permanent waves

fatboyusa: Bravo! Bravo! Fatboy® avenues get a standing ovation...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:44:44 -0500

Bravo! Bravo! Fatboy® avenues get a standing ovation for adding a fun flair to the My Museum environment where curiosity and creativity flourish. My Museum is packed with a variety of hands on exhibits for both children and adults to learn together through experience, making each visit unique and exciting. To learn more, please visit www.mymuseum.org.

Yea - We have cool clients that do things for other cool brands

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:56:50 -0600

Yea - We have cool clients that do things for other cool brands

An amazing and loving show of support from my Mom - an Extra...

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:46:32 -0500

An amazing and loving show of support from my Mom - an Extra Saucy pillow! (Taken with Instagram at Extra Sauce)

3 of us on the Extra Sauce team are sitting in a Starbucks...

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:41:35 -0500

3 of us on the Extra Sauce team are sitting in a Starbucks brainstorming a new project (a common occurrence while the office buildout continues) and this dude walks up and says he felt compelled to sketch us. Thank You, kind dude!

Jac at La Grange (Taken with Instagram at LaGrange)

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:39:18 -0600

Jac at La Grange (Taken with Instagram at LaGrange)

A product of Dallas, you’re bound to love Sarah’s...

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:56:48 -0600

A product of Dallas, you’re bound to love Sarah’s infectious voice and melody prowess. Helluva song-writer to boot. This is my fav. “Fine, Oh fine, I’ve got my hands up….”

Welcome Jen

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:42:22 -0600

quickandcurious:

I have a new job!

On Monday, I will be joining Carrot Creative as a strategist.

First, it has to be said that I am indebted to the Postling team (Dave, Alexis, mcdavis, Josh, Chris, Haim, Beth) for all that I’ve learned over the past nine months. I very much believe in everything that the company stands for and can’t wait to see great things unfold for them.

But as sad as I am to leave this startup that’s become like family to me, I am absolutely thrilled to join Carrot Creative.

I’ve watched Carrot grow immensely over the last five years and am honored that they are going to allow me to play a part in their success. We are going to make big things happen.

I will be moving from one dream job,
innovative company,
and admirable team,
to another…
I am very, very lucky.

Here’s to moving forward.

Just one of the amazingly inspiring pieces at Dallas artist...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:39:04 -0500

Just one of the amazingly inspiring pieces at Dallas artist Shane Pennington’s studio. Honored to be here for the TEDx IdeaWeek wrap party

@mikegermano showing Yankee pride in a sea of Ranger red....

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:18:53 -0500

@mikegermano showing Yankee pride in a sea of Ranger red. #downbutnotout

Amazing fusion violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain along with DJ...

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:04:24 -0500

Amazing fusion violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain along with DJ Scientific injected hip-hop in classical and added a dance troupe on water (yes!) at the Reflecting Pool at the Winspear Opera House. SO amazing. #TEDxSMU

2manystripes: This poem & video is absolutely...

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:07:13 -0500

2manystripes:

This poem & video is absolutely beautiful.
-thanks to Carla for posting it on Facbeook.

HOW TO BE ALONE
by Tanya Davis

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it.

We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You’re not supposed to talk much anyway so it’s safe there.

There’s also the gym. If you’re shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).

And there’s public transportation, because we all gotta go places.

And there’s prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you’re hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.

Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.

The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they — like you — will be alone.

Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.

When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You’re no less intriguing a person when you’re eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.

Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one’s watching…because, they’re probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you’re sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.

Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there’re always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might’ve never happened had you not been there by yourself

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one’s in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.

Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school’s groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you’re happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.

It’s okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.

And it doesn’t mean you’re not connected, that communitie’s not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn’t get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don’t obsess about it.

you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.

A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.

Davis wrote the beautiful poem and performed in the video which Dorfman directed, shot, animated by hand and edited. The video was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was produced by Bravo!FACT http://www.bravofact.com/

For more information on Tanya, go to http://www.tanyadavis.ca or visit her facebook page. You can purchase her first two CDs Make A List and Gorgeous Morning on iTunes and look out for her third CD which will be released in the fall!

For more information on Andrea Dorfman, visit her facebook page or http://www.andreadorfman.com

This video was shot on a Panasonic HVX 200 and the animation was hand drawn+painted and then scanned into Adobe After Effects, exported as QTs and edited on FCP.

The Meddlesome Moth, aside from having a wicked cool name,...

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:12:43 -0500

The Meddlesome Moth, aside from having a wicked cool name, serves 500+ really unique beers from around the world including one brewed just miles from where I was stationed in Germany in the Army.

Standing on the real Air force one with Dad as we tour the...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:32:11 -0500

Standing on the real Air force one with Dad as we tour the library of my hero, Ronald Reagan

mikegermano: Banksy Tagged Dumbo today. The msg about fucking...

Mon, 17 May 2010 17:29:04 -0500

mikegermano:

Banksy Tagged Dumbo today. The msg about fucking quotes and being innovative. I like the sound of that

His head is always in the right place

A thought on Social Media while waiting for a haircut

Tue, 26 May 2009 15:27:57 -0500

I’m noticing more and more these days that social networking sites are all adopting each others’ best practices. I don’t fault them: LinkedIn wasn’t very engaging, Facebook needed to stop throwing sheep and get serious, Plaxo wasn’t too exciting as a mere Putlook plugin. So now that I “connect” from one to the other with all the same people, at what point do they all become essentially the same? Then what?

Fashion, MeetUps, Twitter & eCommerce: lessons learned

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:19:35 -0500

Fashion, MeetUps, Twitter & eCommerce: lessons learned:

Last night was the 10th installment of the Fashion 2.0 MeetUps I co-organize with Yuli Ziv. The MeetUps are just one of the projects run by the Style Coalition, which was co-founded by my wife…

Arrived early at Arctica for the Media Bistro Tweetup. Found...

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:06:48 -0500

Arrived early at Arctica for the Media Bistro Tweetup. Found @tatianaridley prepping. Time for an Arctic burger!

Phil watches over everything at >carrot creative

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:18:44 -0500

Phil watches over everything at >carrot creative

>Carrot Guy Mike Germano

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:42:00 -0500

>Carrot Guy Mike Germano:

There are some people who’s minds I like to follow because they are always working on something interesting. This is one of those minds.