Posts Tagged ‘Today’s Guest’

(images courtesy: Matt Logue, TrendHunter)

I don’t consider myself much of a photographer, though I do have a good eye for the kinds of stuff I like and am not bashful about trumpeting other shooters’ consummate talents.

Lately, I’ve been spending long evenings in front of the laptop clicking through slideshow upon slideshow from the various collections of several pro- and amateur snappers I’ve been fanning over the course of several weeks.

Today’s post is more of a fanboy thing. So I promise not to be slinging any controversial ideas or making any bombastic statements about China, North Korea, Bam Bam, or the state of race relations in the Golden City of Prague. Just some good old-fashioned (and not so old-fashioned) art, a dollop of good fun, and a lineup of very gifted craftsmen and women who really know what they’re doing when they pick up a camera.

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By Rej

I knew there was a good reason why six months ago I decided to stop ingesting all forms of news. I realized then, and do now, that the news (when not selling you something) is mostly a Sisyphean reminder, of no real use, of how abysmally stupid and/or cynically evil people are. Having accidentally caught yesterday’s news on the so-called “humanitarian aid” flotilla sent from Turkey to Israel’s territorial waters, I was thrust into the same disturbing realization. That event and the reactions to it were nothing if not proof.

Disclaimer: If you believe that those boats were “humanitarian”, that they had anything to do with peace or even the intent of peace, or that Israel was the aggressor, I have no illusions about changing your mind. In fact, the futility of persuading people who would refuse their own eyes is why I’ve been reluctant to write this at all. However, Adam Daniel Mezei is a friend, and he wants to see it written. Plus I dig his digging the term Blowtilla for that group of boats. (Speaking of futility, how about Futilla, Adam?)

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I owe you all an apology…I’ve been away for too long, and for that I’m sorry.

Truth be told, I’ve been feeling like pterodactyl guano about it all weekend, but I just didn’t have something halfway intelligent to blog about and the heart to lay it on y’all. I basically fobbed off the would-be post thinking how practically anything I was going to come up with would basically make zero sense – even to yours truly – so I took a well-deserved festive in the Bat Cave and begged off writing.

An aside: you know, this whole online thing is funny. Whether we like to admit it or not, we’re all something of a tightly-woven community, resilient like canvas. Remarkably, we depend upon each other, inspire each other, look out for each other when – for one reason or another due to life’s interminable swoons and setbacks – someone goes uncharacteristically e-AWOL. The blogosphere suddenly goes into hyperspace because we somehow imagine the absolute worse, the sum of all fears. Invariably, it turns out the poster in question has merely sauntered off to live la vida loca in the “real” world for a wee while. A breather from the interweb’s echo chamber.

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I’ve been an abiding fan of Todd Sattersten’s ever since I’d heard about his former employer 800-CEO-READ during a spirited Crazy Middle Manager podcast (hosted by another of my favorite online cats, Wayne “Dub Dub” Turmel). Read the rest of this entry »

Damjan DeNoble and I come together via email, over a period of weeks, to talk China marketing, Korea, hummer, Yugo’s, randomized processes and more. The common thread of the piece is trying to figure out, how exactly, the Chinese are going to create home-grown brands that can compete globally.

If you can bear to read along with this monster of a post, know that we had a lot of fun writing it. The first marathon conversation can be found, here. Read the rest of this entry »

I crossposted a James Cameron Vanity Fair interview to my Posterous feed yesterday because something he’d mentioned to interviewer Krista Smith about Facebook, Twitter, and social media – more generally — intrigued me. So much so, in fact, that I needed to stretch my thinking about it here (boldface by me):

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Thanks to Todd Sattersten for this.