First see the clip, only then read the rest of this message.
I deeply appreciate this film and even more this scene.
In this scene the first very expensive take they did of the rain it was not visible enough to read well on the silver screen. For the retake they mixed the rainwater with a bit of milk, so that it shows more clearly on film. It worked.
Gene Kelly caught a flu, the producers failed at sending him home, he insisted on doing the scene.
Doing a perfect take, with an fever, soaking wet in the stench of a downpour of sour milk. THAT is star*quality.
Admiration and love to Gene Kelly for his passion and dedication to excellence.
Now enjoy the clip again, really enjoy it.
Revel in the Joie de vivre.
The fun theory is up.
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@thefuntheory.com:
"We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory. Do you have an idea that uses fun to change behaviour? Enter now for the chance to win €2500."
Tak til Roger
Nyheds indslag om projekt Roger har lavet for TeknologiskInstitut & arkitekt Henning Larsen. Jeg har været heldig og få lov at bidrage en smule med designet der ses på skærmen tak til Skriver&Brams det var sjovt.
Dinner at restaurant MR
We started out in the lounge with champagne and snacks:
Crisp fish skin with winegar powder, bananna curry chips and a cream on goat cheese and lime.
Cucumber rolls with filling sprinkled with crispy dark rye bread crumbs.
Later we moved to the dinning are for the next three amüse.: califlower cream filled eggs. Cellery steamed shrimps. Salt baked mussles with sake
First Dish was Raw mackerel fish with mushrooms, pickled mushrooms and mushroom powder. This Dish won entrê of year prize at ´årets Gerricke 2009´
Crisp fish skin with winegar powder, bananna curry chips and a cream on goat cheese and lime.
Cucumber rolls with filling sprinkled with crispy dark rye bread crumbs.
Later we moved to the dinning are for the next three amüse.: califlower cream filled eggs. Cellery steamed shrimps. Salt baked mussles with sake
First Dish was Raw mackerel fish with mushrooms, pickled mushrooms and mushroom powder. This Dish won entrê of year prize at ´årets Gerricke 2009´
Second dish was an experimental dish still undergoing an refinement process. Quite fun to 'beta test' :-P
Later we had:
The deserts followed. The first desert was an xtra dish somewhat traditional and very richly flavoured with thick creamy texture:
Cod braissed in rapeseed oil, with rapesoup, leek and cheese foam
* Experimental dish.
Later we had:
- Babycorn with fresh hasselnut and hasselnut butter.
- Scallops, pancetta, duck tungue , Horseradish cream and lightly fried radishes.
- Lemon sole (rødtunge), spinach, verbena (jernurt) and fennikle
- Chestnut icecream on chocolate cream sprinkled with chestnut.
- Desert called Red: Beetroot, rubus (brombær) and cake.
Pickled pears, fresh pear, honey ice cream with molasses.
More pictures over at the flavouristas blog.
Lunch with/by Ulrik
salmon mouse, lobster bisque, salad with figs braised in dressing on lime, molasses, chili and green anis seeds.
Sublime balance. Thank you Ulrik :-P
Fantastic and Photogenic Spring/Summer 2010 Show
From Amazing Alexander McQeen. The entire show pivots on the camera. Both in concept, style and technology. The robots are a nice reference to the Spring Summer 1999 show.
Quick clip of the 2010 S./S. show opening with robots:
Head over to alexandermcqueenlive.showstudio.com for better production value and an more extensive look:
Quick clip of the 2010 S./S. show opening with robots:
Head over to alexandermcqueenlive.showstudio.com for better production value and an more extensive look:
New logo on DPreview.com
New logo design for www.DPreview.com .Feels like an amalgamation of leica and coca cola. still better than the old blue and white logo.
I suspect it is really really cleveradvertising PR work at work at the DPreview site doing an MTV/google styled logo changeover to build anticipation for the new Leicas being announced today.
Examples of goole/mtv logos:
The new logo is styled somewhere in between Poul Rand and Norman Rockwell. Personally i am not crazy about it even if it is better than clutter of the previous design.
A rose by any other logo would smell as sweet. The logo matters but not that much. What the dp-team guys do, the manner in which they keep doing it and the other members, is what makes me come back.I suspect it is really really clever
Examples of goole/mtv logos:
The Danish Culinary Miracle. An Story of Abundance
(if you enjoy gourmet food it certainly feels like a miracle)
Notice in the picture below how Mads Refslund of Restaurant MR chills with the competitor Rene Redzepi from Noma while finishing up the winning dish for entrée of the year. These guys are competing hard while at the same time can have fun and be friendly too.
