8 Reasons to Choose Fotolia as Your Stock Image Provider
We are Abraham Harrison are really excited about our client Fotolia. Fotolia is able to offer individuals and professionals (advertising agencies, press, small business, graphic artists, designers) the...
View ArticleSomewhere is to the Ferrari 360 Modena as A Man and a Woman is to the Ford GT...
I am so impressed by Sofia Coppola‘s Somewhere with Elle Fanning & Stephen Dorff. The real star is the gorgeous black 2002 Ferrari 360 Modena. If I ever can afford it, I will definitely suffer the...
View ArticleWatching M*A*S*H from the pilot episode
In my mind, from my time as a child (too young to watch it first-run, but my parents did) and through repeats and syndication (it was on every evening in Honolulu growing up) and through its 1972-1977...
View ArticlePortland is a Very Walkable City
I took this walk last night because the gym was closed for repairs — a pipe burst or a pipe broke or something.Oh well, lemonade out of lemons. I just farted around and it was nice but I should have...
View ArticleA Photo of a Relatively Young Kurt Vonnegut
Only one reason why I think that the If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats blog is awesome: Kurt Vonnegut is right up there with Haruki Murakami, Milan Kundera,...
View ArticleCameras are Lame Because They’re Not Phones
Cute promotion for the new Leica V-Lux 20 12.1 MP snappy via Creative Criminals; however, what makes cameras obsolete is not size or quality or price, it has to do with functionality: where’s the...
View ArticleJ’Adore Paris, J’Adore la France, la Deuxième Partie
Women in Paris, France, really know how to bring out their best. Accentuate the positive. Lovely. A vision. Thanks to Face Hunter:
View ArticleGet Your Bacon Now You Bacon-Obsessed Foodie Hipster Kids
Image via Wikipedia I know for a fact that Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Portland, Oregon, are obsessed with bacon. Since there are some social media hipster crossovers who read this blog, I offer this...
View ArticleDoes Extreme Deadpan Sarcasm Still Play?
Even though there is The Onion and The Colbert Report playing our extreme deadpan sarcasm every day, I have a feeling that “the other side” sort of agrees with just about everything they’re being made...
View ArticleYou in my hut now, my hut
I was in the gym working out yesterday and there’s a deep house and Chicago house revival going on — at least on the gym’s soundtrack through the PA. I was there with my trainer, James Harris, at...
View ArticleKrista Tippett interviews Jane Gross about aging on On Being
I woke up early Sunday and reached for the radio button and got to listen to the soothing, reassuring voices of Krista Tippett, host of On Being, and Jane Gross, creator of The New York Times’ New Old...
View ArticleAll Summer Long (Awesomer) by Phoebe Kreutz
ALL SUMMER LONG by Phoebe Kreutz – Last night was fun/Tonight is gonna be fun too/Hey, everyone/Let’s think of all the fun things we can do/Playing croquet under the blue skies/Lay on the roof and...
View ArticleMy Beard Has More Followers Than You!
Remember when I had a beard? Man, it was one hell of a bushy beard! ? Thanks to the brilliant an eccentric Mr. Phillip J. Rhoades for such an portrayal of devotion. So, how’s the likeness? Related...
View ArticleWriting simply isn’t for dumb people
Universally, the biggest gasp I get when I meet with people new to marketing, PR, or advertising is that most ad copy is restricted to a 6th grade reading level. I am going to use this blog post to...
View ArticleWatch Abigail Jones’ Restless Virgins on Lifetime
My friend Abigail Jones‘ book, “Restless Virgins,” is premiering as a Lifetime Original Movie this weekend on Saturday, March 9, at 8/7c. Here’s Abigail’s report: The movie is fiction, but it is based...
View ArticleIs Rebecca Black a social media icon or the downfall of online credibility?
I think we have all heard our elders say, “What is this stuff that you kids call music? In my day we had REAL music!” Well, I think I have finally caught myself sounding like my grandfather… Rebecca...
View ArticleSXSW Film Festival : Keeping Austin Weird since 1987
Normal is boring. Give me odd, bizarre, or like the city of Austin, Texas; just plain weird. The birthplace of the much beloved and revered University ofTexas, the area that is nowAustin, can trace...
View ArticleHacking at its worst
Children looking forward to watching the Sesame Street’s YouTube Channel were given a rude awakening when they came across porn, Sunday evening, October 16th. The channel was hacked; all the original...
View ArticleWhat is a facebook like?
What is one “like” really worth? Well according to Edge Rank Checker, not much. A facebook comment is more valuable than a “like” and not just a little more valuable, but 4x more valuable. Edge Rank...
View ArticleCan Eurovision change the world through Dina Garipova’s “What If?”
Send to Kindle I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in Europe. I have and while I recommend it as de rigeur as part of experiencing life, one of the downsides is called Eurovision. Why? Well, American...
View ArticleHere at the Kennedy Center Opera House for Hair
Don’t tell anyone but I generally love Broadway musicals. All except Starlight Express, Cats, and RENT. Surely love the musical Hair.
View ArticleOliver Uberti at TEDxNASA “Smash The Design Button”
The best thing about my life is that I am the least awesome and noteworthy of all of my friends. Here is by buddy Oliver Uberti at the recent TEDxNASA doing a design and art presentation called “Smash...
View ArticleNatalie Wood Appreciation Day
Well, not an official Natalie Wood appreciation day but I just sort of want to appreciate Natalie Wood today. I have appreciated her before in the form of What a Beauty and Talent Natalie Wood Was and...
View ArticleOn Prince Charming Disease and the Princessification of Women
I get to have The Daily as a client. I also read the Daily daily. Yesterday, there was an article on their Tumblr entitled Coquette: ‘Prince Charming Disease’ is ruining your perfectly good...
View ArticleReview of The Language Archive from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
I was just driving through and it got late speeding north on I-5 through Mount Shasta so I dumped the car in the Ramada in Medford and proceeded to get a little work done.I didn’t even know there was a...
View Article8 Reasons To Use The Stock Images On Fotolia
Abraham Harrison is really excited about our client Fotolia. Fotolia is able to offer individuals and professionals (advertising agencies, press, small business, graphic artists, designers) the...
View ArticleThe Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?
When it comes to the textuality of the Internet, message rules and the “text” of the message doesn’t need to be limited to ASCII: animated GIFs, infogtraphics, videos, photos, etc — just as valid and...
View ArticleChildren Naturally Want to Show What They Know
I have not thought about co-teaching and co-learning since I attended my first teachers conference back in 1998 as one of the first teachers of one of the first accredited fully-online, high school...
View ArticleStardom = Vine + Gummies + Nicholas Megalis
Gummy Money Yo my name is Nicholas And this is rediculous Got my gummy money And it is deliciousnessIs Saturday Night Live in his near future?Inspired by This Guy Has the Second-Most Followed Account...
View ArticleJames Franco on every book cover
My friend Minh Lê is a comedic genius, Let’s Put James Franco on All the Book Covers:Last week, when presented with the As I Lay Dying movie tie-in with James Franco on the cover, the internet let out...
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