Jimmy's blog

Essays on robotics, startups, artwork.

  • Landscape sketches

    Ink and copic marker.

  • Random Walkers

    Try the interactive version yourself.

  • Waves

    Experimenting with the Perlin noise() function in Processing. Play here.

  • Circles

    I wrote a little interactive web app that allows me to generate this piece of patterns and colors. You can try it out for yourself here.

  • My notes on salary and equity

    Managing is about making decisions quickly and more importantly, correctly. Every decision I need to make, I can discuss with my team except for determining their salary and equity numbers which is a solo endeavor. This makes it all the more important as a VPE or manager that you get this process right to do…

  • Moped

    Michael Park introduced me to the zen of moped maintenance and helped me fix up this two stroke engine from the 1970s. Elegance = Power / Complexity

  • Curly Hair

    I asked Noreen if we could push the envelope of what’s possible with hair. Falon wanted big and curly. Above: Falon Hair: Noreen Fox Make up: Carinn Kanaki

  • Rectangular to Polar

    Take your panorama, convert from rectangular to polar coordinates, and you got yourself a little sphere world. Above: Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • FEASTival

    I photographed the FEASTival, as part of the live arts Fringe festival this year. It invites the big shots of Philadelphia’s restaurant scene to set up tables. I got to meet Stephen Starr, Jose Garces, Michael Solomonov etc. Mayor Nutter and Ed Rendell were also present for me to snap some shots of. Besides all…