Tokyo Bar: Anime no more
Tokyo Bar, the anime-themed Japanese restaurant in TriBeCa, is now closed. Too bad, the Kashiwa Sato-designed ID was dope!
Archived entries for no more
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later
I can’t believe it’s been 20 years! I remember a good friend of mine, Firdaus Fadlil, who was in Europe at that time on a photo assignment, brought home a piece of the wall. What an intoxicating moment!
Checkout NY Times’ The Berlin Wall – 20 Years Later celebration and the interactive “Where Were You When the Wall Fell” user-submitted piece, The View From the Wall.
P.S. Go rent Good Bye Lenin! for a touch of East Berlin and communist humor.
Uniqlo Calendar
I’m testing the Blog Parts of the Uniqlo Calendar. Pretty cool. I like the accelerated motion of the cityscapes and the setting interface. Some sections are still coming soon so we’ll see what other ideas they’re cooking up.
A supershort story: Cellphone Day
This supershort story is inspired by a courier that dropped by Squeaky’s office. He had the loudest walkie-talkie phone that pretty much blared inconsequential conversation throughout the whole office. No sorry, nothing. What a piece of work. So here it is, my supershort story for all of you inconsiderate people out there:
“So how’re you doing?”
“Yeah, nothing, really…”
“So what are you up to?”
“Oh, nothing?”
“Oh yeah, me too.”
“Yeah, I’m just on the bus, you know, going to work…”
“So, are you doing anything tonight?”
“No?”
”Me too.”
“Alrighty then… I’ll see you at work.”
He shuts his cell phone and put it in his coat pocket. He turns his face to me and smiles. “Sorry. Work stuff, ya know.”
I look at him and I want to say, “What on earth would you think I give a shit about your conversation? I just want you to shut the fuck up and not bother me on my way to work, you asshole!”
But I just shrug and turn my attention back to the book I’m reading. Tried to read, anyway. Because when someone is shooting his mouth off on some petty bullshit just to fill the void in his head and knows nothing about common courtesy, I can’t turn my hearing off. I wish I could just shoot them. What would that feel? I can see the headline now. “Woman Charged In Man-On-Cellphone Death. Lawyer Files For Temporary Insanity Defense Caused By Lack Of Manner.” Now that’s a headline.
This actually makes me smile. Today is going to be a good day for killing someone.
The End.
SoBe UnForgotten
When I started at Squeaky in 2006, I was always amazed at the stuff that we came up with for SoBe Beverages’ various lines. They will come to us for new ideas or site design – they will give us the bottle or can and basically asked us to do something with just that. It was lovely. That was then, and now there is only SoBe LifeWater. But we will not forget. So here they are, from the depth of Squeaky’s trove of the past, the sites we worked so hard at and are still so proud of:
SoBe LifeWater
2007 Davey Awards & W3 Awards (Silver), 2007 & 2006 Web Awards (Standard of Excellence)
SoBe Lean
2007 W3 Awards (Silver), 2007 Web Awards (Outstanding Website)
SoBe Essential Energy
2007 Davey & W3 Awards (Silver), Web Awards (Standard of Excellence), Communication Arts (Site of the Week), How Mag. (Site of the Month)
SoBe Adrenaline Rush
