Oct 24
Oct 24
An Entirely New Data Storage Experience
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Datatape isn’t just fun to say – this SSD concept makes connecting and syncing a cinch. While others tout themselves as being portable, this is truly portable without the needs for any extra cords, cables or connectors. It features a built-in, versatile connector that can seamlessly connect to an extensive range of devices including PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. It also sports a spring-loaded pinch grip cord winder and retractable cord that can be recoiled in the blink of an eye. In 3 colors and 3 sizes (500GB, 1TB, and 2TB), it helps you stay organized with multiples and ensure you’re storage needs are covered.
Designer: Ananthakrishnan Balasubramanian
Oct 24
Analog hand-warmer!
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I could use a product like the Cieplik. I’m one of those people who’s hands go instantly ice-cold in the winters, and then I’m holding them up against my cheeks, or sitting on them to keep them warm. Just one tea-light candle away from toasty-warm hands, the Cieplik uses a base-plate and a rather alluring ceramic cover that rests on top. Relying on ceramic’s heat dissipating properties, the Cieplik uses just one simple tea-light candle on the inside to create a heat chamber inside itself. The heat then gently dissipates into the environment, not only working as a natural heater, but even encouraging you to warm your hands around this earthen fireplace! Its rippled design not only makes for a great design detail, it also helps increase the surface area so that the heat-loss around the top is higher.
Designer: Product Design Studio
Oct 24
Melancholic Images of the Mediterranean Coast by Salva Lopez
Posted in: Uncategorized« La Costa Gris » de Salva Lopez, photographe et graphiste basé à Barcelone, montre la mélancolie qui s’installe sur les plages méditerranéennes pendant la saison hivernale. Les rivages deserts et le ciel gris sont en contraste avec les étés colorés, et dans ces images nostalgiques il y a la promesse des jours meilleurs à venir. Plus de travail de Lopez ici et sur Instagram.
Oct 24
Link About It: Chris Sheldrick's System for Giving Every Location an Exact Address
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Billions of people live without an address—something that can hinder everything from emergency assistance to pizza delivery. From his time in the music industry overseeing the delivery of music equipment for performers, Chris Sheldrick was able to……
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Oct 24
Link About It: Highlights From 2017's Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade
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Every year the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade brings plenty of joy to New Yorkers, with pooches (and oftentimes their owners) dressed up in all kinds of sweet, silly and clever costumes. This year, of course, was no different—from a pup……
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Oct 24
Uncluttering your digital junk drawers
Posted in: UncategorizedThe proliferation of inexpensive cloud services offer near-ubiquitous access to your files as well as something rather insidious: an out-of-sight, digital junk drawer. That drawer in your kitchen with the pens, receipts, batteries, fortune cookies from the 90’s, and who knows what else, is in your face every day. Its presence is a constant prompt to clean, sort, and organize. You tend to it because you see it.
Your Evernote account, however is hidden, just like your Dropbox, Box.net, Google Drive, or iCloud account. Digital files like documents, photos, music, and electronic receipts add up slowly but surely, and soon enough you’ve got a mountain of forgotten stuff just hanging out, taking up storage space.
Typically you’ll know it’s time to organize a digital junk drawer by observing how much time you spend searching for what you need. Instead of finding it right away, you scroll and scroll or use the search function, which may or may not be especially helpful. Suddenly that convenient storage solution is wasting time because it takes too long to find things and wasting money, as the cost of storage increases once you exceed your storage threshold.
The good news is it’s easy to clean out a digital junk drawer, as well as ensure it doesn’t get to a sorry state again. Here’s what we recommend.
Use the delete key
It’s time to get to know the delete key. Do not fear it. Instead, embrace its power and banish unwanted files to the Land of Wind and Ghosts.
I recently started to poke around my Dropbox folders. I found many documents I had not touched in months or years — parts of old projects long abandoned, screenshots I had no need for, old software I no longer wanted, unfinished articles that would never get written, etc. There was so much such stuff just sitting there, acting as clutter, hindering searches, and taking up precious space.
I took the time to go through each document, identify it, and if I no longer needed it, I deleted it. It felt great.
