just back from a whirlwind u.s. trip...cool to see fellow editors tony, olivia and mike in brooklyn and catch a beer (or 10) in buttermilk......as i told mike, a nice new engram tshirt is being proudly worn thru the streets of barcelona. biggest design-related surprise of my trip was the quality of some of the restaurants and bars in las vegas...unfortunately i wasn�t able to find any good links but the mandalay bay resort has a couple of spots sporting over-the-top design worthy of a batman movie.............................................next weekend is the annual artfutura festival in barcelona, which features the best of computer generated art from the past year, with highlights including the "kinetic light sculptures" of paul friedlander and radical software group�s carnivore project,based on software with the same name used by the fbi to monitor internet activity.sounds interesting (i had to say that or else i might be on some fbi blacklist)...........................................guilty pleasure alert (don�t read more if that leadup worries you)...if the coming of crisp fall nights makes you feel like reminiscing about unrequited highschool love while wandering the leaf strewn parks, buy the new coldplay... just don�t admit it to anyone