Limits | Las Vegas, Nevada | Jan 2009
This is the kind of ethos I respect.
Chris Guillebeau, A Brief Guide to World Domination:
The truth is that if you want to achieve your most significant goals, and you want to change the world for the better in the process, you really don’t need to jump through all the hoops that people hold up for you.
Download the manifesto; it’s worth it.
This is the kind of exploring I respect.
in GOOD Magazine, Mathieu Young’s “Walkabout”:
Fascinated by the social and cultural diversity of Los Angeles, I embarked on a four day, 20 mile journey across the city on foot. Pushing a large strobe light, I walked through L.A.’s neighborhoods, asking to photograph everyone whose path I crossed. It was a remarkable experience to step out of the bubble and engage with the city’s changing landscape as it is reflected in the faces of its denizens.
This is the kind of thinking I respect.
Frank Rose in Wired, Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Extends Reznor’s Innovative Run:
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t think music should be free,” Reznor says. “But the climate is such that it’s impossible for me to change that, because the record labels have established a sense of mistrust. So everything we’ve tried to do has been from the point of view of, ‘What would I want if I were a fan? How would I want to be treated?’ Now let’s work back from that. Let’s find a way for that to make sense and monetize it.”
Over the past year, NIN.com has quietly evolved into a series of interlocking services designed to deliver maximum benefit to the fans at minimal expense to the artist. To build it out, Reznor decided to use off-the-shelf resources — Blogger, Twitter, FeedBurner, Flickr, YouTube — rather than trying to duplicate what other people had already created. “They’re going to do a better job than we are,” he explains, “and they’re going to have a lot more resources to put into it.”
Taking it further, Ethan Bauley:
… if NIN really wants to go “edge”, Trent will open source the iPhone app
Killer.
What do you respect?
