“LOST IN YOUR PLASTIC” – 10 YEARS OF PREFUSE 73′S ‘ONE WORD EXTINGUISHER’ nice read about a truly underrated modern master, and a seminal work of his. {personal note saw him at possibly the smallest venue i’ve even seen him play, this past year. whats gives when mediocre copycats of his style headline festivals and […]
Once upon a time, being a “diehard fan” meant buying a band’s album, show ticket, T-shirt, limited edition signed LP — anything your earnings would allow. Today the term can have a very different meaning. You can be a “diehard” by blogging about everything the band puts out, posting links to your Facebook wall, re-Tweeting […]
Nonprofit arts groups tend to spend much of their time scrounging for grants and praying for corporate largesse. But one art foundation taking shape on 120 acres in the high oak chaparral of Sonoma County has different kinds of worries these days: spider mites, bud rot and the occasional low-flying surveillance visit from the local […]
originally created as an energy source in remote areas (ie The Arctic). Like conventional wind turbines, MARS uses magnetic induction to produce energy, but the difference comes with increased altitude. Catching wind 800 feet higher than its traditional counterparts, there’s much less resistance and greater wind speed, ultimately allowing the MARS access to a superior […]
“Corporate employees worked with medical opinion leaders, ran surveys aimed at portraying the problem as widespread and helped create the diagnostic instruments to persuade women that their sexual difficulties deserved a medical label. But sex problems in women are far more complex than they are in men, encompassing lack of desire, lack of arousal and […]
Only people matter “They matter more than clients, more than teams, more than fancy buildings, smart suits or posh titles; they matter even more than the ideas. Great ideas are just what happen when the right people are put together and organized (or not) in the right way. The only role of agency management is […]
Finally, SEPTA isn’t shitting the bed… Vehicles without regenerative braking are throwing away a lot of energy every time they brake (movement is converted into heat via friction on the brake pads). Hybrid and electric car address that problem by capturing as much of that energy as possible and converting it into electricity, and the […]
“All of these things lead to only one place, a fully wide open well bore directly to the oil deposit…after that, it goes into the realm of “the worst things you can think of” The well may come completely apart as the inner liners fail. There is still a very long drill string in the […]
If we were starting this whole office thing today, it’s inconceivable we’d pay the rent/time/commuting cost to get what we get. I think in ten years the TV show ‘the Office’ will be seen as a quaint antique. article nipped from PSFK
Earle Brown and I spent several months splicing magnetic tape together. We sat on opposite sides of the same table. Each of us had a pattern of the splicing to be done,
“Let’s remove the ad spaces and use the real estate better. When we receive an RFP for advertising, our first internal conversation is around what we would do for a brand if we didn’t have advertising space. This leads to us proposing far more innovative and engaging brand fueled experiences that, if they work correctly, not […]
real words real speech real scarey LOUISIANA GODDAMN article nipped from TWBE damn fine work