I believe a big part of the Nordic gastronomical miracle is that the high end chefs all operate out of an surplus mentality.
Make no mistake they fight to win. Yet they still act as gentlemen and even friends as shown in this picture. Their abundance of trust in themselves and respect for their competitors and colleagues helps raise the overall level of Danish cuisine.
Naturally the tipping point concerning the rise of Nordic gastronomy should also vector in the combination of the extremely seasonal nature of our local ingredients and a decade of economic growth. That is another story for another time.
I hope soon to find time to write an full blogpost on Dish of the Year competition and put it on the flavouristas blog.
Notice in the picture below how Mads Refslund of Restaurant MR chills with the competitor Rene Redzepi from Noma while finishing up the winning dish for entrée of the year. These guys are competing hard while at the same time can have fun and be friendly too.
This photo taken by me got published this morning in the local danish newspaper Fyns Stiftstidende.
I believe a big part of the Nordic gastronomical miracle is that the high end chefs all operate out of an surplus mentality.
Make no mistake they fight to win. Yet they still act as gentlemen and even friends as shown in this picture. Their abundance of trust in themselves and respect for their competitors and colleagues helps raise the overall level of Danish cuisine.
Naturally the tipping point concerning the rise of Nordic gastronomy should also vector in the combination of the extremely seasonal nature of our local ingredients and a decade of economic growth. That is another story for another time.
I hope soon to find time to write an full blogpost on Dish of the Year competition and put it on the flavouristas blog.
Fiskebar
Vi var ude og spise på den nye smarte fiskebar i kødbyen sidste fredag.
Efter at have drukket et glas frugtigt og mineralsk Riesling fra Mosel i den kølige sommeraften, fik vi nogle af de små retter fra menukortet.
Til at ledsage retterne bestilte vi to forskellige lettere hvidvine, en Grüner Veltliner fra Weinhof Grill i Østrig og en Sancerre på Sauvignon blanc fra Domaine Vacheron i Loiredalen i Frankrig.
Drengene fik Normande østers fra Normandiet. Dejlig smag af hav, som vi drak en harmonisk Grüner Veltliner til. Mens pigerne fik Fish'n'Chips med Sancerre til.
Senere fik vi crabbe sandwich og muslinger
MASHed out by steak. read more at flavouristas
Tried MASH Steak House in Copenhagen. The concept is modern American steak. With food that is rather basic and very good.
This photo is from their website.
For starters we had Shrimp Cocktail which is closer to a shrimp bowl than an cocktail. The presentation was, well nothing to mention. The flavour was nice but taken down a notch by the mouth feel drowning in dressing.
The second starter were fried squid with lime and chilli. The rough style gives quite a better presentation. The irregular sizes and crunchy mouth feel enhanced the taste significantly. Good thing they were slightly less greasy than they appear.
For main course we had N.Y. Strip steaks at 400 g.
A no nonsense steak. USDA prime meat, corn fed, dry aged 90 days and grilled to perfection. The steak showed to be ripe with juice, tender and flavourful even if prefer my steaks just a bit less matured than this.
For side dishes we had fries, chilli fries and creamy cheese spinach.
We rounded of with a crème brûlée
In conclusion they succeed in pulling of the modern American style. The experience were okay. If I have to complain and you know I do, then the service was not up to par with the quality of the food which was very nice.
More pictures over at the flavouristas blog
This photo is from their website.
For starters we had Shrimp Cocktail which is closer to a shrimp bowl than an cocktail. The presentation was, well nothing to mention. The flavour was nice but taken down a notch by the mouth feel drowning in dressing.
The second starter were fried squid with lime and chilli. The rough style gives quite a better presentation. The irregular sizes and crunchy mouth feel enhanced the taste significantly. Good thing they were slightly less greasy than they appear.
For main course we had N.Y. Strip steaks at 400 g.
A no nonsense steak. USDA prime meat, corn fed, dry aged 90 days and grilled to perfection. The steak showed to be ripe with juice, tender and flavourful even if prefer my steaks just a bit less matured than this.
For side dishes we had fries, chilli fries and creamy cheese spinach.
