These are my curious clippings & comments mostly reflecting a viewpoint on how young people + tech is changing the media is changing communications is changing this city is changing what I had for brunch (it's a personal website, yo).

My name is Chet Gulland and I am a communications strategist at Anomaly. Hey, we have a Tumblr too! I live in Brooklyn but I am from the Canadian wilderness and also Toronto.

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Saturday
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These are pretty much all I want from life right now. Converse Leather Pro Model 76 Hi
These are pretty much all I want from life right now. Converse Leather Pro Model 76 Hi
Tuesday
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Saturday
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Hollywood Puppets. this is pretty great. (via BuzzFeed)
Hollywood Puppets. this is pretty great. (via BuzzFeed)
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Tuesday
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It’s a dirty secret that much of what we admire in the design world is a byproduct not of “strategy” but of common sense, taste and luck. Some clients are too unnerved by ambiguity to accept this, and create garganuan superstructures of bullshit to provide a sense of security.
— Michael Beirut (via ian tait)
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I told the media you can’t make up lies about me because I have a media outlet myself. Oh and sidebar I don’t know if everyone has realized this yet but I don’t do interviews if there’s anything I wanna say I’ll say right here on my own blog.
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Nielsen Online reported today that Obama’s campaign website garnered 1.7 million more hits than that of Sen. John McCain in May, taking in 2.3 million unique visitors during the month, compared with McCain’s 563,000.
Monday
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Seen on NOTCOT: “Ultimate Accessories” brought to you by Infiniti. I believe this is the first “Sponsor X brings you information about Sponsor Z” placement I’ve seen.
Also: Extreme home makeover is 2 hours long now?

Seen on NOTCOT: “Ultimate Accessories” brought to you by Infiniti. I believe this is the first “Sponsor X brings you information about Sponsor Z” placement I’ve seen.

Also: Extreme home makeover is 2 hours long now?

Sunday
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Future of making map
“Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.“
(via Pasta&Vinegar »  Delineating the future of making)

Future of making map

“Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.“

(via Pasta&Vinegar »  Delineating the future of making)

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All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.