It is possible you’ll find documents that have been stored for a long time that you still need. That’s the difference between “reference” and “junk.” For example, the schedule for my local theatre is reference. It holds information that doesn’t require action, but might be useful in the future. User manuals and some receipts fall into this category, too.
Junk, on the other hand, has no value. That screenshot I took simply to post as a joke on Twitter? I don’t need that anymore so into the trash it goes.
A quick way to identify seldom-touched files is to sort a folder’s contents by “Date last opened” or “Date added.” Doing so gives you a clear picture of which files you use and which are collecting digital dust.
Be ruthless. Find a file, ask what it is, and act accordingly. When that’s done, it’s time to prevent it from happening again.
What’s in a name? Structure.
Many years ago, I came across a fantastic article from PC Magazine that tackled this topic beautifully. It’s about intelligent and purposeful naming. It suggests that file names meet the following criteria:
- unique
- indicative of what the file contains
- in line with how you (or your business) thinks about information
- “scannable” (with the human eye) according to how you (or your employees) find information
- naturally ordered alphabetically (or numerically)
- consistent
I’ll let you read the whole article — you really should — but I’ll point out a couple of ideas here. First, the second item on the list, “indicative of what the file contains.” Photos are the biggest culprit here. Your camera or smartphone will give images names like “img5468.jpg.” That means nothing when your scanning through a list of files (more on that in a minute). Instead, use something like “201710WineTour.jpg.” That way you know exactly what it is from the title, and sorting is so much easier.
I touched on “scannable” above, but it’s worth repeating. Instead of scrolling while muttering to yourself, “Hold on, it’s in here somewhere,” you can see exactly what you want in an instant.
Also, consistency is key. It may take more time to rename files prior to storing them but it’s worth it when you consider the time saved on the other end.
This weekend, spend a little time with your digital junk drawers, be they a cloud service or even your computer’s own hard drive. It takes time to get sorted, yes, but it’s completely worth it.
Post written by David Caolo
Oct 24
From Intern to Editor: Kazeem Famiyude Discusses How Relationship Building Advanced His Career
Posted in: UncategorizedVital Stats:
Name: Kazeem Famiyude
Industry:
Digital Content Editorial
Years in Industry: 10
Current Position:
Creative at Bleacher Report
Past Positions:
- Writer, No Script with Marshawn Lynch
- Founder/Editor-in-Chief, Stashed Magazine
- Host of the Flagrant 2 Podcast
- Host of Kaz In The Morning on Satori Radio
- Senior Editor at Hip-Hop Wired
- Online Editor, The Source
Education: SUNY- Purchase College
Social Media:
- Twitter: @RealLifeKaz
- Instagram: @RealLifeKaz
What was your first real job in media?
I got a job at The Source magazine fresh out of college.
I started out as an intern and was playing basketball for my college at the same time. On a daily basis, I would go from class to basketball practice to The Source, and I wasn’t getting paid.
My first real big break came from a story I did on Drake. I had known some famous people and had relationships with them before they really blew up, like Drake, because he performed at events that I helped put together for my college. After Drake’s second concert him [sic] and I got the chance to kick it and chop it up. After we spoke I put a story together about him and brought it back to The Source’s editor. From then on they began asking me for content, and after a while I was like “Listen, I’m not giving you this [content] until you guys give me an actual job.”
A few months later I was hired as a staff writer.
You went from intern to editor at The Source magazine—a monthly hip-hop music, politics and culture magazine—in a little under two years and then moved on to create your own publication, The Stashed. How did The Stashed come about?
I was done with people telling me what was hot and what to cover. I believe if you give readers substance, they’ll take it.
So once I got an opportunity, I seized it. One of my good friends at Hip-Hop Wired called and asked me if I had ever met Steve Stoute, which I hadn’t. So she set up an introduction, and once we got to talking it turned out Stoute wanted to create a blog for his marketing agency, Translation. They had been trying to create a blog for a long time, but it didn’t really register to them that nobody wanted to read a blog about a marketing agency. I explained to Stoute, that you had to create a blog in the presence of the marketing agency, but still speak in the spirit of what you want that company to be, and it’ll work. And that’s how The Stashed was born. I had stepped into such a perfect situation there because you’ve got Steve Stoute, one of the most iconic and great minds of this industry, mentoring me, and on the back end I was kind of introducing him to the social media and digital content generation.
