Voting has begun the Great Johnny Bunko Challenge — our groovy contest to find the 7th career lesson to accompany the six lessons Johnny learns in America’s first manga business book.Over at the Johnny Bunko site, you can see a list of 50 intriguing entries. And on the home page, you can vote on which of the three finalists deserves a […]
About ten years ago, Masashi Kishimoto created the manga series Naruto, about a young ninja with a dark secret. The series has been monumentally successful, selling tens of millions of books and spawning its own media empire. In an LA Times interview, Kashimoto explains the appeal of this less-than-perfect lead character:“Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can
Alternet gleans several years of research from the field of positive psychology to reveal “10 Things Science Says will Make You Happy.” The list, paraphrased, is: Stop and enjoy the present. Don’t compare yourself to the Joneses. Don’t obsess over money. Aspire to leave an imprint. Be intrinsically motivated on the job. Build a supportive network of family
David Airey at LogoDesignLove has a fascinating post about the Barack Obama campaign logos that didn’t make the final cut. (An example is below.) Airey also points to an interesting interview with graphic guru, Sol Sender, about how the winning logo came to be.
Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow (BTW, have you picked up his book, Little Brother? It’s the perfect gift for any smart, tech-savvy teen) points to the work of Berlin artist Andreas Nicholas Fischer, who has rendered financial charts as wooden sculptures.Below is a piece, fashioned from more than 150 laser-cut wood polygons, in which
Knowing my love of charts and graphs, several readers have sent me the chart below, which shows just how dismally U.S. stock markets have performed this year. The chart, which comes from econo-whiz and must-read blogger Greg Mankiw, shows the percentage change in the S&P Index for the last 160 or so years.As you see,
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How is the economic downturn affecting the rise of right-brain thinking? It seems to be accelerating and deepening the three forces — Abundance, Asia, and Automation — that A Whole New Mind argues have been tilting the scales in favor of artistic, empathic abilities.Take Asia. As companies cut costs to stay alive, more and more routine work is heading
Did we use an old Apple bag to brine our Thanksgiving turkey? Damn right we did.
Between January 1969 and January 1970, Pablo Picasso completed 167 paintings.He was 87 years old. (Source: Kreeger Museum)
