Archive for March, 2004

Nor­mally I tend to think that every­thing is poti­en­tially funny and that you can make jokes of almost every­thing. This bit from Details mag­a­zine sort of had me laugh­ing as well, but I’m not sure it’s all that funny… Or put another way; I can see why some mem­bers of the Asian com­mu­nity — or of the gay com­mu­nity — feel some­what offended.

WHITE T-SHIRT: V-neck nicely show­cases sashimi-smooth-chest. What other men visit the salons to get, mem­bers of the Asian gene pool pro­vides for free.

If you’re Asian, there’s an online peti­tion against igno­rance, if you’re gay, let me know of any online activ­i­ties (peti­tion wise, that is — I get my bit of strange blog searches already, thanks). In any case, while a joke is a joke, you might want to save those for the pub instead of pub­lish­ing them in mags…

Female nude pho­tog­ra­pher: “I must be the luck­i­est pho­tog­ra­pher alive. Unlike many pho­tog­ra­phers I don’t actu­ally want to give up my day job as I am a heli­copter pilot, fly­ing Hueys and CH47 Chi­nooks in the Ital­ian army.”

Fullscreen QTVR

TDC launches 400 hotspots today. I’m not too impressed with the cov­er­age in Copen­hagen; apart from a few Baresso cof­fee shops it’s all gas sta­tions and burger joints which isn’t really where I would use wifi. But of course, while on the move, a wifi gas sta­tion would defi­nately come in handy.

DK note: “Inter­net stoppested”? Ahh, det er jo ikke fedt…

Another piece on “set­ting the price”. It’s a free­lancer clas­sic; you worry you will lose the client, so you under­charge. I’ve stum­bled across var­i­ous posts on this the last cou­ple of months but some­how for­got to post them (which unfor­tunal­tely goes for a lot of stuff these days — I’ll try to tighten up…).

If nobody is com­plain­ing about your cur­rent price, they are too low.

[via the most excel­lent Whitespace]

Easy as that, really. If you never ever need to nego­ti­ate in order to close your deals, do your­selv a favour and rethink your billing scheme. It’s bad for you as you’ll have a hell of a time try­ing to raise your price if you end up in a long term rela­tion­ship with your client, and it’s bad for the indus­try. And think about it: It doesn’t only take tal­ent and love of design­ing, cod­ing or what­ever your trade is (“If fash­ion is your trade, then when you’re naked, I guess you must be unem­plyed, yeah” — from some Pulp-song). You spend oceans of time keep­ing your­self updated on this and that and remem­ber, you’re pay­ing for your own machine park, you don’t get pen­sion plans and you prob­a­bly spend quite some time just clos­ing the deal. Phew, it’s a tough job…

Kubrick on type­faces (and a bunch of other things): “It’s Futura Extra Bold,” explains Tony. “It was Stanley’s favourite type­face. It’s sans serif. He liked Hel­vetica and Univers, too. Clean and elegant.”

I am Banksy

Fire­fox Book­marks Syn­chro­nizer (FTP)

Strangely inter­est­ing con­cept:

In a one-time mar­ket­ing ploy, the online news­pa­per TV2 Net­tavisen in Nor­way pub­lished 20,000 copies of a print ver­sion of the web­site on Fri­day (19/04/2004), with a resound­ing suc­cess: all media in Nor­way and many media out­lets around the world have been talk­ing about it. The paper was printed in tabloid for­mat and dis­trib­uted to com­muters in Bergen and Oslo.

[via hypulp where you also can down­load a copy]

Guardian inter­view with Kevin Shields | I lost it