“Failure is a stepping stone to success.” — Keiko Hasegawa, Manager of AMS Transformation and Consulting, IBM Japan, Inside the Inventive Mind.
Month: December 2013
Picturing a problem
“Don’t just look at a problem’s exterior, identify the root cause. Then think of multiple ways to solve the problem and compare your options.” —Lei He, Senior Software Engineer, IBM, Inside the Inventive Mind.
Site Spotted: IBM
IBMblr. Big Blue on Tumblr. Go figure. You’ll certainly find all types on Tumblr. From the cute and clever to the impressively philosophical and artfully prolific. Increasingly, business and brands are joining the fray. IBM looks to celebrate their long legacy of innovation with IBMblr. “IBMers are a pretty humble bunch, so we wanted to mainly just celebrate the inventors, and the joy of inventing,” said Sam Mazur, creative director at Ogilvy, the agency that worked on the Tumblr. IBMlbr is meant to be mostly targeted at techies, but also designers, business people and anyone else who is curious and wants some new ideas and information for their own creative processes. Diverse, easy-to-digest, frequent lighter content dominates the effort. We applaud both IBM and their incredibly smart and creative partners at Ogilvy for showing us and the rest of the business community how to think both strategically and creatively. Hopefully, more to come…
The other side to wild
Art SPOTTED. Karen Knorr | India Song. In the latest series from the London-based photographer, Karen Knorr, India Song depicts scenarios that are at once otherworldly and hyperreal. Knorr’s digital compositions bring a diverse cast of noble creatures into the brilliantly captivating and lavish architectural scenes. The photographer presents her memento mori recalling both lost empires and the endangered animal kingdom while leading us to contemplate both our own mortality, solitude and beauty. A big trip lies in the near future…
Happy whatever after
The Girls (and their dudes) are back. New season of the HBO hit is on its way. Like it or not, more than a few of us are oddly hooked. Series poster indicates a definitive desire to have a good time (and a bigger production budget). It’s like sooo hard to grow up…
Needlepoint piece by Illustrator Shantell Martin with Dot Martin.
Go where the action is… Renowned Paris retailer Colette touches down at Art Basel Miami (December 2–8) for a conceptual art/commerce experience. The colette art Drive-Thru is installed in the innovative fashion boutique Alchemist located on the fifth level of the car park (1111 Lincoln Road), the celebrated concrete structure by Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. Visitors drive up, order from a virtual menu of specially curated items and wait for “carhops” (girls on roller skates) to bring out the order. Participating products include some of the hottest names in art, fashion, and culture working today. In addition, specially co-branded drive-thru items are available. Perfect for the Art Basel crowd. Question is will they just browse before taking off for Negroni hour. Major points for the concept, the location and the retro graphics. If your cool (or brave) enough to be in steamy Miami, check it out. Amuse-toi bien…
Happy Cyber (or Mobile) Monday… Predictions for a record-breaking day for online retailers. Good luck to all. Shop, select, add to cart, checkout, charge & repeat… (photograph by Raymond Meier, Vogue)
On a lighter note
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Republican critics of Obamacare rose up in anger today, claiming that, after two months of fixes, the healthcare.gov website is now “unacceptably fast.”
Leading the howls of protest was the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who accused President Obama of designing a website that operates at a “blistering, breakneck speed.”
“With pages loading in milliseconds, this website is insuring people before they know what hit them,” Rep. Issa charged. “Clearly, this is what the President and his team had in mind.”
Additionally, Rep. Issa said, at such high speeds “it is questionable whether this website is even safe for consumers to use, particularly the elderly.”
The California Republican said he would call for hearings this week to investigate the dangerous new velocity of healthcare.gov, telling reporters, “If anyone can slow this thing down, it’s me.”
