Massage Your Brain.

Everybody's a critic.

Boston, as seen from the Public Garden

NEW VENTURE

My friend michelle and I started working together on a new blog. i know, i know...


A blog by Sean Brennan and Michelle Butterfield mind-mapping the world around us.

THE MODERN WORLD
you'll like it.

Wood + Fabric = Awesome

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT

I find this offensive.

but, maybe it's just sarcastic.

Meeting Notes

They're doing this on purpose

I have to believe that TomTom's advertising/poster is genius. This was spotted at a Best Buy.
A misspelling in a national advertisement is highly blog-able and I've seen it on the book of faces twice! It makes people feel really smart when they catch it, and they get to brag about how clever they are by posting it on the internet somewhere. (I realize I'm doing the same thing--but im like SUPER META SMART, duh!)

I have to ask myself, are they being so clever that i dont get it? Am i stupid? Are they squeezing in the latin word "via"--i hope not. I hope it's just purposeful mispelling because, to be honest, I don't care about spelling anymore--and i don't believe bad spelling precludes good naviagation or intellugance.

My question... how did the advertisers convince TomTom to let them do this? How can i learn to be so convincing?

Big Tobacco STILL leading the way in innovation

I don't usually smoke, as it contributes to premature aging (and really, who wants to be old?). Though, get some drinks in me and, surprise, i stop considering my future. Last weekend, as my vision was blurring and i was standing outside a bar to collect myself, a girl offered me a cig and when i said "Sure," GUESS what she said?!?---"Regular or Menthol?" It might have been the beer, but this chick transformed instantly into one of those cigarette girls you see in casinos. I'm like, "wait, you carry around multiple packs?" Nope, just one-- Camel Crush. The directions are simple: Squeeze the filter, hear the click, change the taste. Im pretty sure they hit on all five senses with this product. It's designed for those "connector" personas--those people who like to share and make friends and probably only smoke for the social aspect. With menthol as such a polarizing flavor, the Connector can be a hero to anyone. She talked nonstop about the goddamned thing, so obviously it works as a conversation starter; and even though i couldn't wait to get away from her after about ten seconds, i have to admit that the idea is devastatingly cool.

2012 London Macots are RAD

I hate CG usually...but really...at least London's Olympic mascots are interesting and not so obvious.



They're weirder than even China's mascots (Beijing), and i like the idea of outdoing China in anything. Though...those pandas are pretty cool.



Unfortunately, the USA's olympic mascot (Los Angeles)..was the dorkiest one EVERRRRR. Cheese-city.

Life is SO hard sometimes.

This incredible youtube video was posted on the book by my friend Garret. Enjoy





kickintheheadcomic — April 18, 2010 — Whenever a TV product commercial plays I bust a gut during the parts where they show us what we're doing wrong and why we need the product.

The Future of Consumerism is in Global Networks

ARE YOU HEARING THIS AT&T?!?
why doesnt my phone get 3G near the beach?

A OKAY

Check out these Korean Sunglasses. Korea IS the future, you know.

An Offering

She's faking.

Hot Dogs, Mac 'n Cheese, and Drawing w/ Tom & Louise

Batteries Not Included.

MikroKopter - HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.

Yo, seriously! Did you ever see that movie Batteries Not Included? Because fore $1600, you can practically live it. Imagine a future where this is figured out and put to good use.

Factoid City: Social Media & Technology

Visiting Expert: Anthropologist

Look at an ant colony. What is it's goal?
- to survive
-really? that's it?
-to do what the queen tells it to do.
-but why?
-because... they want to make more of themselves.
-they want to make more of themselves.
-they want to take all the surrounding materials and use them as the nutrients that will allow them to make more of themselves.
-they want everything to be them, they want to be everything.

Now look at humans. What is the goal of the human superorganism?
-i dont think it has one.
-you dont think it has one?
-well, i think that there are multiple colonies of humans competing for homogeneity. Right now, every country, every culture, every religion, every gang, every individual is trying to define their own way of being. Maybe the goal of the human superorganism needs to be identifying it's own purpose. honestly though, i think that we've had the fortune to study the smallest parts of organisms and find rules in the smallest of components.
-So then maybe the goal needs to be fundamental and more biological than cultural. Do we share the same goal as the ant? To make more of ourselves until we make everything us?
-but you can't make everything you because you need enough resources to provide for the continuation of a species.
-there needs to be balance.


An interesting take by PBS...are we 'weedy' enough to thrive in anything?


And...just for fun. Watch this... This video is incredible. It reveals the architecture of an ant colony.

My nostalgia is glow-in-the-dark