A complete index of sixfoot6.com — 182 projects, archives, and experiments from 27 years of making things on the web. Ryan Gantz has been publishing here since 1999. Back to the homepage.
Ryan's earliest web writing. Personal essays, journals, and nonlinear experiments from the late '90s.
2,137 curated links and micro-observations across three linkblog eras: Micromemes, Fruity Bits, and Daily Links. Searchable with era filters and random discovery.
Complete searchable archive of 26,670 tweets. Browsable by year, searchable by keyword, with thread expansion and rich link preview cards.
A Final Sunday at the Office. It was a nice day of work, as days of work go. The season faded out with a whimper, more or less. I strolled in after 11 am...
Another Dim, Quiet Stoop. I was up until 4 am on Tuesday morning, working on my redesigned web site until I thought it looked okay enough for me to head...
Fennel, Salt, Cilantro and Lime. and there i am i'm in the clubhouse, in the kitchen, in the middle of a full-on saturday slam, trying to keep track of...
Got Plastic On My Mind. How time flies. It's been an action packed couple of weeks. Halloween, parties in Boston, the end of daylight savings time (a.k.a...
Is the Answer, is the Reason, that Everything Happens. More and more, I'm becoming convinced that most of what I know, I know thanks to my completely...
leonid lines. For at least 10 years I have been in love with the sky. Up late, typing that saturday night until four a.m. when my parents woke my sister...
One of Those Palendromic Autumn Nights. I had all these plans to clean my room, but I always end up sitting down, clicking and typing. I'm reading...
Orange, Orange Everywhere... hot cider, red red leaves, that pine needley smell, a bowl of warm chili in the wind, colors falling on cars, warm sun, cool...
Tethered to the Mainland. Yesterday I went back to my high school, a tiny private school on Cape Cod. I drove my sister over the bridge to Falmouth...
The Bong and this Reggae Song. You know you're getting old when you start hearing The Breeders during WBRU's Retro-Lunch hour. And they're playing songs...
The Crappy Birthday. It began at midnight (all days begin at midnight, of course, but why not mention it?) as Matt and Jeremy and I climbed out of the...
The Signs of the Times. The summer officially ended on Saturday morning, when my brother caught a plane back to school, and I drove one kilometer to work...
Walking Down that Long Pink Road. Tuesday had been a day of gray-hazed dazing and wandering to and fro by train, auto, and my hard-worn feet. The drizzle...
Your Mind Aches. It's morning, this morning and I wake up; my room is a mess and I have to go to work. I jump up at the alarm, slap at the snooze button...
just burn down the house, burn down the street. It's overwhelming, scary and satisfying, how everything seems to wind up all at once. I haven't even begun...
Leap Month. I drove home from Bridgewater just now, which I've done before, but suddenly what-the-fuck???? I find myself in New Bedford. It's fairly...
I take a break from the computer and head downstairs. I put on my coat in front of the mirror. I decide that my new haircut makes me look younger and...
Transcript of a message left on my answering machine this afternoon by my boss : Hey, Ryan. Will. Ummm... I was just shaving... and I had a moment of...
Three True Stories. There's just something about a fire. We'd thrown shredded tufts of wood, green and orange pine-needles, crumbling logs and scraggling...
I found myself intrugued by all the men pacing about the one corner of the grocery store at 5:25 pm wearing dirty Carharts, business suits, sweatshirts...
Design portfolio piece by Ryan Gantz
Design portfolio piece by Ryan Gantz
Design portfolio piece by Ryan Gantz
Design portfolio piece by Ryan Gantz
awol and I ski ourselves silly with cammy and drew, to ring in the month of april.
brief adventures in media overload, primary colors, corporate marketing, browser compatibility and the wasting of paper.
a multi-colored and multi-imaged musing on the beauty that is Venice Beach.
new artwork for an old song recorded with my friend Joshua in 1994.
comedy vs. sexuality; life vs. art. an unargument of words and images.
a series of 30 photographs taken during a visit to the bay area.
twenty-five photos of fading daylight, taken during the past three years.
The first new episode in twenty-three years: locked doors, working lights, a resumed linkblog.
Raw, experimental personal blog with translucent gradient backgrounds. Photography, poetic reflections, and stream-of-consciousness writing from the San Francisco and early LA years.
