April 2012
1 post
Everything is beautiful in its time
Like everybody, I’ve had too many childhood dreams at night of being a big star or a hero, to wake up and realize it was a fickle dream. And I would wake up to a new day as just a child, no longer a hero, but could now romp and skip with neighbor kids, and with my brothers and my sister in the woods. Enjoy time in the spotlight, enjoy watching it pass away - that’s what dreams are for....
March 2012
8 posts
SXSW 2012 - Quote
Opportunity can be manufactured. -Biz Stone
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
3. Replace Universities
People are all over this idea lately, and I think they’re onto something. I’m reluctant to suggest that an institution that’s been around for a millennium is finished just because of some mistakes they made in the last few decades, but certainly in the last few decades US universities seem to have been headed down the wrong path. One could do a lot...
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TCK's Home
*TCK = A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a person who has spent a significant part of their developmental years outside the parents’ culture.
I am starting to think that home is less about where you live and more about nodes on a personal life journey, the same way I and my fellow TCK’s view our passports as interesting travel documents and less as signifiers of our cultural identity.
As I travel...
Ideas as Neurons
Tom Robbins says you can’t manufacture creativity or wonderment, but you can pull yourself out of context so dramatically that you gawk in amazement at the ubiquitous everyday wonders you’re culturally conditioned to ignore. I think this is key: To get new ideas we need to see the world with new eyes–we need to evoke a novel way of seeing things. For me that involves throwing myself into new...
Companies I'd like to work at: Amazon
More than any other corporation of the Internet age, Amazon embodies the emerging culture of business strategy. It is the General Electric of our times, and Bezos is the Jack Welch. When the definitive book on corporate strategy for the early Internet era is written, Amazon will be the main example, not Google, Apple, Microsoft or Facebook. Those are great companies too, but their greatness...
Sillycon
The best of us who work on the internet thrive on being alert to the next idea. We are harsh critics, and our lust to improve and iterate on everything we know is insatiable. From time to time, when the conditions are right, we’ll take a chance and see if we can make it happen. But how? And why? And for whom? On any day you can look at how our industry presents itself, and in its media,...
Companies I'd like to work at: facebook
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo. -M.Z., Letter to Investors
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The Guardian - Three Little Pigs
This advert for the Guardian’s open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the Three Little Pigs in print and online. -via The Guardian
“To fail sucks. To get back up rocks. To keep going rules.”
Companies I'd like to work at: Foursquare
People, like brands, evolve.
Like in every kind of society, especially in a fast-evolving one like ours, the ones fast to adapt and evolve are the ones who lead.
If brands could once sit on their taglines, products, and promises, they now have to constantly be observing culture, foreseeing, adapting, and evolving to changes. These changes are mainly driven by the technium, which of course alters...
February 2012
6 posts
Red Bull Stratos - A Brand That Does
January 2012
3 posts
My 2011 in pictures
Parts of 2011 found in my Pictures folder:
MOMA NY - My mom and the stroller she used to take me around with
SF - Walking around the Bay with my mom
SF - The one and only La Rouge leaving for NY
SF - Kevin Kelly at Web 2.0 Expo
SF - Haight Ashbury Neighborhood
SF - Roland Young says Art Direction is the Wrong Direction
SF - 4/20, 4:20pm at the Golden Gate Park
SF - TASIS...
NYE 2012 - Marrakech Ragers
November 2011
3 posts
Formula 1 Aerodynamics
Until 2005, I wanted to be an Aerodynamic Engineer.
Tahoe, CA/NV 11.11
One morning in San Francisco
October 2011
1 post
We're All Surfers - Updated
Finally updated, what kind of surfer are you?
We’re all surfers - The wave of technology adoption
View more presentations from Apo J. Bordin
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
6 posts
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July 2011
13 posts
Sounds from Friday evening | apopotamus
Bratwurst on grill | apopotamus My new sounds
July #mixtape
July ‘11 by Apopotamus on Mixcloud
RiP : A REMIX MANIFESTO - TRAILER
Via Scoop.it - Documentary Romans remixed Greek art, languages have been remixed into new ones, and yet we cannot accept the same natural phenomenon in music. Show original
Portland 4th of July
Road trip to Portland with Noah “Dj Shift”.
Thanks Catherine, Clara, Uli, and Andrea for the great time. Portland, I hope to see you soon.
Click thumbnail to view large. Enjoy it.
June 2011
10 posts
SFO to ITO - "Hi."
whoisruiz:
My first time home in two and a half years, I decided to film the journey back. No waterfalls or rainbows. Just going home.
Why Ad Agencies Should Act More Like Tech Startups →
Glad to be in San Francisco, volunteering at Tripping, being part of an Innovation project at the AAU, and ready for POD.
The Misuse of Chemistry
<a href=”http://alanastewart.bandcamp.com/album/the-misuse-of-chemistry” _mce_href=”http://alanastewart.bandcamp.com/album/the-misuse-of-chemistry”>The Misuse of Chemistry by Alana Stewart</a>
Emerging artists moving across the web. With great music.
“The...
Darondo on a Sunday ...
Hindsight in Retrospect
Stills from video collaboration Hindsight in Retrospect:
Juan “Aquarelas” de Dios Garza Vela, Holding Water, Oil on panel. [View Large]
Kodak, Power Flash Single Use Camera. [View Large]
Federal Reserve, The Bill. [View Large]
The present is a gift and I just wanna be.
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