What kind of skills or mindset did you need to finally step out and start your own publication?
Self-confidence is key.
I was about three or four years into my career, and still working my way up. However, I was already starting to feel burnt out. I remember someone saying to me, “Man if you had the perfect situation, what would it be?” My response was: “I feel like I could run my own publication better than a lot of these people.”
Outside of your media career, you helped to create the HennyPalooza event series. How did the idea come about?
If it wasn’t for my connections in media, I’m not sure HennyPalooza would have lasted or blown up as much as it has.
HennyPalooza started three years ago as a house party amongst friends for a couple of years. As it got bigger and more people began to come so did our celebrity friends; our first celebrity guest was Mack Wilds, but I think our first big artist was the rapper, Pusha T.
I happened to be kicking it with my good friend, rapper Wale during Howard [University] Homecoming in Washington, D.C. and he mentioned that we should check out Pusha T’s concert. Once Pusha seen [sic] me, he remembered that I had interviewed him a few times and was like “Yo, whatchu doin’ out here?” I told him about Hennypalooza, and he responded “That’s tomorrow? It’s here?” Meanwhile, I’m psyched that he even knew about it and then actually showed up!
Now that you’re at Bleacher Report, and you have your own podcast what is your ultimate career goal?
One of my long-term goals is to be a media mogul.
I want to continue to be an industry playmaker creating controversial, boundary-pushing media. Because I’m not really motivated by money anymore. Pushing a genre or doing something nobody’s done before motivates me. After a while, all that stuff [like money] is going to come, but if you’re not reinventing the wheel every time or reinventing yourself, then you’re not really living up to your full potential.
I’m still young, I still have all this energy, and I feel like I have so much to give this industry. Between my work ethic, my connections and knack for bringing people together I figure, why not keep going?
Looking back on your career thus far is it fair to say relationship building helped you progress in your career? How important is relationship building?
Yes, for sure it did! I learned early on that relationship building was wildly valuable.
No one wants to work with somebody that is difficult, or they don’t get along with, but everyone would build someone who’s personable and genuine. Not saying that you need to kiss everyone’s butt or anything like that, but networking is extremely valuable in this industry and usually separates you from potential competition.
What advice can you give to an aspiring media professional in regards to interning and then demanding more from a company?
The best advice I received when I was younger was “work for free or work for the full price, never work for cheap.”
I built my name up to the point where people had to start paying me for my services.
I did my best to prove my worth because a lot of the time, a magazine like The Source did not have to pay you because they have a million other writers. Starting out I had no track record, and nothing to lay my hands on. As long as I was getting my byline in the magazine and people were seeing my work, that was good enough for me. It wasn’t until the point where I knew my worth—and I knew I could be something of value—that’s when I finally started making demands.
All of the success I attained in my career was from hard work, networking and just being outgoing. So above all else, just be yourself.
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Oct 24
Playful Flower Vases by Designer Moises Hernandez
Posted in: UncategorizedOrgono, par designer mexicain Moisés Hernández, est une collection de vases en verre de différents diamètres et hauteurs qui permettent une presentation ludique des fleurs et des plantes. Les vases géométriques sont conçus pour contenir de petites quantités de fleurs, ce qui nous permet de les apprécier comme une entité unique.
Oct 24
Elegant Magnetic Lamps by Plato Design
Posted in: UncategorizedAlessandro Mattei et Caterina Naglieri conçoivent des objets designs, faits à la main, qui allient subtilement l’esthétique et l’innovation technologique. Avec ces lampes magnétiques modulables, le couple d’artistes italiens propose de jouer sur les contrastes entre les matériaux bruts du bois et du béton. Des luminaires d’intérieur aussi élégants que fonctionnels, qu’il est possible d’agencer selon ses goûts grâce à un ingénieux système d’aimants. Vous pouvez retrouver leur travail sur la boutique Etsy en ligne de leur entreprise Plato Design, ou sur leur site.
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