Social-Creature

after mentioning him in the previous post, i ended up going on what can only be described as an eddie izzard bender. a self-identified “male lesbian,” and “action transvestite” (you know… “running, jumping, climbing trees… putting on makeup while you’re up there”: action transvestite), izzard is also fluent enough in english and french to do [...]

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The goal of all human activity can’t be reduced to the leaving of descendants. Once human culture was firmly in place it acquired new goals. – Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee right as i was in the process of rereading the third chimpanzee (i had to read it in college for sociobiology, and recently realized [...]

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just came across the mixed chicks line of hair products, and thought it was awesome. kind of like the same way that i find my best friend (whose mom is white and dad black) ordering a half vanilla half chocolate milkshake at a diner awesome. (i’m telling you, should hear HOW she orders it. that [...]

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marshall herskovitz & edward zick + the quarterlife crisis + the rise of the creative class + myspace = marshall herskovitz and edward zwick aren’t simply geniuses, they are CONSISTENTLY the only ones creating television programming that reflects the real struggles of an entire generation. thirtysomething was before my time, (though i do know it [...]

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this weekend was the 27th annual sunset junction music festival, a kind of cross between oldskool urban summertime carnival and indie rock block party. think: stale cotton candy and amusement park rides, local shops and art galleries trapped in the warpath shelling beer, dancing in the streets to mobile soundsystems, and the major stages blaring [...]

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when i worked at house of blues, every so often we’d have social events with all the other people working in l.a.’s concert marketing industry. people from goldenvoice, livenation (at the time this was a separate company from house of blues), nederlander, etc. lots of people in attendance had even worked at one of the [...]

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photo by: anearthling One of usability’s most hard-earned lessons is that “you are not the user.” If you work on a development project, you’re atypical by definition. Design to optimize the user experience for outsiders, not insiders. – jakob nielsen much the same way that the developer is not the user, the marketer is not [...]

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i don’t have much time to write here at the moment (and there’s a very good reason for that, which should be ready by next week) but i just saw something in a business week blog that begged to be mentioned. at a very interesting meeting with ignited earlier this week, when i presented my [...]

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    “We’re the most permeable membrane in show-business. Anyone who thinks they’re part of Mystic Family Circus probably is.” – Mystic Family Circus in Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention of the Circus ok… i’m going to confess: i didn’t read the cult of the amateur (and i’ve read enough reviews of it at [...]

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as much as i love movies about teenagers i love movies about superheroes. i haven’t figured out exactly what the connection is between the two, but there’s definitely something similar about characters that experience everything in extreme. last night i watched blood and chocolate and realized something that i’d already noticed happening in casino royale: [...]

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