Thursday Minute
Back in town after three glorious days up in the North Georgia mountains. Lots of sunshine, salmon, wine, puzzles, reading, reclining and soaking in a little sunshine. A quiet, relaxing way to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary.
While there, one of items I finally had a chance to read was the current issue of Print magazine, which IMO only gets better with age (despite their unfortunate identity makeover, which to me is kind of bland). Contained inside is yet another article explaining weblogs, blogs, or whatever to the general public, except Print tackled it from a typographic perspective. How bitter sweet it was to see screenshots of Lines and Splines, and then return home to find the web site is no longer. A shame.
Also inside Print was "¿Habla Usted Inglés", a profile of UNO advertising, and their specialized marketing services for American companies targeting the diaspora of Hispanic consumers. A rather funny analogy was made by co-founder Luis Fitch when asked to describe their services:
For example, in a general market ad about automobiles, there is usually a white guy who's just finished buying his four-wheeler. The first thing he does is go up the mountain by himself and say, "Yeah!" That ad would not work in Spanish. If I went up the mountain by myself in Mexico, my family would kick my ass for being too much of an individual. First, I would have to bring all my family with me to buy the car. Everybody has to be behind me and support this important decision of buying a new car. Second, I cannot just keep my happiness or my sadness to myself. It is a family thing. So I have to bring the whole family up that mountain, and then everybody can say, "Yeah!" See the difference?
In other news, I have received a lot of email from all kinds of people thanking me for the Trading Spaces digital alteration I created, including a nice note from Hilda Santo-Tomas, the designer who created the room on the show. According to Hilda, the alteration is exactly what she thought the room would (or could) look like. It's connective moments like these that only deepen my love for the web.
On the way back from out of town one of my car tires blew out. Nothing is quite as fun as jacking a car up on the side of an Atlanta highway on a hot summer day with 18 wheeler trucks whizzing by you at 80 mph.
I went to Costco today to replace the tire, and ended up sitting on the cement floor in the audio / video section with a bunch of kids watching Star Wars: The Phantom Menace on a large Sony plasma TV. I never saw Phantom Menace (and could honestly care less about Attack of the Clones), but the movie was stunningly lethargic, boring, and wildly over produced. Well, it did look good on that big flat display, but boy was it dull. The kids seemed restless too, which is never a good sign.
Another big thanks to Zeldman for adding two of my sites to his Exit Gallery. A number of great web sites on there.
Oh, and one more thing. We ate the year-old wedding cake, and it was good.
Comments
Glad the cake turned out to be good. Your method of cryogenic storing must have been better than ours was.
Posted by: Bob at May 16, 2002 5:43 PM
Congrats! My wife and I only lasted 6 months before we decided that it wasn't worth the freezer space.
Posted by: Doug H. at May 16, 2002 7:30 PM
Happy Anniversary!
Posted by: Paul at May 16, 2002 7:54 PM
You've hit the big-time now, Todd. To get not one, but TWO nods from Zeldman? Wow. Good job!
Posted by: Bob at May 17, 2002 9:20 AM
Where in North GA? Up near Dahlonega or up near my way in Chattanooga?
Posted by: M.Kelley at May 17, 2002 9:27 AM
I say it's Zeldman who's hit the bigtime getting linked from here :)
Posted by: Rick at May 18, 2002 2:49 PM
1 - Georgia has mountains? Wow, another thing we didn't learn in Canadian Geography. Now I have to visit.
2-Yes. Print's makeover is rather bland. I like HOW's makeover, that they did a year ago, much better. (Speaking of that, HOW and ID, sending me a subscription renewal notice when you have seen fit to deliver ONE issue of my subscription over 4 months smacks a bit of chutzpah.)
3- Luis Fitch? I presume, unrelated to Leonhardt:Fitch, the advertising and branding agency? (http://www.tlg.com/) - a good anecdote, and one to be well heeded by American advertisers. Values and customs aren't the same from country to country? Who knew? (CF: the "I Am Canadian" series of ads from Molson. Happy Victoria Day, fellow Canucks.)
3 - You'd think that with iBooks so cheap nowadays, they could use a digital camera to take snaps of the room and Photoshop them into submission BEFORE they start mucking it up in real life. Also, i didn't know it was mandatory to do house renovations while wearing glitzy black Donna Karan day-to-eveningwear. :) I presume they are steel-reinforced for safety.
5- Plasma screen...mmm. Jar Jar...ech. (I did see Attack of the Clones recently, which was much better by comparison....but you get the sense of a 50-year-old man playing with life-size action figures instead of a director making a film with actors. I really wish Lucas would just let Spielberg direct Episode III. Heck, *Tim Burton* would do a great Episode III....
5 - happy anniversary!!
6- No comments on Xserve or 700MHz iBooks??
Posted by: ajkandy at May 20, 2002 2:03 PM
