Square
Photo via Square // Image via Cookie
What do you do after you’ve started an internet juggernaut? Try and start another it seems. That’s what Jack Dorsey co-founder of Twitter (yes THAT Twitter) is trying his hand at with his new venture Square. Square tries to fill in the gap between the ubiquity of credit card payments in our modern economy and the challenges that face retailers who would like to accept them as payment. Square makes it dead simple to accept credit cards and is a great piece of minimal industrial design to boot.
While I think square is an amazing idea and a great inovation I think it faces an uphill battle with consumers. We have all heard about the waiter scanning everyone’s credit card with a pocket scanner and ripping off his customers, and I feel like scanning your credit card into someone you don’t know’s cell phone is too close to the same interaction for a lot of people to handle. Having said all that I’m still pulling for it!
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Thanks to Cookie for reminding me about Square! I found his post regarding the company while I was digging around his blog after finding this.
Jónsi Go Do
A friend of mine named Ryan from Alaska emailed me frantically as soon as this video was up on Jónsi’s website telling me I had no choice but to watch immediately.
Since it was an emergency I ran out of the meeting I was in and watched the vid, thanks Ryan for the heads up.
I’ve been doing hard time waiting for this album since I heard Boy Lilikoi on Kitsune Noir’s mixcast No.020.
Bobby (Kitsune Noir) has a great little write-up of the song also.
I think Jónsi looks like an Icelandic mad hatter. Or that he’s part of some crazy tribe that never existed. Or maybe he’s just crazy, all of which I totally buy. There seems to be this frantic energy in some of the songs released in 2010, but in the context of childlike enthusiasm. He climbs a tree, he throws things, he beats on things.
The Animal Collective Brothersport riff (come on, it’s a riff) has a similar feeling. Jam sesh, kids, running around, and a touch of drugs.
Anyway, here are the goods:
Jónsi – Go Do from Jónsi on Vimeo.
Michael Henderson
This dude helps make Portland awesome.
I’m really loving what is happening in this man’s head.
I would have loved to have seen where he gathered some of his dreamy imagery. Michael graduated from OSU in 2003 and does client work as well as impressive personal art explorations. Way to go Michael!
Group love – etched out
Phase 2 of group love!
Wood engravings, nothing more to be said. God love you, Flickr.
Many available in respectable resolution – Vintage Engravings, Etchings, Lithographs & Wood-block prints
Chop Cup
When I was a kid I went through a phase where I was obsessed with Harry Houdini, I read books, I bought handcuffs, I tried to learn card tricks all to no avail. While I don’t spend too much time anymore learning how to guess your card magic still holds a special place in my heart. This video is the best kind of magic: lighting, musical, typographical, but in the end what I love about it is it breaks the #1 rule in magic and reveals it’s secrets. Maybe I’ll go buy a pack of cards tonight!
