May 2009
10 posts
Loving these photos from Peter Funch - multiple shots from the same vantage point then overlayed on one another http://bit.ly/16tNn7
April 2009
60 posts
City Island - really excellent film, check it on Friday or Sunday downtown if you can #tff
Checking out City Island at the film festival #tff
Really need to see Band of Horses, The Shins and Bon Iver play live this year http://bit.ly/CZGIB
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Bands to see in 2009
I have been thinking hard about this for the last week or two - there are a few bands that I really need to see in 2009 that I have never seen before. Bands whose music I have been listening too a lot over the last few months, but I have not managed to see live until now.
Band of Horses are a band I have wanted to see for some time - the album above, everything all the time, has been constantly...
Who says that twitter is not going to achieve magical things? http://bit.ly/dYCPF
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Starting the sales process early
There are many varied elements to starting up a business, all of which should be careful planned and well executed. It is all too easy to spend all of your teams time in building and developing the product at the early stages - overlooking other equally important parts of the process, most of which can have a similar impact on your chances of success.
Sales is a classic example of this. If you...
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WatchAnother stunning piece of work commissioned by the enlightened folks over at Nike, this time produced by AKQA. The animation used here is efficient and playful, and the scene transition and extended length put a great story together.
Check the transition into night around 3.35 - really nice imagery. And a great soundtrack provided by Caribou as well. I will be checking out more of their stuff for...
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What does America think?
Ken and I officially began work today on the first demo version of our intuitionbox by figuring out the specifics of a really interesting project with Nicholas. I will talk more about this project over the coming weeks (it should end up being delivered this summer), but as with many new pieces of work, it began with a really hard question to solve.
We want to capture what Americans think about...
Where can I find an overview of the best films playing at the Tribeca festival?
Visualizing data over breakfast with @kenreisman and @feltron
Paying respects at the ANZAC dawn memorial service
Butch Cassidy outside at the world financial center. What a great movie.
to date i have really only followed friends, peers and colleagues on twitter. and then i found @creepytweet. brilliant.
Love people on the subway clearly nodding along to dub music, but with no iPod or headphones.
Did a surreal interview with the FT today on corporates using twitter. Remember now why I haven’t read their technology column in a while.
I keep thinking that the little icon of a man advertising the Google Video Chat is @LocalStops. No idea why, looks nothing like him.
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Amuso TriviaStar
Congratulations to Barak and the team today on launching TriviaStars over at Amuso.
Trivia was one of the first game show concepts that Barak, Jordi and I discussed building when we started Amuso back in the fall of 2006. It is such a compelling proposition, and seemed like the perfect gateway into pay-to-play gaming. As often happens in start-ups, priorities change and new challenges crop up -...
Yep, greatest game ever. comedy of errors at the back from both sides. All the goals here for those in the US: http://bit.ly/TzQ1H
What an unbelievable game between Liverpool and Arsenal - is this the best Premier League season of all time? http://bit.ly/lS7cH
Nice find @rellimluap - single best 5min collection of street bike tricks I have seen: http://bit.ly/2uddcG
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Watching Synedoche, NY and literally losing my mind. PSH craziness!
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Dinner for 12 Australians. Why do they all know each other? Need more poloroid film asap
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Understanding connections
I have been thinking a lot about data visualization recently, driven predominantly by a project that I am working on with my friend Ken. We are working on a great project to help brands really understand what their users think of them, using some complex analysis techniques coupled with some bleeding-edge data visualization work.
As I have started to understand this field more I have come...
Of Montreal in Brooklyn. Like seeing David Bowie circa 1975 I imagine
The incredible www.1000awesomethings.com quite rightly nominated for a Webby, please help Neil win by voting: http://pv.webbyawards.com/www.1000awesomethings.com quite rightly nominated for a Webby, please help Neil win by voting: http://pv.webbyawards.com/
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Kudos - 1000 Awesome Things
Its been a while since I did a blog shout-out, but is was thinking recently that it was high time, and I had exactly the blog in mind. It turns out the timing is perfect, as I’ll come to in a second.
Neil is a guy that I met in school and now works in Corporate Canada, writing 1000 Awesome Things in his spare time. The blog deals with what you would expect - lots and lots of amazing...
Everything that is great about NYC, real voices and real opinions. An exceptional piece of creative http://bit.ly/kPil
Ultimately, everything can be reduced to math. Love some of these equations for life: http://bit.ly/yU7Ju
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WatchWhat an exceptional piece of creative video work this is. Gloriously capturing the essence of what makes NYC the greatest city in the world, using the voices and perspectives of the people themselves.
Spend some time checking out some of the other work that London Squared has done - expecting great things from this pair.
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Dujeous - track of the year?
Think Breaking Bread might be the track of the year so far. Now we just need some summer time to go with it. Dujeous are going to be flaming hot.
Catch them at Webster Hall later in the month.
now this is a great concept - hope the idea catches on, its lovely http://bit.ly/ymt9
Talking tickets, tagging and migrant workers with Fred. There are way to many new businesses that need building right now
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Proven entities
Great data released today over at Business Week on how venture capital has been getting along over the last few months since the financial crisis began.
I get asked two questions pretty frequently by friends here: 1) how has VC been affected by the crisis? and 2) how does it change your appetite and excitement for being an entrepreneur?
The figures released today clearly show that the crisis...
I get happy ever time someone sells me a ticket to a sold out show at face value.
Great work @NimaPourshasb with the launch of www.studenx.com, excited to see how that develops. Tell all students!
$9.99 for 40 Yorkshire Tea bags. You cannot put a price on that type of piece of mind.
Enjoyed adventureland but weird without michael cera? Momofuku cookies instead
breathing life into trout with @bantic
At Objectified screening, someone is wearing a replica lord of the rings ring. Interesting design statement.
Is there a service that can auto-tweet when i buy concert tickets from ticketmaster? That would be awesome.
Who says that Vanilla Ice hasn’t still got it? Here he is with a bigger crowd than The Killers at a festival in Melbourne http://bit.ly/Fxa
Dinner at the towers talking about mouse killing and JayZ’s new garden.
Watching new technology develop and meet initial stumbling blocks, this time face recognition in iPhoto http://bit.ly/G4ws
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Bishop Allen
Hit 20 shows for the year with Bishop Allen on Saturday night, and it was really one of the best. In my mind, Bishop Allen have all the songs and swagger of Vampire Weekend, but for some reason a fraction of the recognition. They played a great set to a mostly full MHOW that did a nice job of demonstrating the energy that they embody.
It was great to hear Rain and Click, Click, Click, Click -...
Thought-provoking guest post from @johngeraci over at o’reilly on the future of cities http://bit.ly/14xFa
Fantastic piece of creative work from the NFL - I wonder what is real and what is not http://bit.ly/bwQ9k (nice spot @SeventySeven)