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August 28, 2007
A while back, I asked if any one could identify a quote that I had scribbled down. I’d forgotten where I’d gotten it from. The quote was:
“Some of the best inventive moments were born out of ‘wrong thinking.’ Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong […]
August 15, 2007
Marian Salzman is EVP, JWT Worldwide, and co-author and author of lots of books about modern culture including Next Now, published in December 2006 by Palgrave.
She’s flown hundreds of thousands of miles, met hundreds of hundreds of people via market research exercises, and reads numerous newspapers electronically in a given week. In fact, we […]
Lowlife Perpetrates Art: 5 Greatest Art Heists and Scams of All Time
Everybody likes art in some form or another. In fact, some like it so much, they’ll do anything they can to get their grubby hands on it. Here are six instances where the best of human artistry brought out the worst of human […]
August 10, 2007
Here’s a fun little project we learned about through photojojo.com
If you’ve got three digital cameras (or a phone with a camera) and some time to kill, you can create your own “Digital Picasso.” It’s some scary cubism.
Step 1: Find a couple digital cameras. (Ideally with large screens.)
Step 2: Hold each camera closely over a crucial […]
August 2, 2007
If you are hitting the beach this summer, or just need a new fun book, we’d suggest The Word It Book by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit. It’s a very cool collection of words interpreted in a graphic image.
Check it out here.
Or, if you have something that you’d like to get off your chest, we […]
