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February 07, 09:22 PM

Yep, that’s a Soul Train marathon in the W+K lobby.

I love this place. 

February 07, 12:49 AM
Bulky, bald and tall, Boisjoly was an imposing figure, especially when armed with data. He found disturbing the data he reviewed about the booster rockets that would lift Challenger into space. Six months before the Challenger explosion, he predicted “a catastrophe of the highest order” involving “loss of human life” in a memo to managers at Thiokol.

Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried To Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch : The Two-Way : NPR

To think he carried most of this quietly for most of the rest of hist life.

February 06, 06:18 AM
Amon - Python-powered server monitoring, logging, and error reporting with JSON API

thechangelog:

Amon from Martin Rusev is a simple yet flexible way to add server monitoring, logging, and error tracking to your web stack. Amon consists of three parts: a collector daemon, a Python web app, and JSON API.

  • Collector daemon - Amon’s server and process monitoring is a thin wrapper on top of Unix tools to record metrics and store them in the MongoDB backend.
  • API - Shipping with language bindings for Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, Amon’s JSON API makes it easy to record your own application events.
  • Web interface - The web app provides a friendly user interface for viewing logs and visualizing data in charts.

Amon

The Amon documentation site is a great place to get started with installation and usage.

Hot.

February 04, 09:30 PM

topheriskris:

(via Flavorwire » Gallery: Minimalist Internet Meme Movie Posters)

February 03, 01:17 AM

eatcakey:

Kara Walker. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes and the explorations of race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.

She’s one of my favorites.

January 27, 04:21 AM

This is a 404 page. When I get to something wrong, I just want to find the thing I’m looking for. That’s all. 

No fancy shit. It’s frustrating enough that the link doesn’t work.

January 27, 03:42 AM

nevver:

Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments

Grace always reblogs with near perfect timing. 

January 26, 09:52 PM

wk12:

Yesterday was Jinnina’s birthday. We decided that she deserved to be queen for a day, and moved her desk into Chairman Riswold’s office. Jinnina helps us with everything, all day, every day. We decided that she take charge of 12, and leave the paperwork to Riswold. Jinnina did a great job making our lives a little more difficult, and “Jimnina” tried his best to answer our stupid questions. 

January 26, 03:51 AM
Twitter on the night of a large-scale national event — debates, the State Of The Union, election night — is the Cheers bar most of us don’t actually get to have in real life. It’s a place (or, more accurately, a “place”) where you can gather with like-minded strangers, sit back and kibitz. If the need to get in quick and keep it short leads to more snark and less value, well, that’d be true down at the pub too.
Twitter on State Of The Union night: America groans - Forbes (via lauterthanbombs)
January 25, 06:15 PM
For my money, there is absolutely no worse a sin a man can commit against those who must behold them — and humanity in general — than wearing a droopy, oversize, short-sleeve button-down shirt.

5 Things Men Are Not Allowed To Wear « Thought Catalog

ALL OF THIS. THIS. THIS. 

Especially #1 and #4.

January 25, 12:18 AM

W+K 12 isn’t just an experimental ad school, it’s a fitness program.

January 23, 05:27 PM

goktgo:

Shout out to my awesome Community Managers! Love you guys! :)

You cushy job types, you.

January 22, 09:00 AM
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nevver:

Copyranter

January 19, 08:26 PM
January 19, 06:19 PM

morning meeting.

January 14, 04:50 AM

realitytvgifs:

Madonna shading Lady Gaga was too good not to GIF.

January 13, 11:02 PM

Outkats (by cat_lanta)

Want.

January 13, 05:46 AM

twloha:

In 2006, actor Stephen Fry received a letter from a girl struggling with depression. This was his response.

This is why Stephen Fry is one of my heroes.

January 13, 04:09 AM

Day three. Met Wieden + Kennedy. Of Wieden + Kennedy.

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Brandon Sheats
Creative Technologist
Online Media | Portland, Oregon Area, US

Experience

  • Jan 2012 - Present
    W+K 12 / Wieden + Kennedy
  • Nov 2009 - Present
    Creative Technologist / National Black Arts Festival
    Here, I do a bit of everything. I'm embedded within the festival's artistic programming team merging digital creative assets with innovative practices in social, gaming, video, search, and experiential marketing. Our work is being recognized the Nonprofit Finance Fund for our innovation in connecting technology and the arts.

    - Built and managed multi-channel digital strategy, connecting psychographics, social analysis, analytics strategy, patron interviews, and landscape evaluation to write and present yearly and long-term strategy
    - Collaborated with marketing team to monitor effectiveness of out of home integrations with social campaigns and field research, and create new opportunities from these reports
    - Launched major web overhaul in 2010, bridging front-end CMS with custom-built CRM back-end. Led 2011 redesign.
    - Liaised with external vendors to deliver iPhone app (a first for our sector) from concept to approval in one month
    - Designed assets for web and mobile
    - Coordinated with public programming and sponsorship to integrate digital campaigns with sponsor and grant opportunities
    - Managed social media and digital event production team during festival
    - Raised visibility of the organization's digital efforts though leadership and internal education
    - Managed web infrastructure (servers, content delivery network
    - Provided direct customer service to patrons with issues.
  • Jan 2007 - Present
    tenpeach / Designer/Developer
  • Jul 2009 - Jun 2010
    UI Designer/Developer / Appfrica Labs
    Worked with a startup incubator based in Uganda, leading user experience and assisting with front-end development for two client projects:

    - World Wants to Know: Worked with Uganda-based development team while in the United States to redesign a real-time display of questions being asked by people in rural villages and townships in Africa who don't have internet access. Presented at TED Global 2009.

    - Ujima Project: Developed a simple, easy to read front-end for data that various aid organizations and governments keep on how African leaders spend aid money, critical disease rates, and weapons expenses. Developed in Python(Django), and optimized for slow satellite connections.
  • Jul 2006 - Jun 2010
    Assistant Director of Debate (Debate Coach) / Henry W. Grady HS
    Worked with this nationally recognized urban debate program teaching critical thinking, research strategies, logic, and philosophy to high school students. Coached the team at various tournaments around the country while doing so.
  • Sept 2006 - Jan 2009
    Arthur Blank Fellow/Consultant / National Debate Project
    I work with the Atlanta and Milwaukee Urban Debate Leagues teaching rhetoric and argument to urban high school students, researching improvements to critical thinking and reading after students begin implementing these skills in everyday life.

    Taught at the Marquette University Debate Institute and at the Atlanta Urban Debate Institute as part of this research, a joint effort with Emory, Georgia State, and Tennessee State Universities.
  • Jun 2006 - Nov 2006
    Stage Management and Production/Marketing Intern / 7 Stages Theatre
    - Worked with the Directors of Marketing and Audience Development to provide creative for their subscription promo and welcome kit.
    - Worked with stage manager and tech manager to set up, take down, and run shows.
    - Collaborated with others to produce a script and run each show.
  • Sept 2002 - Feb 2006
    Commentator, Morning Edition / NPR / Youth Radio
    I worked with mentors from NPR and WABE to develop commentaries that were broadcast on NPR and the web via Youth Radio. Worked with brocast equipment, and learned the editorial process.

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Open source software, user experience research, internet policy, jazz, cultural studies, non-profit technology, arts management.
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