May 2009
21 posts
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Pangea Organics Glueless Carton
[more at the Dieline]
Frank Lloyd Wright - The Mike Wallace Interviews →
Frank Lloyd Wright talks to Wallace about religion, war, mercy killing, art, critics, his mile-high skyscraper, America’s youth, sex, morality, politics, nature, and death.
“Arrogance is something a man possesses on the surface to defend the fact that he hasn’t got the thing that he pretends to have.”
STUDY: Quality vs. Quality
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound...
On May 22, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Chad Bollenbach wrote:
This ones called Caledonia...
Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum →
ART OF MONEY GETTING
or,
Golden Rules for Making Money
by P. T. Barnum
1880
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster...
– Henry Ford
Driving Product Decisions From The Gut
In Time’s article on the iPod Nano, Apple reaffirms their mission to guide instead of follow their customers:
It was a gutsy play, and it came from the gut: unlike almost any other high-tech company, Apple refuses to run its decisions by focus groups.
You can and of course should listen to your customers. But to be able to innovate on their behalf, you need to place an even higher premium on...
VIDEO - Short film for MoMA - “I See”
[by Taxi NYC // via AdRants]
Cooperation, Not Competition
One of my favorite talks at Reboot 7 this year was from Thomas Harttung, an organic farmer. It was a great change of pace from the tech heavy talks and also made a great point: The strongest species aren’t necessarily the ones that are the strongest competitors, but rather the strongest cooperators. It’s the ones that learn to live symbiotically with their environment — giving, taking, and helping...
VIDEO - Napping Sounds with Jon (from Delocated)
Jon Glaser doing Ken Nordine. Genius.
On May 8, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Mike Bass wrote:
Don’t you judge me....
"Soy Tu Aire" - Labuat →
Interactive music video for a Spanish band called Labuat.
It's So Cal →
Hegarty goes a-blogging.