Evan Rose
...was born in 1977 in Dallas, Texas, travelled, lived in the Bay Area, DJed, studied architecture, collected furniture, played drums, and now lives in New York City. Here's more.
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I advise small businesses and individuals on networking, wireless, hardware and software and build web sites and web based applications using Java, ATG Dynamo, PHP, MySQL, and valid XHTML/CSS. Here's more.
Wednesday May 14, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
Ten years ago this month, my friend Larkin invited me on a spur-of-the-moment road trip to Houston to check out a city-wide retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg's work. We saw a huge number of his collage paintings and prints, of course, but we also got to see some works which aren't as commonly exhibited, like his kinetic sculptures and his '1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece'. I hadn't been too familiar with the man or his work, but he subsequently became one of my favorite artists I and was saddened to learn that he died on Monday at 82. The world has lost a major talent and he will be missed.
Tuesday May 13, 2008
San Francisco
My planned trip to Las Vegas and Los Angeles didn't happen due to a death in my extended family, so last Wednesday, I flew from JFK to San Francisco and spent the day rolling around and shopping on Haight St. and the evening with my hosts Justin and Mary. On Thursday, I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time but decided to save the headlands for my next visit. On Friday, I saw some great work at the SFMoMA before moving from J&M's to the "Maus Haus" and spending the evening with Deborah and Orlando. On Saturday, I attended Peter and Stacy's "wedding", which was far lovelier and more interesting than I thought it would be. On Sunday, the eighth anniversary of my move to California, I spent the day with Brian, my friend and former Oakland warehouse landlord and we saw the sights in the East Bay. Yesterday, I came home and today, I find myself glad to be back.
Wednesday April 16, 2008
Friends and Travel
The other day, there was a glowing article in the New York Times on Beer Table, a bar owned by my friends and clients and one of my favorite spots, and speaking of friends, I totally forgot to mention that Chris came to town a couple of weekends ago and we went and looked at a lot of art. When we weren't looking at art, we were shopping, eating, or completely and totally exhausted. I, for one, had a great time. Now, after my mom's visit here in a week, I'm planning on a trip to the West Coast (LV, LA and SF) followed by another friend's visit for ICFF in May. Travel season is hotting up.
Tuesday April 1, 2008
What Did I Know?
Todd over at What Do I Know is calling it quits. He's still going to blog at his professional site and he's still working on the web, but the news still kind of bums me out, especially since I have been glad whenver I've seen him publish something. I remember when his blog got started and how I liked his mix of discussion both technical and personal and I remember how revolutionary and cool the repeating background effect and text resizing were and how they were copied ad nauseam all over the web. He also had a small link list, "Enjoying," for which I requested and received an RSS feed once upon a time, and I found that I enjoyed many of the things he was enjoying too.
I've thought of abandoning this blog many times over recent years because I'm not entirely sure anyone stops by to see what's going on anymore and so many others do it so much more interestingly and consistently than I. It's also grown more personal, which is kind of where it started out ten years ago, and I just don't feel the need to share and to be understood like I once did, so nothing ends up getting written.
What Do I Know was a great site and it'll be missed.
Wednesday March 19, 2008
Thirteen Years
Yesterday, it'd been 13 years. Time sure does fly.
We dressed up and went to Blue Note to have dinner and see The Bad Plus. Much later in the eveing after waiting in the cold for an hour, we saw The Elephant Walk, which lasted about six seconds. Elephants walk a whole lot faster than I thought they did!
I did a bit of work on this site today and replaced some absolutely ancient code with new code. I also may have fixed a problem where my del.icio.us posts don't show up in the RSS feed, but I won't know until I test it. So here goes.
Sunday March 16, 2008
The Wire...
Has come to an end. I just finished watching the last episode (a week late) and I'm going to miss it. There are a lot of post-show wrap up links and commentary over at kottke.org.
Tuesday March 4, 2008
Eighty-one Dollars
Despite the huge number of New York-centric blogs I read who never said a word, not to mention the New York Times and Time Out New York in print, I was shocked to discover my monthly metro card cost me $81 when I refilled it yesterday, up $5 from $76. I had no idea that was coming.
Friday February 22, 2008
Busy but Lookin' Good
Thanks for the link, Mr. Kottke. I saw this show last weekend (or was it the weekend before last? I can't keep track anymore.) and really liked it. All of the good pieces had already sold, unfortunately.
I have been working at my job, working for four or five freelance clients, catching up on Netflix movies (and TV shows; finishing up Arrested Development and continuing with The Wire) and New York Times Magazines, buying stock with every spare cent because it's so cheap, and becoming obsessed with men's sartorial and bespoke fashion. I've added several new clothing blogs to my RSS feed reader and have been digging through their archives. They include:
...and a couple of others that I'm not sure I'm going to keep around. I also have been smoke free for over 50 days.
Friday February 1, 2008
beer table
My friends Justin and Tricia are opening a bar called in Park Slope beer table, for which I built a web site. After creating a beautiful space, getting a ton of press (on Eater, New York Magazine's Grub Street, Thrillist and in The New York Times) and waiting for five and a half months for their liquor license, they are finally opening on Saturday night and we are all really excited! See y'all there.
Monday January 21, 2008
Six Years Ago Today
Six years ago yesterday, I was working at a company called OneBody in Emeryville, California and living in a freezing cold loft in Oakland. I had eradicated all Microsoft software from my life, including a Hotmail email address I'd had since the mid '90s, and was grudgingly running Linux on my home computer. I was in the market for a Mac because I was intrigued by the iPod, which had been released a few months before, and was way into the Free BSD underpinnings of Mac OS X, but I hadn't yet pulled the trigger.
Six years ago today, Apple introduced the "lampshade" iMac and though I don't think I ordered one the day they were announced, I did soon after. As I waited for it to come, I read some huge OS X for Unix geeks book and began following some Mac oriented blogs. When it finally arrived at my office, my coworkers stood around as I unboxed and set it up, then we all took turns checking it out. That night, I started work on mac.evanrose.com, a PHP/MySQL driven Mac blog that I hosted on the iMac from home and whose content management system eventually became the backend for this site.
Six years and many, many Macs later, I've worked for Apple, worked for various Apple consultants, done my own consulting in Texas and New York, worked for Tekserve, inspired hundreds of switchers and helped hundreds more (including running software updates on my mom's Cube over Christmas), watched (and read liveblogs of) a whole bunch of keynotes, read a whole mess of Mac blogs, watched a lot of movies through Front Row, got an iPhone, still use my four year old iPod, and made a ton of money on my Apple stock. It keeps getting easier and more exciting to be a Mac user and I'm looking forward to another six great years.