Friday, December 10, 2010

Empire State of Mind

A couple of weeks ago I took the (awesome) Acela Express up to NYC for the ME* Conference. Hosted by Ad Age, the conference confronted the evolution of media as it becomes more digitally focused and personalized. Needless to say, I was in amazing company. If I was more of a big wig, I may have recognized a few more people in the audience, but I did see the Media Director and President of The Martin Agency, and heard several questions being asked from the head of digital at Hearst International. I mean check out this single panel:

Besides being trapped in the beautiful Metropolitan Pavilion all day, I was able to meet my Uncle Al in the city for a wonderful dinner of tapas and wine at Boqueria in Chelsea. Apparently, I did not know dessert like I thought I did because there may not be anything better in the world than Churros con Chocolate.
Image borrowed from hollydanger

He also leant me Seth Godin's new book, Linchpin, which I'm now reading furiously. I love a good motivational business book read admist heart breaking novels.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Fan-crafts-tic!...Does that work?

Austin got this:


So I did this:
Thanks for the inspiration Effortless-Style

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Beauty in books


Currently reading another of Jonathan Safran Foer's books: Everything is Illuminated. His writing in this book is strickingly different than his writing in Extremely Close...but I can sense the similarities. He writes from an uncomfortable perspective-in ECIL, it's an (I'm assuming) autistic's 10-year-old mourning point-of-view. In Everything is Illuminated, it is from the POV of a young Ukranian who takes on English as a second language. Read the first paragraph:
"My legal name is Alexander Perchov. But all of my many friends dub me Alex, beause that is a more flaccid-to-utter version of my legal name. Mother dubs me Alexi-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always speening her. If you want to know why I am always spleeing her, it is because I am always elsewhere with friends, and disseminating so much currency, and performing so many things that can spleen a mother"
I think the uncomfortable produces beauty.

Some of the next books on my list:
Beauty from a cover..
 Beauty from the unknown..
 Beauty from experiences..