[My favorite cartoon from the event- drawn on my Tablet PC.] I was sitting in Row Four at Techcrunch Disrupt SF last week, where my old friend Michael Arrington interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, the latter’s first since the Facebook IPO [Techcrunch video here]. For all the hype (and the security guards keeping everybody back), it wasn’t [...]
This is the new calling card I designed for gapingvoid. Note how the message is more communication-based, rather than art-based. Exactly. Also, the message is more about the team (Jason, Laura, Sammy and myself), as opposed to about just me and the drawings. “Communication With Purpose”. Exactly.
Taken at SUSHISAMBA dromo
[I added the following to the "About" page. Thought it would be useful to clarify what it is exactly gapingvoid does for a living. Hope it helps etc.] “Social Media happens around Social Objects, not the other way around.” At the core of any social media campaign, there are Social Objects. Social Objects are the [...]
I drew this “Starfish” cartoon earlier today. I’ve always loved The Starfish Story, first told by Loren Eisley: One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?” The youth replied, “Throwing [...]
Tim Porthouse over at Zealeap.com commissioned this ‘Cube Grenade’ for his company. The copy at the bottom reads: “when a business stops creating, it dies. when a business stops creating culture, it dies. business cultures are not created, they are re-created. business cultures are not created, they are co-created. without collaboration, there is no creation. [...]
Above is a little diagram I made for myself recently… “Daily Quota”: I try to complete four basic tasks every day- the basic M.O. to keep the gapingvoid ship afloat. I try to spend the major chunk of time working on the “Cube Grenades” every day. That’s probably the hardest part of the job. They [...]
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