Iranian dissidents win Sakharov Prize
"I know that you require water, food, housing, a family, parents, love, and visits with your mother," Sotoudeh began in a letter written from prison to her children, who were prevented from seeing her after she refused to wear a chador, a full length traditional garment.
"However, just as much, you need freedom, social security, the rule of law, and justice."
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Shaken
Coffee: Do Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?
"...Bourbon Kochere Sparkler that combined MadCap’s Kochere Ethiopian coffee with honey bourbon, orange juice, orange bitters and a splash of club soda."
Coffee cocktail yowzah!
"...Bourbon Kochere Sparkler that combined MadCap’s Kochere Ethiopian coffee with honey bourbon, orange juice, orange bitters and a splash of club soda."
Coffee cocktail yowzah!
Monday, October 22, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Ideas on imagery
To do:
To shoot subjects from two distinct POV; two photographers, two cameras, one subject.
To shoot subjects from two distinct POV; two photographers, two cameras, one subject.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Here's your fix
From sitting long hours at Wellington cafes, here's a retrospectively obvious take or observation on Antipodean cafe sales:
When posed with a wide selection of bean roasts, customers usually become overwhelmed and are, instead, more inclined to follow the recommendations of the barista.
The barista can easily funnel the customer's choices by simply stating lines such as, "My personal favourite would be the XYZ roast and it has a [flavour profile]."
Not necessarily obvious, I suppose, but it'd be a subtle way of pushing sales for a particular product line that has lacklustre sales...
When posed with a wide selection of bean roasts, customers usually become overwhelmed and are, instead, more inclined to follow the recommendations of the barista.
The barista can easily funnel the customer's choices by simply stating lines such as, "My personal favourite would be the XYZ roast and it has a [flavour profile]."
Not necessarily obvious, I suppose, but it'd be a subtle way of pushing sales for a particular product line that has lacklustre sales...
Monday, October 15, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Whisper
"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
-The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
-The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Intertwine
1972, the renowned Italian designer Massimo
Vignelli redesigned George Salomon's New York Subway map, which
persisted until 1979, when superseded by Michael Hertz's design.
It was a marvelous conceptual map, and it was easy to read. It was a tool for navigating the subways, although not one for navigating the city streets. Out with the complicated tangle of geographically accurate train routes. No more messy angles. Instead, train lines would run at 45 and 90 angles only. Each line was represented by a color. Each stop represented by a dot. There was an obvious influence from the London Underground map, originally created by Harry Beck in 1933, however, Vignelli took it one step farther, in creating the now-famous intertwined wiring-diagram map of New York's vastly complicated subway lines.
It was a marvelous conceptual map, and it was easy to read. It was a tool for navigating the subways, although not one for navigating the city streets. Out with the complicated tangle of geographically accurate train routes. No more messy angles. Instead, train lines would run at 45 and 90 angles only. Each line was represented by a color. Each stop represented by a dot. There was an obvious influence from the London Underground map, originally created by Harry Beck in 1933, however, Vignelli took it one step farther, in creating the now-famous intertwined wiring-diagram map of New York's vastly complicated subway lines.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
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