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May 26

Homemade margarita mix. -AK (Taken with instagram)

Homemade margarita mix. -AK (Taken with instagram)

What!?! Crazy. -AK

What!?! Crazy. -AK

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6 Lessons In Brand Strategy, From The Brains Behind Gaming’s Best Brand By James Gaddy, fastcodesign.com Brett Lovelady, the man behind Astro Gaming, talks about creating a performance brand in a brutal space where branding was non-existent.Brett Love­la­dy start­ed Astro Stu­dios in 1994 with the objec­tive to bring more of a con­sumer prod­uct… Great article about branding from Astro Gaming. Nothing new but it does reinforce what we all should be doing when it comes to branding. -AK

6 Lessons In Brand Strategy, From The Brains Behind Gaming’s Best Brand
By James Gaddy, fastcodesign.com

Brett Lovelady, the man behind Astro Gaming, talks about creating a performance brand in a brutal space where branding was non-existent.

Brett Love­la­dy start­ed Astro Stu­dios in 1994 with the objec­tive to bring more of a con­sumer prod­uct…

Great article about branding from Astro Gaming. Nothing new but it does reinforce what we all should be doing when it comes to branding. -AK

Six Best Cities for a Bike Vacation Evelyn Spence, bicycling.com At these cycling hotspots, you can use your time off to get more time on two wheels.Banff, Alber­ta, Cana­daNear­ly 120 miles of mountain-bike trails wind through Banff Nation­al Park, where the high-alpine scenery—striated peaks,… I don’t currently mountain bike but I do like the idea of heading into the woods a little off the beaten path with my pack and bike. Setting up a base camp and Mountain biking out to different areas and then even dropping the bike and hiking to a ridge top or something. Anyone else ever gone backpacking and mountain biking like that? -AK

Six Best Cities for a Bike Vacation
Evelyn Spence, bicycling.com

At these cycling hotspots, you can use your time off to get more time on two wheels.

Banff, Alber­ta, Cana­da
Near­ly 120 miles of mountain-bike trails wind through Banff Nation­al Park, where the high-alpine scenery—striated peaks,…

I don’t currently mountain bike but I do like the idea of heading into the woods a little off the beaten path with my pack and bike. Setting up a base camp and Mountain biking out to different areas and then even dropping the bike and hiking to a ridge top or something. Anyone else ever gone backpacking and mountain biking like that? -AK

Solar Eclipse as Seen from Spacetecheblog.com Photo cred­it: ReelFo­toEver won­der what the earth looks like dur­ing a solar eclipse? Well, “these amaz­ing images show that the view from space is equal­ly as spec­tac­u­lar; in the sec­ond pho­to­graph taken of the August 11, 1999 so… Very amazing. -AK

Solar Eclipse as Seen from Space
techeblog.com

Photo cred­it: ReelFo­to

Ever won­der what the earth looks like dur­ing a solar eclipse? Well, “these amaz­ing images show that the view from space is equal­ly as spec­tac­u­lar; in the sec­ond pho­to­graph taken of the August 11, 1999 so…

Very amazing. -AK

BMW and Zagato Pair Up to Create Beautiful One-Off, Z4-Based Zagato Coupé (Taken with instagram)

BMW and Zagato Pair Up to Create Beautiful One-Off, Z4-Based Zagato Coupé (Taken with instagram)

How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Movies Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Movies Fresh Air from WHYYIf you see the new Wes Ander­son movie Moon­rise King­dom, you’ll hear back­ground music from com­posers Ben­jamin Brit­ten and Alexan­dre Desplat, as well as sev­er­al songs fro… I’m so stoked for this movie and it’s soundtrack. -AK

How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Movies
Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org

How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Movies Fresh Air from WHYY

If you see the new Wes Ander­son movie Moon­rise King­dom, you’ll hear back­ground music from com­posers Ben­jamin Brit­ten and Alexan­dre Desplat, as well as sev­er­al songs fro…

I’m so stoked for this movie and it’s soundtrack. -AK

Here's A Really Stupid Way To React To Negative Media Attention -

Kashmir Hill, forbes.com

Ear­li­er this year, USA Today did an inves­tiga­tive piece crit­i­ciz­ing the Pen­ta­gon for wast­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars on “info ops” pro­grams: mar­ket­ing and pro­pa­gan­da cam­paigns designed to make peo­ple in coun­tries on…

Wow, setting up dummy accounts and posting misinformation? Crazy. -AK

SpaceX PHOTOS: Dragon Capsule-ISS Docking Makes Space History Travis Korte, huffingtonpost.com Today at 9:56 a.m. EDT, the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion (ISS) reached out a robot­ic arm and grabbed the Drag­on space­craft, mak­ing Los Angeles-based SpaceX the first pri­vate com­pa­ny to dock a space­craft with the ISS.The del­i­cate… Amazing. I really do feel like this is some history in the making. -AK

SpaceX PHOTOS: Dragon Capsule-ISS Docking Makes Space History
Travis Korte, huffingtonpost.com

Today at 9:56 a.m. EDT, the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion (ISS) reached out a robot­ic arm and grabbed the Drag­on space­craft, mak­ing Los Angeles-based SpaceX the first pri­vate com­pa­ny to dock a space­craft with the ISS.

The del­i­cate…

Amazing. I really do feel like this is some history in the making. -AK

anchordivision: illustration for Highsnobiety Here it is.

anchordivision:

illustration for Highsnobiety

Here it is.

(Source: styleillustrated, via anchordivision)