The best film festival of the year is coming up this weekend.
This is what I got at the end of the bARTer evening. It's now appropriately hanging in my kitchen. I dig it. Painted by Coquille.
This here is a Taiwanese hot pepper sprouting in a tin communist propaganda cigarette box. The piece, entitled "Budding Communism" was created for the first bARTer event.
Here's how it went down for the auction of "Budding Communism" piece I created.
A photo-op before Saha turns mr. Hello over to public bidding.
LINK bradkayal.com »
a good lookin’ portfolio site.
LINK Jonathan Coulton »
"He set a quixotic goal for himself: for the next year, he would write and record a song each week, posting each one to his blog."
LINK Loads of business card designs »
on Flickr.
I'm not sure what this was all about, but it doesn't make me want to buy more Jamba Juice if it was a PR move. Unlikely to be an Imrpov Everywhere mission with the full-on costumes. Any guesses?
LINK The Secret of Apple Design »
Yet another design article about Apple. Might be interesting to read on a rainy day.
Quite possibly the best show ever. We were as close as you can get to the stage. And then, we were on the stage. Videos and more photos to follow.
Old School: My first live Arcade Fire experience was when I saw them play at Stubb's in Austin, TX in 2005. They were something special then, but they've gone done it now.
The decor of the evening.
The 2nd best seat of the house. Right next to the best seat in the house. (thanks, Karen!)
LINK The modern living interiors (Flickr) »
LINK No One Belongs Here More Than You »
"A night in which Miranda July and her friends Becky Stark and David Byrne gather together to create a feeling of belonging."
LINK The Ball's in Your Cubicle (WSJ.com) »
I’m thinking getting a couple of these to supplement our surprisingly uncomfortable, but pricey Herman-Miller chairs.
Seen in Carroll Gardens, it reads: "Hi Geoff, can I live under your coat?"
Applying for a service mark can be a long, slow process--but if your application gets approved, you'd get an official-looking document like this one we got for Harvest.
We took some time out to shift some things around in our office. »
LINK Neave.tv ...An Eye for Annai »
A channel of interesting, short animations.
LINK Unstoppable »
The NY Times tips its hat to the fixed-gear bike culture here in NYC. The interactive feature is a must see.
LINK Keyport »
A beautifully designed all in one key fob. Currently in pre-production.
LINK New York Uke Fest »
Thanks to the latest issue of the New Yorker for tipping me off about this interesting festival that’s happening this weekend.
LINK Tiny Showcase »
Tiny artwork picked out fresh weekly and for sale.
In the latest issue of Fortune magazine, the cover story takes a look at how Bloomberg LP operates. The company aligns its employees on its business goals through prominent displays of sales metrics placed around the office:
There are close to 9,400 employees at Bloomberg, and all would cheer that analyst’s fidelity to the product. That’s because the company has a highly unusual compensation system that ties employee pay directly to the sale of terminals – or more precisely, to net installations, or “net installs.”
The concept behind this system is that everyone at the company should be driving toward only one goal: selling more Bloombergs. To underscore that point, large electronic signs hanging from the ceilings in the Bloomberg offices report progress on both sales and installations. Bells ring to mark a sale – multiple times if the news justifies it.
These displays, while very simple, help keep everyone in the office aware of the company’s overall performance and how they might be contributing to the company’s overall growth.
Knowing your numbers, and sharing some of those numbers with your employees, is a good motivator for everyone. So whether for your business it’s users, subscriptions, units sold, or page views, setting up a big display to share within the company can be fun and rewarding. Here at the studio, we’ll be setting up an always-on display to keep us mindful of our Harvest numbers. »
- Kurt Vonnegut. »
Seth Godin answering the (cheeky) question, What does it take to be the best? »
LINK Time Tracking for Small Business on Squidoo »
A little experiment.
Interesting. I'm glad I'm on the East Coast.
LINK WorkbookProject »
"A social open source experiment for content creators"
LINK Is It Better to Buy or Rent? »
An interactive calculator from NY Times.