We rounded of with a crème brûlée
In conclusion they succeed in pulling of the modern American style. The experience were okay. If I have to complain and you know I do, then the service was not up to par with the quality of the food which was very nice.
More pictures over at the flavouristas blog
Fuji 3d point and shoot camera
Fuji has taken it to the next dimension with the Fine Pix REAL 3D V1
Announcing world's first digital camera to capture 3D stills and movies.
Key Features
More info over at Fuji
Announcing world's first digital camera to capture 3D stills and movies.
Key Features
- Supports playback of natural 3D stills and movies
- 3D/2D LCD panel (400 x 600 x 2 channel)
- Easy-to-use touch operation
More info over at Fuji
iQ font drives me wow
A show-piece of intelligent marketing demonstrating the iQ car as an easy and fun car to drive for savvy city dwellers. Original concept by happiness-brussels (wtf. on the name, but we can expect to hear a lot more from these guys in the future).
Pierre And Damien from pleaseletmedesign had pro race car driver Stef van Campenhoudt tease the iQ car around in an hangar. While the ceiling mounted camera tracked the car positions via custom opensource software by Zach Lieberman.
Concept by Grégory Titeca & Mohamed Oudaha @ happiness-brussels
Font design by Pierre & Damien @ pleaseletmedesign
Coded by Zach Lieberman @ openFrameworks
Driven by Stef van Campenhoudt
iQ Car by Toyota
iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.
Restaurant MR opening night
Restaurant MR re-opens with tighter concept centred around fish.
The quality and level of cousine is high. Yet not quite as refined as it was at in the heydays. The quality and style still can be compared to the level presented at Noma's opening night. At which incidentally Mads Refslund also cooked.
I suspect MR quickly and surely will climb to the original level and surpass it.
More on this will come as I intend to follow MR closely.
We had the tasting menu of 7 dishes and 2 amuse bouche. The second of these i managed to capture a photo of.
The pictures are rather abysmal since i took them with my camera phone and i appologise to you and the kitchen. All the dishes where presented far better than these photos show.
First amuse:
Oyster in baby lettuce with graded macadamia nut.
Second amuse:
Cold green pea soup, with cherry and liquorice.
First dish:
Raw mackerel fish wrapped in green strawberries served with a few drops of coconut cream.
Second dish:
Scallop with almonds arranged in cheese soup.
Third dish:
Asparagus with hollandaise, vinaigrette and elderberry flowers.
Fourth dish:
Grilled langoustine wrapped in paper thin slice of smoked lard. Served with sweet onions. Sprinkled with dill oil.
Fifth dish:
Seabass with grilled cucumber and cucumber saplings.
Sixth dish:
Carrots with foam ice.
Seventh dish:
Rhubarb wrapped around yoghurt dashed with molasses.
More information on this dining experience as I get the time to post again.
The quality and level of cousine is high. Yet not quite as refined as it was at in the heydays. The quality and style still can be compared to the level presented at Noma's opening night. At which incidentally Mads Refslund also cooked.
I suspect MR quickly and surely will climb to the original level and surpass it.
More on this will come as I intend to follow MR closely.
We had the tasting menu of 7 dishes and 2 amuse bouche. The second of these i managed to capture a photo of.
The pictures are rather abysmal since i took them with my camera phone and i appologise to you and the kitchen. All the dishes where presented far better than these photos show.
First amuse:
Oyster in baby lettuce with graded macadamia nut.
Second amuse:
Cold green pea soup, with cherry and liquorice.
First dish:
Raw mackerel fish wrapped in green strawberries served with a few drops of coconut cream.
Second dish:
Scallop with almonds arranged in cheese soup.
Third dish:
Asparagus with hollandaise, vinaigrette and elderberry flowers.
Fourth dish:
Grilled langoustine wrapped in paper thin slice of smoked lard. Served with sweet onions. Sprinkled with dill oil.
Fifth dish:
Seabass with grilled cucumber and cucumber saplings.
Sixth dish:
Carrots with foam ice.
Seventh dish:
Rhubarb wrapped around yoghurt dashed with molasses.
More information on this dining experience as I get the time to post again.
Ballsy Banksy @ Bristol City Museum 2009
Shows open now. During June 13. - August 31. Go have a look see, remember to get the t-shirt, ring tone and matching iphone cover.
