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Me and a Tree
Search for the ultimate espresso: a video with Kyle of Intelligentsia Coffee
maybe one reason i enjoy espresso so much is the process in which it’s made. quick, violent and desperately precise. people are constantly amazed when i tell them it has less caffeine than regular drip coffee. there is an astounding disconnect between flavor and preparation in this country.
the language is a bit fresh but nothing can hold back swarley mean time.
David Cross & Will Arnett in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (hat tip petersen. zbt what).
this works well when you’re stuck in detroit two hours longer than you wanted to be.
Episode 1 by Clark and Michael
has abc done anything good since? i need to get the guys up on this and A.D.
Larry David guest stars on Hannah Montana
this video essentially intersects in the middle of my life.
Untangling brand and customer experience, in 10 minutes or less
Does the brand define the customer experience, or is the customer experience the brand? Your work may involve both, but you probably attack problems with a bias for one or the other.
a common business problem is not understanding how this works, what makes sense and what is appropriate. not just from a communications stand-point but, really, how you operate and engage across the board.
this is a great video that distills the issue, misconceptions and proper solutions. watch it and you’ll probably want to start reverse engineering your business.
daunting? well, if you can’t take the heat then get out of the kitchen.
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“Time is a material.”
Matt Jones of Berg’s presentation, “All the time in the world” is a springboard into so many interesting avenues regarding time, space and design. Seen here is Michel Gondry’s lo-fi “making of” video for the Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar video.
this can be some pretty heavy stuff if you let it be. matt is one of the guys who works on dopplr. at the heart of all this: as humans, we create context. signals, data, physical things, non-physical things. items that define our existence and and help us function. ”time” is one of those things. pulling from the (great) presentation, at some point in the 17th century, we separated “time” from our existence with the belief that we weren’t connected. it existed on a wholly seperate plane almost dictating existence. when, arguably, it’s the opposite. how do we keep track of “time?”
a clock. a clock that a human created. hopefully, this analogy rings true.
furthermore, matt from february of this year:
I’m still convinced that hereish-and-soonish/thereish-and-thenish are the grain we need to be exploring rather than just connecting a network of the pulsing ‘blue-dot’.
accuracy is a tenant of context. you need something to be mathematically accurate (longitude & latitude) in order to build on top of it but so what if i’m on a street corner somewhere? what am i doing? what have i done? will i be back? what have i done there in the past? will it be happening again?
it happens in the sub-conscious, but we (humans) learn from our interactions with each other. learned behavior. if i’m hanging out with friends, i might expect to do it again in a location and want to include others and at the same time - i’ll tailor what we do based on what we’ve done.
think of networks as vehicles (maybe platforms). am i twittering? no. i’m giving you context.
Cooking Momofuku (via zoe)
“authenticity is overrated.”
success, focus and making something good is, thankfully, subjective and relative.
boring shit comes from trying to please anyone but yourself.
In short, Sutherland argues that we need to start to value intangible, emotional experiences and that marketing, communications and, yes, even advertising can help bring that about. By starting to place importance on experiences and appreciation instead of objects and consumption, we become more sustainable as a society while also becoming more creative as a culture.
