I love my Bodum French Press (:
Make taste not waste. Anti Nespresso campaign by Bodum.
Bodum produces coffee, tea and kitchenware. The main focus of the company is the development of products, which consistently pay tribute to functionality, quality and affordability.
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Eyes on the prize
I surely have a busy week behind me. Worth mentioning are that at Thursday I attended and blogged for TEDxRotterdam, and in the weekend I participated in the Enterprize which is a contest for starting entrepreneurs.
I already have a few balls rolling but I entered the contest with a business idea I actually need some funding for. I also entered the contest because I believe it’s an idea that could use adjustment here and there and I actually made a few. I also met a lot of young creatives from in and around Rotterdam which might even be more valuable.
So what would I like to realize you might ask yourself, well the last six years I’ve primarily focussed on new media and the Internet, but originally I came from a family that had a restaurant. I’ve been working from home but I realized that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life and I always dreamt about what it would be like to have a bar where people can work from. I’ll outline a few steps of how this dream formed in my head.
Eight years ago I had a thing with this exchange student from Finland who lived in the Hague, I was 18 at the time and she was 25 and probably thought I was 23 or something because when she saw my ID she kicked me out for being too young. I wasn’t planning on leaving so I went downstairs where there was an Internet cafe. I found out I could enter the web there and even order something to eat and I might have ordered a whisky at around 1pm. She called me a little later and was welcomed back in. I have never forgotten this, not because of her, but because of the freedom I felt at the cafe, I mean, working and ordering a scotch with your sandwich?
Five years ago I was attending a study in MultiMedia Design and I wondered about a production studio that would double as a club in the weekend. You see, you could have a lot of the equipment already to make great pictures and videos of the parties taking place. During the day the crew would be able to work on websites or use the photo studio and come weekend, the desks would simply roll away backstage. This was maybe a little silly but it stuck with me.
Last year I was already working from home for quite a while and it hit me that I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life. You see, when I go out to have a drink or lunch with a prospect or partner, you’re always surrounded by people that don’t want to do business and don’t care about what you’re up to at all. Even in my spare time when I try to just have a few laughs this is the case, and I might not want to do business in those moments, I do however like being surrounded by people that might.
There’s three kinds of people in this world, those that make stuff happen, those who observe and those who wake up one day saying; “Huh, what happened?!”
I want to create a bar just for that first group and we’ll also be open for those in the second if they’re interested, the third group can stay in bed.
How will this modern Internet bar/cafe look? What will it offer? I’ll jot that down in a post after this one. Please let me know what you think.
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Mikko Hypponen and why it is good to be a minority.
I was at TEDxRotterdam yesterday and I was supposed to blog but since the wifi wasn’t optimal I hardly got anything out. It’s one of those problems we’re still struggling with as a society. Now that I typed that it hits me as a typical first world problem, but hey it’s true. The organizers could have chosen for a closed network but that would keep some students from tweeting since 3G wasn’t really working as well, they chose to have an open network which resulted in no one being able to have a stable connection. Personally I can’t ignore the fact that you should be able to run two networks, one public and one private but then again, I might be wrong.
Let’s talk about TED, which has the slogan: “Ideas worth spreading”. Mikko’s talk was a prime example of one of those. I’ve seen most of the talks and I promised myself to highlight only the ones that were in my opinion actually worth spreading. Mikko’s talk is worth spreading because so many people really don’t know what can happen with the technology they take for granted. Sometimes I feel like I have a sixth sense of maybe just a lot more of the common kind when it comes to viruses and especially links like: “OMG did you see these naked pictures of you?” or DID you read this nasty blog about “you?!” send by someone you know. I mean c’mon people.
There are certain aspects in technology that even frighten me sometimes tho. Things like hactivism and Stuxnet can really send chills down my neck. I won’t explain that to you right now but I do think the public needs to know more about it or at least about the easy traps they could fall for.
On another note, as an Apple user I hardly get any troubles from malware or viruses and Mikko noted that the next big victim will be Android since they’re getting bigger than the #1 target of the moment, Windows XP. Sometimes, it’s good to be a minority.
Jan Kees de Jager gave the first talk of the day and it had a few funny moments, it was a short talk so I’ll keep it short as well.
At one point our minister started talking about his transition from being an entrepreneur to a career in politics.
“Was it easy? No it was not, on the first day when I left work and my driver picked me up he had a pretty big bag with him. So I asked him, are you going away for the weekend? “This is for you” my driver said. So I opened the bag and it was filled with papers I had to go through. Luckily nowadays we do all of that via the iPad”
It was very inspiring to hear this once more In this funny way. It shows that even the simplest of actions can have a huge impact.
Jan Kees wanted to leave us with this last thing:
Make sure you’re at the right place at the right time and always take the initiative!
How?
By intuition!
Location, location, location. TEDxRotterdam nailed it. I’m drinking orange juice for a change and I’m ready to roll, are you with me?
I’ll be at TEDx Rotterdam tomorrow and I will be blogging about the talks right here. It’s going to be early for me but I have already prepared; my shirt is hanging to dry and my alarm is set!
There will be a lot of great speakers and artists at the Nieuwe Luxor tomorrow and I hope I’ll be able to see them all since I have to leave a wee bit early at around 5pm.
At around 8am I’ll be at the Luxor, probably with a coffee to go in my hand, waiting in line for registration. After that I think I’m already entitled to have some breakfast (: and then it’ll be also time for some music from Scarlet Mae. I’m actually kinda curious how that will sound since I’ve met one of the band members a few weeks ago.
Mikko Hypponen should be interesting to see as he is one of the 50 most important people on the web. (according to PC World Magazine)
Ilco van der Linde is speaking as well, Ilco is the mind behind Dance4Life and the peace initiative Masterpeace. Will see that as well.
I’ll probably end the day with a bit of ‘Conny Jansen Danst’. I’ve seen ads for that show practically everywhere and at Lowlands I actually worked back stage of their performance but I’ve never seen it.
Rotterdam is already a leading city in so many areas and let’s hope it will stay that way with all the budget cuts taking place at the moment. I always love to meet people that are so enthusiastic about our architecture. I’m going to keep an eye out for any more interesting insights on the connection between leading the future and my amazing city.
Who will lead the future is actually a pretty good question when you think about the recent passing of Steve Jobs. Steve gave a speech at Stanford University in 2005 which was so good that eventually it was also posted on TED’s website in 2009. Please watch this video if you haven’t seen it before.
Who will be the next Steve Jobs? Who will lead the way in technology? Who will lead the future? I’m hoping to find out!
Let me just put this right here, so I can come and look at it whenever I please.
Steve 1955-2011
jmak:
Thanks, Steve.
Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea!
Thoughts?
Nobody thinks this is strange? Left is the iPhone 4S, then the 4 and the 3GS
100 hours less(!) or just a simple typo?
source: Apple
Nice song, rap, whatever with a great video. Anna knows her stuff, she’s my unofficial personal music curator (:
New video for Drake - Headlines.
Andy Samberg as Mark Zuckerberg xD
Smile (:
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Hm, I’d love me some of this!
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Jay-Z & Kanye West: Niggas In Paris. Unofficial music video but let’s make it official!
Sometimes, you just feel perfect, right? This reminds me of that feeling.
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