My sister is selling her condo in Queen Anne, Seattle. Great view of the lake and downtown.

My sister is selling her condo in Queen Anne, Seattle. Great view of the lake and downtown.

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“The main effect of the globalism fad of the past 30 yearrs — lowering the protective barriers to trade that countries for centuries have used to make sure their own local economies are self-sufficient — has been to ship manufacturing (the creation of wealth) from developed nations to developing nations. Transnational corporations love this, because in countries with lower labor costs and few environmental and safety regulations, it’s more profitable to manufacture products. They then sell those products in the “mature” countries — the places that used to manufacture — and people burn through the wealth they’d accumulated in the earlier manufacturing days (home equity, principally, along with savings and lines of credit) to buy these foreign-manufactured goods. At first, it looks like a good deal to consumers in developed nations. Goods are cheaper! But over a decade or two or three, as the creation of real wealth is reduced and the residue of the old wealth is spent, the developed nations become progressively poorer and poorer. At the same time, the “developing” nations become wealthier — because those are the places that are producing real wealth.“
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“I go back and forth. Advertising is stupid. Advertising is great. Advertising is totally unnecessary. Advertising is the most vital art form of our day.
It depends on what week it is. I think they’re both true.
I didn’t plan out my existence. “I’m going
to do this for two years, this for three years,
and then I’ll be a vice president, and so on.”
I never heard of stock options. All I did was keep my nose on the board.“

An Interview with Helmut Krone

I was introduced to Helmut Krone from a book I’m reading about ads. He did the VW campaign in the 60s that changed the way people thought about ads.

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TOBYZ TRANSITIONZ on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Dog puppets who tell terrible puns in between 80s wipes. Thanks.

concrete

I’m at one of my offices, in the library sitting in a bean bag surrounded by kids books.  The radiant in the slab got hooked up today with some heat flowing through the tubes.  It should take a little while for that 4 inches of concrete to heat up and kick it through the house.  P and I poured our first concrete counter-top/sink in one pour.  It’s almost done curing enough to remove the forms.  I’ll post photos later.  2 more counter/sinks to pour and then we attack the kitchen monster of a counter.  I’ve made it extremely hard on myself to finish this house, nothing off the shelf.

NElson?OUT

Dig These Freeways (via Aaron Valdez on Vimeo)

Playing around with animating postcards. Right click the play button to turn looping on. Original pic flickr.com/photos/wreck/2803597490

livejamie:

Someone bought a new Canon XHA1 digital video camera and recorded a test video just to see if the camera worked properly. Let’s just say the test was an incredible success.

I used to dance to Rock-It in my Spidey Underoos too. By used to I mean last weekend.

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