http://earbuds.popdose.com/will/KylieMinogue/NickCave%20-%20Where%20The%20Wild%20Roses%20Grow.mp3?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/521165580/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l0uprdKhPC1qatcg0?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fearbuds.popdose.com%2Fwill%2FKylieMinogue%2FNickCave%2520-%2520Where%2520The%2520Wild%2520Roses%2520Grow.mp3
Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave. One of the oddest pairings ever. I find this song so satisfying, though.
*DISCLAIMER* This is very much a freewheeling random post. Don’t read it if you want something data-driven or “productive”.
Also, none of this takes into account the fact that there are genetic traits that may or may not lead to compatible dispositions. I’m more interested in the notion of circumstance. I’m also using zero data to back up these claims. Just musing. If a number of people are trapped in an elevator for long enough, they will eventually become close, and comfortable, and even friends. When you put a bunch of young boys on a sports team together, they tend to become close friends. The majority of the people I care most about are those from my various institutions, be they schools or places of employment. What I’m getting at: I think family works because people, when given no other option, due to circumstances forcing them together, not only connect with each other, but learn to like, and to love, and to share their lives and hearts. If you have no choice but to talk to someone, and if you suffer and triumph with them, and you are both equally (or relatedly) helpless to circumstance, that binds you! At that point you have no excuse not to not only be kind, but to be friends, with the people around you. The only reason more people in the world aren’t connected is because we’re really good at making excuses for it. I don’t buy that “your social network caps at 150 people” crap for a second. I’m sorry, maybe I’m an optimist (or a social media addict). Anyway, back to life.
-K
http://www.carnivalsaloon.com/audio/macktheknife.mp3?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/520130567/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l0uqcjtTHJ1qatcg0?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carnivalsaloon.com%2Faudio%2Fmacktheknife.mp3
I first encountered this song watching “Un Prophete” an excellent Audiard movie that some call the “anti-Shawshank”. I said out loud, when I heard it. “Wow. Jimmie Dale Gilmore? Get outta town.”
Groupon just raised a round at a $1.2B valuation. http://tcrn.ch/dg8DHo That is so not small.
This is just perfect. (Hat tip @adampritzker)
“Infographic” (by Phil Gyford, repurposed under a by-nc-sa Creative Commons licence). Previously.
no offense to my infographic creator friends (you know who you are). this is just funny.
100th Tumblr post is in honor of one of the greats, Jackie Wilson. Here’s “To Be Loved.”
I was talking to a friend earlier today about how design thinking, and designers in general, are so incredibly critical to addressing the dynamic needs of consumers in a market where we’re getting increasingly inundated with products, not all of which solve new problems. As the iPad has proved – well, is proving – and as I’ve mentioned before, there isn’t necessarily a convergence where a panacea product emerges to solve all of our fire hose problems at once. There may not even be a suite of products. But there will be a few big winners, and the rest of the businesses in media, entertainment, and networking will be very lightweight, solving simple problems unobtrusively, and that clearly will require the birth of a design revolution on the internet. But I’ve got my concerns.
Bessemer Venture Partners has a “Designer-in-Residence”. IDEO is the talk of the town lately in terms of approaching problem solving in business. MIT Media Lab and Stanford d.school are teeming with venture capitalists, waiting to see the products that come out of their work.
But through all of this, and I’m only speaking from my experience and access, both of which are limited, where are the entrepreneurs? Where are the designers’ businesses? It seems to me like our designers are stuck in a pattern of talking about ideas, and then building for others, and then talking about ideas, and then building others, ad infinitum. Where’s the building for themselves component? A designer at the executive helm might make some inspired, creative decisions. Why isn’t that happening?
Exception: Inspiring entrepreneurs like my good friend Emily Pilloton are Executing. And kicking ass. She’s not doing it on the internet, though. Where are the web design entrepreneurs? Would the Tumblr guys qualify?
Marvin Gaye and the Pixies. Like Disney movies, I usually think mash-ups are the easy way out. And like Disney movies, I nearly always find them enjoyable. This one especially so.
Bruce Lee playing ping pong. ’[this video’s] so dope, it shoulda came with two syringes.’
Musings 