Entries by Denise
As creatives (and often independents) in an ever-changing field, we end up doing a lot of work and having to wear quite a few hats. Here are some tips for offloading the stuff you don't like, or, "How to be Awesome in 4 Easy Steps".
The campaign to get me to London so I can speak at the Future of Web Design is going really well! So far, people have donated around $750 – that’s a third of the way there in only 1 week’s time!! How cool is that? This just in: for everyone who donates $40 or more, [...]
Yesterday, I started a campaign to get support to attend The Future of Web Design next month in London so that I can do a presentation on the graceful degradation of CSS3 and launch myself onto the web conference speaking circuit. So, after only one day of tweeting and asking friends to put the word [...]
This past year has been absolutely magical with all of the wonderful professional opportunities that have appeared in my life, and things are continuing to get better and better! Here’s the latest news: I have just gotten myself scheduled to present at The Future of Web Design (FOWD) in London next month, and I am [...]
Whew! This last few months have been quite a wild ride! But the heavy lifting is over, and now I get to play at one my most favorite events in the whole wide world: South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Fortuitously, I was asked by Min Jung Kim to be on the awesome “How to Rawk [...]
Ideas take a while to marinate, simmer, and then come out fully cooked. After a lively conversation with Daniel Burka at FOWA earlier this year, I have had the idea for a presentation about the practical outcomes of following your passion (and what happens when you don’t). Based on my own experiences, I have found [...]
Gardening has been a consuming passion for me lately. I can’t wait until the evenings when I can go outside and sculpt my yard to match the vision that I have in my head (and on paper). Here is my plan: no grass AT ALL in the backyard (grass is highly overated in my opinion), [...]
South by Southwest is truly one of the most amazing 5 days that a web person can spend. You are surrounded by smart, accomplished, interesting people who are all doing great work in the field of web design, development, blogging, being an entrepeneur, social med, web standards, and more. And folks are fun, too! The [...]
I am soooo excited! My panel for South by Southwest Interactive 2009 has been approved! Overview: The presidency of Barack Obama will have far-reaching ramifications for politics, society, and even black identity in America. Websites such as BlackWeb2.0.com, the Blackbird browser, and a myriad of bloggers both target and ally themselves with the black blogosphere, [...]
I was going through my photos on my computer, and I found this one: Making breakfast, 1976 Originally uploaded by Bnita-Denise. First of all, what a muffin I was! I mean, really – check me out, working that babuschka scarf. I was fashion-forward even then. Second of all, for anyone who wonders at the origins [...]
I must admit to a love-hate relationship with business cards....
Chocolate Pudding (vegan, raw) Originally uploaded by Bnita-Denise. Okay, due to popular demand (or at least one request), I am posting the recipe for my chocolate pudding. Now, for alla y’all dairy-tolerant folks (which approximately only 25% of the world’s adult population, whether you know it or not, according to wikipedia), don’t get all uppity [...]
Whatever was the initial spark, I have spent much of the early morning trying to keep up with the flow of ideas that seem endless at this point.
Tuesday gifted me with a wonderfully impromptu sxswi lunch with people whom I had just met that morning, great Cuban food and even better conversation. Afterwards, I forwent the Jane McGonigal keynote to soak up the deliciously warm sunlight on the south side of the conference center. A passing sxsw friend joined me, and we [...]
sometimes a craving can be the start of something beautiful....
it's more than mere lust, this is true love.
I love travel. *Love* it. I love seeing new places, meeting new people, and seeing people that I already know and love. I love making the new place “mine” by finding out the closest place where I can buy agave nectar or a favorite toothpaste. I love walking down an unfamiliar street and soaking up [...]
Me and Noa! Originally uploaded by Bnita-Denise. I’m current in Jamaica Plain, MA for the week to hang out with my friend Jessica and to give her a hand with her baby, Noa, while her husband Marc is in Brazil doing research for his PhD. I just want to let everyone know that I am [...]
Mung bean soup Originally uploaded by Bnita-Denise. I bet you are thinking, “what bean soup?!”, but I am completely enamoured with this soup right now and I am trying to create converts where ever I go. If you like Indian food, with rich, aromatic spices and deep, complex flavors, you will love this soup. Not [...]
Party Time Originally uploaded by jbrotherlove. Before it gets too crazy with the comments, let me just post this photo and say that yes, by Sunday evening I was feeling a little bit better, okay?
I’m in Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, which I am sure is really wonderful, but I wouldn’t know, as I have not been to it yet. Who’da thunk that my lack of sleep for 3 days in a row two weekends ago would compromise my South by Southwest experience? Well, I [...]
I don’t know exactly how this works, but it is worth a try. I signed up with this site, completed an offer, and now all I need is 8 folks to click on this link and so the same. Some kind of referral market doo-hickey. Anyway, I am 8 people away from getting an Ipod [...]
For all you who know me well, you know these things about me: I am a sho-nuff foodie, and I loves me some good food. I abhor fast food, and basically won’t even acknowledge fast food as actual food. Well, this weekend, I had to bend the rules a little bit. While negotiating the last [...]
Denise R. Jacobs is a writer, speaker, designer, and educator on many things web. She is author of 