January 2011
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472. Love the one you're with.
(via Rules for my unborn son)
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Photo #1 - Recovery
Jan 1, 2011
New Years day in Sydney required a few naps, bad Sandra Bullock movies and Craig’s amazing Southern recovery Bloody Marys.
2011 is already looking like it’s going to be a good year.
December 2010
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Horoscope for New Years Eve
I’m not big on horoscopes but with the New Year about to begin I thought I’d check mine out and I approve:
Cancer:
Even though the New Year has just about to begin, it will be possible to have some of your dreams crossed off your list early on. Provided that you’re willing to do the necessary groundwork you can begin a new phase of your life right now.
(via Horoscope Signs)
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A Year In The Life Of...
In an attempt to work on commitment and slowing down enough to look at my life, I have decided to do my own Project 365.
Pretty much I’m going to post a new photo and snippet about the next 365 days of my life. Hope you enjoy. Basic Rules/Tips: 1. Bring your camera everywhere 2. Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo 3. Tell a Story Start Date: 1/1/11 End Date: 12/31/11
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Welcome to Australia
Me: Are there any animals I should be scared of?
Craig: Pretty much everything that’s alive here is designed to kill you.
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Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy
Being on this plane watching youtube and posting on tumblr reminded me of this Louis CK apperance on Conan O”Brien.
Funny. And true.
Flying is amazing. But I’ll be pissed if the internet goes out. I still have 15hours to waste.
Addendum:
Literally as I was posting this entry, I received this message:
Ironic.
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I'm on a plane, man.
I’ve been traveling since 10am EST (I’m including airport time - which was extended due to the East Coast snow storm that still has NYC airports closed).
It’s 7:10pm according to my watch but we have another 3 hours on this flight. When I land in LA it will be 7:15pm and then I’ll get on my final flight to Sydney.
And even though my flight to Sydney is 15hours long,...
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The key to a healthy relationship
All you need is to find a person just as fucked up as you.
(via Dr. Zed Said)
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Snowy NC Xmas
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My Xmas Mural
I was excitedly surprised to see that my sister made one of the walls in her kitchen a giant chalkboard.
Thus a Xmas mural was in order:
Notice the mini moose hiding behind the tree and the color full “tree” that Scarlett added after informing me that my drawing needed more color.
Also not sure how this happened but my Santa looks more like a Persian Santa on a magic carpet...
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Merry UNC Xmas!
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Being Santa's Helper
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Bowtie man!
whenparentstext:
Mom: Can you please call me when you need to be picked up! Don’t do anything stupid! :-)8 Me: What is that emoticon? Mom: bowtie man! He doesn’t do anything stupid
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Now accepting bribes...
At CP+B’s Holiday party, I won two court-side tickets to the Denver Nuggets v. Miami Heat game on January 13, 2011 at 8:30pm.
I am super excited and looking for someone to come with me.
Any takers?
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Collaborative Playlist - 12/20/10
Another back and forth tunes selected playlist by Jenny Walters and myself. You can check out the original playlist here.
This one is definitely a little all over the place but it made for an entertaining hour and a half. In case you are interested on the order, I picked first and Jenny followed.
Enjoy.
Lissie - Pursuit of Happiness (Kid Cudi cover - live)
Tiesto ft Tegan & Sara - Feel...
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470. Don't play the ace if you can win with the...
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Racking up some frequent flyer miles
Planned travel for the next month.
DEN > ATL > RDU
RDU > ATL > LAX > SYD
SYD > LAX > LUK > RDU
RDU > ATL > DEN
These time changes are going to be killer on my body.
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My life according to Facebook
My Pummelvision from Norma Kwee on Vimeo.
The past 5 years of my life - length of time since I’ve joined - told through Facebook photos.
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Top 10 Tweets of 2010
As we get closer and closer to the new year, the endless number of Top [fill in the blank] of 2010 lists continue to spill out on to the internet.
Check out the 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010.
Surprisingly, none of my tweets are on that list. Crazy. So I thought I’d make my own Top 10 of @nkwee Tweets. Enjoy.
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Most Contagious 2010
Check out the Most Contagious trends, campaigns, technologies, experiences, of 2010. Compiled by Contagious Magazine, you can check out the full list here.
