WE ARE DELIGHTED BY THIS.
I have to make a take-out type menu for an assignment and I decided to use the (fake) restuarant Bon Rappetite as my idea and this is something I just made?
Not sure about using it bc then I have to rethink a lot of the design from my original idea but yeah. I’ll probably need to at least remake it so it fits the size of the menu.
This ad campaign is absolutely beautiful.
THE BURIED LIFE: 20 Things I Should Have Known at 20.
These are so totally spot on.
1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.
2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. By the time they build the curriculum, it’s likely that the system is outdated– sometimes utterly broken. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following.
3. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. Emerson Spartz taught me this while I was at a Summit Series event. If he reads 2-3 books a week, you can read one.
4. Connect with everyone, all the time. Be genuine about it. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing.
5. Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true.
6. If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over.
7. Have as much contact as possible with older people. Personally, I met people at Podcamps. My friend Greg, at the age of 13, met his first future employer sitting next to him on a plane. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them.
8. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too. This and the corollary are both important: “don’t attempt to be average inside your group. Continuously attempt to be cooler than them (by doing cooler things, being more laid back, accepting, ambitious, etc.).”
9. You will become more conservative over time. This is just a fact. Those you surround yourself with create a kind of “bubble” that pushes you to support the status quo. For this reason, you need to do your craziest stuff NOW. Later on, you’ll become too afraid. Trust me.
10. Reduce all expenses as much as possible. I mean it. This creates a safety net that will allow you to do the crazier shit I mentioned above.
11. Instead of getting status through objects (which provide only temporary boosts), do it through experiences. In other words, a trip to Paris is a better choice than a new wardrobe. Studies show this also boosts happiness.
12. While you are living on the cheap, solve the money problem. Use the internet, because it’s like a cool little machine that helps you do your bidding. If you are currently living paycheck to paycheck, extend that to three weeks instead of two. Then, as you get better, you can think a month ahead, then three months, then six, and finally a year ahead. (The goal is to get to a point where you are thinking 5 years ahead.)
13. Learn to program.
14. Get a six-pack (or get thin, whatever your goal is) while you are young. Your hormones are in a better place to help you do this at a younger age. Don’t waste this opportunity, trust me.
15. Learn to cook. This will make everything much easier and it turns food from a chore + expensive habit into a pleasant + frugal one. I’m a big Jamie Oliver fan, but whatever you like is fine.
16. Sleep well. This and cooking will help with the six pack. If you think “I can sleep when I’m dead” or “I have too much to do to sleep,” I have news for you: you are INEFFICIENT, and sleep deprivation isn’t helping.
17. Get a reminder app for everything. Do not trust your own brain for your memory. Do not trust it for what you “feel like” you should be doing. Trust only the reminder app. I use RE.minder and Action Method.
18. Choose something huge to do, as well as allowing the waves of opportunity to help you along. If you don’t set goals, some stuff may happen, but if you do choose, lots more will.
19. Get known for one thing. Spend like 5 years doing it instead of flopping around all over the place. If you want to shift afterwards, go ahead. Like I said, choose something.
20. Don’t try to “fix” anyone. Instead, look for someone who isn’t broken.
Written by: Julian Smith inoveryourhead.net
We’re putting on a hip hop show for Bon Rappetite with Greg Porn of The Roots and ATL favorites Deuce Ducartier, BNMC, DJ Mudfish, Stealth, Small Eyez, Blonju and Rogue. Whooty whoo! Come see us!
The Fett // by Randall Mackey
So nice!
The amazing Bunny Mcintosh of Meltingdolls.com has taken over the social media marketing agency Baby Robot Industries. Needless to say, she’s really good at it. She’s doing amazing work in marketing, consultation and media strategy; you should hire her.
Anyway, she’d love it if you went over to Facebook and liked the page. Just click on over to fb.me/babyrobotinc and Like the page. She’s got all sorts of t-shirts and stuff she’s going to be giving away to FB fans, so like the page & get hooked up.
Keep calm, baby.
How Star Dates Work (by meltingdolls)
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Twitter
I used to hate Twitter. I thought of it as a manifestation of the everything wrong with my precious, precious Internet. Twitter invites the half-cocked rantings of stupid youths, bad spellers, office show-offs, and obnoxious marketers. It promotes exhibitionism and destroys process. It necessitates and facilitates the destruction of thoughtful prose. It is anti-elegance.
When I started to really sink my teeth into social media marketing, I realized I was missing the point entirely. Twitter isn’t evil. Twitter isn’t necessarily good, either.
Twitter is whatever I want it to be.
Twitter is a personalized, indiscriminate, interactive newsfeed. The breadth of available information is so vast that users have access to almost everything: friends, brands, writers, movie stars, revolutionaries, other people’s grandpas, the cast of the Jersey Shore, oceanographers… The magic of Twitter is that it’s completely customizable, but you have to understand it first. So here’s my Guide to Loving Twitter:
1. Learn the Language:
Twitter’s 140 characters have caused a kind of geeky shorthand on the site. That overwhelming blur of hash tags and abbreviations can look like code, and that’s because it is. To read Tweets, you have to understand the language.
The Hash Tag (#): The hash tag is a simple way for people to search by common topic. If you search #Archer, you’ll probably get a list of Tweets related to the (hilarious) TV show. You won’t see “I shoot apples off people’s heads because I am an excellent archer,” as it’s not preceded by the hash tag. The has tag indicates a keyword. If you’re searching, pay attention to it, if you’re reading, ignore it.
Incidentally, the hash tag also becomes kind of a joke once in awhile. People make up nonsense hash tags to entertain. I recently used #nerdproblems, which isn’t anything you’d search for, but it does indicate the fact that I was having nerd-related problems that day, and I like stupid meta-jokes.
Here’s more commonly used shorthand:
DM: Direct Message
RT: Re-Tweet
@: If the @ symbol is followed by a Twitter handle, that Tweet will show up in a person’s feed. If you want to talk to someone on Twitter, use the @ symbol before their handle and they’ll probably read it.
Hopefully MC Hammer will respond in a timely manner.
2. Deliberately choose what you’ll read:
If your friends are constantly updating you with lame information like “Gas prices are high.” or “I just made an omelet,” you probably hate Twitter because your newsfeed is boring. Make a list. I have a list for every account called “Read Me.” Add cool organizations, industry experts and funny people to your list, and suddenly your Twitter feed is full of amazing, entertaining information. You can keep your friends on Twitter and you never have to read their lame feeds again.
3. Have a conversation:
Clients frequently ask me if they should be answering questions on Twitter. The answer is yes. While you don’t need to respond to every spammer who direct messages you, you should respond to relevant questions and interesting conversations. Interact.
4. This isn’t about you
Twitter isn’t about you, it’s about your readers. If you want to grow your following, post articles and information that are worth reading. You can’t post self-promoting Tweets 10 times a day and expect people to care. Like any relationship, you have to care about the other party. If you want followers, your content needs to be rad.
If you have any other questions, message us @BabyRobotInc.
See you on the interwebs.
