Brilliant looking trailer for McG directed Terminator: Salvation

Over, Under, Around and Through
Pinball (one, two, three, FOUR, five..)
The Ringmaster
The Fairy Alphabet
Typewriter Man
Strange little flashback journey this evening. The complete Hale on YouTube listing can be found here

A YouTube clip of my new favourite author Tom McCarthy talking about his new favourite author Georg Trakl.

COMPUTER VS BANJO
You can be pretty sure that if you meet someone at a party and they tell you that they are “cool” or claim to be “the funniest person you have ever met”, they are certain to not deliver on that promise. Indeed they will no doubt prove to be quite boring and you will find yourself desperately searching for a way to escape from the corner that they have backed you into. Such innate traits never require a lead-in and the genuine article will be so oblivious as …

“The amount of building becomes obscene without a blueprint. Each time you ask yourself, Do you have the right to do this much work on this scale if you don’t have an opinion about what the world should be like? We really feel that. But is there time for a manifesto? I don’t know.”
–Rem Koolhaas

David Armano posted an interesting article today over at Advertising Age about online personal brand presence in which he offers the following 3 guidelines for creating an online profile:
1) Engage in Personal Publishing2) Be Your Own Agent3) Be Authentic
Sound advice from the cowboy-hat wearing Twitterer (the man’s got personal branding down cold!). But I would like to offer something to the mix on this topic that I have been thinking a good deal about lately, that of creating what I call a Brand Periphery Profile.
Now in order to …