Few months back I got excited about Candy Chang’s street art project “I Wish This Was“. New Orleans post Katrina is full of vacant storefronts and people who need things so Chang created fill-in-the-blank stickers, available to the residents to articulate their wishes and stick them on different places. It’s a fun, low-barrier tool/platform for [...]
Very few things on the internet bring me more joy (ok and jealousy too) than passionate individuals doing something genuinely cool and get the attention and love that brands can only dream of. Advanced Style is going for 2 years apparently and I only discovered it now. Meet Ari Seth Cohen My name is Ari [...]
Mindblowing read from the New Yorker “And though history has made us self-conscious in order to enhance our survival prospects, we still have deep impulses to erase the skull lines in our head and become immersed directly in the river. I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you [...]
Read this and this for better context (Oh wait! don’t go read them as you’ll never come back to read this post – that’s what this post is all about) My experience tells me that almost always when two competing arguments trying to describe a reality, the ‘truth’ is somewhere in the middle. In case [...]
Some beautiful things coming up my stream related to the x-box kinect. We know from previous examples that great unexpected things can come from an open system that allows you freedom and play. Not sure if Microsoft had that on the Kinect business strategy (imagine a platform like the app store where developers can create [...]
So proud to have the folks of Divine Chocolate as friends and clients
Not too often you see a product, an innovation that is so simple and brilliant you want to hug the people behind it. That’s exactly what Tegu makes me feel. Tegu is a fledgling, positive, green Toy Company. It’s an honest company doing a world of good in all kinds of meaningful ways by creating [...]
So I finally got some time to breath and tell you a little bit about what I’ve been up to recently. #newbaby #newjob #etc. As some of you may know, few months ago I went my own way and founded Bench & Friends. What started initially as a tax evasion (read: optimisation) exercise – (going [...]
By Eric Yahnker Note: I have another social media related post on draft but my (new) rule is to never have two successive social media related posts otherwise I will really start not liking myself and this blog. So this is sort of a place-holder / buffer post. I hope you like Eric Yahnker. More [...]
I’m increasingly getting bored to death from 100+ slides plannery presentations on The Future of Advertising (or Planning for the New World, or something like that) that keep springing every other day yet don’t really do much beyond recycling the same materials that’s been around for well over 5 years. (Sorry Aki, , nothing personal, [...]