Christopher Franzese

A collection of random interests and things that make me laugh.

I am an interactive advertising, branding and marketing designer, currently freelancing in NYC.

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People I dig:

Todd Brown
Matt Chapman
Katie Deedy
Megha Desai
Jessica Findley
Ze Frank
Dave Franzese
Sean Ganann
Ian Ghent
Chet Gulland
Doug Jaeger
Raina Kumra
Sean LaBounty
Adrian LaFond
Vincent Mei
Mark Miller
Bill Moulton
Kristin Sloan
Liz Tan
Josh Webman

I dig you too.

Email: Christopher At Franzese Dot Org

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Wed Feb 3

bestrooftalkever:

mopostal:

The positively brilliant personal website of Steve Badowski

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Tue Jan 26

Also, a year and a day of radio silence before those last two messages. WTF. I had thought by now we’d be able to send him txts, asking what we could do on any given day to help.

Hey Barack, I’ve got 15 minutes. No? Nothing? Alright, maybe tomorrow.

soupsoup:

I’ve got this friend who only texts me when he needs something.

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Fri Jan 22

“ Before the Internet, most professional occupations required a large body of knowledge, accumulated over years or even decades of experience. But now, anyone with good critical thinking skills and the ability to focus on the important information can retrieve it on demand from the Internet, rather than her own memory. On the other hand, those with wandering minds, who might once have been able to focus by isolating themselves with their work, now often cannot work without the Internet, which simultaneously furnishes a panoply of unrelated information — whether about their friends’ doings, celebrity news, limericks, or millions of other sources of distraction. The bottom line is that how well an employee can focus might now be more important than how knowledgeable he is. Knowledge was once an internal property of a person, and focus on the task at hand could be imposed externally, but with the Internet, knowledge can be supplied externally, but focus must be forced internally.

Yes. And yes, I encountered this while browsing for something more interesting that what I should be doing. And please, let me know if someone is selling NEW! Improved Focus. I want it.

David Dalrymple
Researcher, MIT Mind Machine Project

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(via bunch)

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Tue Jan 19

Deze strikes again

KN | Kitsune Noir » The Pump Promotional Video

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Fri Jan 15

Reminded me of the infinitely more awesome: http://bit.ly/7nQDwo

lookbothways:

from @emii with the messge: this reminded me of you

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Awesome.

I love the idea of creating a public foursquare multi-stop experience. Badges / updates could then get you access to a private event with people who’ve shared that experience.

bunch:

BlackBook gives Kerouac an iPhone.

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Thu Jan 14

Puuuuurrrrty

via liz:

J’adore! Been seeing a lot of cut paper stuff lately, this one’s pretty sweet.

Evening Tweed | Owen Gildersleeve | The Guardian

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Wed Jan 13

“ You see how easy it is for me? Denmark Leads the Way in Digital Care - NYTimes.com

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Tue Jan 12

liz:

swissmiss | Lost Generation

Lost Generation is a palindrome video that reads the same backwards as forward, but has a totally different meaning. The video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled “u @ 50″ by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause.

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Thu Jan 7

petervidani:

Slow motion owl attack.

Via loveliftedme and subcreation.

Intense and gorgeous.