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TECHNOLOGY
The Flash of Genius 01/11/93
Tremors in the Hothouse 07/19/93
E-mail from Bill 01/10/94
My First Flame 06/06/94
The Tower Builder 11/19/01
Can Anyone Solve the Problem of Traffic? 09/02/02
Game Master 11/06/06
Fragmentary Knowledge 05/14/07
Hello, Hal 06/23/08
Steaming Dreams 01/16/12

MEDIA
In the Demo: The Power at MTV 10/10/94
Tackling the Competition 08/18/97
The Many Lives of David Geffen 02/23/98
Selling the Weather 04/03/00
It Came From Hollywood 12/01/03

Self
The Spinach King 02/20/95
My Father’s Closet 03/16/98
Elegy for a Parking Space 02/22/99
Sleeping With the Baby 11/08/99
A Death in the Family 06/00
The Tree of Me 03/26/01
Marriage of the Century 12/04
The Last Babylift 03/10/10

Culture
Death of a Giant 06/94
Feel No Pain 07/22/96
Why is the Force Still With Us? 01/06/97
Big Ben 04/07/97
The Big Sellout 10/20/97
Born Slippy 01/12/98
The Gathering of the Tribes 09/07/98
Nobrow Culture 09/20/99
Soldiers and Spice: Indonesia 08/13/01
The Fruit Detective 08/19/02
The Smell 08/31/92
Renaissance Pears 09/05/05
Ruffled Feathers 05/29/06
Sowing for Apocalypse 08/07
American Scrap 01/14/08
Suffering Souls 11/10/08

Don't Shoot 06/22/09
The Price of the Ticket 08/10/09
Crush Point 02/07/11

Snacks for a Fat Planet 05/16/11
Crunch 11/21/11
The Song Machine 03/26/12
Factory Girls 10/8/12

DESIGN

The Invisible Designer: Helmut Lang 09/18/00
Fashion Notebook: The Front Line 03/19/01
Plastic Man: Karim Rashid 09/17/01
A Samurai in Paris: Suzy Menkes 03/17/03
Child's Play: What Makes A Toy Fun?12/15/03
Shoe Dreams: Della Valle 05/10/04
Hand and Eye: Dolce & Gabbana 03/14/05
Roman Renovation: Richard Meier 05/02/05
The Abstractionist: Zaha Hadid 12/21/09
Water Music: Mark Fuller 1/08/10
How To Make It: James Dyson 9/22/10
Geek of Chic 9/10/12



The Spinach King, C.F. Seabrook, seated with my grandmother, Norma Dale, and Aunt Thelma. Standing in the back (from left) are his sons Belford, Jack (my father), and Courtney.