A Story About A Basketball
See this ball. It’s a ball like many other balls in Portland. It’s lying on the street. A normal ordinary street in a nice-ish neigbourhood. That ball will still be there tomorrow. And it will still bounce. Everywhere I’ve ever lived…
Microsoft and Yahoo! Ads
In under 24 hours I’ve noticed these 2 ads for what I suppose are Google’s nearest competitors in a bunch of things. First this Yahoo! ad. Now I’m not crazy about the chick with the Social Media Tattoos. I’ve seen her around a bit and I…
Motivational Video of the Day
From http://sesamestreet.tumblr.com/ which I found via http://kottke.org/
Blogs is Back
I got inspired by Ben writing this piece about good old fashioned blogging and how we should all try and make it good again: http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2010/09/lets-make-blogging-good-again.html It made me realise just…
I spent the day in a ‘workshop’ talking about creating ‘movements’ so imagine the irony…
Of spotting a Livestrong bracelet discarded in the back of a cab… Some might say it was a sign. But what does it mean?…
Every time I take a redeye flight I think about this 1988 BA advert
And I hear the words of the smugfaced git ringing in my ears: “Like a lamb to the slaughter, gentlemen…” Only tonight I’m traveling on JetBlue and I will feel tired, hungry and destroyed when I arrive… Whoop!
Just clicked The Ace Hotel’s “Awesome Internet Button”
You know how in hotels you normally get one of those things where you have to put in your credit card information, or at least your name and room number, well the Ace Hotel says “bugger that” with the following page that greets you when…
Faces iMake – http://facesimake.com/ – is a wonderful app
The amazing story of how the Doobrie became the Deubré at Nike
via en.wikipedia.org Phenomenal. Shoe designer calls the lace tag a “doobrie” – kind of like a “thingy” and it morphs into a more sophisticated Deubré. At least that’s how Wikipedia tells it.
Happylife – what happens when machines tell you about the emotional state of your significant others
We were all sitting in the lounge, like any evening. Sandra and I were watching some nondescript documentary and the kids were playing with their lego. The moment stole up on us. Paul was first to notice the unusual glow coming from…
Drooling over these beautiful ceramic speakers – loving the modular design…
via aplusrstore.com…
The reason for Apple’s success? Cats, obviously.
Proving that it was years ahead of its time, Apple had the good sense to put a cat in this Ad from 1981. Everyone thinks that Apple’s success stems from more recent activity. But I’d be willing to bet that it can all be tracked back to…