Frank Gehry’s IAC HQ
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I never get sick of the sight of this building (as seen from the High Line in Chelsea, NYC - click image for a larger version):
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Giving oneself over to fancy
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Coming off a hectic week of work and travel, I didn’t want to stop for the weekend. It felt - as it so often does - like losing momentum. Then some friends reminded me that relaxing would be a great investment in the week ahead, and that rest counts as work on the weekends.
I […]
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A Qik legacy
Posted on October 11th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
This was one of those fun but tricky things that I loved working on at Qik: Check out the new homepage, which features a brief but cute stop-animation video that I co-wrote with Min and Audrey. The real stars of this video, though, are Min and Audrey’s painstakingly created stop action animation and my super […]
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Sheryl Gascoigne: It’s time to drop Gazza. For real.
Posted on October 10th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Sheryl Gascoigne’s new book about being married to and abused by former England football star Paul Gascoigne, and the revelations she’s trotting out to sell it, leave me cold. I’m not someone who’s unsympathetic to those who have been abused - quite the contrary. But if you’re describing what a jerk someone is, and all […]
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On forgiveness
Posted on October 10th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
This Guardian piece is worth reading (though the attempt to apply this thinking to nation states is really inappropriate). They took hundreds of words to say something I’ve heard time and time again from friends of mine:
Holding a grudge is like taking poison and waiting for the other guy to die.
You don’t have to like […]
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Quote of the day
Posted on October 10th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.
-Rick Pitino, who should know
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“We are entering Web 3.0. Here’s a hint: It’s regulated.”
Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
That’s a quote from Dave Johnston, and I could not agree more. What scary times we live in. From Techdirt:
You shouldn’t have to confer with your lawyers to figure out how you mention any particular product, just because you got a freebie or a sample somewhere.
And, what’s really scary? It appears that even the […]
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Why don’t they run?
Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Alice Bachini-Smith on why victims of abuse often don’t run away:
Clearly, different people respond to abuse in different ways, and we don’t really know what makes that difference. But when the victim is broken, feels unable to get away, even when they have the mobility to be able to do so, I think maybe the […]
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Jeff Nolan: A rational voice in environmental policy
Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
After every single conversation we have about the topic (and there have been a lot), I pester my friend Jeff Nolan to write more about clean tech and environmental policy. Jeff is someone who grows his own fruit and vegetables, sources meat and produce locally where it makes sense, and has put a lot into […]
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Never say goodbye
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Tonight the Qik team threw for me what I choose to call a farewell-but-not-goodbye dinner. After the best working experience of my life, with the greatest team with whom I may ever work, it’s time for me to move on to new adventures.
I have decided to relocate full-time to New York, which has been pulling […]
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Becoming
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
This is a theme that has always fascinated me, and probably always will. Hugh MacLeod wrote recently of becoming the person he was born to be. Today, on the closure of Gourmet magazine, my friend Nancy Rommelmann writes on becoming the person she dreamed of being:
I started subscribing to the magazine at age 12, thinking […]
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Stella McCartney: This is not a parody
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Lunchtime in a fashionable cafe in west London, and a sleek young woman in an expensive ivory silk blouse and deftly cut black jacket smiles and asks the waitress what the soup of the day is. “Pea and ham,” comes the reply. The customer’s smile fades. Stella McCartney leans her head to one side and […]
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The neurotic’s conundrum
Posted on October 4th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
It was my good fortune to reconnect on Sunday with the sharp, no nonsense Harriet Meth (another great person I know thanks to an intro from Jeff Nolan, who seems to collect smart, good people like a fiend). Harriet and I haven’t seen one another for more than a year, and have been trying to […]
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New York, New York
Posted on October 4th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I’m heading back to New York on Tuesday for a bit. And here I was feeling desolate that I wouldn’t be able to make it back to the east coast until November. Well, life is full of surprises.
(No, I can’t bring myself to care that the 500px wide photos kind of break the blog template. […]
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