Trailer for the exibition here:
And samples here:
Banksy is growing up, or at least growing hair on weird parts. Still an enjoyable pointy provocateur.
Trailer for the exibition here:
And samples here:
Banksy is growing up, or at least growing hair on weird parts. Still an enjoyable pointy provocateur.
OnOne releases iPhone DSLR Remote app
Much anticipated Iphone DSLR Remote software got released just 14 hours ago.
First version supports only Canon DSLRs. Depending on demand, other camera manufactures might be included in the future.
It is available in the iTunes App store in in two versions: lite for 2$ or pro at 20$ but discounted introductionary price of only 10$.
The lite version will allow you to remotely trigger the shutter. While the pro version will give you full control over
- Shooting Mode Av, Tv, P and full manual control
- Apperature
- Shutter
- Iso
- File type
- Resolution
You need to connect your camera to an computer such as your laptop and via wifi remote control it via the iPhone.
See demo film here:
Cool retro graffiti creator
See this über kewl ol skool graffiti creator at ww.graffiticreator.net , great for friday fun or a lazy logo. Thanks to Jesper Colding for the tip.
Inspiring and the most sincere form of flatery.
Thought provoking and inspiring ad. Found on presentationzen.com
This is very similar to the 2006 silver lion winner in Cannes Se the original Lopez Murphy for president ad.
The new version is the most sincere form of flatery.
Getting inspired is fine in particular if you can manage paying homeage while doing so.
In the words of Picasso: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Which curiously sounds like the line "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." from 'The Sacred Wood' by T.S. Elliot
Stealing is owning. Taking it and making it better. Making it yours. Similar to what Jonathan Ives did for apple to Dieter Rams.
Wondering how long it will be until it appears on: www.youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com
This is very similar to the 2006 silver lion winner in Cannes Se the original Lopez Murphy for president ad.
The new version is the most sincere form of flatery.
Getting inspired is fine in particular if you can manage paying homeage while doing so.
In the words of Picasso: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Which curiously sounds like the line "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." from 'The Sacred Wood' by T.S. Elliot
Stealing is owning. Taking it and making it better. Making it yours. Similar to what Jonathan Ives did for apple to Dieter Rams.
Wondering how long it will be until it appears on: www.youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com
New canon 5d II announced
News include:- Iso 25.600 via boost
- New 21.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor
- improved EOS Integrated Cleaning System (E.I.C.S.)
- New Full HD 1080 resolution movie recording
- 3.9 frames per second continuous shooting
- High performance DIGIC 4 providing superb image quality
- Maximum 310 large JPEG images in a single burst with a UDMA card
- 9 AF points + 6 Assist AF points
Fusion 6 teaser
Looks good the new Eyeon Fusion 6. At least the parts Steve Roberts from Eyeon talks about. Appears that Eyeon's strategy is to tease us with little titbits until final release.
Maybe Eyeon is getting better at the whole hype thing.
Stay tuned will ad more as it trickles in.
Maybe Eyeon is getting better at the whole hype thing.
Stay tuned will ad more as it trickles in.
Watchout 4 beta3 soon out of beta
New i Watchout 4 sorted in order of importance to me:
Starting with number 1 on my wish list ever:
Export movies and audio. Rendering out movie clips of the show for documentation, showreel or client approvals. Thank you Dataton.
Compositions is a subset of layers with cues and objects with animation. 'Collapsed' into a single track so it is easy to reuse complex elements.
Auxiliary Timelines is an collection of tracks that keeps standby to start any time on the timeline. Great for surprise events, back-up tracks and for an fast exit effect for unexpected events.
DMX512 or MIDI control from external sources. Some of the lightning guys will enjoy this.
Lastly:
multi-timeline control, enhanced animation capabilities, enhanced geometry correction, large display management, display color correction, motion tracks, timecode synchronization and user interface enhancements.
Look really interesting.
Read more at Datatons webpage
zBrush turntable 360 galleries at Pixologic
New gallery showing of some wonderful modelling to spin around in qtvr.
http://www.pixologic.com/turntable/
http://www.pixologic.com/turntable/
Beutifull real old and mockup old logos
Check out Adam Polsellis shots of wonderfull old automobile logos over at flickr. Difficult not to fall in love with the typography.Similary typhographic goodness is found in the motion graphic title design for the movie Thank You for Smoking by shadowplay studio.
