Friday, October 01, 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Next: The Social Media Restaurant

Next: The Social Media Restaurant Neat idea. Assuming the food is good. Check that. Assuming the food is outstanding.

The Great Creative Suck

folks in the industry face all sorts of challenges when it comes to keeping their creative juices flowing. Myopic clients...meddling managers...and people in general who feel the need to finger f*ck a project to death.

But nothing is as daunting, and challenging as....children.

My son Paul just turned a year old...and man, is he awesome. Like any parent, I think my kid is the shiz, and I'm happiest when we're kicking it together, bouncing footballs off the dogs heads, making weird noises and generally having a great time.

But with the good, comes the bad...like sleepless nights, mad rushes to get to day-care before they start the meter and making organic mac-n-cheese while my off-spring stickes odd objects in his mouth. This combo...plus the daily sausage grind that is advertising can suck you dry.

My reading time...both in the trades, blogs and for pleasure...has vanished. Thursday and Friday night ventures to galleries, readings and theaters have been replaced by a bottle of $10-vino and sleep. And as a result...my ability to think conceptually has been replaced by a plodding, linear approach to, well, just about everything.

Any tips out there? Any industry vets that can throw this old dog a bone. There's only so much caffeine a man can take...

cheers.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Swoon: Swimming Cities of Serinissima Fundraiser

source: Cool Hunting

Swimming Cities of Serenissima, international street and installation artist Swoon's floating art project, is the kind of undertaking that puts it in … more

Monday, April 27, 2009

Airstream x MINI Cooper S Clubman x Republic of Fritz Hansen

source: Cool Hunting

For someone raised traveling in a converted bus like myself, this new Republic of Fritz Hansen-designed Airstream and coordinating modified MINI Coope… more

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Rocawear Mobile RocPopShop

source: Cool Hunting

by Tamara Warren Taking the temporary retail concept to a mobile level, Jay-Z recently collaborated with architect David Ashen of D-ash on a tricked-o… more

Thursday, April 09, 2009

BEST COMPANY EVER

Great shizzle from my friend(s) at BEST CO EVER.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Boxed Water Is Better

source: Cool Hunting

With Boxed Water Is Better, the only thing you're really consuming is the water itself. A new brand—and concept—Boxed Water has successfully taken the… more

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Sixth Sense from TED

Three Exceptional Scotches

source: Cool Hunting

We're not Irish enough to know if it's total sacrilege to drink scotch for St. Patrick's day festivities, but we've had the good fortune of being awas… more

Friday, March 13, 2009

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source: Cool Hunting

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/03/_would_you_live.php

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Audi Annual Report

Caught this over on PSFK.com

http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/audi-posts-record-profits-unleashes-interactive-annual-report.html

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source: Cool Hunting

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/03/formation_iphon.php

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Limited-Edition Graphic Levi's 501 Jeans

source: Cool Hunting

Levi's recently released a limited-edition series of four pairs of jeans featuring vibrantly colored graphics. Geometric prints in red, blue, orange a… more

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Monterey Bay Shores Eco-Development

source: Cool Hunting

This spectacular design—still in the works—aims to convert a desolate desert, into a thriving environmental preserve and eco-resort. The building inco… more

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Europeans are cooler than us

Well...some will argue that England is not Europe...but you know what I'm talking about.

http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=767f67de

Monday, February 23, 2009

The Value of Free

Is free-dom killing America?

A very good business man once said, "if it's free, it has no value."

I look around at sharing that the Web 2.0 environment has created and I wonder if the "free" exchange of ideas, technology and information is what's killing the economy.

Think about it...back in the day, if you had a great idea, or figured out how to do something better than someone else, you packaged it up and sold it.

Now, people are developing technology, sharing information, providing services...all for free. And as stated above...if it's free, does it have value.

Take Google. I get on Google at work, type in the name of a company I saw over the weekend and get the scoop. I don't click on any ads...I don't buy anything, and the only "cost" is that of my company to the internet provider. Google gets nothing.

I really don't know where I'm going with this yet...but it seems to me that free nature of our economy is currently crashing on itself. and maybe what we need is less 'free-dom'...

sPb

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Renzo Rosso: Diesel Planet Store Fifth Avenue

source: Cool Hunting

Fresh off a smoke, Renzo Rosso sat down with us to answer a few questions about Diesel's newest and largest Planet store on swanky Fifth Avenue in NYC… more

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

LVHRD ARCHDL V

source: Cool Hunting

Pitting two architecture firms against each other in a timed construction duel, LVHRD sets the scene for another one of their infamous creative compet… more

Monday, February 16, 2009

Fastest Weiner in the West


My boy Ralphie defended is Weiner Dog racing title yesterday. I hope to have some action shots soon...but here he is chilln' pre-race with Lala