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We just watched the movie Babel — it was awful, a perfect example of Story vs. Drama. It’s a mashup of three slightly related stories that just end up being drama.

Neal Gabler offers an explanation:

In this culture, the intrinsic value of a movie, or of most conventional entertainments, has diminished. Their job now is essentially to provide stars for People, Us, “Entertainment Tonight” and the supermarket tabloids, which exhibit the new “movies” — the stars’ life sagas.

Better yet, Tell Your Story!

So Brussels Airlines changed their Logo. Thirteen balls was Unlucky, twelve was Sacrilegious, but fourteen was Just Right.

Said designer Ronane Hoet:

It was harmony….We are never surprised by reactions — but that it was that bad? It really took us aback.

I believe a Designer’s Job is to Surprise and Be Surprised!

We posted about Gravity Branding, but in the PingMag interview of Scott Milano we see a lighter approach:

And finally you present a client, let’s say, 10 names for his new product?

It depends on the time schedule. If we focus well and get through in one presentation, there are usually 20 to 30 names. Sometimes clients come back and want us to focus on one specific area. Ultimately our guarantee is that we give them one name that could work.

Could? Did it happen that something didn’t work out the way you planned?

Most of it doesn’t because we don’t have ultimate control over what’s actually put on something. At least myself, I learned not get too attached to one idea. You can be attached to concepts and certain ideas, but there may be a number of different articulations to say it. We don’t make the final decisions…

I suppose some folks like Coke, some like Diet Coke.

You may have heard of this Prank. What caught my eye was a comment by an Eric Lujan:

who ever pulled such a stupid prank like this on such a holy day and in what I see as the heart and sole of Santa Fe, the Cathedral or as it is now called the Basilica needs to seriously have there head examined. How crude and uncalled for I am appalled.

I knew an Eric Lujan, we worked together in Santa Fe at Stationers Express, and later in Albuquerque at the Pacesetter Corporation. His father was a doctor, his uncle was politician Manuel Lujan, and he could trace his ancestry back 400 years on both sides of his family to Spain. He liked to play semi-pro baseball, was a gifted telemarketer, and was pleasant to be around. If he never worked a day in his life, he would always have food to eat, a place to live, clothing to wear, a car to drive, and plenty of entertainment. And so I thought he would never amount to anything. But this might not be the same Eric Lujan.

UPDATE: It is the SAME Eric Lujan, and I’m WRONG, he did amount to SOMETHING.

Today was the Big Install, and it went pretty well. The weather was awesome at Mockingbird Bay Resort, Bill made Alien contact, Hot Rod Frank Zortman, who owns the resort with his wife Loretta, did all of the hard work, and Misty did her Magic to configure it all. Imagine the Possibilities!

Via Matt Hickey at CrunchGear we hear that Bill and Steve will be on stage together at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference, chatting about the future of the digital revolution. Isn’t the Future over yet?

This morning on Boing Boing, I saw a post on this cartoon about the 1939 New York World’s Fair. My mom told stories of going to that Fair, and later I went to the 1964 New York World’s Fair. They’ve been having Fairs since 1756 up to the current decade, but I realized I hadn’t thought about them in decades. The Fairs were about the future, but The Future Has Already Arrived!

I don’t usually like talking bad about the President, but I do like mashups. I found this video on YouTube after doing my last post and I thought it was awesome work. The guy who did it really put some work into it.

Tomorrow, we have a big Wi-Fi installation happening. Bill & I spent part of today gearing up for it and then at the last minute the guy we were going to have help with the install called and said he couldn’t make it. We should have went with the “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” saying. This same guy we have used two other times and both times he couldn’t stick to the time he said that he would be there. It’s really frustrating, but I suppose that’s life, figuring out who you can count on and who you can’t. Luckily enough we’ve found a replacement, so the short interruption can’t stop us now. Tomorrow, the world will be a better place, because there will be one more company offering free Wi-Fi, and the best part is we get to take part in making that happen!

Picture by goldberg.



I was searching online for a replacement CDROM drive for a laptop today. I was shocked to see they were in the $250-$400 range. I don’t think I have ever purchased a replacement CD Drive for a laptop so this was new news for me.

I expressed my shock to Bill on the prices and he responded, “Baby, know why they chop up cars when they steal them?”

I liked that quote and I suppose I like clever quotes from all around, I even keep a blog of just Kid Quotes. Maybe I need to start a Bill Quotes!