Category: AIA Archive

  Being married to a designer and fellow geek, means we’ve always had a little more fun with Halloween costumes. And ever since daughter was born we’ve always included our kids in our Cosplay. The last couple of years, we’ve let them choose the theme. This year, our daughter wanted to be Dory from Pixar’s “Finding Dory.” We suggested…

I just saw the newest trailer for Captain America: Civil War and the big tease was that Spider-Man was going to be in the movie. This should be awesome cool, but instead I was nonplussed by the animated squinty eyes on his costume which came off as really ‘cartoony’ and not in a good way…

Kudos to cartoonist Gavin Aung Than for expressing this great thought. And thanks to my mom for supporting me through art school.

  Why we should not say, ‘Happy Memorial Day’ by Thomas DelMundo Memorial Day grew out of the American Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in US history. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined, including the undeclared wars of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan[1]. To put things into perspective, more…

James Altucher publishes a great Blog on business and inspiration. He recently sent out this story, “Mimi Makes a Million”. And while we agree the overall sentiment, one thing he wrote struck me as inaccurate. In section (H) of his story he says: “Goals are a myth. Our ancestors for 200,000 years didn’t have goals. “ I…

History is Written (and visualized) by the Victorious Happy VE-Day! This iconic photo of a soldier raising the Soviet flag above the Reichstag in Berlin personifies the end of WW2 in Europe. I was amused to learn that it was retouched by the Russian magazine Ogoniok. In 1945, its editor-in-chief ordered the removal of what appeared to be a…