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Aug 11, 2011 I Waited Three Weeks to Post This For Some Reason.

by Anne Ishii

It's a cartoon from the July 4 New Yorker. I guess I waited to make sure The New Yorker had a fair shot at showing the cartoon through their own magazine. My thinking was that The (physical) New Yorker becomes obsolete in cycles of 2 issues. No one's picking up the magazine two issues under...

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Aug 10, 2011 White Riot!

by Anne Ishii

Via ...

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Aug 09, 2011 Los Angeles, 1992

by Anne Ishii

The George Holliday video, played on television so often that an executive at CNN called it "wallpaper," showed three Los Angeles police officers--as their supervisor watched-- kicking, stomping on, and beating with metal batons a seemingly defenseless African-American named Rodney King. Polls taken shortly after the incident showed that over 90% of Los Angeles...

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Aug 08, 2011 Imprint T-Shirt Resurrected by Tire Shop Mechanic

by Anne Ishii

In 2007 when Imprint Culture Lab was a 2-day extravaganza of 200+ guests and a dozen speakers, we made and distributed T-shirts that said "Cult(ure) Member." It was with a heavy heart that I finally gave up my XL-size shirt to a thrift store this year but its time had come, and I never gained...

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Aug 05, 2011 How Sheryl Sandberg Became COO of Facebook

by kevin

In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Sheryl Sandberg would become the first Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. She left her VP of Global Online Sales and Operations position at Google for a company that was bleeding cash and desperately needed to figure out how to make itself a business. Well, Sheryl Sandberg did exactly that...

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Aug 04, 2011 Interesting Use of QR codes on Headstones

by kevin

Via The PreSurfer...

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Jul 29, 2011 Howard Lindzon, of Fast Company, Stops by Instagram

by kevin

Its mind boggling to think that they are generating just north of 1.3M-1.4M users a month without having spent a single dime on marketing. Now THAT is some organic growth. Via Fast Company ...

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Jul 28, 2011 Taxonomy of jeffstaple’s Toy Shelves

by Anne Ishii

Clutter Magazine saw our interview with jeffstaple and performed a voluntary audit of all that toy-clutter in the background. It's a lot of stuff. ps: I wanted to point out earlier too, that my interviews with Aly and jeff are both shot on iPhones. You could say they're interviews with guys with iphones, which is not...

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Jul 28, 2011 Entirety of Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe on Upper Playground.

by Anne Ishii

Dirty Hands: a look at one of the most fascinating artists of our time, not to mention one of our favorite name-drops here at Imprint. (I'd worry about the phrase "name drop" but only because it doesn't offend David enough. Respect the man that wants to be offended.) Watch. Now. ...

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Jul 28, 2011 Poketo Wallets in New Lisa Hanawalt and Helllen Jo Designs

by Anne Ishii

Poketo Wallets first caught my eye at Giant Robot many years ago when it was exciting enough to discover vinyl textiles sewn to the shape of a billfold. Poketo still comes correct, and today they have two of my favorite American comics artists to come out in the last few years: Lisa Hanawalt and Hellen...