history of desks

The Richard Feynman photo as my desktop background. This office got such good natural light too. I remember soldering retrofit for Tessa and cutting up cardboard for meanwhile prototypes.

Here I am after just being gifted my typewriter from Tessa. As she always does, she found the perfect gift. I wrote twenty or so pages of my first attempt at a novel. Wrote the first chapter or so at this desk and then kept going on the Upper West Side while living with Sam. This desk was where I wrote poems and my early short stories, watched countless hours of Alan Watts, and did homework.

I really should be able to find another photo of our A/D/O desks, they were so cool. To save money we only paid for two but the three of us shared them all. I remember we used the Pneuhaus prototyped inflatable stools. In this photo we are using the community desk (first come first serve). We are working on the first "looks like" model the night before a big presentation to our clients. We ended up getting everything we needed to get done finished.

This is the only photo I could find of my short lived desk setup at Ledge's place. This place had 8 or 9 rooms, I found it on craigslist. Ledge was an eccentric weirdo with a bit of a superiority complex that I think he never felt he'd lived up to. He claimed to have invented hydroponics or something and generally had a cult leader vibe. We got along fine enough until the end when he got mad I let Camilo crash in an unused room without asking him (fair, but handled poorly). This desk was only around the first few months before a previous resident came back for it. I was mostly just using NYU for my working space those days, but this is the desk I started my YouTube channel from. I remember editing the first few videos there. God that wallpaper still haunts me.

Memories of living here are not pleasant. Someone was shot multiple times in the parking lot and faulty wiring prevented us from using the washer and dryer we'd just saved up for and purchased for our entire stay at this spot. I remember walking down the steep tower of stairs with overburdened laundry baskets and loading up the car for the laundry mat. This office though was nice, I loved the ikea shelves we installed visible here. I also wrote and recorded a ton of cool songs sitting at this desk or on the floor. In this photo I am working on a new concept I'd come up with for Retrofit. Instead of using a Time of Flight sensor I decided to use Hall Effect sensors and put a magnet on the resistance knob of Tessa's stationary bike.

When we first moved into North Bluff, I had my desk on this side of the office. But I quickly got annoyed being backlit by the windows and ended up moving the desk to sit beneath them. I love this photo because of the orange Vignelli mug and the blue chair. This was my Twitter banner photo for years. Don't remember any specific work while the desk was on this side of the room but was certainly writing blog posts and working on the early ideas for Printernet.

Here is one of my favorite photos of my desk and the one that gave me the idea to add this page to my site. This is where I did so much of the work for Printernet. Here I am listening to radio garden and coding the Printernet web app on a beautiful and peaceful rainy morning. It's this scene I think of when I think of being at my desk working on the stuff I love, this feeling right here.

This isn't actually my current desk, just another photo of my desk from North Bluff on a different day. I am going to get a good photo of my actual current desk and update this soon. You can see in this photo I am coding for the website.