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Ain’t them bodies saints

May 25th, 2013 No comments

 

 

Ain't them bodies saints. Film by David Lowery.

 


Ain’t them bodies saints
Written and directed by David Lowery

 

 

 

Categories: awe, motion picture, shared

Between the bars

May 16th, 2013 No comments

 

 

Department of Design and Construction, NYC

New York City Department of Design and Construction DDC

 

Between the bars

A song by Elliott Smith, who had brought the young hipster movement under his spell early on, and who was given great attention to by his audience.

I finally found the mp3 my daughter sent to my mailbox in early 2006. Her voice is translucent, a bit like that of Leslie Feist, yet understandably not as commanding nor trained. Likely though, that Dido knows what she is doing with her voice, it certainly sounds well temperatured. Alex Haager, her musical sidekick knows his stuff and reliably does absolutely fantastic arrangements. I hold him in high regards for his dry humor and brilliant music.

Oh, and Dido can be adventurous, she laughs out loud. Working as a custom designer at the state theater in Linz, Austria, she currently might be convinced to play along at being a good girl and supporting her theatre with great diligence and and two charmingly trained hands at her craft.

 


Between the bars, Elliott Smith Cover von Brown Bear (Dido und Boy Alex)

 

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Continental Quebec

May 10th, 2013 No comments

 

 

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Canada S01E04 Episode 4



Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain “…back before anything before I wrote the book that changed my life from broke ass utility great chef to whatever I am today…”



The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts


 

Sustenance required

“I work super hard at being an excellent dining companion”

“When seeking excellence in a dining compagnion what qualities does one look for?”

“I turn my phone off, I never put my elbows on the table.”

Anthony Bourdain, Frédéric Morin
and David McMillan

 

 

Categories: awe, tv

The captain’s birthday

April 29th, 2013 1 comment

 

 

Captain Haddock and Tintin in The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Meanwhile somewhere in the US.

 

Captain Haddock and Tintin in The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Zooming in on Oregon, which I had thought of being greener
with more of a reliable British drizzle.

 

Happy birthday young sir

Enjoy your day. Speak soon.

 

 

Categories: awe, Own entries

One page wonder

April 15th, 2013 No comments

 

 

One page wonder BudCadell.com

One page wonder BudCadell.com

 


Short and succinct

The bread and butter income of a good bunch of ad agencies is often determined by sales of dynamic brand sites. In the Ninteties fidgety web sites with lots of animations were confused with being dynamic. Back then it was close to impossible to sell web design to brands without flash animation.

 

 

This may not come to you as a surprise

We are getting there, however to date it is common practice at many locations to sell customers dead websites as dynamic.

Today we have learned, that social competence is responsible for dynamism to happen. Websites that have been made sociable like blogs with technology aided ability to support interaction of beings and brands by interpreting and responding to ping backs and references made elsewhere on the web.

Even so, websites are becoming as static as print with no indication of social competence. They are acheaologic findings from the nineties. The web has plenty to show.

Cadell’s credentials site is best practice, revealing construction details for how to build your website today. The site reflects Cadell’s unique personality, including a factual chronicle of the professional and personal timeline of the well reputed strategist at Deutsch agency in Los Angeles. British Guardian lists Cadell as one of 10 strategist, to watch this year (2013).

Ich find principles and reasons why, extremely helpful in getting to know people and companies, here Bud Cadell’s:

  • You grow what you nurture.
  • Empathy will get you further than expertise.
  • No learning should go un-shared.
  • Oxford commas are mandatory.
  • Frustration is a powerful signal.
  • Complexity that isn’t respected is fatal.
  • Anger is expressed helplessness.
  • Beauty is the shortest path to peace.
  • “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

 

I’m cheap

Contradicting my usual recommendation, that of making use of widely spread off-the-shelf software and build websites with WordPress or the blogging software you favor, Cadell’s site is hand coded. That is because he can, he must be surrounded by talented friends and colleagues at Deutsch. Cadell’s knowledge transfer takes place exemplarily supported by WordPress 3.4.1, at What consumes me.

 

One page wonder


One page wonder

 

  • Only what is necessary.
  • Make use of off-the-shelf CMS (i.e. WordPress 3.4.1).
  • Use relative html instructions in percentage not fixed for adaptive design.
  • Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs.
  • Omitt embarrassement.
  • Choosing webfonts and your favicon is a good start.
  • When looking at your design from a distnace makes for an orderly impression of your brand you are good.
  • Make sure you can handle the continuous never ending daily amintenance from within your organisation.
  • The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

 

 

Un rideau social

April 13th, 2013 No comments

 

 

Iggyy Pop

Relaxed, wise and with a healthy self understanding: Iggyy Pop
© Jérôme de Missolz

 

 


There is a curtain that Little Richards voice could rip right through and there is a door, in Alfons Schubeck’s words, that will always swing open

I can name three men, who are pragmatic and according to the situation are opportune, and flexible to know how to deal with it. Iggy Pop, Lemmy Kilmister und Alice Cooper. All three can differentiate business from private life. Since last nights airing of the Garman/French collaborative tv station Arte, viewers know that Iggy Pop didn’t fall prey to all the rockstar crap.

Throughout much of the Nineties, a request came out of Madison Avenue for creatives to be like rockstars, which of course was crap, much like the announcement from that very address, to take on the role of managers aside from the role as art director. Early signs of advertising having lost its way.