Se the full titel from "Thank You for Smoking"
Opened up for comments and feedback
Need to update my site soon and are very happy to recieve constructive critisism and suggestions.
Check out my site www.gjetting.com
Thanks
/Jon
Check out my site www.gjetting.com
Thanks
/Jon
Updated my booklist with 20 new books
with quick review.
Updated the book list with about 20 new books.
A lot of these books i have in stock and are ready to loan out
The rules:
- Take care of the books, you break it you buy it.
- Loan the books in a reasonable amount of time, weeks or months not years.
- Give a personal review on a 10 scale (1=bad 5=mediocre 10=brilliant).
- Write a one sentence review.
- In places of interest please put in post it notes with comments (share the love).
This brings back memories
Photoshop screenshots dating back to release v. 0.63. Been using photoshop since v.1 just before v.2 got released.
Thanx to Parham for finding this.
Thanx to Parham for finding this.
Its a love hate relationship
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Its a love hate relationship WARNING rant ahead...
Had to cross post this here aswell...A simple statements such as 'I Love Photoshop!!!' provoked me into a state of discuntinued ranting on Retouching Forum: Digital Photography Review
Been using Photoshop since version 2, before that Deluxe Paint on the Amiga.
Photoshop is fantastic in the possibilities and the kind of work it lets you do. That was the love part. Here is the rest.
I feel Photoshop's methodology and workflow is antiquated.
1) Adjustment layers and the new smart objects is a tini tiny step in the right direction but it is too little. Consider Eyeon Digital Fusion, Apple Shake or Discreet Combustion and their nodebased workflow, which is far superior to photoshops layers only approach.
2) Photoshops color-correction tools is crude and only works with at multitude of workarounds. Combustion,Shake and Fusion has FAR more elegant and controllable color-correction options which in also has their own shortcomings. D-LC Picture Window Pro has the best curves tool available in a 2d still image package today. Yet Photoshop is not up to par with any of these. The current solution offers plenty of almost good enough tools but no real killer method.
3) Photoshop does not support concatenation (look it up, it is beautiful math). So if you try to combine the many weak color-correction tools in photoshop to get the look needed you easily get color banding.
4) Photoshop is resolution dependent (anybody remember the xres fluke?) c'mon adobe.
5) The Actions. Another half arsed feature. Why can't you record brush strokes as vector strokes?!?! and choose to play them back on a bigger/smaller picture based on percentage placement?. Or take some history steps and drag them into an action?. Or put a dialogue box on your action with input fields such as sliders and ad a preview window.
6) Save undo/history with your document?
7) Why are pluggins limited to filters?!? (poor architecture?) would'nt it be neat to have a pluggin adjustmentlayer or paint brush or selection tool, or, or, or. for now i could think of 1000 cool things.
8) Menus and gui in xml so you can fully customize the interface, or even purchase an interface improvement from a third party.
9) ok lets not get me started on the simple GUI enhancements possible.
10) well i have a gazillion more suggestions and stuff i miss. So for now i need to toggle around alot with other tools to get premium results.
A very incomplete and not thought through rant...
Still it is a love hate thing... Working in photoshop is like coming home to the treehouse of childhood memories. It is always fun, inspiring, anyoing and productive as hell.
Hint... Adobe please hire me to help improve your software...
With love
/Jon Angelo Gjetting
Website: http://www.gjetting.com/
Link whores... the lot of them
Check out the link whores doing the comments here.... Did a bait and switch....
Monkeys and the power of mind
Monkeys Use Conscious Thought to Control a Robot Arm 600 Miles Away
Nicolelis and his team of scientists and engineers at Duke University Medical Center have implanted thinner than a human hair micro-electrodes into the brains of two female monkeys named Aurora and Ivy.
The researchers recorded and analyzed the electrical activity of the neurons near the implanted electrodes while the monkeys used a joystick to play a computer game.
The electrodes transmits weak impulses to a computer programmed to recognize patterns of signals that correspond to actual movements by the monkey's arm. The computer then interprets these signals to control a robotic arm which in turn pulls the joystick.
Next level
The monkeys learned how to use thoughts alone to control the computer game directly without the joystick. Nicolelis says: "The monkey suddenly realized that she didn't need to move her arm at all,"
"Her arm muscles went completely quiet, she kept the arm at her side and she controlled the robot arm using only her brain and visual feedback."
