Le Canada se retrouve ainsi à être le seul pays industrialisé majeur qui a choisi de ne rien faire. De deux choses l’une?: ou bien le gouvernement Harper, visionnaire, est le seul à avoir le pas, ce qui lui permettra, comme le souhaite le ministre, de rester «un modèle à suivre pour le reste du monde en cette période d’incertitude»?; ou bien le Canada est dirigé par le gouvernement le plus inapte et le plus inepte du monde industrialisé.
—Est-ce qu’ils sont tombés sur la tête?
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Fifty People, One Questions: New York
Fifty People, One Question: New York from Crush & Lovely on Vimeo.
(via Martine)
New Taste
So after launching Ceboça a little while ago and then a redesign for this site, now comes the redesign of my portfolio site for Taste of Blue. Like the design before it, it’s a super simple look with just a short description of services, an about “us” and a few recent projects. I’m filling in some more projects behind the scenes and when the last couple of years are filled in I’ll enable paging so you can see further back in time.
About the “us”. As most of you know, Taste of Blue is actually a one person shop so why the “us”? Well although I’d been meaning to make the next version an “I” using one, in the last year I’ve focused (and have been sought for) slightly larger projects. At the same time I’ve largely given up on designing these projects myself (except for blogs), living with a great designer and having another one as a business partner for Station C makes it clear that I can design what I like but I’m not a real designer. That means that on most projects I’m collaborating with designers so even though they are not my employees, it’s usually a “we” that’s assigned to the project. Larger projects also often imply more backend work and so I have and will bring in help more and more in the futur from a couple of sources so again, “us” will make more sense.
You might also notice that a few of the recents mention “consulting” which I’ve done a bit more regularly and would like to do more of. It would probably require it’s own post but quickly: I’m more “veille technologique” and “this is how it can be done” than “strategy”. More understanding less buzzwording™.
Lastly, you’ll notice the great new(ish) logo. This is the first time I use it online even though it’s been on my business cards for months now. It was created by my talented girlfriend Marie-Claude Doyon and I think it kicks ass, it also got as many comments as the rest of the site when I “soft launched” it on Twitter.
Comments and bug reports are welcome.
Le débat sur laptop
Ce soir le débat (de certain) des chefs ça se suit sur internet autant que devant la télé. Premièrement un onglet ouvert sur Buzzz.tv et on participe. Deuxième onglet chez Françoise qui s’est invitée au débat. Belle initiative.
(Félicitations à iXmédia dont le Buzzz sera même affiché sur le site de Radio-Canada pendant le débat.)
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So when we make economic choices, it’s no longer just cost, or convenience. Just as we have rejected the ease and convenience of littering—which was commonplace in my childhood—we need to move past the superficial benefits of cheap goods distributed by global corporations. Even when the products are equal, the impacts of having the money stay local create an exponential impact. The local accountant gets work, the local marketing firm, the local packaging plant, the local farmer: all are benefited. And it comes back to us, in a richer and more dynamic local environment. We get the second and third order benefits.
—The Slow Money Movement: Demassifying Retail
Tendance mondiale?
Avec les élections au Venezuela, après les États-Unis, le Canada, le Québec la dernière fois et semble-t’il la prochaine on vois la même tendance : les villes d’un bord, les régions de l’autre. C’est une tendance mondiale? Vous avez des exemples contraire?
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Most media, like television, used to be a kind of flow. You’d sit down, you’d turn it on and you’d watch. The reason advertising is completely broken is that the flow doesn’t exist anymore. There’s no prime time. There’s no such thing as must-see TV. Everyone’s composing their own flow. And once you start becoming the composer of your own flow, you can’t go back. You’re like, Why would I have somebody dictate to me what I watch when I’m used to programming for myself?
—Multiscreen Mad Men (via Stowe Boyd)
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We have a lot of disused churches, some quite nice, and as the popularity of churchgoing continues to fade we’ll have more. Let’s turn some of them into free hostels for travellers. Yes, free. They would be kept clean and offer a bed, breakfast, wi-fi and a little secure storage for three days to anyone with a foreign passport. Nothing too fancy. But it would be a draw, and people who aren’t paying for hotels would spend money on other things.—Some tourism ideas
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Well, well. I had no idea. Google’s CFO is french Canadian and studied in Montréal.
