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Chicago Hamilton fan and legendary designer Jim Coudal made this in honor of #HamiltonCHI yesterday. After I retweeted the image, I saw someone else share without attribution. I added his Twitter name, because I wanted to share this and want you to know the artist. (If you don't know, this is the star from the Chicago Flag mashed up with Hamilton)
Out with the old, in with the new.
No One Puts Baby in the Corner
This isn't a post about ad-blocking. That the technology is now here, is a direct result of the privacy, security and less-than-ideal user experiences that publishers have pushed on readers. It was inevitable. It is their reliance on advertising and its accompanying rules that have pushed people into corners where they didn't want to be — playing the role of Baby. Swayze, come save me.
This is a post about how you can do things well.
I've long admired Jim Coudal and his entire humble crew. I got to know Jim from being a designer in Chicago, and then better when I co-founded Gapers Block, and even better yet during the end of our run in Chicago, when my wife worked at Coudal. I may now be biased, but from day one, Coudal Partners was an inspiration. They still are.
Here's an article from Fast.Co Design that gets at what Coudal's doing pretty well. Actually, scratch that. You should really just read it straight from the horse's mouth. Jim's always been a great writer, and it's no surprise that their Privacy Policy is direct and plain spoken: "We're fine with knowing nothing."
The Deck has been the ONLY ad network whose ads I've ever clicked on. There are reasons for this (which they plainly state on their homepage) but the simple matter of it comes down to trust. The Deck carefully curates both advertisers and members, and does it tastefully.
If you're looking for a model for an ad network, it doesn't get simpler than this.
Wings: Making the Field Notes 2010 Fall Edition
Booking Bands: Round 3
Booking Bands is still one of my favorite campfire games so I thought I'd resurrect the dormant list that's sitting over on a dormant blog and could use some love here on TMN.
The first time I heard of Booking Bands was from Jim Coudal at the 2008 SXSW. Audio podcast of his talk is worth your time. You can hear me asking a question on there at 37:10.
Quick rules refresh: Combine the name of a band or musician with the name of a book or vice versa. Coudal’s site bent the rules more than I’ll allow so don’t go bastardizing shite!
The List (so far)…
zero7 habits of Highly Effective People
The Old Man and the Sea & Cake
National Velvet Underground
Big Black Beauty
The Flying Burrito Brothers Karamazov
The Doobie Brothers Karamazov
The Bacon Brothers Karamazov
The Allmann Brothers Karamazov
The Chemical Brothers Karamazov
The Dust Brothers Karamazov
The Beach Boys from Brazil
The Beastie Boys from Brazil
The Petshop Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazilian Girls
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Theft
Al Green Eggs and Ham
The Dangerous Book for Boys to Men
KRS-1 Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Love in the Time of Choler-Abba
A New Earth Wind and Fire
Cujo Strummer and the Mescaleros
Jimmy Eat World According to Garp
Interview with a Vampire Weekend
Everclear and Present Danger
Three Cups of TRex
The Sorcerer’s Stone Temple Pilots
Cat Power of One
Cat Power of Now
Of Mice and Men at Work
Arcade Fire Starter
Slaughterhouse Five for Fighting
The Woman in White Stripes
Cinderella
Steppenwolf
A Midsommer’s Night Dream Syndicate
All Quiet on the Western Front 242
System of a Down and Out in Paris and London
Oliver Twisted Sister
Flaming Lipstick Jungle
Aimee Mann of La Mancha
Three Musketeers for Fears
Lovely Bones Thugs & Harmony
Shiny Toy Guns, Germs and Steele
Amy Winehouse of Spirits
Field of Dreams Syndicate
The Fifth Elemental Organic Chemistry (book, too?)
