Yearbook Yourself is the most fun I've had on a web site in a loooong time. Give it a try! Today!

I've been running regularly for just over a year now. Nothing too serious, its just a good, inexpensive way to get outside and stay in shape (and the is zero overhead so I don't have store anything extra in my Manhattan apartment). I've always wanted to run from my house on 24th St. down and around the tip of Manhattan. I don't know why, it just always seemed like a fun thing to do. Well yesterday, for the first time I did it! Kind of on a whim actually. I just kept going; out my front door, over the FDR, past the sketchy narrows of the 14th St electrical plant, down along the awesome new East River park, past the baseball diamonds, the tennis courts, past the band shell, under the Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn bridges, waved hi to the three Eliasson waterfalls, went past the old Fulton fish Market (RIP), through a boat load (literally) or tourists, past the ferry terminal, through Battery Park up the new awesome bike path along West St., past the WTC site, up the bike path that runs along the West Side Highway, then turned right at Chelsea Piers and went back across town on 22nd St. It was totally awesome! Its a good loop and great way to see the city! Here is a more details view of the rout. Turns out the rout is just over 9 miles which is way more than I though it was going to be!

Introducing Corkboard. I'v recently been working on a startup with some friends. Corkboard aims to help you you remember the products, places, events and ideas you see every day and want to remember. We're building a system that enables you to create mobile bookmarks using your cell phone. We're excited about about creating a more seamless connection between the analog and digital world. After getting early user feedback we've started opening up the system for alpha testing. If you're interested in taking the system out for a test drive, shoot me an email! Exciting times ahead!

This one is for Tim. Produced by Skate Study House, they also have a pretty kickn' Noguchi table too.

I recently returned form a trip to the Adirondacks. I had a great time! It was good to get away. Rock climbing is something that I didn't have much time for while in grad school for the past few years. This climbing season has been a reemergence for me in many ways of sport that I had nearly forgotten hat I loved so much. More pics are on the Flickr side.

This week, the Wook & Lattuada gallery will host the opening of Blue Chips. Andrew Schneider and I have been invited to install out 'Single Channel' television objects piece for the exhibition. If you are in the area stop by the opening reception this Tuesday (5/13) between 6:00-8:00pm:

Wook & Lattuada Gallery
50 West 36th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY

More information is also available on their web site.