Jimmy's blog

Essays on robotics, startups, artwork.

  • 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…

  • One second film, two hour photo

    This is a concept that has been in my head for a long time and I’ve finally managed to try it out. To capture the full sunset multiple images were composited together to form this photo. Some parts of this image show clouds during daylight, while other parts show high-rises late in the night. No…