click on the link to more pictures! I love this, but a darn shame i could not eat a texas! maybe a delaware!
Nothing puts a bigger smile on my face than finding art in unlikely places. Take steak for instance: who could ever conceive to mold meat into shapes?
I personally think if you love something too much then you start expecting more…. a kindle fan decide they wanted to push the little train. 
What you see there is a Kindle 2 with the Ubuntu 9.04 port to ARM running in a chrooted environment. On the screen you see xdaliclock in front of an xterm with the remains of a “top” command and a few mildly embarrassing typos.
To open up the Kindle, I used the USB networking debug mode Amazon left hanging around when they first shipped the Kindle 2, a statically linked telnetd and a cross-compiler to bootstrap myself. From there, I built a daemon that can convert DRM-free PDFs and ePubs into something Amazon’s reader on the Kindle can deal with.
more….
via Kindle Hacking: It’s a “lovely little Linux box” | Boing Boing Gadgets.
i don’t know why it has taken me this long to find out that john hughes past away. but what can we say… I loved his films back in the 80s and many times when i see new high school movies—sigh—they just don’t cut it. either they were not clever or too serious. He was the pioneer of that genre and i love this tribute video that is made for him.
so now at&t created a software for you to keep track of your social media sphere….it is why we invented netbooks cause cellphone companies are falling behind. It is weird, they are not and yet they are, cause there is too much to handle when it comes to the information world of communication. So i applaud to their attempt… but i wonder the success of it.
Through a single carousel menu, users can view and manage their social communities, communicate and track events in real time, and get live news feeds from over 35 leading news, sports, and entertainment sites. Once a user populates the application with his or her information, users can see and respond to tweets, status updates, wall posts, profile comments, photo activity and friends’ news feeds across their communities. Users can also access new or unread articles from their customized content feeds.
chocolate anyone…. oh you want kisses or bars?
To be unveiled soon in August, here are 2 more pictures of the upcoming LG BL40 chocolate phone.
I am doing logo trending… cause well, we are in a great year of reconstruction. That is what i call it, i don’t see it as a recession but a great confusion of what to do. people are reformatting themselves everywhere you go, including me. (this also includes people who do have jobs, cause like me, we are seeing changes everywhere and we don’t wish to be left behind.)
companies are changing their logos, even to the point that walmart has change it branding to the “great value” logo. I think they realize that the philosophy of costumer is always right has gone past its limit and backfire on them.
Now they are taking that Target like approach to give their consumers some “direction” or helpful decision tips.
I came across this article.
(excuse my writing, i just speed write cause i don’t have the time to proofread.)
It is a bit long but i found it to be very informative about how an organization like Apple works. I love their twist of words saying Apple = Innovation. Which could be true, but one thing they did not mention and this refers for most corporations is passion. Look at Nike, most of the people who work at Nike run as a way to relax. Nike looks for employees that are active because they are their best consumers of products. In theory, corporations need to hire people who love their activities that the company produce but are never satisfy with what current products are doing for their activities’ satisfaction. It is part of evolution, we can not make or design the perfect product without mistakes, errors, deadends. A product to become “perfect” will need to go through several stages to help designers and coworkers (personally i think everyone is a designer if they have passion) to understand their confusion and to realize a better vision.
Most people talk talk talk… for my background of german traits, we don’t talk…. we do… talking is a bit abstract to make into action. And talkers need designers cause designer does both. talk and do, or another words they talk and “doodle.” Sketching is way to bridge the talkers with the doers. As an artist starting in a school like risd, they love to “TALK” and it does not matter as a student – how unskilled their project looks, they want to see the idea in the project. They value talking with a twisted balance of doing. So for 18 years of “doing habits” i had to retrain my thinking to talk about the idea.
so for most organizations i feel they been in to many talking situations with no bridge between what they are talking about and what they are actually doing. Apple succeeds at this balance, and it does not matter if you the consumer love the product or hate it, as long as your employees love what they are producing that is most important, cause they will use viral marketing getting their friends to buy the product and their friends and their friends. etc etc.
This explains why our American auto industry sank… their employees never took pride in their work and get their friends to buy the products they built.
my rule of thumb, you should not look for smart people. you need to find passionate people with sharp minds.
they will have plenty of fuel to keep their energy going and they are sharp to pay attention to details with questions.
back int he 1990s this ad appear….. are we losing the battle for women?
cause look again back in the 40s!
it is amazing what ads do to our lives… a reflection of society!
via Sociological Images » Marketing The Tampon: “Will I Still Be A Virgin?”.
