Elliot Swan |
Hey there, I’m Elliot. I'm co-founder of DuroCast and do freelance web work. My side projects include Postable, WorthWorkingFor, TweetRemote, Accidental Procrastination, FlipFor.Us, ShootYourselfWith.Us, StalkMy[dot]Com, Shweetness, and Man of Pink. Some of these places actually exist, and some I wish existed. |
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Notes A List Apart: Articles: Art Direction and DesignArt direction transcends constraints; in fact, it thrives within them. The difference between art direction and design, and why we need both.
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Notes In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey: Why 37signals' advice is irrelevant37signals cannot offer advice on pricing and business modelling [sic] to the vast majority of us. This is a shame, because they certainly know how to do something very well indeed. Bear with me on this; I don’t want to smear a wonderful effort to foster successful business practices, and a commendable…
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Notes Apple's July 16 Press ConferenceSteve’s reality distortion field has done it again. It’s been a long while since Apple’s had to deal with any sort of crisis situation, and I wondered if their PR department would even know how to deal with one anymore. Appears they can.
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Yes, Apple seriously played this at the beginning of their iPhone 4 press conference.
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Notes How the Old Spice Videos Are Being MadeA team of creatives, tech geeks, marketers and writers gathered in an undisclosed location in Portland, Oregon yesterday and produced 87 short comedic YouTube videos about Old Spice. In real time. They leveraged Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and blogs. They dared to touch the wild beasts of 4chan and they lived to tell the tale. Even 4chan loved it. Everybody loved it; those videos and 74 more made so far today have now been viewed more than 4 million times and counting. Assuming the team worked 16 hours yesterday to make 87 short videos, that’s less than 10 minutes per video. Then they woke up this morning and they are still making more videos right now.
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NotesI’m thoroughly impressed with the sheer number of creative responses W+K’s been able to crank out today. Brilliant.
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Bernal Heights Residence by SB Architects. Hat tip @gblakeman.
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Notes"Admittedly, the new crack is subtler than the old crack. But I would argue that “subtle butt crack” is — in the world of corporate branding, anyway — an oxymoron. A subtle butt crack is still a butt crack, and butt cracks aren’t subtle visual flourishes." -
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"For all your self-portrait & egotistical goodness."
