Everything is a Remix Photog Trades Dignity for Recognition With Awful Studio Portraits | Raw File Combover. Photo Credit: Terry Brown/Gordon StettiniusCornrows. Photo Credit: Terry Brown/Gordon StettiniusBeehive. It’s difficult to get noticed in the world of photography. “I sign portraits as though I am that somebody,” says Stettinius. For the past five years, Stettinius has sculpted beards, raided wardrobes and spray-tanned his way into over two dozen alter-egos. Described by Stettinius as “a prank run amok,” the Mangini Studio Series grew out of Brown and Stettinius’ shared nostalgia for the studio session. “We are content for the image quality to be more like that of a promotional glossy from a generic portrait studio than as a fine art print,” says Stettinius, “The cheesiness quotient is pretty high.” Stettinius self-confesses a “disquieting need to experiment with the proud but oft-maligned permanent-wave hairstyle.” “I can only grow my hair so fast, so patience is a requisite,” says Stettinius, “Terry and I can only get together every couple of months.”
The Key Mistake Undermining Your Pitch - Michael Schrage by Michael Schrage | 1:00 PM November 26, 2012 Over 90 minutes into the meeting, the frustration boiled over into anger. The product manager, who had come up with what he thought was an airtight, iron-clad, compelling and irrefutable business case for launching a fairly clever innovation, completely failed to persuade the impassive CMO. The CMO, who didn’t “own” the product line but was responsible for brand and strategic positioning, said that he understood the value proposition but felt it blurred the “premium” positioning he wanted that product to have. In a room filled with marketers and developers, the product manager exploded: “What could I say or show you that would get you to change your mind?” I was sitting quietly in the corner of the room and I knew exactly how the CMO would respond. “Nothing,” the CMO said, looking right at the furious product manager, “There is nothing you could say or show to convince me.” There is a powerful and singular exception to this.
4 Surprising App-Design Principles, From The Instagram Of Quick Quizzes When we first wrote about Polar, an addictive app that invites you to make and take “this or that”-style quizzes, we called it “an object lesson in mobile design done very, very right.” Luke Wroblewski, the mobile-first design evangelist behind Polar, tells us four winning strategies he used to supercharge Polar’s user experience. If you want people to actually engage with your mobile app, not just download it and forget it, read on and take notes. 1. No one is paying full attention to your mobile app. Wroblewski wanted to streamline Polar’s interactions so that a user could take 10 polls in less than a minute using just one hand. 2. How often do you download an intriguing-sounding app, only to be confronted with a screen full of boxes to fill out before you can even launch it? This process, called “gradual engagement,” “is kind of controversial,” Wroblewski admits. 3. 4. Results Download Polar here, and read Luke Wroblewski’s blog here
s Trend Briefing covering "10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2013" 2013 will be the perfect storm of necessity and opportunity: some economies will do OK(-ish), others will be shaky, but whatever market or industry you're in, those who understand & cater to changing consumer needs, desires and expectations will forever have plenty of opportunity to profit. A remapped global economy, new technologies (or 'old' technologies applied in new ways), new business models... hey, what's not to like? Hence this overview of 10 crucial consumer trends (in random order) for you to run with in the next 12 months. Onwards and upwards: To date, the ‘big data’ discussion has focused on the value of customer data to businesses. The perfect storm of consumers’ ever-greater lust for NEWISM and niches, the expectation of (instantly!) For many of you, our free content is enough to keep you going until 31 December 2013.
The Social Conquest of Earth Edward O. Wilson’s latest book is structured around three questions: Where did we come from, what are we, and where are we going? Philosophers and theologians have been chewing on these questions for millennia, but subjectively—from inside the box, as it were. Only recently have our scientists generated enough hard, verifiable evidence about what we are and where we came from to allow us to step outside ourselves and describe our species objectively. So, where did we come from? Homo sapiens , says Wilson, is a highly complex species that has evolved from a series of lucky breaks, evolution-wise. Wilson concludes that we are a complicated lot, and for good reasons. It is this capacity for the evolution of large social groups that makes us special, according to Wilson. Eusociality, in the rare instances it is achieved, evolves through the process called multi-level selection. .)
