Watch and Learn, Kid.

Ask a Grown Man: Jon Hamm

Thu, 10 May 2012 05:54:07 -0400

Ask a Grown Man: Jon Hamm

"I’ll play first, and I’ll tell you about it later. Maybe.” MILES DAVIS"

Wed, 09 May 2012 06:00:25 -0400

““I’ll play first, and I’ll tell you about it later. Maybe.”
MILES DAVIS”

- Highlighted by Aarron Walter in The Shape of Design

Makoto Fujimura & The Four Holy Gospels

Tue, 01 May 2012 09:20:21 -0400

We, today, have a language to celebrate waywardness, but we do not have a cultural language to bring people back home. -Makoto Fujimura

Great contemporary art intersects with the Bible.

"If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:02:38 -0400

“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

- John Steinbeck on falling in love.

Han Shot First

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:04:02 -0400

True story.

Craft Sprits: Root, Snap, and Rhuby

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:53:00 -0400

Intrigued.

Bespoken Art

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:51:45 -0400

Check out my friend Dave’s modern wall art company Bespoken Art.

A Fresh Perspective on Material Consumption

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:38:40 -0400

A prolific author, Miller criticises the concept of materialism which presumes our relationships to things are at the expense of our relationship to persons. He argues that most people are either enabled to form close relationships to both persons and objects or have difficulties with both.

David Ogilvy's Principles of Management

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:23:39 -0400

We admire people who hire subordinates who are good enough to succeed them. We pity people who are so insecure that they feel compelled to hire inferior specimens as their subordinates.
We admire kindly people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings - particularly the people who sell things to us. We abhor quarrelsome people. We abhor people who wage paper warfare. We abhor buck passers, and people who don’t tell the truth.
Our system of management is singularly democratic. We don’t like hierarchical bureaucracy or rigid pecking orders.
We despise office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous assess. We detest nepotism and every other form of favoritism.
We attach importance to discretion. Clients don’t appreciate agencies which leak their secretes. Nor do they like it when an agency takes credit for their successes. To get between a client and the footlights is bad manners.
We are revolted by pseudo-academic jargon, like attitudinal, paradigms, demassification, reconceptualize, suboptimal, symbiotic linkage, splinterisation, and dimensionalisation.
We use the word partner in referring to each other. This says a mouthful.
We admire well-organized people who keep their offices shipshape, and deliver their work on time.

bestmadeco: Cabin Fever“The best way out is always through.” —...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:28:44 -0400

bestmadeco:

Cabin Fever
“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost

Big Data

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:24:09 -0400

So, I’m sorry if you’re upset by this, but I’m excited about the fact that - if you give me permission - as a marketer I can know what you’re listening to on Spotify and tie it to Google Analytics.

It’s friggin awesome.

That is all.

"For also in this we excel others, daring to undertake as much as any and yet examining what we..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:43:45 -0500

“For also in this we excel others, daring to undertake as much as any and yet examining what we undertake; whereas with other men ignorance makes them dare, and consideration dastards.”

- Pericles

Weekend Recap

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:48:22 -0500

“We almost got run over by a bike.”

- The almost last words of a punk teenager as I cruised by on Thorondor (my bike) Friday night. He and his posse were dilly-dallying in the not-cross-walk.

In other news, Daisy has learned that we come over to her when she poops (to clean it up) and has begun to use this strategically to get our attention. Clever girl.

And, Mitzi and I really enjoyed our Valentine’s Day time together (always do weekend - never do day of.)

That is all.

Lunchtime Links

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:06:11 -0500

Marketing

Zaaz Interactive Agency

W5 Insight

Automotive Shopping Behavior Study

Bad reviews improve conversion rates by 67%

Zeus Jones

You Can Motivate People, Or You Can Just Make It Easier

A Simple Approach to Account Planning

Culture

The Chrysanthemum and The Sword

You Never Marry The Right Person

Or, as Tolkien put it:

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Tech

Google favors Google+ in search results over Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Learn to Code with Codecademy

Food / Beverage

The entirely defensible fad for limited edition, barrel-aged gin

Meatpaper

Malts.com

Current Events

Atlanta is redistricting and a bunch of the neighborhood parents are in an uproar about how it might impact schools and where their kids end up.

Does God Care Whether Tim Tebow Wins?

Why Liberals Shouldn’t Dis Tim Tebow (or Jesus)

Rules for Myself Concerning Poetry

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:18:49 -0500

When breaking the rules of grammar, a poem should never force the reader to reinterpret the rules of the language in use.

Broken rules should serve a purpose and not cause the reader to stumble in the slightest.

Poetry is not a linguistic puzzle for the academic, but a medium for clear and powerful expression.

"If they act too hip, you know they can’t play sh*t."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:10:21 -0500

“If they act too hip, you know they can’t play sh*t.”

- Miles Davis

Welcome Daisy

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:11:29 -0500

Daisy is the newest member of the family. She’s a Brown-necked African Cape Parrot.

Her previous owner is going through a divorce and can no longer afford to take care of her (financially and socially.)

Besides being cute, Capes are a good fit for us for a number of reasons. They are generally (compared to other parrots):

Laid back
Independent
Playful
Known for not biting

We hope Daisy can make the transition smoothly. Logically, rehoming her makes sense - she needs a home, and what we’re paying for her and her current cage, toys etc. is about half of what it would be from a breeder.

The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:42:11 -0500

How marginal subcultures have become the plurality in cultural taste and production in Japan, and how this bodes for the Japanese economy.

Can Technology Help You Slow Down?

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:29:47 -0500

Something to consider. I think the answer is yes. It usually happens when you run across a new world, which is completely possible online, but unfortunately due to people’s social instincts and the reinforcing nature of circles on the web, doesn’t happen as often as it should.

His Name Wasn't Jesus

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:05:44 -0500

Fun lingual facts

http://www.jesuspolice.com/common_error.php?id=1

http://seeingwhatyoubelieve.blogspot.com/2008/09/jesus-iesous-and-yahshua.html