December 2011
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How To Get People To Pay To Read Tweets: Make It... →
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A Swedish charity is claiming a first after setting up a paywall on Twitter in which people pay to read Tweets from some of the country’s celebrities.
Author Susanna Alakoski, pop singer Niklas Strömstedt, music journalist Fredrik Strage, director and actor Felix Tobias Herngren and television host Gry Forssell are among 15 noted Swedes who have spent the past week Tweeting for...
July 2011
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“Swedish summers are famous for a lot of things, midnight sun, skinny dipping,...”
– Adland (featuring The Mosquito Report, a campaign from my agency)
November 2010
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Stainboy on Twitter
Stumbled upon a story telling experiment involving Twitter, Tim Burton and Stain Boy. Of course I had to enter.
The challenge was to continue a story based on this tweet:
Part 1 “Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor #BurtonStory”
My tweet:
“He felt his heart pounding hard against his ribs. As he bent down, he saw his...
September 2009
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“Dear Lord Jesus, I do not often speak with you and ask for things, but now, I...”
– Reese Witherspoon, (Tracy Flick) - Election (1999) (via suburbanprincess)
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WatchSee Fernando, Jenny Lewis
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Just a friendly game of squash
I’m no athlete, not by any means. But I do stop by the gym from time to time, mostly to drench my bad conscience and fight away an emerging back ache, inherited from my father. This day I stood by the squash courts, answering a text message from a friend when one of the ongoing games caught my eyes and ears. Squash-guy 1: “Oh, come on - that one was definitely out of bounds.”...
August 2009
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Bystander Effect →
Reblogged from bestofwikipedia:
The bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present. The probability of help is inversely proportional to the number of bystanders. In other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help.
Forer Effect →
Reblogged from bestofwikipedia:
The Forer effect is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some beliefs and practices, such as...
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“it makes you so vulnerable. it opens your chest and it opens your heart and it...”
– (via hitherebrithere)
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“A Family’s like a Gun. You Point it in the Wrong Direction, You’re...”
– Matthew in the movie Trust (1990), directed by Hal Harley.
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“I Feel the Same Way about Disco as I do about Herpes.”
– Hunter S. Thompson, speech given to the University of Colorado Student Union (1977-11-01)
Hunter S Thompson, Self-Portrait on the road to Tijuana. Copyright Hunter S Thompson. Courtesy www.ammobooks.com/ Michael Hoppen Gallery
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“Do Android Sheep Dream of Electric Mortgages?”
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“It’s Canada in a Thong”
– David Sedaris initial impression of Australia, essay in The New Yorker.
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“Now I Have Another Reason to Hate Christmas”
– Phoebe Cates, Gremlins (1984)
Image credit: Flickr-user: my_kingdom
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And thank you!
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Phoebe Cates is an orthodontologist
Sitting in the couch last night, watching the rain pour down outside the window, listening to my daughter’s before-sleep-ramblings and my sons snoring, my wife turned on the tv. She zaps away and we take a stop at this inexplicably horrid movie. I was not seeing the plot for all the trees. My wife: “Is that Alicia Silverstone?” Me: I guess so, yes” My wife: “That’s...
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“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me...”
– J.D. Salinger (via pengwin)
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“Ron Mueck “In Bed”
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Image via http://blog.jessereedphillips.com/
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“Daddy, If I Eat Up Everything, I Mean Everything, On My Plate, Knives Will Grow...”
– Francis, four years old.
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“We have an uneasy relationship to our bodies. John Updike refers to us as...”
– William Kentridge, artist.
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