the holiday season approaches, and with it, crazed consumerism tempered by a sagging economy. this is a piece for circuits/basics/personal tech about strategies for successfully shopping on black friday, cyber monday, twitter tuesday, renegade wednesday, and tropical drinks thursday.

nytimes: black friday calls for a strategy session, by marty katz.

Labels: basics, black friday, circuits, cyber monday, new york times, personal tech

a piece about the average joe attempting to upgrade to the biggest and baddest tv, only to find out that his components and cables no longer work together, the expenses rise, and in the end, the best upgrade is a return to the original setup.

nytimes.com: basics, by alan schwarz

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while working on this piece, i mucked around with silhouetting. this wasn't used for the final piece, but turned into an interesting experiment. mayhaps there will be more of this in the future.

Labels: basics, circuits, illustration, new york times