My coworker at Mad Genius, Sarah Link, was recently granted membership into the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi. As you’ll note from the examples below, she does wonderful work. All of her pieces are available for purchase via her online store. (www.linksjewelry.etsy.com)
Tri-color European Chainmaille Bracelet There are over 1200 individual tiny rings woven together one by one to create the weave for this pattern.
Copper Chainmaille Bracelet A simple yet pretty pattern based on Persian chainmaille designs
Sterling Silver Viking Knit An ancient metal knitting technique based on Nordic history.
Crocheted Silver with Malachite, Garnet and Turquoise. The wire was crocheted and the resulting fabric sewed to the wire bracelet frame
German Silver Helm weave necklace with a trapped pendant
Lavender and Copper earrings with a Jasper bead
Sterling-Silver Fill earrings using a full Persian rope chainmaille weave
So if you’re in the shopping mood and are looking for a special, hand-crafted gift from a true artist, then head on over to Sarah’s online store and view her whole catalog.
My team at Mad Genius launched a new website for St. Anthony Catholic School. I think its a great site and I’m proud of all the work, attention to detail, and effort that went into the strategy, IA, content development, design and WordPress development. Here’s the URL: http://stanthonyeagles.org
Back in the day, I wrote a little article for Sitepoint.com which attempted to create a framework to Quantify The User Experience.
Today I was playing w/ upstart search company Blekko – and while ’Blekko-ing’ myself (is that as bad as it sounds?), I came across this post on FatDux which makes reference to my article.
A couple years ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the IA Summit in Memphis, TN. One of the speakers I got to listen to was a very well respected User Experience (UX) practitioner by the name of Jared Spool. He gave his $300 Million Dollar Button presentation (which I highly recommend). As part of his presentation, he also focused on how awesome Amazon has been at collecting User Generated Content in the form of reviews – some of which are hilarious.
Amazon Reviews have become not only one of the most trafficked sources for consumer feedback and ratings, (it’s often my first product research destination) but a wonderful space where budding humor writers can ply their trade for an audience willing to gobble up the snark.
Where else can you find over 1,200 reviews for a seemingly inane product such as milk?
Finding these little gems of internet comedy can be daunting on a site with millions of products. Luckily, Fast Company has published one of those nicely titled articles: 10 Best Amazon Reviews. Ever.
If you have a little time this week, do yourself a favor and spend it reading some of the funny reviews the internet has created.
My wife and I spent quite a bit of time yesterday watching some of the tribute coverage for the 10 year 9/11 anniversary and we were both very moved by the State Farm ad that was running entitled ‘Empire State of Mind’. The combination of the kids singing to the first responders to a straight up modern anthem is amazing. After a little digging, I found this longer piece State Farm put out on the making of the video. Who knew Spike Lee had a hand in it. Beautiful, tasteful execution. Well done State Farm.
From January 1, 2005 through this past June, Kiva has put some 620,000 lenders in touch with about 615,000 loan recipients. Loan repayments are estimated at just under 99%.
What a fantastic way of using technology to help people in lesser developed countries help themselves. There seems to be a major hub of loan distribution in East Africa!
The date was August 31, 1991. The place was Little Rock, Arkansas. It was Miami’s first game of the season – a season that would culminate in their fourth NCAA Div I football championship.
On the first play of the game, future Heisman Trophy winner, Gino Torretta, completed a bomb to fellow University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame member Horace Copeland for a 99 yard touchdown completion.
The video below includes that highlight, as well as some other moments from Torretta’s career. Skip to the :36 mark for the touchdown replay.
OnePegGenius is the personal website of Rob Rubinoff, an Interactive Director and Information Architect who currently plies his trade at the premier Jackson, MS advertising and branding agency. A greatly enhanced archives page provides a variety of means to browse the site's content library.
Rob lives and works in the town of Jackson, MS where he leads the interactive department at an awesome advertising and branding agency. Life is slower than most places in Mississippi, and Rob tends to like it that way. Some of his favorite life experiences include sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a 44ft sloop, learning to speak Swahili while living along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and zipping along the curviest of Mississippi country roads in his VW Rabbit.