Cedar and Citrus

perception is reality

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:21:16 -0500

Panera says they like to think of their cafes (ugh, if you can call them that) as an “everyday oasis.” This makes me think of women schlepping in in their workout gear and/or pajamas, sprawling out over a booth like nobody can see them, and foodgasming over their frozen creamy coffee concoction and broccoli cheese soup out of a bag.

Eek-sauce.

graduation weekend

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:12:21 -0500

it’s graduation weekend, and everyone my age is graduating with master’s degrees and more. i’m happy for them,

but,

i’m suddenly realizing how much i see education as a status symbol.

and i’m thinking, should i go back to school? (for real, that is. for more serious things than just breads and pastries.)

adteachings: This could also be the welcome letter at the...

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:20:00 -0500

adteachings:

This could also be the welcome letter at the world’s best creative agencies.

^^ I disagree. I hope nobody claims their “life’s work” to be anything related to advertising. And yes, I work in advertising.

"Only two days exist in the year when you cannot do anything. One is called yesterday and the other..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:28:51 -0500

“Only two days exist in the year when you cannot do anything. One is called yesterday and the other is tomorrow. But today is the best day to love, grow, do, and mainly to live.”

- Dalai Lama

Google thinks I need help with some bat poop clean-up. This is...

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:29:44 -0500

Google thinks I need help with some bat poop clean-up. This is highly disturbing. Pretty sure “guano” is nowhere to be found in my inbox.

laughingsquid: Bodypaintings by Gesine Marwedel

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:09:56 -0500

laughingsquid:

Bodypaintings by Gesine Marwedel

tokuma: (via The Illusion of Choice - Chart Porn)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:28:18 -0500

tokuma:

(via The Illusion of Choice - Chart Porn)

it is like this. thankyouthankyouthankyou: haha!

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:26:01 -0500

it is like this.

thankyouthankyouthankyou:

haha!

.!.!.!.!.!

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:38:48 -0500

this is how my heart is beating right now.

i never thought this day would get here.

"budget scrubbing"

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:33:14 -0500

Client: Yes! Social media is important!! We need a summer Facebook promotion!! Show us what you got!!

Us: Here it is... It's awesome!!!

Client: It is awesome! But we like this part of this idea, and that part of that idea, plus our goals are changing.

Us: Ok... Here's the answer to that!

Client: Just kidding, we're changing direction again.

Us: Ok... We'll wait for more info.

Client: Here's more info! How about this really terrible, plain vanilla idea? What can you do with that?

Us: Um... We can do... Sampling?

Client: No, sampling is too difficult. We don't like shipping product.

Us: Ok. Hang on. We'll be back with something ELSE that uses the budget we've been talking about for months.

(Many rounds of internal revisions later...) Us: Tada!!!

Client: This is awesome! It's on brand, on strategy, we love it! But... We're going through some budget scrubbing. We might not be able to spend money on a summer promotion. We need to figure out where social media fits in our priority list.

buddha, budapest, istanbul.

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:19:55 -0500

india, hungary, turkey. maybe one of these is where i’ll go next.

strangers in my 'hood

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:25:10 -0500

Living and working in the city, I see some interesting things from time to time (to say the very least). But never have I ever seen a wild turkey — yes, a real, live, wild turkey — just chillin’ on top of the cab of a parked pick-up truck. In the middle of the city.

Birdy, what the heck you doin’??

Photo

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:03:07 -0500

yep. it can be like this sometimes. except i have to make my own...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:38:13 -0500

yep. it can be like this sometimes. except i have to make my own dinner. wahh.

arbiter-bibendi: Art’s great nudes have gone skinny Italian...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:23:37 -0500

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus

Cabanel's The Birth of Venus

Velazquez's Rokeby Venus

Ingres's Venus Anadyomene

Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time

Titian's The Venus of Urbino

Gentileschi's The Sleeping Venus

arbiter-bibendi:

Art’s great nudes have gone skinny

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.

Ha! Aww. pleatedjeans: via

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:12:54 -0500

Ha! Aww.

pleatedjeans:

via

monday malbec

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:48:25 -0500

me: that wine is probably on its last day of being good.
me: then you'd better drink it!
me: (already pouring)
me: atta girl.

"So what, exactly, can the state not do? Though he is a populist critic of Big Government, and though..."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:27:53 -0500

“So what, exactly, can the state not do? Though he is a populist critic of Big Government, and though he thinks that smaller government and stronger families reinforce each other in practice, Santorum shows no interest in defining principled limits on political power. Nor does he seem troubled by a question that every libertarian will ask: If the state can’t be trusted to regulate our markets, can it really be trusted to regulate our morals?”

- Columnist Jonathan Rauch argues that Rick Santorum’s troubling views on privacy illustrate the growing divide between libertarians and social conservatives. (via thedailyfeed)

back to life, back to reality

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:53:16 -0500

having a hard time being accepting of things today:

what i do for a living.

how i compare to others. past, present, future.

the necessarily fleeting nature of vacation.

Just caught myself Facebooking someone I used to know really well, and realized I don’t know...

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:34:24 -0600

Just caught myself Facebooking someone I used to know really well, and realized I don’t know them anymore at all. They look like a stranger from another life, another world. Time is transformational.