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Provided by: gapingvoid.com12010-09-02 15:16:43blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Have you added the free gapingvoid cartoon widget to your blog or website yet? Just askin’….

Provided by: gapingvoid.com22010-09-03 18:45:55blogs / gapingvoid.com /: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [The "Life Is Too Short" print...] I first started playing with the idea of “Smarter-Conversations” way back in 2004, the same year gapingvoid really started getting traction in the blogopsphere. Though not something I talk about day-in-day-out, it’s always been there somewhere in the background, informing everything I work on. Here are some notes: 1. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com31970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Considering the sad state of the American romantic comedy, it makes sense that France, home of the proverbial "language of love," would produce one of the most brilliant concepts for a romantic comedy, maybe ever. Directed by Pascal Chaumeil, Heartbreaker stars Romain Duris as Alex, a smooth-talking charmer whose way with the ladies allows him to front a business that specializes in convincing unhappy women to break up with their less-than-perfect boyfriends and husbands. When he's hired by a wealthy businessman to seduce his beautiful daughter (Vanessa Paradis) away from her British fianc"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [The "Life Is Too Short" print...] I first started playing with the idea of “Smarter-Conversations” way back in 2004, the same year gapingvoid really started getting traction in the blogopsphere. Though not something I talk about day-in-day-out, it’s always been there somewhere in the background, informing everything I work on. Here are some notes: 1. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com42010-09-01 19:00:58blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Back in the mid-90s, when the Internet was still the size of a tadpole and TV was still the Big Kahuna, I was working in a large advertising agency that had many big, blue-chip clients. We were given a brief to work on, a well-known laundry detergent. All the other teams went away and came [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com52010-09-01 07:38:20blogs / gapingvoid.com /: I just wrote the [very long] blog headline above just to give y’all something to chew on… I’m guessing most of us here are familiar with Techcrunch, yes? Like I said earlier, we’re incredible beings. So frickin’ go do something about it. Frickin’ go do something that matters. Exactly. God Bless…

Provided by: gapingvoid.com62010-09-01 06:41:55blogs / gapingvoid.com /: ["Awake", the print I featured in this Monday's newsletter etc.] We’re incredible beings. And I want to make and sell art that maybe, just maybe, makes people think, even for a short while, that I’m not wrong, either. [I can think of worse ways to make a living. Lord knows, we've all tried a few [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com72010-09-01 05:31:06blogs / gapingvoid.com /: I don’t know if it was Brian Clark over at Copyblogger who first popularized the term, “Content Marketing”, but it’s he I most associate it with. Content Marketing is exactly what is sounds like- creating content in order to more effectively market whatever it is you’re selling. Copyblogger itself is a really good example of [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com82010-09-03 18:45:55blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Browsing through the concept art from Pixar's abandoned film NEWT makes me sad. I had heard nothing about about this project previous to this art. This looks like it would have been adorable! What was the story about? "What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [The "Life Is Too Short" print...] I first started playing with the idea of “Smarter-Conversations” way back in 2004, the same year gapingvoid really started getting traction in the blogopsphere. Though not something I talk about day-in-day-out, it’s always been there somewhere in the background, informing everything I work on. Here are some notes: 1. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com92010-08-16 18:52:02blogs / gapingvoid.com /: One evening Father Steven, the elderly priest who baptized more than one of my nephews and nieces, came over to my mother’s house for dinner. I was there, too. Father Steven is a lovely guy. Deeply spiritual and very smart. Very learned in theology and the history of the Roman Catholic Church, though not Catholic [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com101970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / gapingvoid.com /: A first look at Ian McShane as Blackbeard (standing between Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz) in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides comes our way via some set photos posted by PopSugar ! There's a few more of Depp and Cruz at the link as well. Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on May 20, 2011, the Rob Marshall-directed film also stars Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Astrid BergAn error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: An unknown error occurred. "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [The "Life Is Too Short" print...] I first started playing with the idea of “Smarter-Conversations” way back in 2004, the same year gapingvoid really started getting traction in the blogopsphere. Though not something I talk about day-in-day-out, it’s always been there somewhere in the background, informing everything I work on. Here are some notes: 1. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com112010-09-03 18:45:55blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Browsing through the concept art from Pixar's abandoned film NEWT makes me sad. I had heard nothing about about this project previous to this art. This looks like it would have been adorable! What was the story about? "What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [The "Life Is Too Short" print...] I first started playing with the idea of “Smarter-Conversations” way back in 2004, the same year gapingvoid really started getting traction in the blogopsphere. Though not something I talk about day-in-day-out, it’s always been there somewhere in the background, informing everything I work on. Here are some notes: 1. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com121970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / gapingvoid.com /: A first look at Ian McShane as Blackbeard (standing between Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz) in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides comes our way via some set photos posted by PopSugar ! There's a few more of Depp and Cruz at the link as well. Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on May 20, 2011, the Rob Marshall-directed film also stars Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Astrid Berg"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [The "Life Is Too Short" print...] I first started playing with the idea of “Smarter-Conversations” way back in 2004, the same year gapingvoid really started getting traction in the blogopsphere. Though not something I talk about day-in-day-out, it’s always been there somewhere in the background, informing everything I work on. Here are some notes: 1. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com131970-01-01 00:00:00blogs / gapingvoid.com /: Browsing through the concept art from Pixar's abandoned film NEWT makes me sad. I had heard nothing about about this project previous to this art. This looks like it would have been adorable! What was the story about? "What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they canAn error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: An unknown error occurred. "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" [The "Life Is Too Short" print...] I first started playing with the idea of “Smarter-Conversations” way back in 2004, the same year gapingvoid really started getting traction in the blogopsphere. Though not something I talk about day-in-day-out, it’s always been there somewhere in the background, informing everything I work on. Here are some notes: 1. [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com142010-08-15 20:39:06blogs / gapingvoid.com /: I’ve been working on a problem lately… “Purpose Idea” plus “Social Object” equals…???? The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else. Human beings are social animals. We like to socialize. But if think about it, there needs to be a [...]

Provided by: gapingvoid.com152010-08-20 19:26:18blogs / gapingvoid.com /: [Welcome, PSFK visitors! I hope you'll check out my "Daily Cartoon" newsletter, Thanks.] From PSFK: Every week, cartoonist Hugh MacLeod will draw an original cartoon about an idea from a popular or noteworthy PSFK post. This week’s cartoon inspired by this PSFK article. Yep, doing a small weekly gig over there. No reason, other than [...]

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