July 2008
2 posts
June 2008
38 posts
Another Great Email Dialog From Forty
Sunny: Wow, people are so funny in Phoenix.
Aaron: funny or sad?
Sunny: Funny, in a sad way.... take that Post.
Aaron: I was thinking sad in a funny way :)
Sunny: You have won this round..... You will rue the day Post when I get you back!
James: Ohhhhhhhh, did you see what he did just then? Zing!
“There is nothing that drives a team forward like the fear of public failure,...”
– Tony Wright, founder and CEO of RescueTime (via WorkHappy)
Selling the Un-Sellable Painting →
- James
Now that's copywriting →
Check out the e-mail text from CD Baby
- James
Typical Conversation at Forty
James: Hey, Sunny, check out this great song / band / movie / video I just found!
Sunny: Oh, yeah, I know / dated / went to school with / am having lunch with / got stepped on by / discovered / am godfather to / once had a car accident with / am related to them.
“Contrary to what you might believe, merely doing your job every day...”
– Steve Yegge via Jeff Atwood
WatchWe refuse to take any project where the client asks us to make the site “look Web 2.0”
- James
The irony of creative change →
“The irony of creativity is this: people want to be creative without change. They want innovation with no risk. They want a new result with the same exact behavior. They can talk for hours about how passionate they are about creativity, but when it comes to actually changing anything, they’ll find a way to repeat the same thing again and again.”
Isn’t that annoying?
-Dan
“As a child, I thought that the Fonz was cool. Now, Beck is cool and Fonzie seems...”
– Eric Karjaluoto and his Random Observations - Part 2
A word about e-mail etiquette →
Telly Without Context →
“To watch you need a broadband connection, quite a fast computer and a deep-seated urge to be totally bewildered.”
Couldn’t have said it beter myself. Totally ridiculous and yet hypnotizing… Watched the whole thing and feel like I just got a lobatomy.
-Dan
Branding is like Dating... Is like business... Is...
Great review of a presentations given at the HOW Design Conference by Marcus Hewit, the CCO of Dragon Rouge USA. It’s a very good analogy on how similar branding is to dating.
As I was reading it, it seemed very applicable to business and life, too!
QUICK BREAKDOWN:
Love yourself
Dare to be different
Get to know people
Don’t overwhelm
Keep them engaged
Stay in shape
Think...
Forty facts about Forty! →
Pretty impressive how many things we were associated with before we started doing this web mumbo jumbo.
- Sunny
Gangplank: Making Phoenix Awesome →
May 2008
33 posts
“In many circumstances, they can allow smaller offenses to slip by as fighting...”
– Stuff White People Like - How are these guys SO right… ALL the time…
WatchRun Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in... →
This book helps clarify a lot of the things we’ve been trying to figure out about Forty. It’s not necessarily what we do (design, strategy, branding) that matters so much as how we do it (transparency, integrity, quality). A must-read book for anyone running a business. - James
WatchKrikey! That’s some fine violining… Uhh! (via oochie’s tumblr) -Dan
