A collection of things I find on the internet...

Leo Burnett’s request on “when to take my name off the door”. Particularly like his respect for ‘the lonely man’. As a recent NY Times piece put “Solitude is out of fashion. Collaboration is in.” Now I’m all for collaboration but not at the expense of the clarity of thought that can come from time alone to think.

As Leo Burnett puts:

“Finally, when you lose your respect for the lonely man. The man at his typewriter, or his drawing board, or behind his camera, or just scribbling notes with one of our big black pencils or working all night on a media plan. When you forget that the lonely man - and thank God for him - has made the agency we now have possible. When you forget he’s the man who, because he’s reaching harder, sometimes actually gets hold of for a moment… one of those hot, unreachable stars.”

(Source: hugh-thomas)

“ I had a real revelation… All day I had looked at young people in Istanbul. They were all drinking what every other kid in the world drinks, and they were wearing clothes that look like they were bought at the Gap, and they were all using cell phones. They were like kids everywhere else. It hit me that, for young people, the whole world is the same now. When we’re making products, there is no such thing as a Turkish phone, or a music player that young people in Turkey would want that’s different from one young people elsewhere would want. We’re just one world now.” (p. 529)

— Steve Jobs: “We’re Just One World Now’ (via mansitrivedi)

(via mansitrivedi)

“ So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

— Christopher Mccandless (via light-essence)

(Source: quote-book)

via altnytterfarlig:

Off Book: The Evolution of Music Online. (via @mpared) As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto the cultural scene, and audiences were left wondering how to sort through them all. In this episode we discuss these massive changes, and reveal how music blogs and websites have arisen as the new arbiters of quality. - PBS Art

More great stuff from Pogo.

‘Cruised by a hipster’

Cannot wait to see this! Would give anything to have been there.

On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with NEW YORK magazine calling the event “a marvel of pure craft” and TIME magazine lamenting “we may never dance again.” SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.

Most Contagious 2011 has arrived! Required reading.

Absolutely beautiful short film.

“ When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

— The secret of life in 46 seconds, courtesy of Steve Jobs. Monumental. Plus his thoughts on fear and failure in this rare 1995 video interview from the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association. (via curiositycounts)

(via curiositycounts)

If I ever open a clothes store this will be on the door.

(Source: whereisthecoool)

altnytterfarlig:

“The experience would be that a customer will have total access to Burberry across any device, anywhere. And they would get exactly the same feeling of the brand, feeling of the culture, regardless of where, when, how they are accessing the brand”.

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“You have to create a social enterprise today, you have to be totally connected with anyone who touches your brand. If you don’t do that I don’t know what your business model is in five years.”

- Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts

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neilperkin:

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tigs:

Steve Jobs’ Vision of the World (by gocarlo)

When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

(via dennisdemori)

Another great talk from the RSA on the pros and cons of advertising. Anyone looking to justify their profession just listen to the first 5 minutes!