1. And the winner is… (Why prizes work, and why they don’t) Amid all the crowdsourcing discussion – whether things like CrowdSpring are good for creativity or not – there’s an interesting thing happening at the upper end of the innovation “market”, where big businesses (Netflix) and big investors (the X Prize folks) are offering up […]
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Love the blazer. These kids are great. Sharing some moonshine. Gorgeous shot. Old Spice! Strapping in. “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” What an image. And one of my favorite scenes in the movie: the under-deck character-development/scary part. I love these. Dudes, sharing booze and wounds. Scary. And I never noticed the glow before. Singin’. Brody’s spooked. Rightfully so. OM NOM NOM. Dudes now recognizing that they’re screwed. And […]
Screengrabs of movies, I think, are particularly powerful bits of culture. Just as humor is a good way for a group of people to decide who’s in and who’s out (laugh at my joke, you’re in the group…don’t laugh, you’re out), cinematic bits are extraordinarily rich nuggets to help define groups and meaning. And on top […]
Oh, Eli Cash. What a character. Where’s that red one gonna go? I love movie screengrabs.
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As a result of my work lately, which seems to get busier, more interesting and generally better by the day, I have nothing additional to blog about. So hopefully I can get back into this good habit by pointing to interesting, if random things. 1. Lessin’s Law, Jarvis’ Corollary + My Thoughts I’ve always been a big […]
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Alex and I got accepted at Web 2.0 Expo, and in that fit of excitement, we came up with an idea for a SXSW talk. We’re calling it: “People are Stupid, and How to Fix Them.” Our over-dry description of the discussion: There is nothing more certain than our ability to mess things up. We repeatedly make […]
New project! Falernum. Falernum is a sweet, multi-layered essential syrup for tiki drinks, combining the flavors of allspice, clove, nutmeg, ginger, almond, and lime into one delicious fluid. And you can make it at home! Based on a recipe from Kaiser Penguin, I’m combining a handful of allspice, 50 or so cloves, two nutmegs (all toasted in […]
Whoa. This blog is four years old. I can say now, looking back, that starting this blog was the best decision I’ve ever made in my career. The day I started it, I was an Account Executive at a 5-person advertising agency in the West Loop of Chicago. I had very little idea what I was […]
I coulda sworn I wrote about this video a while back, but it seems that I was mistaken. Cordyceps is by far the coolest fungus genus I’ve ever seen. It’s also perhaps the most disgusting. Some highlights from the video: Cordyceps is a genus of parasitic fungi that tend to infect insects; the spores of the fungus, once […]
Woo woo! We’re going on two months! If you don’t know how it works… you better ask somebody. Or just send me your charts via Twitpic, yFrog, Flickr, email, whatever. Bud drops some knowledge. Mike talks etiquette. Sam Chotiner, our newest Undercurrenter, describes a hotly debated topic from last night’s beer-ing session. Mark explains how to make a million dollars. I […]
