January 2011
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Today is my last day at work! I’ll miss this building, a bit.
At that point, a few years ago, Boring Internet Analyzing People talked a lot about professionalism and what that was supposed to mean now. I guess they still do. Certainly plenty of people have had some things to say about my lack of professionalism the past year or two. Fine. Digital PR strategists the world over are welcome to scratch their heads, tab through Tweetdeck, and wonder how the...
new music
My awesome friend M made me mix-CDs for my move to London!
personalised resignation letters →
“‘All literature is allegory’, he was saying, ‘You only know yourself, your own...”
– W. H. Auden via giacona
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Affogato is what I have before a big night out or more commonly, when I know I will be staying back late at work. Affogato literally means ‘drowned’ in Italian, and this traditional dessert is made up of a cold scoop of vanilla ice cream that you pour a shot of hot espresso over the top. Its a pleasant ritual of having to actually stop what you’re doing and sit down and eat it.
I had a near perfect 24 hours in Melbourne with some friends who were down from Sydney. On Friday night we had dinner at Gill’s Diner followed by drinks at Blue Diamond where the sun always sets pink on the city. On Saturday morning we had brunch at Degraves Espresso Bar. Afterwards we wandered up to Federation Square, checked out the second-hand book sale they have there every Saturday...
“What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you’re good...”
– Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior - WSJ.com
What an awful woman/mother! She is justifying her nutty/obsessive/bullying approach.
KPP: Future of Advertising →
kittypp:
Most Future of Advertising articles are quite long, and though I dont mind reading them, I thought this was a bit more digestible for Tumblr. Simple, to the point and spot on in my view finder (see what I did there)…
Taken from the Design Knowledge Intermediary website.
Quoting: Yves Béhar, the…
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I’m afraid that younger generations—especially the ones who are the most educated and who come from the “best” backgrounds are seriously lacking in this skill. Our Ivy League grads from two lawyer households in Westchester are often less able to network in the chaotic jungle of an 800 person tech meetup than the child of immigrant parents who went to Baruch who grew up playing whiffleball in...
So You Wanted to Be a Powerful Executive...
As you excelled at work you felt pressure to constantly prove yourself, even if only to yourself. You could get past the fact that every man you worked with thought you were two appletinis away from an out-of-area-code adventure. You could convince yourself that it didn’t matter that all the women assumed you fucked your way into every raise. What you couldn’t handle was being ...
So You Wanted to Be a Powerful Executive...
As you excelled at work you felt pressure to constantly prove yourself, even if only to yourself. You could get past the fact that every man you worked with thought you were two appletinis away from an out-of-area-code adventure. You could convince yourself that it didn’t matter that all the women assumed you fucked your way into every raise. What you couldn’t handle was being ...
Jackie O's life in publishing
Guinzburg later recalled that he had told Jackie, “ ‘You’re not really equipped to be an editor. It’s not that you don’t have the talent for it, the ability for it, but you don’t have the background and the training, and you, I think, would suffer in a publishing house because that would set up some kind of competitive atmosphere with the other editors. But what you can do is to be a consulting...
New logo for Starbucks
It seems, though, that in the wake of the October Gap fiasco, the act of logo redesign needs a re-branding of its own. AdWeek, in an interview with Terry Davenport, Starbucks’s senior vice president of marketing, inquired about influence of Gap’s experiences on the company’s design process. In response, Davenport revealed that in examining the logo, “we stood back and looked from afar as well...
“Maybe the momentous and the momentarily amusing add up to a pleasing means of...”
– Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
Fortunately I have realised whilst I’m alive that I don’t want to use twitter anymore.
Cyberspace When You’re Dead
…People die. For most of us, the fate of tweets and status updates and the like may seem trivial (who cares — I’ll be dead!). But increasingly we’re not leaving a record of life by culling and stowing away physical journals or shoeboxes of letters and photographs for heirs or the future. Instead, we are, collectively, busy producing fresh masses of life-affirming digital stuff: five...
“Society once did a deal accepting advertising because it seemed occasionally...”
– Advertising predictions for the next 25 years | Society | The Observer
“There has been a national debate for years in Spain about “mileuristas,” a...”
– Lack of Jobs in Southern Europe Frustrates the Young - NYTimes.com