Most can agree on a common denominator of being escapists, running away from something, I am born to run from administrational order, I did not attend 8 semesters of art school, to end up an administrator, au contraire.

Performance defines your value to society in the entertainment business, design defines your value in the advertising industry.

With all the social media stuff around, learn to distinguish between performance and privacy. Only socialise with a business objective. Why would you want your cognitive surplus get sucked right out of you?

 

 

40 Years of Music Industry

April 9th, 2013 No comments

 

 

via Digital Music News

Digital Music News has created this gif to let us grasp 40 years of music industry.

40 Years of Music Industry Change, In 40 Seconds or Less... by Paul Resnikoff

2012

 


 

2013

 

Funded! David Dondero’s 2 Albums: A retrospective double folk vinyl record called “Golden Hits Volume 1″ and a new original vinyl album entitled “This Guitar” has exceeded its pledged goal of raising $12,000 on Kickstarter by 876 dollars

Come November 2013, Dondero is releasing 500 copies of his new David Dondero by Elizabeth Bluealbum Album in 180 gram vinyl. The manufacturing will be done through Pirates Press in San Francisco.

The 2nd album entitled “Golden Hits vol. 1″ is a retrospective collection of earlier songs spanning from 1998 to 2011 with a release scheduled for May this spring. Both records include a download card.

Find more insights here.

 

 

 

Oh yes, my younger daughter has worked with Dondero on tour posters, wouldn’t you know.

Boys will be boys

April 7th, 2013 No comments

 

 

Buzz Jong Un by Pau Bonet

Buzz Jong Un. Courtesy of Pau Bonet

 

“Will Korea attack?”

It was {UK}Stingray who asked me, [UT]Onrie during a game of UT99 if North Korea would attack. I said: “No” and the case was settled. At least for now. And it is a relief to know that the US government’s reaction is cool calm collected and that embassies in North Korea such as Germany’s located in Pjöngjang stay put.

 

Buzz Jong Un with Wookie

Buzz Jong Un. Courtesy of Pau Bonet makes
daughter Elizabeth‘s Wookie look pale in comparison or does it?

 

UT99 another challenging game play

How to re-socialize, add social competence and brand yourself with a fun game of Unreal Tournament.

UT99 is a first person shooter computer game with a loyal following and a difference. It is being played in a modded version of the original Unreal Tournament since 1999. Rather than accepting the industry standard of playing soldiers in a hostile environment, the digital athletes organized themselves in the now defunct GMC (giant map clan) movement with their own set of maps and the gravity set low which allows for greater movement and removes the gamers from dragging their feet as experienced in daily life. The players are the size of cockroaches which explains coining the 99 movement movement as GMC.

The maps are not battle fields as the industry has made it a standard, but environments we all are familiar and comfortable with since early childhood. The settings are arenas, the bathroom, the backyard, the patio, the master bedroom and the kids room. Decorated in infantile manner and with badly rendered graphics of 1999.

The gameplay is however likely the fastest and most ferocious around with what likely is the best game engine ever developed.

 

    Unreal Team

      ~Sin~ Clan

        ~ScA~ Boards

         

        What branding can learn from game play

        What to do when your name tag besides the clan tag is the only means to convey an image and make your name known? One name spelled out in all capitals =MoR=POOSTICKS was particular sticky and good reason to become a member of the Leicester family clan MoR. Names such as Storm, ~SiN~Sparks, buggerlugs, mur, Candy, cowbell, Zeisel, ~ScA~ULTROX, SkyDog, Becky, EMPRESS[CK]Amanda, have left me with a long-lasting impression that outperfomrs that of many commercial brand names with enormous budgets.

        There were also clans with a solid understanding of the horrible reputation first person shooter games must have, who took action even with finding proper clan tags to change the reputation and make themselves desirable: {SPORT} and make FPS gamers understood as digital athletes. For one clan, proof of employment was part of their recruitment politics. Beenie’s stoke of genius to form the GMC was an early aggregator example to consolidate the clans in one organisation.

        I learned how social communities work and how it feels to move along digitally long before crap aggregators such as facebook came along. I stopped playing UT99 and re-entered the game as Onrie in a terrible yellow pyjama after that. Now I can play without getting hooked as in smoking a cigarette occasionally.

        Thank you all for making me a more people focused marketing man.

         

         

The 1st Book of Matthew

March 29th, 2013 No comments

 

 

The 1st Book of Matthew

The 1st Book of Matthew

Jesus heals an outlier.



Passion Play

“The Passion Play of Oberammergau” (1898): Only four years after the invention of the first film camera, this movie about the life of Jesus was shot..




Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961

Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961 Source: uploaded by Caltiki on flixster.com


 

 

100 million tumblr blogs

March 28th, 2013 No comments

 

 

freecabinporn.com

Tumblr blog freecabinporn.com: Cabin in Appomattox, Virginia contributed by Jody Johnston



It's cold outside

It’s cold outside via tumblr blog This Isn’t happiness™ by Peteski who’s real name is Peter Nidzgorski



tumblr seal

tumblr’s silly claim

 

100,2

million blogs

44,6

billion entries

167

staff members

About Tumblr.

 

Best practice

How an existing system, that of dominant forerunner WordPress can be outperformed with even simpler user design.

WordPress, currently boasts over 63 million blogs, attracting 382 million people who view 3.6 billion pages per month. The site also claims that its users generate 39.3 million new posts and 41.4 million new comments per month (source: hindustantimes.com).