I’m now more than halfway done with my work here, though I’ve still got six days left in the trip. It’s been great so far, a really nice mix of work and fun; in fact, I’d go so far as to say this is really the way to do it. Work during the day, doing […]

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Today was my first day at the office, as it were, and it went very well, between inspecting some interesting films, meeting lots of nice folks, and taking a break for tea and a crossword mid-morning. I feel like this should be a tradition I bring back to L.A. So far, almost everything I’ve looked […]

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It’s been an extremely long day, which began when I got up and went to work on Friday in L.A., and is now about to end on Sunday night here in Wellington. Even just the Wellington part has been long: getting in from Auckland, checking into my apartment, walking around, catching a documentary at a […]

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Well, 26.2 miles is a long way. I knew that before yesterday’s L.A. Marathon, but that fact of just how long became very clear to me somewhere after about mile 13. I spent the last six months training for the race, and ran two 20-mile training runs among all of the other miles I put […]

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The marathon is tomorrow, and all of my stuff is laid out and ready to go. I affixed my number to my shirt, and noticed that my age seems to have jumped to 49 overnight. Oh well – I’ll be happy to still be running marathons in 14 years… Here’s hoping for a cool day […]

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This morning called for a four-mile run, not really noteworthy, except for the fact that I hadn’t run only four miles since sometime in September of 2009, when I officially started training for the marathon. It’s tapering week, which feels good, though I still manage to feel winded when I’m done. The big day is […]

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I can finally say I’ve been to an opening for a font. Last night, House Industries held a reception for their new family of typefaces, Eames Century Modern, at the Eames Office just down Pico in Santa Monica. The event was great, a nice chance to look around the Eames office, rub shoulders with design […]

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We enjoyed our fourth trip to the big event this past weekend, with the requisite red carpet claustrophobia and lobby bar sightings. Sure am glad I bought that tux all those years ago…

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As we enter a very busy month of March, a little catch-up on February before it slips away: it’s awards season, which has meant lots of screenings and some late nights of overtime. We also welcomed Caroline to L.A. from Austin, and enjoyed hanging out with her and Keith for dinner at Street as well […]

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