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Hey! I'm Amir. I grew up in Los Angeles. I live and play in New York City. I work as the VP, Product Development at CollegeHumor.
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I went to see “The Darkness” last night, and this band opened. They were crazy awesome. Emphasis on crazy.
Nutmeg.
Yesterday I got to act as the Art Director slash Food Stylist on a photo shoot for an upcoming book at work. My favorite part was setting up the spices.
You’ve seen this, right? Just making sure.
Walk Off the Earth and Sarah Blackwood cover Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know.’ 5 people, one guitar.
COOL.
This is awesome.
I had an hour before I had to leave Barbados to catch a flight back to nyc. My roomate Assaf and I decided to go for one last swim in the warm Caribbean waters before we left. We walked down to the beach, kicked off our flip flops and ran straight in at full speed.
Within minutes my joy turned to panic as I realized a strong current was pulling me right towards a pier of rocks. While swimming furiously against the current, I turned to Assaf and calmly yelled “uhhhhh help! I’m stuck”. But I was too late.
Before I knew it I was hugging said rocks, and slowly trying to crawl to safety. What I didn’t realize is that these weren’t just ordinary rocks; they were also home to a family of sea urchins. Needless to say, by the time I made it back to the beach, those urchins donated about 50 of their spines to my hands and feet.
Luckily, Winston, the local “rasta doctor” came to my rescue. He spent the remainder of my last hour in Barbados with me, and pulled out each urchin spine, one by one, with a sewing needle.
Ouch.
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future…” - Jack Kerouac
You can’t find yourself unless you get lost. Make sure to make a wrong turn once in a while.
Happy New Years!
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Our newest iPad application from Open Air Publishing “Master Your DSLR Camera” was nominated as one of the best photo apps of 2011 by TUAW.
If you haven’t bought me a holiday present yet, just vote for the app, and we’ll call it even.
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/12/29/tuaw-best-of-2011-vote-for-your-favorite-ipad-photo-app/
Apple choose the first book from Open Air Publishing, Speakeasy Cocktails as one of the best apps of 2011!
Check out all the best apps of 2011 in iTunes.
A few months ago, I visited Ho Chi Minh City with my friend Elise. Besides wearing a helmet and packing a family of four on every moped, there didn’t seem to be any traffic rules. Every street was an every-way street. At certain points Elise and I would have to cross intersections that were so chaotic, our best strategy ended up being something like “close your eyes, walk forward, and pray that you don’t get hit”.
None of the photos I took were able capture the essence of how insane the traffic was there. This video does.
If you don’t already know, I recently joined a startup called Open Air Publishing. Last week we launched a new site, and our second iPad book: “FOOD52 Holiday Recipe & Survival Guide”.
It was a real pleasure working with the Amanda Hesser, Merrill Stubbs, and Alex Lutz from FOOD52, and of course the rest of my team at Open Air Publishing.
Buy the app, and checkout the new site!
Five months ago, I proposed a plan to mobilize one hundred creative and diverse young people to a small North American city for the summer. Over fifty people responded with interest. The summer of 2012 is fast approaching and we need to figure out where we’re going and who’s coming with us!
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My friend Josh heller is a visionary. Join him!
Ran into some friends, Avi and Benji, who are leading Kol Nidre service at Ziccotti Park. #OccupyWallSt
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