Posted by Anne on July 7, 2010
Your desk would have piles of invitations, people would come poke you unexpectedly and you would get banana trees and cows out of the blue.
Life itself would start losing fans. And get dislikes.
Would you like to:
a) confirm
b) deny
c) ignore
These statements.
Posted by Anne on July 1, 2010
Daydreaming has been underestimated for so long, that it deserves a little article here today.
Mind wandering, more precisely, a subcategory of daydreaming according to J. Schooler and J. Smallwood, can become a fantastic opportunity for big ideas or important revelations if you seize the moment right.
You can find more about this here and enjoy some very productive mind wandering of Sandrine Estrade Boulet here:
Posted by Anne on June 30, 2010
I recently stumbled upon a very personal project on Ze Frank. I invite you all to do this little exercise. It’s useful for the memory, the heart and also for the ones around you.
It goes like this:
Think of a path it was known to you as a child. Your way to school, to your grandparents’ house, to the bakery.
Look it up on Google Street View or just picture it in your mind.
Write down any kind of memory or feeling it brings you. Then, take a photo of it and there you go with your new piece of old personal history which may at some point inspire someone.
And that is more or less like a very cool contribution to the world.
Posted by Anne on June 8, 2010
Dan Pink starts his 10 minute fabulous presentation with a short and precise statement: “The science is unbelievably surprising. The science is a little bit freaky”.
Determined to state this by some interesting studies he analysed, the guy explains us a little bit what the motivation drives are for specific categories of people.
We leave you with 10 minutes very worth watching, which will hopefully raise at the end one single important question to all of you, dear readers: what motivates you to wake up daily and go to work?
Posted by Anne on May 11, 2010
David Griner with his article on The Social Path and Google with its recently new keyboard toy started some thinking and debates around the office related to the future usage of classical keyboards versus touchscreens. Do you think that the next generation will ever use a keyboard again?
source: Gizmodo
We’re already resignated to the thought that our children and grandchildren will never use the Chinese Fountain Pens we had and will never get stained with blue ink while practicing neat writing. The future sounds like this: you touch the screen with your finger and the word is there.
The present already offers us plenty of this innovative writing: smart phones and smart displays, controllers for video games and all sorts of smart tricks used by platforms like Google, which are able to predict the words you want to type, so that you can quit writing the full sentence and resume to pressing “enter”. There is also Swype, the finger-tracing text programm and the list is open to daily releases.
That should make it easier for us to accept that this is the future; maybe also the present, as 2 year olds are able to use an iPhone before being able to read or to write.
We’ve got our own classical pro&con list, which we leave open for your opinions.
For the pro we can track down the following: touchscreens are smaller and slimmer, so you save up space. They can easily be improved, with a software update. They offer the option to switch the language automatically and they can perform translations on the content. And then there are the smarter touchscreens, like the iPhone, which can predict the letters you want to type and make it easier and faster to select those ones.
For the con we would start with the lack of a touch feedback: when pressing a button, you have the physical evidence of your action and you wait for an answer, whereas when dealing with a touchscreen, you can have a delay in answer and may find yourself in the situation of not knowing what to do – wait or type the same leter 10 times until you get a confusing display? Another con point would be that you cannot use a touchscreen without looking. You may be able to type on a physical keyboard just by feeling the letters and watch the screen or something else at the same time; but touchscreens require your full attention.
Some experts give an insight on the world of touchscreens here.
And while they do this, we can think of what to do with all the free space we save by using touchscreens: maybe store some books and oldfashioned diaries? Nostalgia has to be fed somehow.
Posted by Anne on May 4, 2010
Trying to find just one good thing in life that is not 1. illegal 2. immoral or/and 3. fattening. Nothing, so far.
People are creatures of habit. If you have losing habits, you will lose you.
Today, I will encourage mistakes.
Creativity is by definition practical. If you don’t believe me, stop the engine of your car and push to work today 
What we live is what we feel. What we feel is what we create. What we create is what we are. What we are is what other people live.
Ethics is not a new jacket, asshole. But the very skin you put under a shirt which you wear under a sweater worn under a new fucking jacket.
Let me love all of you out there that are not the center of the Universe today.
Taken from yesterday’s editorial on Iqads, which is written partly in Romanian. You can find more, however, if you have a look here from time to time.
Posted by Anne on May 3, 2010
Derek Sivers, musician, professional clown and entrepreneur, talks at TED about how to start a successful movement. Inspirational both for flash-mob initiators and less conventional business men.
3 minutes of practical advice:
Posted by Anne on April 26, 2010
We slept on the photos from the party for a while and let them bake with likes, tags and comments. Today we chose 7×7 of the most popular photos and prepared the long awaited FRIENDSbook. They were chosen both from the photos taken by us and the ones taken by our friends during the live-pic-event.
Enjoy and keep on liking, tagging and commenting on our Facebook group!
Posted by Anne on April 23, 2010
For all those Tarantino fans out there, here’s a reference manual about his badass characters, foot fetish and racial slur.
Doesn’t it make you wanna go home and play some Pulp Fiction, then some 4 Rooms, then some Kill Bill, then some Reservoir Dogs, then start all over again?
