ChrisDigital.com : Digital Designer Blog by Chris Carvey

I met Johnny back in 1996-97. We worked at Graj + Gustavsen, a retail branding and creative development firm here in NYC. At this particular time the office was full of freelancers, myself being one of the last to arrive. This was during a hiring burst to ramp up for several impending presentations to numerous retail brands and a major cable network that was planning to build “themed” retail stores across America.

I loved it. I was a young kid, just a few months removed from graduating from the School of Visual Arts and my Scholastic illustrator contract had just ended. There I was sitting in the middle of a retail brand incubator with a slight bump in pay. I was feeling good about myself, and I was only scratching the surface of that experience – because in walks Johnny…

I have a few female co-workers here in NYC that are single, and every now and then we have a conversation about the ridiculous ratios of women to men is in New York City and how Carrie Bradshaw in Manolo Blahniks destroyed the city by attracting hundreds of thousands of women here to find their Mr. Big.

I highlight their pain because It just doesn’t make sense to me that someone hasn’t developed tools to even the odds. Between Facebook, Twitter, Match.com, eHarmony, etc. somebody, somewhere can come up with some kind of data architecture, API, and license rules that allows everyone to share in a serious money making opportunity…