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October 12, 2012

“Kiss any hope of ever leading a normal life good-bye”

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This made me so happy: My friend, Robert Sco­ble sent me a photo of the big gaping­void print they have up on the wall in the Racks­pace cus­to­mer brie­fing room. This is just one of twelve giant 6 foot can­va­ses that adorn the walls.

Aside from being thri­lled that they used our work, what is inte­res­ting to me is that they had the choice of using lots of dif­fe­rent kinds of art. They could have used pho­tos of happy Rac­kers, cus­to­mers, data cen­ters, etc. But they chose to broad­cast their beliefs by using mes­sa­ges that speak to their beliefs.

This par­ti­cu­lar car­toon about one of the fun­da­men­tal aspects of the busi­ness: “Fana­ti­cal sup­port In all we do”. I tried to pre­sent it in a way that I hope is both memo­ra­ble and refreshingly disar­ming. Hope­fully it touches a nerve.

As time goes by, one of the things that I rea­lize is that having well cho­sen mes­sa­ges on offi­ces walls is really power­ful. They speak to peo­ple every day of the year, and bro­da­cast what you stand for.

That’s what we think about more and more around our office, anyway.

Tags: Rackspace, Robert Scoble

4 Responses to ““Kiss any hope of ever leading a normal life good-bye””

1. James says:

   October 12, 2012 at 9:04 PM

   Glad you were born, Dr. MacLeod!

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2. Beck says:

   October 17, 2012 at 10:31 AM

   ah! I had won­de­red where that lil’ guy came from! I have the lil’ mons­ter on a Rac­ker tshirt! I like the still! Here is my Rac­ker fan art! http://designbybeck.com/Brian_Beck_Racker_Drink.png

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3. Long Beach PC Technician says:

   October 29, 2012 at 9:50 PM

   Is that a daddy long legs in the art work? Really cool! I love the idea of not-your-ordinary moti­va­tio­nal mes­sa­ges pos­ted in offi­ces. I guess it brings out all kinds of crea­ti­vity you have in you.

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4. joe says:

   November 20, 2012 at 4:15 PM

   Are you unwell?

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