I loved this Rolling Stone interview with Dylan
This is how I see it: You fly to Italy, hang out with beautiful women, make a little scratch and next thing you’re in a Victoria’s Secret commercial.
Yeah. Was I not supposed to do that?
I enjoyed it.
I wish I would have seen it. Maybe I’d have something to say about it. I don’t see that kind of stuff. That’s all for other people to see and make up what they will.”

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A spam ad for..spamming…which is a recursive concept, uses an image of a man looking at the image of the ad that you are looking at! Whoah! A flurry of blows to the cerebral cortex!

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For women who prefer minimalist men’s clothing styles over stereotypically feminine, frilly garb, the pickings are slim. Women’s clothing departments leave them cold. The men’s clothes they tend to buy rarely fit properly. Clothes shopping is often torture.
This barren sartorial landscape was brightened last week when Aisha Pew and Breonna Cole of Oakland launched Studded, a label billing itself as the first line of clothes made expressly for butch lesbians, studs, transgender men and bois — all au courant terms for people who lean masculine in their presentation or identity. The clothes look like what you might find in a men’s department, but the design slyly accounts for the fact that women are curvier than men.

This workshop (PDF link)- Making Sense of Sensemaking sounds pretty fascinating.

Making sense of the world is a common activity – it happens whenever people confront a new, complex problem. Sensemaking can be a core professional task in itself, as it is for researchers, designers, or intelligence analysts. It often begins with a process of collecting and organizing data. Sometimes the information can be organized into a fairly simple structure, one that helps to solve the problem. But the process can also be ill-defined, iterative and complex: information retrieval, organization and task re-definition all interact in sometimes subtle ways.

This 2-day workshop aims to bring together a diverse community of researchers working on understanding sensemaking activities and on technology to support them. We hope to establish a dialogue between various researchers, enrich our understanding by laying out the space of varieties of sensemaking and articulating their commonalities and differences, and draw design implications for better sensemaking tools, systems and aids.

Why is The New York Times publishing such a smug and snarky article about fan reactions to Dimebag Darrell’s death? It’s okay to make fun of how badly people write online (if you are the NYT, of course) especially if those people are horrible loser heavy-metal people that are worthy of mocking, even in their grief/anger/confusion.

Then the drinking commenced. “This beer is for you, Dimebag.” one writer proposed. “Everyone, raise your beer.” Another fan objected: “No offense to the departed, but a beer before noon sounds like an A.A. problem. Tonight we’ll have a kegger.”

And what about Mr. Anselmo, formerly of Pantera and currently of Superjoint Ritual? Fans were feeling cranky toward him. “Happy now, Phil?” one fan wrote. Another writer said, “Guarantee it comes out that the shooter was obsessed with Phil Anselmo and thought by killing Dimebag he would be doing his idol Phil’s bidding.”

It was all the way back in April when it was quietly announced that Nike dropping the ‘Goddess’ moniker – the special Nike stores now being relaunched as Nikewomen.
I didn’t know that!

Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built in Montauk, Long Island by a developer called All-State Properties. Macy’s stocked each house with furniture, dishes, towels – all necessary furnishings. The owner just had to show up at his new house with the clothes on his back – everything else was included in the package.
Leisurama houses were all about summer, family, the beach, and parties. Posters advertising the houses showed people having a grand time in the sand. The ‘Leisurama’ logo was in funky type, with a smiling sun dotting the ‘i’.
The Leisurama story is one of ambition, creative marketing, and a desire to leave the daily grind behind and escape to a fun, playful utopia. It is a story about a post-war nation searching for peace and diversion on the home front. It is a story about the clash of ideologies. It is a story about suntans, fishing, and outdoor barbecues. [The documentary] will be told by on camera interviews of original and current house owners, the architect, builder, and historians [and] will be scored with early 1960s style pop music, a perfect compliment [sic] to the carefree lifestyle promoted by the Leisurama brand.

things magazine asks “Anyone out there collect things obsessively? We hope so. Do you live in North America? Are you female? If so, might you be interested in having your picture taken for a glossy magazine article? Suitable candidates should drop us a line.”

I saw this graffiti in Toronto recently and I had no idea what it was…according to this however, it’s the promotion for a Toronto band. Interesting!

Tags: graffiti, meme, promotion, street, toronto, val kilmer

The NYT reports that The Simon Property Group, the owner of shopping malls in North America, said yesterday that it would stop running a print advertisement for its Simon Malls division that pictured the Statue of Liberty next to these words: ‘Very inspiring. Now, where’s the mall?’
Les Morris, a spokesman at Simon in Indianapolis, confirmed a report of the decision that appeared on ODwyerpr.com, the Web site of the J. R. O’Dwyer Company, the publisher of a newsletter about public relations. ‘This ad is one in a tourism series, using familiar landmarks in the area and playing off of the idea that visitors to any city tend to rank shopping as their No. 1 vacation pastime,’ Mr. Morris said. ‘We meant no disrespect to this national icon of freedom.’ The campaign was created by the Indianapolis office of Publicis Worldwide, part of the Publicis Groupe”

I couldn’t find anything on the web about it when I blogged it, but some think people like me don’t have a sense of humor (but hey, they used my picture)