December 2012
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November 2012
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Oh, How Pinteresting!: Verifying Your Website →
pinterblog:
Today, we’re launching a new feature called website verification! This feature lets you verify that you own the website on your Pinterest profile.
To verify your website, visit your Settings page and click on the Verify Website button. Currently, we only support top-level domains, such as…
October 2012
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“To me the company is about putting together pieces of the puzzle, not about...”
– Tim Cook via Fortune #APPL
Ad guy wonders why artist friend isn't rich and... →
““Art, while feeding off the economics of its time, has to be independent...”
– http://www.newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2011/11/17/antony-gormley-interview/#
Nigel Paul's Tumblr: Used Suits - A Parable →
nigelpaul:
Based on a true story. There was once a man, Jack, who lived in a run-down bungalow surrounded by overgrown grass and weeds. One day, a man named Mr. Jones was wondering what to do with his used suit. Goodwill? A used-clothes bin somewhere? “I know, I’ll give this suit to Jack,” Mr. Jones said….
Looper Director Makes Downloadable Commentary for... →
ericalba:
More directors should do this.
Great idea
“1. Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil...”
– 10 rules of writing from Margaret Atwood (via explore-blog)
August 2012
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WatchChalk animation drawn in-camera frame by frame. It took our drawing team of 3 two days and a week of preproduction. Happy with the end result. Airing on Quebec TV.
July 2012
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June 2012
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May 2012
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WatchAlgonquin College Chalk Mural Timelapse
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April 2012
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American Illustration Award!
American Illustration selected my Holiday Essentials poster to be in it’s 31st annual book. Thanks to those in the distinguished jury who voted for it! Hopefully I’ll see you at the Party in NY in November. Anyone planning on going?
Jury: Jen Bekman, 20x20; Steven Charny, Rolling Stone; Mia Song, Men’s Health; John Gall, Random House; Aviva Michaelov, The New York Times;...
January 2012
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December 2011
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“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
– James Whistler (via elclinto)
November 2011
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Apple's Core Marketing Principles
Empathy
An intimate connection with the feelings of a customer. We will truly understand their needs better than any company
Focus
in order to do a good job on the things we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
Impute
People form an opinion about a company or a product based on the signals it conveys. People do judge a book by it’s cover. We may have the...
October 2011
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MMMinimal Tumblr theme →
Used by the brilliant Mark Porter Associates.
September 2011
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Artists and Rewards
If an artist strives for excellence in their work, economic rewards proportionate to the value that work delivers should be attached. Artists having stable finances means they can then safely create other forms of value that may not pay well like: helping good causes, spreading joy and making their neighbourhood a nicer place to live.
Sometimes markets exploit artist’s work and offer low...
August 2011
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Unadventure as creation →
bobulate:
Eno on unadventure:
“In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person,” Mr. Eno said. “I take the same walk every day and I eat in the same restaurants, and often eat exactly the same things in the same restaurants. I don’t adventure much except when I’m in the studio, and then I only want to adventure. I cannot bear doing something again, or thinking that I’m doing something again.”
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June 2011
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