I spend hours on Google Maps. Most of the time I pick a spot in the Pacific and drill down on the satellite view. I avoid the over developed destination islands in favor of tiny, isolated places with only a few homes. When I am particularlylucky ill find a re-donk island with just one home and sometimes, a single dirt runway. I get so excited when I find something like that. Such a blip on the map that someone spent their entire life working to buy. I am fascinated with the decisions people make after achieving success. This all started with trying to find my idol’s (Richard Branson) island. I was destroyed to see a very suspiciously placed cloud blocking the half of the island with all the cool stuff on Google maps! While Bing has the entire island on full display, I am convinced that Branson’s convenient cloud cover is a result of his close relationship to Larry Page, Google’s equally baller founder. The guy even got married on Necker Island!

I spend hours on Google Maps. Most of the time I pick a spot in the Pacific and drill down on the satellite view. I avoid the over developed destination islands in favor of tiny, isolated places with only a few homes. When I am particularlylucky ill find a re-donk island with just one home and sometimes, a single dirt runway. I get so excited when I find something like that. Such a blip on the map that someone spent their entire life working to buy. I am fascinated with the decisions people make after achieving success.

This all started with trying to find my idol’s (Richard Branson) island. I was destroyed to see a very suspiciously placed cloud blocking the half of the island with all the cool stuff on Google maps! While Bing has the entire island on full display, I am convinced that Branson’s convenient cloud cover is a result of his close relationship to Larry Page, Google’s equally baller founder. The guy even got married on Necker Island!

Foursquare Coupon Fail

joshmohrer:

I’m in LA for the weekend and ate dinner tonight at California Pizza Cafe in Encino with Petra’s family. As we walked in to the restaurant, I checked in on foursquare and got an offer for a free appetizer. Knowing that it would impress my father-in-law, I presented the coupon to our waiter, showing him the offer from CPK Encino on my phone. 

The waiter looked at me like I was from another planet. “I’ll get the manager at the end of meal when we’re printing the check and you can sort it out with her,” he said. I reminded him when he brought out the check and the manager came over a few minutes later and examined my phone and granted us the $4 discount. 

This experience was embarrassing and there’s very little chance I’ll ever redeem (or even click on) a Foursquare offer again. There needs to be an easier way. If you’re going to give me $4, don’t make me feel like a cheap jackass in the process!

Thank you.

(via peterwknox)

merdetete: R.I.P.  A moment of silence for one of the funniest, smartest, most nuanced comedies on TV.  I would put Party Down up there with Summer Heights High and The Office (UK) for not only being screamingly funny, but also for not being afraid to show that the characters are real human beings with real feelings.  Hey Rob Thomas, movie?  (via streeter) (via danirrational)

merdetete:

R.I.P. 

A moment of silence for one of the funniest, smartest, most nuanced comedies on TV.  I would put Party Down up there with Summer Heights High and The Office (UK) for not only being screamingly funny, but also for not being afraid to show that the characters are real human beings with real feelings. 

Hey Rob Thomas, movie? 

(via streeter)

(via danirrational)

“Research has created a lot of advertising techinicians who know all the rules. They can tell you that babies and dogs will attract more readers. They can tell you that body copy should be broken you for easier reading… They can tell you all the right things, and give you fact after fact. They’re the scientists of advertising  … It is simply not enough to say the right thing. Things have to be said that motivate people. The difference is art.” —Robert Gage, copy writer for Doyle Dane Bernbach (via madmenfootnotes)

“Research has created a lot of advertising techinicians who know all the rules. They can tell you that babies and dogs will attract more readers. They can tell you that body copy should be broken you for easier reading…

They can tell you all the right things, and give you fact after fact. They’re the scientists of advertising  …

It is simply not enough to say the right thing. Things have to be said that motivate people. The difference is art.”

—Robert Gage, copy writer for Doyle Dane Bernbach

(via madmenfootnotes)

On the Street… Multi-functional belt, Florence

On the Street… Multi-functional belt, Florence

Major Lazer “Keep it Going Louder”

Directed by Eric Wareheim 
Edited and Animation by Fatalfarm 
Art by Kevin O’Neill

I will now  say out loud what I have been mumbling to myself for about 3 months. This song, this video, the best I have ever seen.

Yes there are better club jams and videos but this one, it tows the line of ridiculous visuals tied to Nina Sky melting my heart every time.

However this all pales in comparison to the major dude crush I have on Diplo. He is from Alabama, travels constantly and he has my dream job, dream style, dream life.

PS - There a quite a few Major Lazer mix tapes floating around out there. Just Google it. Especially check out Lazerproof with La Roux.

Best World Cup photo so far? Clinton, Bocanegra, Budweiser Uh Mer Ca (via austin)

Best World Cup photo so far? Clinton, Bocanegra, Budweiser

Uh Mer Ca

(via austin)

Defender Frame Lock With Plug In Cables 

This is definitely on my wish list.

Henry Rollins on Selling Out from The Henry Rollins Show.

Henry Rollins is a man that should be required reading for how to live a life worth bragging about.

(via caseydonahue)

My picture is done! Tao did a great job for such a ridiculous picture. Check out how legit my hair looks!

You too can have your own Tao original. Enter this weeks contest here! Also, check out the picture of mine being made.

Time on couches

The vast majority of my extended family is all in route to Tennessee for my sisteer wedding this weekend and I could not be more ready.

The times you spend with family is what it is all about. Day to day life, acquaintances, money, and work are all just filler for the real events that matter most. The small moments when time seems to almost slow down because you are surrounded by people you have known since birth. That is life and that is what I look forward constantly but get to experience less and less as we all get older.

It also means hours and hours of too many people vying for room on too few couches.

I am incredibly blessed to have the family I do and the ability to enjoy it.