A day in PARIS from Benoit MILLOT on Vimeo.
May 14th, 2010
cool.
April 16th, 2010
Boring old book recommendation . . .
A few books I keep mentioning, thinking about and recommending these past few weeks. Rework is cute and smart, quick, like a powerpoint in hardcover more than anything. Priceless is more academic and wonky, but still well written and alarming in its suggestions. I have changed the way I price products now that I have read it. (And now question how I value everything I purchase.)
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone
Please comment with other books you have been enjoying. Thanks.
March 9th, 2010
Excellent.
Elk Hair Caddis from peter smith on Vimeo.
February 15th, 2010
File this under “nobody cares”
America wins the Americas Cup for first time in 18 years and nobody cares, for now. . . This race was much like The Big Boat vs. Stars & Stripes in 1988 where 2 hideous machines raced for the cup, and then fought even harder in court to win the cup. SDYC won the lawyer battle and that race went down in history as yucky. 2010 appears to have topped the yuckiness with 2 spaceships competing in the shadow of lawsuits. These yachts are awesome to see, but no one did – not even televised in America. BMW Oracle destroyed Alinghi. Alinghi is a yacht from Switzerland. Switzerland is landlocked. Probably the most notable aspects of the race were BMW Oracle Skipper Russell Coutts winning his fourth Americas Cup and BMW Oracle Team Owner Larry Ellison watching his company gobble up Sun Microsystems while sailing in the Med.
There may be hope. Larry Ellison promises to return to monohulls and restore the glory. He has burgeed under the San Francisco Yacht Club but recently purchased a Newport Mansion, so it is likely that 34th Americas Cup will be fought offshore a great American Harbor with a nice suspension bridge. I can’t imagine America won’t shine to the idea of a beautiful yacht defending the cup off our shores. Hopefully the costs, courts and recent lack of interest won’t keep the competition away. My bet is that the Chinese enter the fray.
Now would be the time to lock in a sponsorship while the whole Americas Cup brand is bruised and lonely.
February 5th, 2010
Mediem. Worth the wait
I have been meaning to update my portfolio for sometime, but have been too busy contemplating the iPad’s implications on humanity. Well, I am glad I did – since I started to ponder the idea, my favorite new site and client Mediem has been through several iterations and is now way beyond portfolio-ready. Mediem is a platform for thoughtful online dialoguing. Basically, a clean communication and opinion-sharing user interface that encourages discussion amongst folks from every corner of the globe and of every religion, opinion and thought. Not your typical flame-war-ravaged discussion board.
Couple of things about Mediem, it is really cutting edge; agile-developed in Ruby on Rails by MWKrom, dreamt up by a handful of the smartest folks I know and a complex UI packed into just two elegant screens. This is no social network play, this intellectual-networking at a global level. We are all really proud of the promise, technology and design, please take a moment to check it out.
January 26th, 2010
Dare I?
Stylus. Sketching, drawing, handwriting, notes. And, two handed multi-touch gesturing.
make your own predictions with this handy tool. I think there is an app too.
http://unweary.com/2010/01/prediction-score-card.html
Note that almost none of my predictions are even on the prediction sheet. . .
