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“These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles. Now return them.”
—Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, director of the neighboring Palais de Tokyo
How so French! And appropriate for the stolen Picasso & Matisse. Five paintings worth over $100 million from the Paris Museum of Modern Art swiped even though the museum had reported problems with its alarm system two months ago. Seriously? Something worth looking into perhaps?
But Monsieur de Saint-Cyr is right. You can’t do anything with them except hanging them in your house. I personally would and happily.
Check out this animated gif galore at I’m Not An Artist. I remember the days I had to make many animated gifs.
It was back in 1999 and they’re these teeny-tiny animated-gif stamps for Eastern Mountain Sports’ e-card campaign. These mini banner ads are to be placed on the corner of send-to-friend email templates and I had to actually come up with banner concepts and copy. Oh, and there’s one for every sports they cater to: snow-shoeing, mountain-climbing, skiing, kayaking… The list didn’t seem to end. I was really sick of animated gifs after that.
On the other hand, Love Creative site is a throwback to Powerpoint 97. Remember those cool wipe-out or dissolve transitions that used to make you go “ooohhh!” because you thought those are dope? They have all of them. Very retro indeed.
Sony Style’s Bravia microsite has brought back drooling over TV. The site takes a little long to load but the interface is delicious. Mostly videos, the site showcases the new TV’s ability to tilt 6-degrees back for better viewing, connect to the internet and the social media sphere, etc. and it’s visually stunning.
I love the control tool: a little flat scroll-wheel-turn-slider-turn-control-button that makes dragging your mouse for control feels very smooth. It’s hard to describe because it feels preciously like you’re actually using your fingertip. Maybe it’s just Friday and I’m having Campari and soda in the office. 🙂
Then there’s the 3D TV. I like the little Flash Twitter post display.
Now we just have to wait for TV signal from cable to catch up.
This morning I got a little surprise in my inbox: An email from CardScan At Your Service telling me that a contact wants me to make sure everything is up-to-date with a little image of my business card with a bunch of notes. Oh cool, I thought, until I saw “bad teeth” scribbled on it! What??!
Apparently, I’m an “Asian fast talker” (check!) with “bad teeth” (so wrong!) and “Killer idea” (not bad for a closing statement). But “bad teeth”??! For the record, I only have 1 cavity in my otherwise near-perfect pearly whites. It would’ve made sense if I had summer teeth.
So I googled him and found his LinkedIn profile, in which he posed like an 80’s version of Rodin’s The Thinker. His Facebook photo is even creepier. No idea who he is.
There are “strategy,” “visability” [sic] and “create mini webpages for each candidate” which looked like I was giving out free ideas. Must’ve met him during a networking event a few years back in which I apparently made an impression, either with my killer ideas or with my bad teeth. What a dick!
So for you out there who write notes on business card: Don’t write stupid things, don’t scan it blindly and don’t use a service that sends out update reminders automatically. Or you’ll end up killing any business opportunities or just making it onto someone’s shit-list.
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