Donald Tetto

bornstoked: FirstRite 2012 Look Book previews

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:19:04 -0700

FirstRite 2012 Look Book previews

My kind of place(s)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:29:00 -0800

I’m obsessed with the local: I had a short-lived personal writing project about Mission intersections and think Inner Mission Honey vs. Mission Dolores Honey sounds about right.
I think constantly about storytelling, at least inasmuch as poems are stories–and mine very much are.
I like making things that help people be creative online.

I spent almost four months traveling this year and almost as much time trying to decide how to document it. Then, not too long after I got back, I had the opportunity to start working closely with some people I’ve admired for years building something that’s all about stories and about places we remember or imagine.

The project has been secret until today. And the biggest milestone of our announcement is that we don’t have to say we work at a “startup” anymore because that word obscures everything that we love about the product: as Caterina puts it, technology should bring people together, and she’s managed to assemble a team that believes in that.

So: I’m proud to say I’m part of that small group of incredibly talented people building pinwheel.com.

Pinwheel is about your relationship with the places in your life. We don’t want to typify that so we can put it in our database–we want to help you express it. I can’t wait to see where that goes.

Two weeks ago.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:52:00 -0800

Two weeks ago.

This is happiness.

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:05:00 -0700

This is happiness.

One weekend we went to see Sarah, Kate, and Nile play in Bolinas...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:25:00 -0700

One weekend we went to see Sarah, Kate, and Nile play in Bolinas (with Big Eagle and Little Wings); camped in the yard or slept in our cars; staved off hangovers with a big breakfast; and took a walk on the beach.

This is why I live in California.

Missed.

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:38:38 -0700

tylr:

I’m pretty sure craigslist missed connections are the most poetic thing going on in modern culture.

“A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn’t think he’d remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn’t see me at all, but I’ll bet a month hasn’t gone by since that I haven’t thought of that girl.”

Citizen Kane 1941

By Tyler.

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:29:17 -0700

By Tyler.

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Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:00:58 -0700

BART, I understand there aren’t any short-term fixes, but this...

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:38:00 -0800

BART, I understand there aren’t any short-term fixes, but this PR spin is insane.

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The biggest boozers are mostly found in Europe and in the former Soviet states. Moldovans are the...

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:54:00 -0800

The biggest boozers are mostly found in Europe and in the former Soviet states. Moldovans are the most bibulous, getting through 18.2 litres each, nearly 2 litres more than the Czechs in second place.

Brendan linked me to the above Economist chart on global alcohol consumption. Interesting, but looking only at per-capita drinking habits is misleading—almost a third of Americans abstain. If you look at the WHO data for just US drinkers (aged 15 and over), the US comes in at 14.43 litres per capita, right up there with France (14.85, drinkers-only) and Denmark (14.38), and with a comfortable lead on, say, Germany (13.39).

Spain is another country whose average is pulled down by all its abstainers: take them out of the picture and Spaniards are killing it with 21.13 litres per drinker. That puts it in league with Moldova (23.39 per drinker), which is ranked number one overall only because almost no one abstains.

This way of looking at the stats also hides the most at-risk drinkers in the world: in Bosnia, where more than half the population abstains, the remaining drinkers are responsible for 55.99 litres each. Holy crap.

Anyway, all of this is going to be very helpful planning my upcoming trip to Europe.

(Addendum: This is particularly interesting in the Muslim world where drinking is prohibited. While 98% of Egyptians claim to have not touched a drink in a year, the other 2% were on a year-long bender, consuming 33.64 litres each.)

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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:17:40 -0800

“Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold, and so by degrees,...

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:24:19 -0800

“Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold, and so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.”

My friend Brendan has been producing an awesome series of...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:19:00 -0800

My friend Brendan has been producing an awesome series of watercolors. He produces art more often than I can be bothered to cook a meal at home.

Just back from an exhausting 46 hours on the East Coast. Spent a...

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:50:00 -0800

Just back from an exhausting 46 hours on the East Coast. Spent a night with Tyler and Anna in Brooklyn. Here’s Tyler at home in December.

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Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:38:00 -0800

Adam on my 27th birthday.

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:55:00 -0800

Adam on my 27th birthday.

On Shorpy, a bike shop in Detroit. 1912.

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:59:00 -0800

On Shorpy, a bike shop in Detroit. 1912.

Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:57:00 -0800

Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont

Casino hotel room, Reno, Nevada.

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:57:00 -0800

Casino hotel room, Reno, Nevada.

laurenschneider: birds forming bird

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:39:00 -0800

laurenschneider:

birds forming bird