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Alpha Testing Our New On Demand Luxe Valet Parking Ap Dumb and Dumber-We are smiling on our Razor Kick Scooters. ..as we are about to get run over by a Mack Truck. This is not your everyday on-demand job; a Luxe agent is a Valet, Rideshare and Taskrabbit all in one. We change the way people park by collecting, storing and returning vehicles for customers NYT Blog : When I describe it to you it will sound crazy, bourgeois and inefficient, and your first instinct will be to dismiss it. Don’t. Luxe works amazingly well, and as it and other similar services expand nationally — Luxe is starting up in Los Angeles this week — they could radically alter how large cities work. Luxe is an on-demand valet parking service. When you need to drive somewhere where parking  is tough, like pretty much any part of San Francisco, open up the app and tell it where you’ll be going. Then start driving. When you get to your destination, a valet will be waiting for you on the side of the road. He’s wearin...

Venice Beach: Epicenter of Narcissism 🌴 VENICE BEACH, CA 🚴‍♂️ The Epicenter of Narcissism • Where Bikes Meet Beach Culture Today In Venice Beach - The Epicenter of Narcissism A Bike And A Prayer The bicycle was the GR8est incident of the nineteenth century ; the most influential piece of product design ever and the most civilized conveyance around. It is not brain surgery, it is rocket science---the advantages of modern self-powered traffic are obvious, and ignored. Screw BP (British Polluters), This is my Carbon Offset I am my own engine, converting calories into gas, my bike gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon ...and no parking problems. Why waste your ...

December has been a blast not from the past but the NOW- The Future ain't what it used to be. After visiting Tech in Motion @ Cross Campus in Santa Monica last Wednesday, the answer to the L.A.  questions what are you doing? no longer is "Working on a screenplay"---it's "I'm working on an AP" . I met some cool ppl from Zeel , an on demand massage service- Yep, you heard it right they are the Uber of that! Seems like Booze Delivery When you hook people with a lot of money and no time, with people with a lot of time and no money, you have the ODE-On Demand Economy. The smartphone is the REAL Remote Control to the YOUniverse. Aps are sprouting up everywhere too  and  talked with the ppl from  Sqyre . Came across this poem on my twitter feed that captures the  Zeitgeist over here. There’s  Uber for planes ,  And  Uber for jets , An  Uber for pills   And  Uber for pets . There’s  Uber for dogs , And  Uber for cats . N...

Ed's 2014 Ports of Call Timeline ⚓ 🚢 🌊 ⛵ 🗺️ 🧭 ⚓ Ed's Global Adventures 2014 A Year of Maritime Discoveries Across Continents 🏰 January 🏖️ Jumeriah Beach, Dubai The glamorous shores of Dubai where luxury meets the sea. Experience "The Have And The Have Yachts" - where maritime dreams become reality against the backdrop of stunning Middle Eastern architecture. Explore Dubai Adventure ➜ 🛶 February 🇮🇹 Venice - Gondola Dreams Navigate the romantic canals of Venice during Acqua Alta (High Water). Where every gondola ride tells a story and every bri...

California Years / Santa Monica / Pacific Landfall Harbor Without Moorings A Zen sailor comes ashore in Santa Monica and discovers that dry land moves too—only the currents are traffic, ambition, memory, and the difficult art of staying put. See Full Landfall Show Story The pier was a gangway that went nowhere. The ocean kept moving. I was the thing expected to stop. The Epiphany Chair A command chair for a ship that never leaves the beach. Pacific overlook / Inner navigation Magic bench / Working title Where the invisible became visible. I called it the Epiphany Chair because every sailor needs a place from which to take a bearing. It was not much of a bridge—wood, concrete, Pacific glare—but from there the horizon could be used as an instrument. I sat down with a head full of unfinished voyages and watched them separate into weather systems. Some dreams had wind in them. Others were only fog with good branding. The c...