The Rolling Stones of Ibarra
The Dark Tower of Power
Children of Men Without Hats
Carrie Underwood
Eight Men Outfield
The Church of Dead Girls
The Color of Waterboys
horton hears a whootie & the blowfish
kanye west side story
billie holidays on ice
coldplay it again sam
At Play in the Fields of the Lords of Acid
The Scarlet Letters to Cleo
A Clear and Present Danger Mouse
Rabbit Run DMC
Moby Dick
Moby Dick Dale
Love and Rockets in the Time of Cholera (stretch?)
Curious George Clinton
Running with Scissors Sisters
The World is Flatt & Scruggs
The Diary of Anne Frank Black and the Catholics (I like the dual religiosity)
The Diary of Anne Frank Allison and the Odd Sox
The Diary of Anne Frank Sinatra
Beastie Boys from Brazil
Corey Heart of Darkness
Green Hills of Afrika Bambaataa
BB King Lear
Midsummer Night’s Dreamland
Romeo Void and Juliet
Lord of The Ringo Starr
Rough Stone Rolling Stones
Cat Empire of the Sun
A Face in the Crowded House
Far From the Madding Crowded House
Gang of Four Past Midnight
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Brothers
Maurice Day and the Time Traveler’s Wife
The God of Small Dirty Pretty Things
True History of the Kelly Gangajang
No Country for Old Men at Work
Such a Long Journeymen
The Boney M People
Oscar and Lucinda Williams
The Van She
The The Sound and The Fury
The The Great Gatsby… ok, that would be cheating. The The is The swiss army knife of Booking Bands
Bob Marley and Me
Long Days JOURNEY into Night
Our Townes Van Zant
The King James Brown Bible
The Korani di Franco
Horton Hears The Who
The Village People’s History of the United States
The Tipping Pointer Sisters
The Good Earth Wind and Fire
What’s the Matter with Kansas
The Spin Doctors Zhivago
The Wizard of Ozzy Osbourne
The Joy Division of Cooking
Alice in Chains, in Wonderland
Curious George Clinton and the P Funk All Stars
1 Phish, 2 Phish, Red Phish, Blue Phish
Genesis (easy)
Mercury Revelations
U2 Towers
Jonathan Richman Poor Man
Henry the Vth Dimension
welcome to the monkey house of pain
Anthropologist on Mars Volta
Wizard of Ozzy Ozbourne
Hero with a Thousand Maniacs
The Rise and Fall Out Boy of The Third Reich
Yonder Mountain String Band of Brothers
The Secret Life of Beestie Boys
Until I Find U2
Savage Sam Bush
Heidi Lite [editor note: this one gets high marks!!]
Til Tuesdays with Morrie
Railroad Earth in the Balance
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyro Gyra
A Raisin in the Sunny Rollins
Invisible Manfred Mann
The Great Gats-B-52′s
The Lionel Ritchie, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The 1984-Tops
How the Kanye West Was Won
Sweeney Todd Rundgren
The Sonny & Cher Also Rises
The Old Man and the Cee-Lo
Valley of the Pussycat Dolls
Fun with Dick and Jane’s Addiction
Running with Scissor Sisters
Tears for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Macbeth Orton
Prince Caspian
The Elements of Style Council
Jackson Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do you See?
Ladysmith Black MambazOthello
Pedro the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Scott Baiowolf (he made an album, I’m sure of it)
The Glass Menagerie placements
Crowded House of 7 Gables
Led Zeppelin to the Wild
Led Zeppelin Cold Blood, and so on . . .
Good Charlotte’s Web
Housekeeping vs. the Dirty Projectors
The Trumpet of the Zwan
Walgreen or Walgreen's?
The New York Times says "Walgreen" much to the delight of the author of this post on Coudal's site.
PS: Me and everybody I know say "Walgreen's". Also: "the Jewel" instead of "Jewel-Osco" because come on.
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Got this a week ago from a friend... Favorite Field Notes Ever! 📜📔✏✒ #fieldnotes #notebook #draplin #travelingsalesman #ledger #fudge #cedar #fieldnotesbrand #coudal #pocket
