Context Context Context

Requiem for a Day Off is a great (albeit a little long) example for anyone arguing that context isn’t everything — or virtually everything anyways.

Burn After Reading poster

I couldn’t help put this up; I love anything that resembles the work of the great Saul Bass, not to mention the Coen Brothers kick serious ass.

Want to be famous? It may not be so hard…

A great article, The Microfame Game, on the science of Fame 2.0. If you’ve never been or seen—you’d have to be under a pretty big rock to not have seen a bit—I recommend the show with zefrank, which was almost always brilliant and hilarious.

Logos of the World

A nice collection of logos from countries around the world, including the awesome one for the Islands of the Bahamas. Note to self: originality won’t be found in the hand-drawn/scribbled look.

2,002 Honest Fonts

The source for all your professional font requirements.

Managing Word of Mouth?

I don’t know about you guys, but I love free stuff, even in PDF format. A new book, The Word of Mouth Manual, Vol. II by Dave Balter, is available for download from the 37 Signals blog. So far it’s been an interesting read, and especially cool since the book is marketing itself employing its own subject matter, word of mouth.

A Bang and a Fizzle

Here I am, nearly two months after starting this blog, and I’m just now adding a second post. Shameful, I know, especially considering well accepted rules for effective blogging make a point of being sure to update a couple times a week—I know I expect that from the blogs I frequent. So what’s my excuse? Have I been incredibly busy breeding Dalmatian Mice? Perhaps creating the latest art movement? Or maybe discovering the secrets of advanced astrophysics? Nope. I’ve been waiting.

Waiting for that brilliant idea that’s going to shatter current trends and make everyone think, “If only I had thought of that.” Well, it apparently isn’t coming soon enough. So, I’m going to pledge to myself, as well as anyone (anyone?) reading this, to relax a little and not be so concerned with appearing to be the smartest man alive. Beyond expressing my own opinions, I’ve decided I see and read too much good material to not pass at least some selective bits on. With that in mind, I’ve added two sections, “Original Content” and “Of Interest”, which I figure are self-explanitory.

Hopefully someone finds my thoughts as interesting as I do.