How to heal the nation in seven simple steps You do well, as nursing educators, in training young people for basic competence in your profession. But what about those soft skills, which are actually hard skills, required to turn young nurses into more than well-oiled machines and make them well-rounded professionals? I can hear you saying of your charges: I can train you how to set up a drip, but how do I train you not to be one? In a country as broken and angry as ours, I cannot think of a more important duty than to prepare nursing professionals to heal not only physical wounds but our invisible wound s as we emerge from a bitter past and still bitter present. I wish to suggest that there are seven human qualities of critical importance in the preparation of nurses as well as other professionals. 1. A group of clinical heads of a well-known hospital were complaining to me about "the lack of" (a common South African start to a conversation) things they needed. 2. What destroys this country is a culture of laziness. 3. We are slow.
About La Caja China Roasting Boxes | Discover More About Our Pig Roasters It was the year 1985 during the Christmas season, when Roberto Guerra was cooking a pig on a makeshift barbecue, talking about all the trouble and long waiting time involved in this process. His father then talked about the long, wooden box he remembered from his childhood in Cuba. His father told him how the old contraption, called the Chinese Box, cut the roasting times virtually in half. Roberto asked his father to build their very own box. A few years later, the company, La Caja China, was born. Making the company's most popular model requires cutting and joining large pieces of plywood to form the box, and then scoring, bending and spot welding aluminum sheeting to form a lining. Other metal parts such as the charcoal tray and grid and the drip tray are produced in the company's factory in Medley, Florida. La Caja China provides a distinctive cooking experience for everyone. Anyone can set up our roasters simply by downloading our assembly instructions. So, what are you waiting for?
www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2012/09/13/parents-selling-out-children I tell him that I am confused, dumbstruck. Would he really deny education to the poorest children in the rural, disadvantaged areas of Olifantshoek and Kuruman? Is education not the only way out of poverty for the children? "Yes, my daughter is in school here. It is difficult to check the veracity of his claim that the parents and the children took a resolution to close the schools in these areas. It is now more than two months since 40 or more schools have remained closed, according to one media report. So far, the politicians from "national" have not been able to end the boycott. I ask the man on the phone: "What on earth did this mayor do that caused you to take such a dramatic step and close learning centres for children?" He was wound up by now. "The mayor is lazy and useless. Their other concern in this area is the demand for tarred roads. I could not judge whether the big people were having a partisan political fight here that has little to do with services.
4 Free Ways to Learn to Code Online The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Learning to code is something every tech-minded person should try at least once — and the wealth of online courses, many of which are free or surprisingly inexpensive, make learning about programming easier than ever. If you're thinking of picking up C++, Ruby on Rails, Python or Java, these online options might be a good way to test the waters of programming before you fully invest your time and money in formal training or certifications. And if you're a veteran programmer in need of resources for learning new languages, these sites might help you a bit, too. One disadvantage of learning to code through an online platform is the lack of face-to-face interactions with an instructor. In the comments, let us know if you've found other great resources for learning about programming — or other sites for support and Q&A for newer developers.
Best, Worst Learning Tips: Flash Cards Are Good, Highlighting Is Bad In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us — from schoolchildren to college students to working adults — needs to know how to learn well. Yet evidence suggests that most of us don’t use the learning techniques that science has proved most effective. Worse, research finds that learning strategies we do commonly employ, like rereading and highlighting, are among the least effective. (MORE: How to Use Technology to Make You Smarter) The scientific literature evaluating these techniques stretches back decades and across thousands of articles. The WorstHighlighting and underlining led the authors’ list of ineffective learning strategies. The BestIn contrast to familiar practices like highlighting and rereading, the learning strategies with the most evidence to support them aren’t well known outside the psych lab. (MORE: ‘Implicit Learning’: How to Remember More Without Trying)
What Defines a Meme? What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life.’ It is information, words, instructions,” Richard Dawkins declared in 1986. Already one of the world’s foremost evolutionary biologists, he had caught the spirit of a new age. The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment. “If you want to understand life,” Dawkins wrote, “don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.” We have become surrounded by information technology; our furniture includes iPods and plasma displays, and our skills include texting and Googling. The rise of information theory aided and abetted a new view of life. “Ideas have retained some of the properties of organisms,” he wrote. Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. Ideas. Tunes.