Everyone’s aware of the minotaur, the centaur, and the mermaid (or mer-man). But if you look past history’s most popular man-animal hybrids (or manimals) there are a number of interesting combinations awaiting exploration.
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Welcome to the new-and-improved kylebunch.com. I'm Kyle, I'll be your tour guide today.In case you hadn't noticed, we're in the process of remodeling around here. New floors, new tile, even putting in a pool in the backyard. Really going to boost the property value.
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Blogs with Balls 1.0: 13 Lessons Learned
After months of talk, planning, conference calls, logo iterations, contract reviews, and on and on, Blogs with Balls went down this past weekend in New York. I haven’t read every review, but the sampling I’ve seen, coupled with the people I talked to during and after the event, I feel comfortable looking at it as a success. I’m almost always my harshest critic, but outside of some Microsoft-related snafus early in the day, I can say it really couldn’t have gone any better. (If you want to judge for yourself, there’s a rundown of event recaps and reviews here, here, here and here.)
That being said, while the event is fresh in my head, I do want to run down the lessons learned and things I would do differently, so we can make sure to address them as we look ahead to Vegas and Blogs with Balls 2.0 in October.
Countdown to Balls
Friendly reminder — this Saturday — Balltron 3000 invades New York. Do you have your ticket yet?:
Co-Worker Highlights: Q1 2009
Wanted to share a few early 2009 highlights from some of my esteemed peers at R/GA — just a sampling of the many great things coming out of the magic factory at 350 w. 39th (above and beyond the award-winning client work):
First off, there was Ray at Cut & Paste — he didn’t win, but just the fact that he got in and got to be part of the madness of a real-time Photoshop contest with thousands watching is epic:
Does Local Media Finally Know What’s Good?
Saw this story in the Memphis Flyer (by way of Jack Lail) and thought it was interesting:
Representatives of the four largest newspapers of Tennessee — Nashville’s Tennessean, Memphis’ Commercial Appeal, Chattanooga Times-Free Press and Knoxville’s News Sentinel — met Feb. 4, 2009, to explore opportunities to cooperate to leverage their resources. During the discussion, all agreed that readers would be best served if the papers found ways to eliminate duplicate effort and share content of interest throughout the state.
Austin Return: My First Meals
Thursday night I will be back in Austin for the first time since the very beginning of the month. After spending 4+ weeks in San Francisco and New York, here are the meals at the top of my Austin homecoming gorge list:
Did I forget anything?