So Much Work, So Little Time

Oh wait ... it doesn't take only 2 minutes to design a logo and brand identity? :-) Wow! What an awesome show of performance. What a TON of work! May we all put in this much effort into what we do. Not effort for effort's sake, but for the good of our clients.

Stained Chimney Reputation

Saw this sign exiting the highway onto Broadway. It's, what appears to be, one of Ambassador Painters' yard signs that a disgruntled customer spray-painted on an orange warning triangle and affixed an 8.5"xll" sheet of paper that reads "STAINED MY CHIMNEY!"

I love seeing stuff like this. Guerrilla marketing from the consumer -- I mean, I don't think ad agencies can come up with this stuff! Unless an agency did(for one of Ambassador Paintings' direct competitors), in which case, that's really smart! In either case, it's awesome!

The next time I need my house painted, I know just who not to call. And if enough people have that same experience, do you think they'll survive for long? I don't. Good luck Ambassador, and I hope your PR dept is taking notes.

Oh Snap that license plate!

I saw this on a walk through my hood the other day. It was parked in front of a rental-house occupied by (what i can gather/hear) a death metal band...zikes!

You play ball like a GIRL!

Golly. There's no denying that Obama throws like a girl. But does anyone know WHY? I can't figure it out. He doesn't step with the same foot he throws with which look very awkward and is pretty common, I guess. Any baseball pros out there care to weigh in? I examined both Obama and Bush and can't nail anything down. I found a few things that would make one's throw awkward-looking, but Obama doesn't violate any of these:

1. Trying to throw a ball with your body facing the target, rather than rotating your shoulders and hips ninety degrees away from the target and then swinging them around in order to accelerate the ball.

2. A throw looks bad if your elbow is lower than your shoulder as your arm comes forward (unless you're throwing sidearm).

3. A throw looks really bad if, as the ball leaves your hand, your wrist is "inside your elbow"—that is, your elbow joint is bent in such a way that your forearm angles back toward your body and your wrist is closer to your head than your elbow is.

4. Slow-motion film of big-league pitchers shows that when they release the ball, the throwing arm is fully extended and straight from shoulder to wrist. The combination of these three elements—head-on stance, dropped elbow, and wrist inside the elbow—mechanically dictates a pushing rather than a hurling motion, creating the familiar pattern of "throwing like a girl." -- Thanks to The Atlantic

Is it the follow-through?

'Bout the Sweetest Anniversary Logo I've Seen

I was doing some research today for an anniversary logo I'm doing, and I came across this.

Why I Love Apple

They make things simple.

Space Invaders on Builing

Dag-Blasted Teenagers! That's awesome!

Milky Way Galaxy Over Texas

Everything's bigger in Texas; that's right, even the Milky way. Watch a time-lapse video of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy rising over Texas. Beautiful!

Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Collection

I bet that Wright would have killed to have LEGOs to do mock-ups with. Oh well, he didn't do too shabby with balsa-wood and foam-core.

The Guggenheim model is available now but Fallingwater is yet to be released.

Thanks Wired.

Take the Power Back

On Memorial Day I think a lot of us tend to think of American soldiers from the recent past. Let me encourage you to remember soldiers who died before Iraq, before Vietnam, before even the Civil War(or War of Northern Aggression), all the way back to the American Revolution — where we took the power back.

Happy Memorial Day!