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Just the necessities

May 16th, 2012 No comments

Foodbloggerin Petra Hammerstein is opening her tramezzini bar tomorrow, Thursday May 17, in Munich Germany’s Augusten Street 101.

Together with her friend, co-owner Corinna Maier, and good friends to help maintain the place.

Petra is to continue ownership and be running the antique book store Hammerstein on nearby Türken Street as well.


Handzettel Hammerstein & Maier in der Münchner Augustenstr. 101

handbill with offerings

 

 

Categories: awe

For Mothersday

May 13th, 2012 No comments



 





A Mothersday Thank You From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor

 

 

Categories: awe

Madison Avenue first mover replaces New York with Shanghai

May 11th, 2012 No comments

Pudong view from Bund by J. Patrick Fischer

 

One of Madison Avenue’s legendary names has shifted its sights to China.

DDB (Doyle Dane Bernbach) in New York is moving its global creative headquarters to Shanghai. While DDB will continue to have offices in New York and elsewhere, it will base its chief creative officer in China. (Susan Krashinsky March 7)

“Move over New York, London, Paris. Hello Shanghai, Mumbai, Singapore” was CEO Chuck Brymer’s comment according to Julia Fuhr from the German trade magazine Horizont. Amir Kassaei who I know to be empathetic and likable pointed out to Campaign Asia, “This is not to say that other regions are losing importance, but it is a clear sign of how we believe the world and the industry will develop over the next few years.”

I have a liking for Amir and his straight forward naiveté by what I know from his digital footprint. He has been toutet German wunderkind and has a remarkable story of his own to tell.

John Zeigler chief digital officer of Tribal DDB also moved to Singapore in January of this year.

World Dirndl on Pinterest

May 9th, 2012 No comments

Munich ladies riding tram 17 to perform at the 'Auer Dult' spring fest

 

Feel encouraged if not obligated to post your dirndl photos onto the Pinterest World Dirndl board

The City of Munich in the New World

May 7th, 2012 No comments

Genuine Munich landmark

 
isarrunde

Berlin Spreerunde, named after the river Spree, and Isarrunde, named after the river Isar running through my birthplace Munich, are casual talkshows videotaped by mediaworkers from Berlin and Munich on the influence digital development has in our daily lives.

Speculations on what’s next and what will persist as much as sociological and technological aspects are being highlighted in weekly roundtables, most of which take place in the neighborhood cafe at 7 am in the morning.

Here’s an introduction for you to get to know the faces even though recorded in German Language:

 

 

Both groups or rounds collaborated in streaming live recordings from Germany’s largest blogger event, the re:publica in Berlin.

Watch recordings here

@isarrunde

 


While the bottom up approach of Isarrunde may be a favored way to go (with no budget it’s the only way), DLD Women was built top down and resembles a technically less feature rich TED.

It was built around the notion that women are playing an increasingly important role in digital, hence in business and politics, and seem to be better equipped than men in all things transformative (female intuition).

DLD has been founded by Stephanie Czerny and Marcel Reichart in 2005.

 

 

Apply now for DLD Women July 11-12.

@DLDConference

 

 

Categories: transformative

Peel sessions

May 6th, 2012 No comments

The Peel Sessions 1978-79

 

Should funding prevail, the entire collection of John Peel sessions should be online and available by October at ‘the Space’.

Expect Munich band, FSK, the most often invited, favorite non-British band by the British radio legend amongst this archive of rather influential and perhaps skewed time pieces. Learn more here. Here’s the John Peel blog.

 

 

 

 

Categories: hipster music

How blogging changed my life

May 5th, 2012 No comments

 

How blogging changed my life

It didn’t.

Much rather, it allowed me to stay illusive and continue.

Continue into the by far most interesting time, the advertising industry has ever encountered.

 

“Blog like the wind”

Perhaps the most gratifying and amazing thing that will happen is that you will likely come to accept development as a friend.

When I started my career at age 17, I enjoyed a steady balance of confidence either by means of healthy self esteem or trust in god.

Either one would keep me cheerfully moving on.

While in fact it was owning a small regatta sailboat on lake Starnberg, where I grew up, that is to be credited for pleasantry and the healthy life/play balance.

39 years later, I can claim the same, but with a difference.

I now have come to trust development rather.

Even though I currently have no boat of my own nor that of my whilom father, nor much of anything else to show for. 

Development is a friend

Take analytics for instance.

I have no idea what I am looking at when looking at the analytics dashboard.

Two weeks later these same analytics demonstrate how traffic from google uk increased after I had associated myself with a group of people I think highly of in London.

 

How blogging changed my life

Other than for business, I see no use in blogging. A curriculum at best and chronicle of ones business pursuit, blogging makes me want to start from scratch at my own risk, with no money down.

With a budget I’d do tv ads.

 

 

Categories: new advertising

Velocity

May 3rd, 2012 No comments

It's all context. A practical book assisting as guideline for the direction
the authors want our thinking to go




Sucker punch via dead girls tumblr


Successful marketing has recently taught us, that its not our thinking that changes what we do, it’s what we do that changes our thinking.



Velocity

The seven new laws for a world gone digital.

By Ajaz Ahmed and Stefan Olander.

17 years after Nicholas Negroponte published ‘Being Digital’, a marketing book is available starting today with much of the same intention.

It was written with decision makers of big brands in mind.

No step by step instructions are being offered.

It is meant to change the mindsets and direction our thinking is taking in accordance with circumstances.

It’s available
here
starting today.

 

Via Gabriel Beltrone.


 

 

Breathing Animal

May 2nd, 2012 No comments

Breathing Animals

non-breathing animal

 

Breathing Animals by Hungry, hungry Ghost

Find the bands credentials here. More songs here (soundcloud) and here (tumblr)

 

 

 

Categories: hipster music

What our kids are up to

May 1st, 2012 No comments

diy.org

We're a community of kids who make.

 

Kids are ready for this. They’re instinctively scientists and explorers

“65 percent of children entering grade school this year will end up working in careers that haven’t even been invented yet.”

—Cathy N. Davidson, Professorin Duke Universität.

 

“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

 

DIY is a community of kids who make.

Whatever they make, they make in public.

Parent, grandparents have their own dashboard for monitoring.

Thinking does not change what we make, what we make changes our thinking.

 

Here’s how it works today:

  1. DIY kids sign up and get their own Portfolio, a public web page to show off what they make.
  2. They upload pictures of their projects using diy.org or the iOS app.
  3. Kids’ projects are online for everyone to see, you can add Stickers to show support.
  4. You also have your own dashboard to follow their activity and to make sure they’re not sharing anything that should be private.
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    blog.

    @DIY

    Find nice examples of what creative kids came up with by Virginia Lynne over here.