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alexanderpf: The company Polarn O. Pyret says: “Our unisex...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:53:02 -0400

The company Polarn O. Pyret says: “Our unisex collection (UNI) consists of clothing that is based on situation and function rather than on gender. As a clothing manufacturer, we want to make it our responsibility to offer an alternative to clothing that is based on gender. There is really no reason to design different models and fits for small boys and girls since there is no great difference in the way their bodies are shaped. We have taken an overall approach to unisex clothing, and consider not only color but also pattern and fit.”

Why Not Gender Neutral Clothes? » Sociological Images

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Aaron Draplin Comes Home

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:23:41 -0400

After months of work and very generous support from Detroit AIGA, Team Detroit and Contagious Magazine, I’m very pleased to announce that Aaron Draplin will be speaking in Detroit this Thursday, August 26. If you’re in Detroit, get yourself there. There are a few tickets remaining here for the fair price of $10.

This speech represents not only an important milemarker — Aaron has never spoken in Michigan despite having been born and raised here — but it’s just plain good for Detroit. We need real, non-sports heroes in this town and it would be difficult to create someone like him if we tried. He’s talented, honest, unsoiled by bullshit and is someone worth looking up to in the way he does business. Plus, there’s that famous “America is Fucked” video:

Special thanks to the co conspirators for pulling this together, including Nick Parish, Toby Barlow, Michele Silvestri, Colleen Hill, Ryan Schirmang and a crew of others. See you Thursday!

+ Detroit AIGA: Tall Tales From A Large Man

"Search all the parks in all your cities. You’ll find no statues of committees."

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:11:36 -0400

“Search all the parks in all your cities. You’ll find no statues of committees.”

- David Ogilvy (via tmblg) (via dascola) (via mopostal)

loudpop: 1985 BMW Baja 1000 Racervia www.bikeexif.com

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:50:25 -0400

loudpop:

1985 BMW Baja 1000 Racer
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nevver: Street Anatomy

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:00:00 -0400

nevver:

Street Anatomy

The best press release I've read all year

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:51:00 -0400

My good friend, collaborator and buddy Rob Theakston blew my hair back this morning. His old collective, Dorkwave, is throwing a party this weekend in Detroit and they put together a press release. It’s just like every other press release you’ve ever read, right?

People of “Media”,

Greetings. My name is Rob Theakston, international DJ, insanely successful artist and former gadfly about Detroit. You have heard of me.

You may not have noticed that the world famous DORKWAVE is throwing another one of their infamously legendary parties this weekend. Why is that? Because many of you once again have failed to pay attention — instead opting to publish crap about Kid Rock, a banal article about “saving” Detroit (or worse — making our city by the strait some sort of half hocked metaphor) and quite possibly a feature about a dinosaur Detroit punk rocker who is just now getting their “due”.

Here’s your chance to remedy The Situation(tm); to get it right and to correct people’s somewhat accurate perception that your pages are nothing but empty verb vomit — a waste of trees, hard drives, drink tickets and real estate.

We challenge - nay - defy you to attend our event and report to your feeble readers just how awesome a time you had. Because it IS awesome. We’ll even put you on the guest list if you respond to this email, which you probably won’t because it contains too many polysyllabic words for your addled brain to fully comprehend.

Do something different with your life. Be the solution to your problem. Enjoy us, on us.

You have 24 hours to respond to this email for guest list privliges. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Get the scoop before someone scoops you.

Cordially (but watch it),

Rob Theakston

ATTACHED: A press release for you to cut and paste word for word into your “website” or “blog”. Should you need a photo, we can readily supply that.

ps. I won’t be there.

The PS just kills me. Actually, the entire thing does. Inside the heart of this message — this belief that even those within the city, reporting it, are doing nothing to make it better culturally — lives a man who still believes. He’s just now operating at the fuck it stage, the really beautiful stage.

The event, by the way, is at Sparklewood, 2937 East Grand Boulevard Detroit, MI. Saturday night, August 7. $5.

"Beyond the age of information is the age of choices"

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:25:29 -0400

“Beyond the age of information is the age of choices”

- Charles Eames

sportchrono: kinclaith:endlessme

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0400

sportchrono:

kinclaith:endlessme

America Ball, Palm Springs 2010 Championships.

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:06:25 -0400

America Ball, Palm Springs 2010 Championships.

Link: Frank Zappa's ideas on file sharing, 1983

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:33:00 -0400

Link: Frank Zappa's ideas on file sharing, 1983:

FZ with some early thoughts on adding value to those who consume music, as opposed to those companies who sell it. By the way, any mention of Zappa on my blog requires an immediate listening of Watermelon in Easter Hay. Don’t have one handy? Right here, buddy.

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Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0400

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Detail as if no one is watching

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:54:00 -0400

Michael Mann could have used any guns in Heat (my favorite movie of all time), but he dove deep, as if he was preparing for his own little war. This guy details the guns in Heat, while the rather incredible IMFDB (Internet Movie Firearms Data Base) gives the full blow-by-blow. I always knew Mann was a gun nerd, but I had no idea of the variety (Waingro holds a Spanish-made Star Megastar in a nickel finish in the photo above, one of about 30 different guns used). Specific techniques were important, too:

Despite being a full auto weapon, the director Michael Mann instructed Al Pacino to fire only Semi auto, being that the LAPD lieutenant would be concerned for stray rounds hitting bystanders.

I think that investing in this sort of detail needs to be its own reward, because it could be years (if ever) before anyone actually notices. Some messages-in-a-bottle never get found, but we still need to throw them in the ocean. I think this is the post script to Diego Rodriguez’s Innovation Principle No. 3 (“How do we want people to feel after they experience this?”) What if they only experience the big thing and not the little gems? You should design so that people could see everything, but sleep comfortably when they don’t.

Photo

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:11:43 -0400

Photo

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:20:13 -0400

via alexjcampbell Most of the remarkable experiences I’ve...

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:53:59 -0400

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Most of the remarkable experiences I’ve had with people (and companies) were small ingredient moments that added up to a high quality relationship. In this talk, ad man Rory Sutherland reminds us that detail-level significance is actually more useful than the so-called “big idea” with a likewise big budget.

Paul Housley, via FB’s Diary.

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:49:00 -0400

Paul Housley, via FB’s Diary.

File Ira Glass’s story telling secrets away for either...

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:28:59 -0400

File Ira Glass’s story telling secrets away for either your next great screenwriting project or for that late night pre-bedtime epic with your nephews.

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Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:29:24 -0400

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"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

Mon, 24 May 2010 19:52:42 -0400

“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”

- Barry Switzer

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Hibernation.Forest by Irons. Irons (my friend Josh Hight and...

Sat, 22 May 2010 08:18:17 -0400

Hibernation.Forest by Irons. Irons (my friend Josh Hight and some of his co-conspirators) just released their new album as a free download here. Highly recommended if you like to sip your music slow, the way you do for Mercury Rev, My Bloody Valentine or M83.