Archive for July, 2007

Portland

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

In honor of my current stay in my hometown I’d like to share a few things about the fabled Rose City. Despite the crazy attention over the past few years it’s always been a damn good place to reside or spend extended time. Here’s why:
Forest Park
McMenimins, local micros in general & oregon wines
Portland Saturday Market
The [...]

TED & Blog Inspiration

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlBTxuWCuL8

Straight from the source, here’s the word on blogging via a great personal speech from Mena Trott who with her husband founded Six Apart. Six Apart has produced Moveable Type and Typepad among others and they’ve been credited with helping heft the ’social media’ revolution. Her take on her own expertise is a great primer [...]

Imagination = 193 Miles

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Two extremes of imagination hit me today that I thought worth sharing. It’s amazing in the creative industry how much time goes into ideas that spring from various angles. Then with enough effort (and belief) on the backend how those ideas actual get shaped into useful and/or appropriate outputs. At least that’s what we’d all [...]

Point & Shoot

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

With our day of indepence in front of us here in the US and far too many freedom issues across the world today paramount it seems only appropriate to highlight imagery loosely based on that. Our friends at Magnum have put together a powerful video called Point & Shoot of work and voice by Philip [...]