What I can like about Facebook’s Instagram acquisition is that the ‘why’ leans towards the right side of the brain instead of the left.
See, I doubt Facebook did it for the user base, they employees, the idea or the cash-flow.
Business thinking at work.
I believe they did it because they like the melody in which Instagram have envisioned the idea and how that melody allows for improvisation.
You can copy and steal. Throw man-power and money at ideas. But you can’t reproduce the fine-tuning done by artists.
The lovely people over at Hard Graft just keep releasing wonderful products. As the bag-o-holic that I am, Square1 Holdall / Campfire simply was a must.
I’m currenly having a short break. The break is initiated by the idea of running a marathon and the opportunities that arose of the back of that.
The marathon is in Seattle at the end of this month. So leading up to it I’m here in LA visiting friends and preparing for the race.
Above photo was snapped with my iPhone during my morning run here in LA. It’s absolutely amazing conditions for running — nice temperature, flat track, fresh sea breeze.
I just got back from a relaxed 20k run. Had an average pace of 5.44 min/km and finish time on 1:54:37. The same pace I’m aiming for at the marathon.
After Seattle and the marathon I will head over to Portland and visit a few friends over there before heading over for a long weekend and relaxing in London.
Last time I bought a pair of new headphones was back in 2007. That time around I swapped my Grado Labs SR60 for a pair of Bose QuietComfort 3. This time around, I’m swapping back to a pair of Grado Labs. Model SR325.
I’m running Seattle marathon in the end of this month. In preparation for the event I have lost a bit of weight and I find a lot of my cloths are a bit lose. Shirts works fine, but I have ran out of holes in my belt and all my trousers slips down my butt all the time.
So at lunch-time today i nipped out and bought a new pair of trousers. I settle for the Beuys model from HOPE.
They are absolutely lovely.
They are in the same vain as couple of other trousers I own. Like a few from Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair or even a few of my Bokicabo (blogged about my first pair here). The one from HOPE, though, are a tad bit less “out there”.
P.S the photo above is not me.
I’ve not gone that thin.
Cool interior space nicely captured by photographers John Bendtsen and Joachim Wichmann aka W+B.
Source: iainclaridge.co.uk
Via: blog.hardgraft.com
