brokentumblr.

(via scubed) This movie is damn near perfect.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:04:30 -0500

(via scubed)

This movie is damn near perfect.

Desk peace talks.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:44:38 -0500

Desk peace talks.

I’ve been seeing this everywhere, and it is cooooooool.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:43:25 -0500

I’ve been seeing this everywhere, and it is cooooooool.

"If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people."

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:34:57 -0500

“If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people.”

- Warren Ellis (via therealkatiewest)

This boat is real.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:08:51 -0500

This boat is real.

10 Tips for Viral Marketers From a Military Propaganda Manual

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:52:15 -0500

10 Tips for Viral Marketers From a Military Propaganda Manual

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:55:14 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

choosing my morning coffee

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:48:28 -0500

choosing my morning coffee

Meet Gigi Gaston, the ye ye singer who never was

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:48:28 -0500

Meet Gigi Gaston, the ye ye singer who never was

deepr: doinwork: orchard: mignola Favorite. I want this on...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:27:58 -0500

deepr:

doinwork:

orchard:

mignola

Favorite.

I want this on my tombstone

Batman is a character design that calls for heavy blacks and deep shadow. Great mix of character and artist.

Shocking News On The Porn Front

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:13:49 -0500

Shocking News On The Porn Front

Things I can't decide how to feel about:

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:44:39 -0500

The fact that I have a ‘look’ (as in, people can say ‘I just saw a guy who was dressed exactly like Jon Crowley’, and others know what they mean. It involves cardigans.)
Declaring info-bankruptcies (Google Reader, Email, deleting blogs / social network profiles, etc)
Smoked salmon
Fiction I’ve written
The tenuous link between self-destructive tendencies and art
My age
Hats
The fact that I have about 20 pairs of shoes
Motivational speakers
The common western conceptions of honour

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:22:17 -0500

attentionindustry:

The words spoken by Michael Caine in The Dark Knight, in description of the Joker’s motivation, are intensely inspirational for me. Speaking of a jewel thief in Burma, Caine’s Alfred explains that the man was robbing caravans not for the money or the precious stones, but for the thrill. The rubies and diamonds ended up thrown away, they were meaningless to him, in comparison to the challenge of getting them.

Some men just want to watch the world burn. For me, this means taking pleasure in disruption. While I don’t find glee in mayhem, I like tearing down things that don’t work. I find joy in destroying a failed system and rebuilding. And for my generation, there are an awful lot of failed systems to see, if you care to look.

Disruption is the most important factor in our changing business world - while everyone want to blame Google and blogs for the death of the American newspaper, an equal culprit is Craigslist. Taking the classified ad revenue from the newspaper industry, collapsing it dramatically, and putting it in a much smaller number of pockets, is classic disruption. Craig Newmark and company sidestepped an existing model, built something simpler and better, and watched the world burn.

Disruption works the way this example suggests; no one was focused on changing the face of journalism. But the funding model of classified ads had become integral, and unseen, in paying for journalism. Craigslist built a better user experience, and continues to refine it with glorious simplicity. Failing newspapers are the precious stones left in the dirt. Inconsequential.

Real change, lasting change, total overhaul change, doesn’t happen by carefully sticking new parts into an old system. Sometimes you reach a point where starting over is the only thing left to do. And to do that, you have to be willing to watch the world burn, for a little bit. Try not to get scared.

Reblogging myself because my love of Batman is strong.

Me as an ice cream cone: vanilla, double dark chocolate, Oreo...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:27:47 -0500

Me as an ice cream cone: vanilla, double dark chocolate, Oreo chunks, and sprinkles. In a skor cone.

The sprinkles represent my rare, tiny bursts of sweetness.

"Being young and not knowing what you wanna do is totally the worst sometimes. I mean, when I was 22..."

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:47:51 -0500

“Being young and not knowing what you wanna do is totally the worst sometimes.
I mean, when I was 22 we didn’t even HAVE Gary Vaynerchuck.”

- Life is hard. Here is someone.:

Meaghano is Awesome.

Greenpeace ads featuring aged politicians in 2020 apologizing for climate change

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:21:42 -0500

Greenpeace ads featuring aged politicians in 2020 apologizing for climate change

Did I actually send more than a thousand texts this month? I...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:13:25 -0500

Did I actually send more than a thousand texts this month?

I have a problem.

If you don't know what to get me for christmas, this works.

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:58:30 -0500

If you don't know what to get me for christmas, this works.

After Taking U.S. Bailout, Chrysler Hires Italian Agency

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:52:51 -0500

After Taking U.S. Bailout, Chrysler Hires Italian Agency:

mikehudack:

evangotlib:

drintelmann:

asonnenberg:

evangotlib:

drintelmann:

This really frustrates me on behalf of the BBDO employees of Detroit that are facing a layoff. I normally am not against global economic development if there are mutual benefits but in this case buying locally or even American should be required.

Wow, Francois must have absolutely no handle on the local environment. The first rule of doing anything in Detroit is to do it American - this was beyond obvious even before the bailout.

You’re absolutely right. My best friends Dad worked for GM, I drove a foreign car at one time. He wouldn’t even let me park it in his driveway. After doing digital work with GM for a couple of years, I understand even more. This decision by Chrysler just upsets me.

I’m actually in Detroit today. And over the the past two days I’ve been working non-stop with a number of GM’s digital agencies to get a really cool campaign live. Everyone connected to the US auto industry is working really hard to nail the comeback. Stories like this just piss me off.

Maybe it’s just me, but isn’t the insistence that American-ness should come before quality in decision-making exactly the reason the US auto industry failed so damned hard?

That said, given the situation and who they are selling to, the better PR move would inarguably have been to go with an American agency.

Lucas Ossendrijver dresses how I would dress, if I had the...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:18:25 -0500

Lucas Ossendrijver dresses how I would dress, if I had the talent for picking things that fit perfectly.

This sentence makes sense in my head.

(photo by the selby, clickthrough for link)