Translating at Twentysomething

“Style is optimism made visible.” Marano’s The Style Imperative. A fantastic rethinking of fashion vs. style from Psychology Today.

This is a classic post from Steve Hall via Adrants circa 2002. It’s called New Business Calls and it speaks for itself:) 

Here’s a section from David Brain and Martin Thomas’s Crowd Surfing that particularly resonated with me as a freshman in digital communications. 

From David Mamet, a word to the actor that I think applies to all of us in the social media space. It applies to all of us who feverishly consume thousands of feeds a day, to those of us who take “x company gets it” and “x company doesn’t have a clue” blog critiques to heart or at least as cautionary advice. As Mamet says, in the end, we have to throw ourselves on the stage (the Web) and be honest and speak from our gut. 

I’m beginning to realize that Scott Brown is one of my favorite writers in WIRED. Here’s his latest, “I’ll Be There 4 U” via WIRED.

“The Teen Commandments for brands wanting to ‘do digital’”

“Don’t wait for Monday. I don’t believe in weekends.” Richard Avedon from a portrait in this month’s V Magazine

“I am waiting…for some strains of unpremeditated art to shake my typewriter.” I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“The days of the corporate comb-over are gone.” Great post sent my way via @JuliaRoy. Post from the Brand Insights blog.

“Data Clouds” from 90 Mobiles in 90 Days. Rachael says, “Despite the fact that people are social and need interactions with other human beings, we’re slowly removing opportunities for engagement from our lives.”

Gregory Berns’ “Rewiring the Creative Mind: What neuroscience reveals about how to think differently” from Fast Company, Oct. 2008

Adopted from his awesome new book, Iconoclast. 

Scott Brown, The Piano Man from WIRED Magazine Oct. 2008 (pg. 120)

Favorite quote: “Luckily, there are high tech treatments for bad taste.”