Coffee shops in Brooklyn are redesigning their interiors to make them less comfy, trying to put an end to endless couch-surfing by people who have confused “coffee shop” with “my living room,” reports the New York Times.
Nominations for replacement public socializing spaces?
Libraries? Cupcake shops?
Libraries. (Free access. Community hubs, many of which now feature coffee carts or cafes. Enough said.)
This news release summarizes findings from Russ Reid’s “Heart of the Donor” study of donor motivation and behavior. Some good statistics here, especially regarding giving in response to the Haiti disaster. Other information, such as, “if the goal of a nonprofit is to effectively target today’s best donors, then they should focus significant and smart attention on the donors giving the most money – seniors and boomers,” reinforces fundamental fund-raising practices.
Russ Reid’s report, unveiled and discussed today at the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation conference in NYC, can be obtained at http://heartofthedonor.com.
[hat tip to The Chronicle of Philanthropy (@Philanthropy) and Raymund Flandez (@raymundf23)]
What an awesome ad for Skin Cancer Research
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre: Break | Ads of the World
Supporting Clare Oliver Melanoma Fund
You don’t see something like this every day.
During a random, first-time visit yesterday to Tim Siedell’s bad banana blog, Tim’s entry from Friday, featuring the work of Austin-based photographer Jay B. Sauceda, caught my eye. Tim had posted several photos and this description from Jay’s Web site: “Before there was vinyl printing there were big brick walls and craftsmen who covered said walls with their commercial artwork. This is my ever growing collection of those that I find while on the road.”
Midway through my looking at Tim’s post, I scrolled back up to the second photo – it’s the one pictured above – and stared at it for several seconds before my brain “clicked.” Tim’s blog didn’t give the building’s location; for me, it didn’t need to … the Hoskins Building, which I know sits near the courthouse in the somewhat small, central Texas town of Gonzales (pop. ~8,000), shows a partial view of a weathered Coca-Cola ad for my grandfather’s business!
Almost two months ago, I signed up for an Itizen account and requested a batch of QR Coded tags … intending to record and share the story of at least one object …
At last – yesterday – I posted story #1: the Mexican Dress.
If you sign up for Itizen, or a similar service, how would you use it?
Related: A couple of QR Code posts: http://mollyblock.tumblr.com/tagged/qr-code
Also, my friend Michael Sean Wright circulated yesterday this piece about QR Codes, which, in addition to providing a general description of what they are, says: “The advantages of having a QR Code on your business cards, or any other promotional material for that matter, is: you will make the print interactive (this is one way to make print interact, another one is augmented reality), you will have the ability to track any incoming visitor from your creation and at the same time you will stand out from the crowd as your business card will have a surprising new element.” Food for thought.
Via artgalleryofontario:
Mounir Fatmi
Save Manhattan 02, 2009
VHS tapes, glue, table
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
