This is the coolest things I’ve seen all week. An office hallway designed to resemble a New York Subway train. As the tech market heats up (yet again), expect to see more architectural delights like this. It’s harder to recruit top talent if your offices are crappy etc. The people with choices prefer to work [...]
[Checking out the gapingvoid art hanging over at Studio Good etc.] “Office Art That Actually Matters” is the unofficial tagline for gapingvoid, at least that’s the one we’ve been using, that’s our current mantra etc. A good architect tries to create a space or a building on that ignites people, on a daily basis. Ditto [...]
[From the newsletter:] Everybody wants to be normal, but few people are aware of how costly a choice that is. It means never taking a risk, it means never sticking your neck out, it mean never embracing a radically new idea. And so instead of living an incredible life, you’re stuck with nine-to-five, shopping malls [...]
[Originally sent out in today's newletter etc. Buy the print etc.] The recent Edward Snowden story seems to have sent shock waves around the Internet intelligentsia… the post-Cluetrain, quasi-libertarian, web-enabled social-network of Web 2.0, or whatever it is we call it nowadays. It wasn’t the fact that US State security had been so easily and [...]
[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] From the outside, leadership looks like a guy sitting on top of the pile, commanding all he surveys. The reality is much different; it feels more like being a little piece of driftwood in a tsunami. Things happening all around you, things flying all around you you, never [...]
[Alan Weinkrantz tweeted this photo recently: a pair of gapingvoid prints, spotted in the wild at Geekdom, the San Antonio co-working space. Very cool.] All art is aspirational, at least the good stuff is. Put simply, it aspires to a higher state of being, a higher form of consciousness. And few environments are more aspirational [...]
[Originally sent out in the nesletter etc. Buy the print.] I remember being a young, poor, and scared student, having a terrifying year living in London. I remember one morning, being caught in some sort of crushing existential dread as I rode the Underground to school. Thinking how I would be crushed by the harsh [...]
[Barbara Kruger. Untitled (I shop therefore I am). 111" by 113". Photographic silkscreen/vinyl, 1987. Courtesy of the Mary Bo.] PART ONE: Back in my young, early, I got really interested in the work of Barbara Kruger (she uses words and pictures, so it makes sense, right?). I hadn’t discovered her work through an art gallery, [...]
Inspiration by gapingvoid Love by gapingvoid gapingvoid for Business gapingvoid for Entrepreneurs gapginvoid Love [Order your cards from Moo.com here etc.] [Moo's announcement on their blog here.] As y’all know, I got my start from “drawing cartoons on the back of business cards”… A couple of years later, after [...]
With the New Year just beginning, I was reminded of this cartoon from two years ago, one of my personal favorites, one that carries A LOT of personal meaning for me. It got some water spilled on it; you can just see the damage in the photo. Anybody who’s an artist or an entrepreneur will [...]
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His work acknowledges the absurdity of workaday life, while also encouraging employees to respond with passion, creativity, and non-conformity... MacLeod’s work is undeniably an improvement over the office schlock of yore. At its best, it’s more honest, and more cognizant of the entrepreneurial psyche, while still retaining some idealism.
The New RepublicLast year my State of the College address was 76 slides loaded with data. This year it was 14 cartoons that were substantially more memorable.
Len Schlesinger"There are only two daily newsletters that I look forward to opening and reading every time they show up to my inbox: Seth Godin's and gapingvoid."
Tony HsiehHugh MacLeod is a genius. Genius.
Seth GodinIn moments of indecision I glance at the wall [to Hugh's work] for guidance.
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