Rob Walker

Rob Walker|Essays

The Lives They Lived: Making Us Laugh

Consider the machine that a television engineer named Charles Douglass, invented in the 1950's. It was called the Laff Box.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Guts of a New Machine

The iPod, a digital music player, it weighing just 6.5 ounces and holding about 1,000 songs.

Rob Walker|Essays

Digital Tools for Making Brilliant Mistakes

The many options for digitally antiquing your 21st-century self-expression.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Lives They Lived: Let There Be Lite

Rob Walker|Essays

The Way We Live Now: Me, My Brand And I

About a year and a half ago, a colleague of mine whom I'll call Steve Theory walked into my office, shut the door behind him and asked my advice about some recent job offers. Without a hint of sarcasm, he explained, ''I just want to do …

Rob Walker|Essays

The Way We Live Now: Fauxhemian Rhapsody

Pastis, the Parisian-style bistro that recently opened in New York's meatpacking district, is a restaurant with an idea. The menu is unpretentious, ''simple,'' the owner has explained, and ''there will be no reservations.''