Callie Neylan

Callie Neylan

📍 Seattle, Washington

Three things.

I live in this great, wonderful, diverse city and I don’t get out nearly often enough. But lately, I’ve been trying. Here are three great experiences I’ve had in Seattle this past week: 01. Bodies…The Exhibition. If you haven’t seen it yet, run – do not

My Sweet William.

originally uploaded by Neylano. Who’s leaving for D.C. in less than two weeks. 🙁

The San Francisco Twins.

originally uploaded by Neylano. Oy. It’s been a while. The reason it’s been a while is because Will’s getting ready for his move, I’m working and teaching full-time, and we went to San Francisco this weekend. It was great – the weather was MAGNIFICENT! Like summer. I

Design mixing with Blend.

Okay, so you all know how I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft products, but I have to give them a hand on this one. I started learning their new software program, Blend, last week. It’s like Illustrator, Flash, AfterEffects, and…well…maybe VisualBasic (except that it writes

Why I love technology....

originally uploaded by Neylano. and like being an interaction designer. Cool products like Skype are going to make this year apart much more bearable.

What's wrong with passion?

An excerpt from my fave grad school professor’s latest Metropolis article: Passion is not enthusiasm. It is not love. It is not enjoyment, and it is not flow. Passion is an unstoppable overflowing of emotion that destroys in its satisfaction, that torpedoes lives and marriages and nations, that shoots

Ira Glass kicks ass.

originally uploaded by Neylano. If you don’t listen to This American Life on NPR, you should. It’s a deliciously addictive radio show that airs every week, or, you can download podcasts on iTunes or at audible.com. Anyway, I wonder if they have a show about riding the

The Devil Came on Horseback.

I just got back from this documentary screening at the Seattle International Film Festival. It’s a film by former Marine Brian Steidle about the genocide in Darfur. More later, but I wanted to post these links now: The documentary. Divest from companies doing business in Darfur.

Nice.

A death threat at Seattle Central where I teach: May 30, 2007 As we first reported on Friday, May 25, a message with a threat to commit mass violence on campus was discovered in the men’s restroom in the Science and Mathematics Building. It was written on a toilet

Sometimes I wonder what the heck I'm doing....

designing software applications for rich white people when I should be devoting my life to stuff like this. An excerpt: The world’s cleverest designers, said Dr. Polak, a former psychiatrist who now runs an organization helping poor farmers become entrepreneurs, cater to the globe’s richest 10 percent, creating