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This is the trailer for an amazing documentary, the full movie is free and can be watched here.
If anybody you know sees this, all possible outcomes I can imagine are good.
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It was in the mid-eighties when I discovered that the activity I now call "design" had a name, and that you could do it for a living. Despite having spent almost 30 years involved in it one way or another, to this day I freeze for a moment when someone asks me "What do you do?" Either this means I spent a long (long) time doing something I don't understand (and considering I made a decent living at it that would be remarkable in itself), or I don't trust in my ability to convey the nature of it in a few words. Instead I try to find an easier, faster, more acceptable way to handle the question and move on with the rest of our lives, secretly resenting the fact that I failed, once again. The problem is that "Design" is a term open to a variety of interpretations, and everybody expects it to get more specific, or else they'll attach to it whatever preconceived notion they have about it. "I'm a designer" means virtually nothing...
I stumbled upon this image from a 1876 propaganda campaign, to convince people to move to California. I guess in the long run it worked pretty well...I wonder why it was so hard to convince people back then: wasn't it just as beautiful?
OK, this might sound very earthy and "organic", which isn't necessarily the image I 'm trying to project; luckily it's a cholesterol bomb therefore I suppose the overly serious image of the health freak takes an ironic spin :) Truth is by 1 pm I was really hungry, and almost as if the universe was talking to me, I realized I had these 4 ingredients available to me: -some very good and fairly natural (whatever that means) bacon I bought at TJ -a bottle of organic maple/agave syrup blend -Fresh eggs brought by a colleague who has hens and is kind enough to provide -Fresh bread that I made just last night Now mind you, this is a very rare occurrence....I hadn't made french toast in at least a year, and I bet it was probably 6 months ago that I bought bacon last. I was probably inspired by the uncommon quality of the ingredients. It was delicious, I'm sure my body will forgive me. Mahalo Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8
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