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Vetrazzo counter milefiori

If you’ve ever spent a Sunday looking at real estate open houses, you’ll see the depressing sight of the omnipresent kitchen granite table top. It’s the upscale meme that has spread like a virus. If you don’t know about Vetrazzo, and you’re thinking about new countertops. You need to get out and see this stuff. Vertrazzo is 100% recycled glass, we’re talking old traffic lights, windshields, bottles, etc. Each of the styles has a story about the origin of the glass.

Vetrazzo has created a green business, and that’s great, but it’s the beauty of the product that really matters. Check it out.

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King Harvest (has surely come)

There’s something wonderful about being able to link to to things like this. It’s 1970 and The Band is playing King Harvest in their studio in Woodstock, New York. It’s just a different vision of what rock and roll should be.

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NBC Blinks, Still Clueless

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NBC comments on the iTunes contract negotiation. NBC doesn’t seem to understand the ecosystem of the internet. And they clearly don’t understand who downloads shows to watch on iPods and Apple TV. Jeremy Horwitz, of iLounge, does a good job of explaining the situation to NBC.

Apples iTunes allows customers to legally download content for a small fee. Previously, content was downloaded for free. Apparently NBC prefers that we return to the good old days. It’s amazing that, even at this late date, people don’t understand what it means to live in the Age of Digital Reproduction (the Age of Mechanical Reproduction has been surpassed, see Walter Benjamin). The means to reproduce the digital thing are contained in the thing itself. Companies like NBC don’t want anyone to know that. Or better yet, they’d like to change the nature of the digital.

Note to NBC, the time isn’t right yet. Take something rather than nothing. Keep pricing simple, take the money.

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Mimi Jensen: September 6, 2007

Mimi Jensen: Montecristo

If you’re in San Francisco on September 6th, drop by the opening of Mimi Jensen’s new show at the Hespe Gallery. Mimi has provided a preview of the show on her Web site. Her paintings are filled with wit, an unerring sense of composition and a master’s hand with oil paint.

Here’s the info:

Hespe Gallery
251 Post Street, Suite 420
San Francisco, CA 94108
415-776-5918
September 6, 2007

Remember, paintings can’t really be seen on a computer screen. You need to meet them face-to-face. And ideally, you need to live them and have a silent conversation over the years. It’s then that you really begin to understand the meaning of value.

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