Enrico’s blog

We are getting into the habit of taking a nice morning walk on weekend mornings, Fio and I. We go out around eight, she falls asleep in the baby carrier on my chest and I get a nice soy latte. We end up sitting at a small park in Cole Valley, I read a book [...]

I’ve been a fan of Dave Eggers since his brilliant “A heartbreaking work of staggering genius“. Between McSweeneys, his books and his work at 826 Valencia tutoring center it’s not hard to see how he got himself a Ted award. Don’t miss his inspiring Ted Talk here and then if you wish, follow up on [...]

Very very sad news, a young co-worker and Pixar fellow story artist, Justin Wright passed away yesterday night. He died of a heart attack, Justin received a heart transplant 14 years ago. He was at his desk doing what he loved to do: draw. You can find a nice article about Justin here and his [...]

My MacBookPro’s harddrive is shot, useless, needs to be replaced and all its data is lost. I had backed up a certain amount of stuff, my photos luckily, but some data is lost. This is my second harddrive failure on this computer in less than a year, so frustrating. Last time I bit the bullet [...]

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Ok, forgive me for geeking out, but this Nokia prototype phone is pretty darn amazing. One of the many future uses of nanotechnology … doesn’t it make you excited about the possibilities?

Did I mention that my name, if I had been a girl, would’ve been Valentina? True story. So my full name really is Enrico Guido Valentina Casarosa. Wow, that’s something. Yes Guido is my middle name, don’t laugh if you’re from around NYC, it’s not a good thing to be a Guido around there. But [...]

Well, I am usually really adverse to talking politics, especially on this blog. Furthermore I can’t even vote (I am a legal alien, like Sting) but yesterday I remained surprised by this youtube prensentation by Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig (whom oddly enough I mentioned last week here) breaking down Clinton and Obama. I found it [...]

This is a really interesting interview in comic version with Marjane Satrapi. She brings up such deep but simple points. I like the ending note especially: “the second I have a friend in one country, that country cannot be my enemy.” So true, so simple. Ok, ready for the next SketchCrawl friends all around the [...]

I am off to Milano and Genova for a few days. What brings me there this time is actually work, the italian release of Ratatouille on DVD. I am also going to give a talk at the European Institute of Design there … I’ll try and post from Italy if I get a chance. [...]