October 2010
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Groupon and the Value of Copywriting →
52weeksofux:
Speak to any seasoned designer long enough and the topic of copywriting comes up. Any designer worth their salt knows the value of great copywriting and how it can transform a dull, routine web experience into a delightful one.
But what exactly does it mean to write great copy? How do we know when we achieved it? Is this something that we can learn as part of the design...
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Project Runway Winners: Where Are They Now? →
Great article that goes through all the past Project Runway winners and talks about where they are now and what they’ve been up to. Is it bad that I’ve forgotten about a LOT of these people? Pretty much everyone except Christian-tranny-hot-mess-Siriano and Jeffery-with-the-crazy-neck-tattoo-and-bad-attitude. Glad to see people are doing well!
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“I don’t have low self-esteem. I have low esteem for everyone else.”
– Daria (dressed up as her for Halloween today at work and NO ONE gets it. Awesome. Remind me never to grow up.)
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Blown Away.
Brad and I just got home from the Weepies concert at the Cedar Cultural Center here in Minneapolis. I’m not sure if it was the small venue, or the cold windy day, or the beautifully musical band, but the stars aligned and made this one of the best live concerts of my life. Steve and Deb are not only an adorable couple, but they are so authentic. So themselves. So simple and kind. It felt...
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“Really fall in love with the highest image of yourself.”
– This is a line from a BARBIE COMMERCIAL of all things. Seriously I saw this spot last night (maybe during Glee? Or Biggest Loser?) I couldn’t BELIEVE it was for Barbie and I actually jotted that quote down as fast as I could right then and there. Amen, Mattel.
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The Awesome World of Advertising →
If you’re curious about what ACTUALLY working in advertising is like…just check out this comic strip. It is hilarity and depression and frustration all wrapped into one. Oy vey…this is my life…
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Natasha Probably Wants to Comment on This Post But...
Natasha: I keep wanting to comment on your blog
Natasha: But that is not an option
Elyse: Yeah that is like Tumblr's one downfall
Natasha: I keep wanting to write one, and then realize i have nothing to write about
Natasha: And if I just wrote about boring day to day stuff it may was well be Live Journal
Elyse: Me neither
Elyse: All my crap is boring
Natasha: Your crap isn't boring!
Elyse: lol yeah it is
Elyse: It's like "This weekend I drank tea. Next weekend I'm taking a walk."
Natasha: Who doesn't like tea and walking?
Natasha: Fucking communists...that's who.
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Oh Deer.
Pumpkin diorama? Awesome idea.
ashleyslist:
Continuing the trend of posts that are low on $$$ but just crazy good I bring you this forest pumpkin diarama (or at least that is what I am calling it)
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“Can I get up in the morning
Put the kettle on
Make us some coffee, say...”
– The Weepies (can’t wait to see them TOMORROW!)
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F*cking Awesome. →
The best ad I’ve seen to encourage people to vote. I recommend connecting through Facebook to fully get this experience—it’s totally awesome :)
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It's FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYY
Hello lovelies! Congrats! We all made it through another work week :) My week was fab despite having a bugger of a cold (pun intended) that is only now starting to give up and go away. Yay! Here were some highlights:
- Going to the the Haunted Basement at the Soap Factory with Brad, Jackie and Todd last night. I highly recommend it for all MPLS peeps. It’s creepy as crap and is created...
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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly...”
– George Eliot
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The Truth About Bullies
These last few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about bullies. What is a bully? What makes someone a bully? What does all this bully babble mean?
And I’ve come to an important conclusion: no one thinks that they’re a bully. Even famous bullies like Lucy Van Pelt, Nelson Muntz, Regina George, and Biff Tannen. Those “ha ha” taunting, swirly giving, burn book writing, football gagging...
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Tabio "Slide" Show →
Ok, aside from the fact that this concept is adorable and quirky and all things I love….THE SOCKS ARE FLIPPING ADORABLE! I WANT EVER PAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, enough yelling now…
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Gangster Lorem Ipsum. →
Because sometimes you want your Lorem Ipsum to have a little bit of gangster flair.
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How to Have an Idea →
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Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese... →
Brad made these RIDICULOUS cupcakes for the tea party this weekend. You literally first have to bake a pumpkin pie and then bake those pies within cupcakes. It was crazyyyyyyyyy delicious (essentially a pie baked into a cupcake). Rich, creamy and perfectly yummy :)
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Clearly She's Talking to Me.
Meg: Dear Peggy Olson, lock it up.
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Garden State.
Andrew: You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew: You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.
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I'm Pretty Sure I Just Found the Best Website Ever →
You’re welcome, kids of the 80s and 90s. This will provide hundreds of, “I remember that!” moments for you this afternoon. Hope you didn’t want to do ANY work in the next hour.
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