[photo: Associated Press] Recently, I wrote some unkind words about the Playboy Marfa roadside attraction. The reasons for my negative reaction were pretty predictable. I mean, why would my dear friends in conservative, West Texas ranch country want a big, neon porn icon in their backyard? And why would Playboy not expect any hostility from […]
I just got done doing a whole suite of work for Brand ManageCamp, a marketing & brand conference in Las Vegas. You can see more of the drawings over at their blog, here. The Brand ManageCamp mantra is “Dedicated to Inspiring, Educating & Energizing Brands Worldwide”- something we all could all use more of. It […]
[Sent out in yesterday's newsletter etc.] This cartoon was inspired by a friend of gapingvoid, Josh Thompson. The idea that metrics and people don’t really go together…. yes, it’s a paradox… thus the tension in the cartoon. It’s true that ‘people are a company’s greatest asset”. But, how do you measure that? Answer: With great […]
[My latest e-book, “Authenticity Is The New Bullshit”, is now available for download here. You can read the Introduction below, or read the whole thing by clicking on the link and signing up to the gapingvoid newsletter. N.B. If you're already a subscriber, just enter your email address again etc.] INTRODUCTION: When I was attending […]
[photo: landis smithers/playboy] The New Republic has a great article on the controversial Playboy Marfa installation. In case you haven’t heard, Playboy went ahead and built a big ol’ piece of roadside art, just outside the legendary Texas desert art town of Marfa, a place I have a lot of personal history with. I know […]
[More thoughts on the "Inspired Spaces" riff etc:] There’s a lovely article over on Quartz about the appendix George Orwell wrote for his book, “1984″, about how both poltical oppression and political liberation are both so intertwined WITH LANGUAGE: After “THE END,” Orwell includes another chapter, an appendix, called “The Principles of Newspeak.” Since it […]
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 […]
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Seth GodinHis 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 HsiehIn moments of indecision I glance at the wall [to Hugh's work] for guidance.
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