Changes in the way the monkey's brain cells work suggests that their brains is physically fine-tuning to the computer.
co-author Mandayam Srinivasan, director of the MIT laboratory: "When we initially conceived the idea of using monkey brain signals to control a distant robot across the Internet, we were not sure how variable delays in signal transmission would affect the outcome. Even with a standard TCP/IP connection, it worked out beautifully. It was an amazing sight to see the robot in my lab move, knowing that it was being driven by signals from a monkey brain at Duke. It was as if the monkey had a 600-mile-long virtual arm."
Future applications
The goal of the research is to help paralyzed people to regain some ability. Using brain signals to control neuro-prosthetic limbs, computers and possibly even control freely moving robots.
"We hope the brain will learn to adapt to the devices and incorporate them as if they were the patient's own limbs,"
"There is certainly a great deal of science and engineering to be done to develop this technology and to create systems that can be used safely in humans," Nicolelis said.
Nicolelis could not give any details yet about the work that they have started with a small group of human patients.
Resources:
Press release
Interview
Flash example
Interview: Nicolelis1.wav , Nicolelis2.wav , Nicolelis3.wav, Nicolelis4.wav
Nicolelis and his team of scientists and engineers at Duke University Medical Center have implanted thinner than a human hair micro-electrodes into the brains of two female monkeys named Aurora and Ivy.
The researchers recorded and analyzed the electrical activity of the neurons near the implanted electrodes while the monkeys used a joystick to play a computer game.
The electrodes transmits weak impulses to a computer programmed to recognize patterns of signals that correspond to actual movements by the monkey's arm. The computer then interprets these signals to control a robotic arm which in turn pulls the joystick.
Next level
The monkeys learned how to use thoughts alone to control the computer game directly without the joystick. Nicolelis says: "The monkey suddenly realized that she didn't need to move her arm at all,"
"Her arm muscles went completely quiet, she kept the arm at her side and she controlled the robot arm using only her brain and visual feedback."
Changes in the way the monkey's brain cells work suggests that their brains is physically fine-tuning to the computer.
co-author Mandayam Srinivasan, director of the MIT laboratory: "When we initially conceived the idea of using monkey brain signals to control a distant robot across the Internet, we were not sure how variable delays in signal transmission would affect the outcome. Even with a standard TCP/IP connection, it worked out beautifully. It was an amazing sight to see the robot in my lab move, knowing that it was being driven by signals from a monkey brain at Duke. It was as if the monkey had a 600-mile-long virtual arm."
Future applications
The goal of the research is to help paralyzed people to regain some ability. Using brain signals to control neuro-prosthetic limbs, computers and possibly even control freely moving robots.
"We hope the brain will learn to adapt to the devices and incorporate them as if they were the patient's own limbs,"
"There is certainly a great deal of science and engineering to be done to develop this technology and to create systems that can be used safely in humans," Nicolelis said.
Nicolelis could not give any details yet about the work that they have started with a small group of human patients.
Resources:
Press release
Interview
Flash example
Interview: Nicolelis1.wav , Nicolelis2.wav , Nicolelis3.wav, Nicolelis4.wav
Quick Photo Gallery
shutterbug symptoms
Just added aquick gallery (removed) with 20 of my photos, I won't add pretty prose to spoil it for you, go watch the photos for yourself.
Just added a
Fight the bull
If you think the next sentence makes any sense, you need to read the rest of this article thoroughly:
“xxxxx* is a leading Internet consulting company with focus on optimizing business processes within companies and across value chains.”
(*name withheld to protect the guilty.)
Consultants and techies are not alone in committing obfuscation. Common offenders are found among professional communicators such as brand strategists and advertisement creatives (copywriters to a lesser degree).
If you like me, have had enough of: Synergetic, empowering human capital, value added, dynamic mindshare. Then bring a big black marker next time you read a creative brief, mission statement or a branding strategy. Apply liberally to all offending phrases and observe how the message is affected.
Enter: Bullfighter
Bullfighter is a office plug-in developed by Deloitte Consulting that hunts documents for buzzwords and unclear jargon. The Bullfighter toolbar appears in Outlook, Word and PowerPoint. It works similar to the spelling checker. When buzzwords or jargon is detected it offers a welcome whipping and suggestions to remedy the ill phrases. The software calculates an overall Bull Composite score based on readability, jargon and use of buzzwords.
