Week 41 - Composition: Color Theory

“It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Use Color Grading to create an image that looks like it is a still from a movie. #dogwoodweek41 #dogwood52 #2019dogwood52

Maybe the title of the movie is Le Fabuleux destin d’Ernest Hemingway or When Papa Met Amélie. The location and script are classic Hemingway, but the intense, almost cartoon-like color, especially the greens and reds are 100% Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Week 40 - Storytelling: Modern Convenience

“If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.”

- William McDonough

Create an image that looks like an advertisement for a favorite modern convenience. #dogwoodweek40 #dogwood52 #2019dogwood52

Week 39 - Inspiration: The Elements Earth, Fire, Wind, Rain, and Spirit

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.” - John Lennon

The effects of wind, rain, a lot of spirit…and music. #dogwoodweek39 #dogwood52 #2019dogwood52

Weekend in NYC: Google Energizer

“Stay educated in your field, excite those around you and be energizing!” ― Lasean Rinique

A great day of learning, playing, and networking at the Google NYC and what a view!

The whole group + my friends Caren and Jessica from my Mountain View 2014 Innovators cohort

Weekend in NYC: Grand Central, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building

“The city orbits around eight million centers of the universe and turns around the golden clock at the still point of this place. Lift up your eyes from the moving hive and you will see time circling under a vault of stars and know just when and where you are.” - Billy Collins, Grand Central

Empire State October 4 - Blue & orange for the 2019-20 home opening night of the New York Islanders

Weekend in NYC: 9/11 Memorial + One World Observatory

“You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.” —Colin Powell

Calatrava’s World Trade Center Oculus

St. Paul’s Chapel

Trinity Church Graveyard

One World Trade Center

The 9/11 Memorial

The Survivor Tree, discovered at Ground Zero severely damaged, was removed from the rubble and placed in the care of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

White roses placed on the victims’ birthdays

Opened in May 2019, the Memorial Glade that honors first responders who later got sick or died after inhaling toxins at the World Trade Center site. Six large battered stones appear to jut up and out of the plaza as if violently displaced, and convey strength and resistance.

The Sphere that survived the attacks of September 11, 2001, now displayed in Liberty Park