The list includes a couple of my favorites this year, including:
Arcade Fire’s Wilderness Experience
And W+K’s Old Spice spots
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Post-it note drawings about management
A while ago I was asked to contribute some drawings to an exhibition with the theme of “Manager”. I ended up making 20 post-it note drawings which are now on view at the Vögele Kultur Zentrum in Zurich.
(via Marc Johnson)
Funny.
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8-bit Donkey Kong Apartment
The apartment reproduces Donkey Kong classic game…
(via LikeCool)
I want to live here.
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Teaching your parents technology made easy.
Brought by Google, Teach Parents Tech is a nice way to deliver tech support or advice to your parents.
(via Adverblog)
Finally, something to help me help my dad when he calls in a panic because he can’t figure out how to [insert endless list of computer functions here].
Love you, Dad!
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Analysis of the Gawker password dump
gregrutter:
Some interesting points. First, here are the top 25 most ofen occurring passwords:
2516 - 123456 2188 - password 1205 - 12345678 696 - qwerty 498 - abc123 459 - 12345 441 - monkey 413 - 111111 385 - consumer 376 - letmein 351 -1234 318 - dragon 307 - trustno1 303 - baseball 302 - gizmodo 300 - whatever 297 - superman 276 - 1234567 266 - sunshine 266 - iloveyou ...
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469. Stay in your seat until the credits have...
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Boulder sunset - 12/12/10
View from my balcony.
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My Charlie Brown Christmas Tree
I grew up with fake Christmas trees. But this year I decided to make my own Christmas traditions and have a real tree. Unfortunately I didn’t make this decision until 3 days ago.
After already going to get a tree - which I sawed down myself, hell yea - I discovered that it is extremely hard to find a tree stand this late in the season.
I would also like to mention that the sales people at...
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In case you were wondering....
I am not as tall as NBA player, Chris Anderson.
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New nickname?
I’ve been told a few times in my life that I remind people of a cartoon character. Probably because I’m extremely animated and can’t sit still for more than 5 minutes.
Noel, my Experience Designer, told me this week that I remind him of Calvin - cause of my hair.
In mentioning this to my interactive dev team, I was dubbed Hobbes since there is an dev intern we work with named...
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I want a green thumb.
After an attack from Elisa’s cat, Jasper, and my continuing forgetfulness to water him, poor Frank passed away. He actually kicked it back in the middle of the summer, but I didn’t want to highlight my failure on my own blog.
But when you don’t succeed, try and try again.
The plant on the left is a Christmas cactus. I have no idea what kind of plant the other one is. I...
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Sour / Mirror
pattyman:
Crazy interactive music ‘video’ from the band Sour. It’ll open up a ton of browser windows, so watch out.
Watch it here.
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468. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
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What's your social score?
I’m guessing that within a 12 to 18 months, you will be able to use new augmented reality technology to scan a room of people with your smartphone and get a numerical social rating for every person in sight. I constructed the graphic above as an example, but the technology is already there to make this happen.
(via GROW Blog)
Crazy/cool/amazing that this technology is right around the...
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A Year In Status
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127 Hours
127 Hours is based on the true story of extreme adventurer, Aron Ralston’s experience after getting trapped under a boulder near Moab, Utah, while canyoning alone.
I love the way this story is told and the editing is fantastic.
Not going to lie, there are a few scenes that are more than difficult to sit through. But the story is a moving display of the human-will to survive.
I...
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A Very Marek Thanksgiving
For Thanksgiving this year I traveled to the great city of Minneapolis, MN to hang out with two very amazing people, Amy and Xiaomi.
I made plans to visit them over Thanksgiving weekend several months back. But then days before flying there, Xiaomi informed me that I would be dealing with highs in the teens. WHAT?!? That is not what I signed up for. I had already been struggling with...
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SPIN : 125 Albums of the Past 25 Years
SPIN Magazine editors’ released their top 125 Albums since the magazine began in 1985. Check out the full list here.
Here are the albums that changed my life (of the past 25 years, and that are on this SPIN’s list - My personal top 125 of all time would be very different).
115. OutKast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
113. Danger Mouse, The Grey Album (2004)
108. Fugees,...