Meme Huffer

Who ate all the shadow pies?

Found at Photoshop Disasters

Turn on Jesus

spotted over on LOVEblog.

So very wrong.

Great Quotes for Planners #50 -Kerouac on interestingness

I'm in the middle of reading the 'original scroll' of Jack Kerouac's 'On The Road', and brilliant it is too, in it's raw, unedited glory. Fast, visceral, discursive and with a healthily ad hoc approach to punctuation.

The edition I'm reading also includes a few essays on the publication process which offer some great insight into Kerouac's approach and beliefs, and this quote leapt out as a great distillation of the need for all communications to be interesting, not just right, relevant or vetted-by-research:

"People aren't interested in facts but in ejaculations" (journal entry, December 1949)

I guess it's a precursor to Howard Gossage's line that the consumer only reads what interests them, but this quote really makes the concept pop (sorry).

Honest Design

I was just having my regular Friday flick thru ffffound when I came across this t-shirt:

But what really made the image-trawl worthwhile was when I found this (The Dieline blog via ffffound) a few pages later:

Nice.

Great Quotes for Planners #49 - be disorderly

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." -A.A. Milne

While there is always a point at which we need to corral our thoughts into a simple, cogent argument, it is always useful to include some disorderly thought prior to that.

Great Quotes for Planners #48 - Shaw on writing a proposition

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity." -George Bernard Shaw

Friday ffffound

(Yes, Meme Huffer is back. Apologies for lack of action lately -a combination of holidays, business trips and workload had managed to derail my habit. But the blogging monkey is firmly ensconced on my back now, so normal service is resuming).

Great Quotes for Planners #47 - on consensus

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" - Bill Cosby

Wise words from the man with the dodgy sweaters. Worth bearing in mind when trying to sell work in to committees.