About
I’m 24 and live next to Isla Vista, California. I grew up in Los Angeles. My email address is brittag@gmail.com.
This blog is mostly about making art and learning about architecture, infrastructure, local history, and places. I don’t update it often anymore, but my friend and I write a blog of mathematical art projects.
I make interesting products better and easier to use through a combination of support, technical writing, curation, testing, and generally paying close attention to what users are saying and doing. Since March 2011 I’ve been working on user experience and community for Cydia, the alternative to the App Store for jailbroken iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. For part of 2010 I was doing product and community work for Canvas. During college I was the Delicious community manager (from 2005 to 2009, part-time during the school years and full-time in the summers): I answered email and forum questions, helped problems get fixed when people complained, killed spam, wrote blog posts, and loved Delicious as one of its first users and team members.
Sometimes I edit Wikipedia, collect Mac menubar items, and make Unicode faces and holiday trees. I like taking photos of buildings.
I have a Literature BA from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara, with an unofficial specialization in Literature and the Culture of Information.
What is a jeweled platypus?
When I was 11 years old, I found this image in an issue of National Geographic Magazine and decided it looked like a jeweled platypus. I cut it out and pasted it in a binder that I soon lost, but the image stuck in my head. When I was 19, I researched the image and found out that it’s a picture of an ancient Peruvian duck earring, which confirmed its status as my favorite thing.
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