Vail
While in Vail, Colorado last week I went biking on the mountain with a few relatives. Was on my old school Rivendell with minimal suspension. Nonetheless, it was a blast.
Biking with GPS
Yesterday I took a short 16 mile ride on my old Rivendell. I had my Blackberry and tracked the route with the built in GPS and Mobile Tracker. I’ve always been quite interested in information design and visualization so it’s with great pleasure that I am able to get this kind of visualization with off-the-shelf tools.
Esther Dyson
On the eve before my first trip to the USA in over a year, I am enjoying a television free evening watching a very enlightening interview of Esther Dyson on Charlie Rose. One of the more enlightening sections is the discussion about Facebook and presence. In quoting Mark Zuckerberg:
The other guys they think communication is a way to get information. And we think information is a way to foster communication between people.
What I like best is the focus on people and not on technology. Technology is just a tool for the people – a means to an end.
Hamburg
A project from ca. 1999 done together with Franziska.
Anamoly
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
As quoted by Anamoly via Business Week – Anamoly is an agency that is taking a different approach to compensation for their ideas and one that I find giving some deeper thought. I first read about this business (model) while working at Fork and thought we should have given it a go. Perhaps as creative agencies move forward, and are more accountable for their actions, instead of a win at Cannes, we’ll see this develop further. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Packaging Speaks for Itself
New looks for a Pepsi brand: the many faces of Mountain Dew.
In a media fragmented world, the packaging will speak for itself. The NY Times explores the world of funky fast moving consumer good (FMCG) packaging:
“The media is fragmented, and we can’t find people — we can’t get them to sit down and listen to our argument on a television spot,” said Jerry Kathman, chief executive of LPK, a brand agency based in Cincinnati. “The package can convey that argument.”
Which pertains to what I mentioned to a potential client last week in reference to his rather average looking packaging.
Image via Lars Klove for The New York Times
links for 2007-08-01
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YouTube and Presidential hopefuls. Who would have thought this could happen. It’d be great to see the Republicans follow up on this.