Biggest lesson learned
Revealed by more than 600 marketers
MarketingSherpa has compiled a free .pdf article called Marketing Inspiration for 2003. Where more than 600 marketers expose their "biggest lesson learned" over the past year, Including inspiration, tips and recommendations on: copywriting, Search engine marketing, relationship and referral marketing
Most of the advice in the report is amusing and at times even useful, albeit much of it you probably know.
My absolute favorite is a quote from Nat Gutwirth of The Weightman Group:
“Advertising creative people are like choirboys: the tighter you make their briefs, the sweeter you’ll get them to sing.”
MarketingSherpa has compiled a free .pdf article called Marketing Inspiration for 2003. Where more than 600 marketers expose their "biggest lesson learned" over the past year, Including inspiration, tips and recommendations on: copywriting, Search engine marketing, relationship and referral marketing
Most of the advice in the report is amusing and at times even useful, albeit much of it you probably know.
My absolute favorite is a quote from Nat Gutwirth of The Weightman Group:
“Advertising creative people are like choirboys: the tighter you make their briefs, the sweeter you’ll get them to sing.”
ex-girlfriend
Last weekend my ex-girlfriend protested that I was obsessed with design and excessively interested in the creative process. She said that I didn’t give her sufficient attention or something like that, I didn’t really hear it all since I was writing a creative brief.
/Jon Angelo Gjetting
/Jon Angelo Gjetting
Computer crashing, Ukraine-style
BBC NEWS | Europe | Computer crashing, Ukraine-style: "Over 300 self-confessed computer addicts have participated in a competition in the central Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya to destroy their own hardware in a spectacular fashion. "
Booklist
Posted a list of some of the books I have read the last couple of years relevant to branding, design, creativity and communication.
The list is a perpetual work in progress, comments and suggestions will be appreciated.
/Jon Angelo Gjetting
The list is a perpetual work in progress, comments and suggestions will be appreciated.
/Jon Angelo Gjetting
Artspresso - illy collection
illy collection - young artists award
In 1992 the designer and architect Matteo Thun designed the first series of decorated cups for Illy. The combination of the perfect espresso with artistic flair have ever since inspired famous cotemporary artists to use the Illy cup as canvas to express their love of espresso in collections of original masterpieces which is a sequential numbered and signatured by the artist.
Great gift idea!
In 1992 the designer and architect Matteo Thun designed the first series of decorated cups for Illy. The combination of the perfect espresso with artistic flair have ever since inspired famous cotemporary artists to use the Illy cup as canvas to express their love of espresso in collections of original masterpieces which is a sequential numbered and signatured by the artist.
Great gift idea!
NameStatistics.com
How popular are your first and last names?
straightforward site to find out just how average or atypical your name is.
Type your name, press search, and instantly find out that your name are unique just like all the others. A fun and (allmost) useful site, for looking for babynames (not yet mom) or for writers naming their characters.
Amusing statistics:
Around 15000 US last names are Doe
Around 140875 US men are named Jon, how many of these are allso called Doe?
straightforward site to find out just how average or atypical your name is.
Type your name, press search, and instantly find out that your name are unique just like all the others. A fun and (allmost) useful site, for looking for babynames (not yet mom) or for writers naming their characters.
Amusing statistics:
Around 15000 US last names are Doe
Around 140875 US men are named Jon, how many of these are allso called Doe?
Innovation is all over the place
-it is just not evenly distributed.
Working professionally with innovation I realized it is not just a trait of the creative elite (even if they usually are good at it), experience shows that great innovation happens all over the place, in any industry, at all levels. Recently I got reminded of this again by working with Trine and Lisbeth.
Innovation seldom strikes like “Eureka!” on a clear sky (but it happens). Innovation is likely to occur when people with different perspectives join together on a common goal and organize their projects to do what Peter Drucker calls "organized, systematic, rational work".
Read a article by John Case called Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity
Working professionally with innovation I realized it is not just a trait of the creative elite (even if they usually are good at it), experience shows that great innovation happens all over the place, in any industry, at all levels. Recently I got reminded of this again by working with Trine and Lisbeth.
Innovation seldom strikes like “Eureka!” on a clear sky (but it happens). Innovation is likely to occur when people with different perspectives join together on a common goal and organize their projects to do what Peter Drucker calls "organized, systematic, rational work".
Read a article by John Case called Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity
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