Personal blog from Ryan's early Los Angeles years. Introspective posts about love, work, creativity, and life transitions, wrapped in a cherry header and yellow background.
Comedy troupe archives spanning two eras: the 2004 original site with short films, comics, and show documentation, and the 2008 Eeny Meeny Miney Show with monthly video episodes.
Ever since some theif or theives busted into the right rear window of my car and swiped my stereo last month, car rides have been much quieter. I probably...
During the evening on September 11th of this year I stopped by Ralph's to pick up some quick groceries: yogurt, carots, fruit. I hadn't been in a...
So sometime this morning as I moseyed along Hoover Street toward campus, it hit me that one way or another I didn't get enough sleep last night. I'm not...
A few weeks ago my friend Leonard Lin asked me and my roomate Andrew if we could help him make a short movie for his film class. After a quick visit to...
One of the great things about my new job at USC Web Services is that I get to take public transportation to work. Granted, it takes about 75 minutes - a...
Well, life has finally cooled out. Somewhat. Two weeks ago my glorious New England retreat ended, and I returned to find Los Angeles behaving like some...
Recently I encountered a forgotten memory. My encounter with the memory was inspired by an artifact that I stumbled upon while reorganizing some old junk...
Smells detected yesterday by my discerning nose during an hour long bike-ride around the streets of the San Fernando Valley: gasoline, stagnant muck...
Last Thursday my girlfriend spent the night at my place, on the futon pulled onto the floor in my home office, in front of the fireplace. And the next...
It's good to be home. The weather is not too cold. My family loves me. We decorated our tree well. The fridge contains tons of food. Mom bought me a bag...
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Earlier today, as I was thinking about the moon, Mars, space exploration and technology, something suddenly occurred to me: It is possible that we will...
Last Friday I saw The Shins perform at the Henry Fonda Theatre . They rocked. Said their charismatic basist to the enthusiastic crowd, "What? You want me...
I am participating in Grey Tuesday as a civil protest against EMI's efforts to censor DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album , one of the most outstanding albums...
Last night at Mel's Diner in Hollywood, my friend Leonard set a new high water mark for Personal Geekdom that impressed me. As a group of us sat around...
For years I had a February 1st tradition here where I'd link to a post I wrote during my first winter away from the northeast about How to Survive...
My friend Star shared with me a really interesting passage from an essay called "The Crack Attack," by Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine. I thought I'd...
I'm amidst the annual visit to Austin Texas for the South by Southwest Interactive Festival . It's good times as always, despite some rain and the absense...
I regularly listen to the KCRW World News stream, which includes BBC World Service broadcasts. And lately, as I listen to the recent coverage of Tony...
On Sunday night I realized how easy it would be to synch my iPod with my roomate's music collection, so I set it into his dock and went to sleep, as the...
Mighty McPilgrim comedy troupe archives from 2004
Mighty McPilgrim comedy troupe archives from 2004
Mighty McPilgrim comedy troupe archives from 2004
Mighty McPilgrim comedy troupe archives from 2004
Mighty McPilgrim comedy troupe archives from 2004
Curriculum vitae of Ryan D. Gantz. Engineering leader, web developer, creative technologist.
Twenty-seven years of a personal website, examined gently. Stats, eras, and oddities.
Content from the sixfoot6.com archives
Content from the sixfoot6.com archives
Content from the sixfoot6.com archives
The Sixfoot6 homepage, Ryan
Photo slideshow from the first leg of a cross-country drive to Los Angeles.
Thirty photographs from a visit to the Bay Area. Mostly people and buildings.
Photo slideshow from a trip to Sequoia National Park. Giant trees and mountain landscapes.
Photos of personal photography, black and white, painting, acrylic, ryan gantz, jonas pizer, carlisle pa, local artist, art, color photography
A continuing hyper-tale by Ryan sixfoot6 Gantz. This is a message from my sister Alyssa Grace Gantz
boggling brilliance i'm so literary who cares Days earlier I had secured a job building a web site for the father of a kid my sister goes to high school...
jaded. clicky. again. veggie bricks built to last so sturdy so nutritious can you crunch
* DEEP THOUGHTS * by Jack Handy If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off...