The Evolution of D’oh!
Last one for the day. Have a good weekend.
What Your Friend’s Real Life Habits Say About Their Gaming
There’s always those friends who’d rather go for the glory than share it with you.
[via Gamespy]
Quiksilver X The Standard Hotels Boardshorts Re-issue
Quiksilver and The Standard have collaborated on a series of boardshorts which are a re-issue of the original design from 70s and 80s with new patterns inspired by the 4 Standard hotels in Hollywood, Downtown LA, Miami, and NY.
More info after the jump…
Happy Friday Ya’ll!
We’re just winding down, like we do.
Get Ready
How about some mood music?
Got Yourself A Gun!
[Found at Everything You Love to Hate]
The Dark Side of Our Creative Leaders
San Diego Comic-Con! Nope, wasn’t there last weekend. But at least I had the brief pleasure of being in the presence of one of the biggest greats in visual storytelling- Hayao Miyazaki, known for “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and “Princess Mononoke.” My momentary fangirl experience was peppered by juicy commentary on the director from a friend who had been to a Miyazaki-centric symposium earlier that day.
Despite his polite, grandfatherly demeanor, she told me- according to biographic reports, he’s not always such a sweet, artistic dude after all. “He’s hot tempered… apparently very strict on everyone who works for him… he sees himself as the representative for Japan.” Which, of course, he kind of is.
So as he answered audience questions in a modest fashion, shelling out the normal advice to other aspiring artistic masters, I thought of something: other than “just work really hard” and “immerse yourself in your craft,” no one ever gives you the other keys to creative inspiration, i.e. the non-inspirational, unsavory side. Perhaps we could learn more by example. Here’s some advice taken from the actions and quotes of the big bosses of our time:
1. Steve Jobs – Do you need an introduction? – Rule #1: Play your part.
So Apple markets itself as being all laid back, but its CEO likely isn’t so chill.
Jobs may be a celebrity CEO, but he doesn’t jump out of airplanes or traipse around Africa with bundles of cash. He is always in character and always on message, so much so that when late-night TV parodies him, he’s invariably rolling out some new iProduct . Jobs gets called mercurial, egomaniacal, a micromanager. If that sounds a little like a CEO doing his job, maybe that’s because he is—and a mighty fine one.
Fast backward in time
