Archive for 2010/01


Consumer Stories

Conde Nast Traveler I won’t renew. Send me a cheap enough offer and I’ll subscribe to your magazine.  Assuming I’m interested, hell, I’m not a doctor’s office with a waiting room.  If it’s only ten bucks and I read a few good articles a year, it’s worth it!  I won’t keep your publication from going […]

Predictions

1. Ticketmaster and Live Nation Will Merge After public outcry lasting a week, people will move on to tracking the exploits of faux celebrities and the two companies will get down to trying to improve their bottom lines.  Which will depend not so much on fees, but the artists in the Front Line stable. Expect […]

Jonathan Ive On Design

"Objectified" – Jonathan Ive talks about Mac design & Unibody MacBook manufacture Watch this video.  Hang in past the foreign language intro until Ive comes on screen. Some of the things he says are mindblowing.  Because they apply to all art.  And make no mistake, Jonathan Ive is an artist. Getting design out of the […]

The Apple Paradigm

Insanely great products a handful of times a year. Imagine if Apple introduced a product no one wanted.  Something lame.  And held a press conference every other week to trumpet its features. Then you’d have the music business. What’s the lifespan of excitement on a laptop? Certainly not a year.  Maybe nine months at most. […]