http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:16:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This site is dead. I didn't love Wordpress or this theme. Find me here: http://themiw.tumblr.com/ or subscribe to the feed: feed://themiw.tumblr.com/rss http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/04/dead/ Mark Wickens points us this morning to this video of a pair of bald eagles and their chicks in Sydney, BC. When I was in BC last summer I saw a pair of bald eagles at Willows Beach in Oak Bay in Victoria. I managed to get a couple of photos of ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/04/bald-eagles/ One of the things that has captured my imagination over the last few months is presentation design. Ever since stumbling across the work of people like Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte, I've spent a good deal of time thinking about presentation design and trying it out whenever I can. Earlier today ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/04/presentation-design/ As a child, I would set up the chessboard and pretend it was a football field and the pieces football players. http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/01/chess-and-football/ T-Mobile has a new ad and it's pretty damn cool. Will it sell a single phone? I doubt it. But that doesn't mean their message is a bad one. Life is for sharing. And there's some interesting stuff in there about joy and contagiousness and how great it is to be ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/01/will-it-sell-a-single-phone/ One man's pirate, it would seem, is another man's freedom fighter. Misunderstood victims of nasty propaganda campaigns. Thank god for Johann Hari who sets us straight. Of pirates, he writes They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/01/oh-lord-please-dont-let-me-be-misunderstood/ The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it twice daily via print. The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed - yet can still be enjoyed on the train or spread across the breakfast ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/01/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-burning-money-anyway/ I have been the lucky recipient of some pretty insistent e-mails from a PR/GR firm trying to get me to attend an event this week in Toronto. The e-mails have been arriving over the last few weeks. Today, I've received the e-mail twice. I guess they're getting desperate as the event ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/01/and-on-a-sunday-no-less/ Mark Vidler (aka Go Home Productions) makes the best mash-ups you'll find anywhere. On his latest album, Spliced Krispies, Vidler introduces Luther Vandross to REM. He gets the Stone Roses, Billy Joel, and the Byrds together for a beer, plays spin the bottle and and CeCe Peniston (remember her? I know, ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/01/sex-pistols-cece-peniston/ Choke is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It has also been made into a movie (winner of the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for work by an ensemble cast). I haven't read the book. Nor have I seen the movie. But I bought the soundtrack back in October and it's ... http://www.davidartemiw.com/blog/2009/01/show-me-all-the-rules-girl-i-just-want-to-get-em-wrong/