Here’s to the local shops. Those brave enough to risk everything for the love of what they do. Especially those who never give up and who are not afraid to reinvent themselves. We love you all. Exciting changes happening at Dartmouth Shopping Centre @MattatallSigns @orlandomediaco — at Renegade Records.
Category Archives: rants
Restore Dartmouth
It’s no secret how I feel about our beloved City of Lakes. When I moved here 20 years ago I saw Dartmouth as nothing more than a suburb of Halifax. Dartmouth, or as I was told repeatably, “The Dark side, was a dirty, crime-filled place to be avoided”. As someone who lived there, I didn’t […]
4 marks of a successful relationship with your creative
Image: Personal experience may not match as described, individual results may vary, may not be as pictured, offer not valid in some territories. Limits may apply. Only while in stock. Finding the right fit with a creative can be a daunting task. But if you ask yourself these four essential questions you can find and […]
5 Effective Steps to Losing a Customer : Scenario 6b
We here at Phizr-Mannon-Cybnot-Enrom: Food Services and Animal Waste Removal Division, FSAWRD, know the value of customer turnover. We have put these steps together to ensure a customer’s lasting and distasteful view of our brand. Studies have shown a 89% adoption rate of customer abandonment which is a 46% increase from the previous quarterly reports. […]
An e-waste joint : “Brick in a sock” for iPad by Crap Inc.
An innovative company focusing exclusively on Apple products, Crap Inc. has an excellent reputation for producing quality products. Among the top of their creative items are the Plastica cover 3000, Shelf-o-matic for iMac, and now the iPad Brick-in-a-sock stand. Crap Inc. relentlessly launches new products to market, their items are well-designed to be obsolete within […]
It’s all just flash to me
There was a time when Flash impressed me with its’ amazing ability to render clean, scalable animation with an insanely low footprint. For me it all started with Future Splash a little independent app that competed with Macromedia’s Shockwave. The days when we measured a web page by kilobytes, carefully calculating if we would go […]
Apple’s ‘One more thing’ culture
After months of giddy waiting the next iOS update is finally here. Yesterday I dutifully upgraded my iTunes, started the morning by setting up iCloud online, by lunch installed the significant upgrade to Lion. Waiting patiently for the end of the day when the iOS finally launched. Laugh if you want but I really don’t […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tablet
A student of mine recently approached me with some questions about using an iPad in my creative practice. Being an active user I accepted and this article reflects the responses I presented to her. I think it is important to understand that even though I am talking about a specific product, an Apple iPad, I […]
Future Fear
In the last couple months I’ve been hearing about this new product being launched called Facebook Timeline. Today I watched a brief teaser that was shown at a social media conference by Facebook’s own Alfredo Tan, it was only a short minute-long promo and as I sat alongside of a room full of ‘oohing and […]
Google nonplus
Let me be honest here. Can’t say honestly that I’ve made a concerted effort to use Google+. I jumped in immediately. Not excited to adopt yet another social media platform, but in my line of business was duty bound to explore its advantages and abilities. The buzz over this new environment is incredible. All the […]