futurelevel strikes again

brianmichaelbendis: Artist Noriyoshi Ohrai’s brilliant...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:44:26 -0700

Artist Noriyoshi Ohrai’s brilliant poster created to commemorate the 1982 release of the Japanese-dubbed version of the George Lucas classic.

dansturm: Without VFX, Iron Man 2 is the story of two men, with...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:34:09 -0700

dansturm:

Without VFX, Iron Man 2 is the story of two men, with soft spots on their heads, getting into trouble in their pajamas.

ryannorth: Adventure Time Vol 2 is #4 on the NYT bestselling...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:17:02 -0700

ryannorth:

Adventure Time Vol 2 is #4 on the NYT bestselling comics list!

| (• ◡ •)| — Daaaaaang y’all! — (❍ᴥ❍ʋ)

You can get your copy here!

Awesome that Adventure Time continues to rule.

Tesla Is The New Apple

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 08:26:18 -0700

Tesla Is The New Apple:

parislemon:

Steven Johnson on the impending electric car revolution being led by Tesla:

And if that’s the case, then the automobile industry will go through exactly what the computer and software world went through with the rise of the PC, the Web, and the mobile revolutions. Smaller companies that bet heavily on the new paradigm will become dominant in an amazingly short amount of time; behemoths who cling to the old models will swiftly become afterthoughts. The EV revolution will be like Hemingway’s classic line about going broke: it will happen gradually, then all of a sudden.

Agreed. This is going to happen sooner than most people think.

[via Daring Fireball]

The packaging for this Verve Coffee is out of control. Just...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:25:56 -0800

The packaging for this Verve Coffee is out of control. Just gorgeous.

Paul Barnett taking the prize for an actually useful business...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:09:15 -0800

Paul Barnett taking the prize for an actually useful business card. Clever that guy. @thatbarnettblok

New Bvdub for 2013.

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:02:13 -0800

New Bvdub for 2013.

The Beauty of Low Margins

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:43:34 -0800

The Beauty of Low Margins:

parislemon:

Eugene Wei on a key facet of Amazon’s business that few people think about:

Almost all customers paid by credit card, so Amazon would receive payment in a day. But they didn’t pay the average distributor or publisher for 90 days for books they purchased. This gave Amazon a magical financial quality called a negative operating cycle. With every book sale, Amazon got cash it could hang on to for up weeks on end (in practice it wasn’t actually 89 days of float since Amazon did purchase some high velocity selling books ahead of time). The more Amazon grew, the more cash it banked. Amazon was turning its inventory 30, 40 times a year, whereas companies like Barnes and Noble were sweating to turn their inventory twice a year. Most people just look at a company’s margins and judge the quality of the business model based on that, but the cash flow characteristics of the business can make one company a far more valuable company than another with the exact same operating margin. Amazon could have had a margin of zero and still made money.

Amazon continues to fascinate me because increasingly, they’re playing the same game as Apple (meaning in the same markets: music, movies, books, tablets, phones, etc). But they play the game in the opposite way — and it still works.

parislemon: devidsketchbook: JAILHOUSES BY FELIPE...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:41:28 -0800

Art Director Felipe Luchi | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Art Director Felipe Luchi | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Art Director Felipe Luchi | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

parislemon:

devidsketchbook:

JAILHOUSES BY FELIPE LUCHI

Brazil, Sao Paulo-based Art Director Felipe Luchi

(Print campaign for Go Outside Magazine)

Clever.

Homemade 3 wheeled bike

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:46:53 -0800

Homemade 3 wheeled bike

nevver: On The Road, Illustrated

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 06:01:49 -0800

nevver:

On The Road, Illustrated

thisistheverge: Hello, via Daring Fireball

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:31:06 -0800

thisistheverge:

Hello, via Daring Fireball

donschaffner: (via Twitter)

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:07:23 -0800

donschaffner:

(via Twitter)

gaksdesigns: The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) sea slug....

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:07:10 -0800

gaksdesigns:

The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) sea slug. via

Arthur Magazine is back. Just got issue 33 in the mail today....

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:31:12 -0800

Arthur Magazine is back. Just got issue 33 in the mail today. It’s huge.

Time to trim down my archive to 1 copy of each issue. #bpm...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:25:55 -0800

Time to trim down my archive to 1 copy of each issue. #bpm #magazine #good old days.

Photo

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:18:01 -0800

'IT'S NOT WORTH IT': Ad Exec's Brutal Rant Before He Died Of Cancer Is Absolutely Chilling

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:50:00 -0800

'IT'S NOT WORTH IT': Ad Exec's Brutal Rant Before He Died Of Cancer Is Absolutely Chilling

poler: antisocialshop: anything with trees and in trees is a...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:05:39 -0800

poler:

antisocialshop:

anything with trees and in trees is a good good thing

oh life !!
its a real ding-er .. to much to do to little time it feels this way to much …..

Already blogged this last year but I’m still not tired of it. #polerstuff

The economics of App Store pricing

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:19:00 -0800

The economics of App Store pricing:

Ultimately, the users become the product, not the app. Selling users to advertisers and pushing in-app upgrades/consumables is a completely different game than carefully crafting apps to maximize user value/entertainment. It’d be a shame if the mobile software industry devolved into some horrific hybrid of Zynga and Facebook.