Month: December 2009
-
Christmas Bash / Nor’easter
Last night we went to the annual christmas bash in Montclair. As always, we had a great time: conversations, live music, carol singing, food and drinks, karaoke, etc. Calebc and Shecrow are great hosts, thank you. Outside was a roaring Nor’easter tearing up the East Coast. The snow storm persisted much of the evening and…
-
Louis Vuitton / Solari di Udine
We went to see the christmas tree at Rockerfellar Center and the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue a few nights ago. As we passed Louis Vuitton’s New York flagship store on the corner of Fifth Ave and 57th Street, I noticed something flickering in the shop windows. What caught my eye was the flipping of rows…
-
The Different Values of HSBC
“Different Values” is a series of print ads created by JWT for HSBC in 2008. They were seen at US airports, mostly inside a ramp. I love its relativistic, Rashomon-like qualities. In the examples above, they had three different images and one word, or three different words and same image; a fourth panel shows the HSBC…
-
Dangerous Quotes
www.dangerousquotes.com A friend of mine, PK, is building this web site that serves up quotes. Over the years, he has collected several hundreds quotes and kept them in a page on one of his blogs. On the new site, the quotes are listed by the topics to which it lends its relevance. Although the site…
-
Subscribe to Many More Excellent(?) Adventures
I have added a button for activating subscription to our blog. You will find it at the bottom of the page. Hopefully you have enjoyed the adventures so far and would like to continue with us. As a subscriber, you will receive an email notifying you of new blog posts from wordpress.com at intervals determined…
-
A History of Chocolate in Neuchâtel
While in Neuchâtel, we visited the local art and history museum (Musée d’art et d’histoire, click above to see full size image). They are running an exhibition on the accomplishments of a local chocolatier, Phillipe Suchard, titled “Le monde selon Suchard” (The world according to Suchard). Phillipe was born in 1797 near Neuchâtel and opened his factory…