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If you thought that the idea of a Starbucks being on every corner in the world was a laughable exaggeration, guess again. Starbucks will become bigger than McDonald’s in the next few years, according to Mark Kalinowiski, an analyst at Nomura. “We believe that it is only a matter of time before Starbucks overtakes McDonald’s as the largest market cap restaurant stock, although likely not in 2017,” Kalinowski wrote in a message to investors. So if you can’t be bothered to cross the street to get a latte, just wait. A...
If you thought that the idea of a Starbucks being on every corner in the world was a laughable exaggeration, guess again. Starbucks will become bigger than McDonald’s in the next few years, according to Mark Kalinowiski, an analyst at Nomura. “We believe that it is only a matter of time before Starbucks overtakes McDonald’s as the largest market cap restaurant stock, although likely not in 2017,” Kalinowski wrote in a message to investors. So if you can’t be bothered to cross the street to get a latte, just wait. A...
- 1/4/2017
- by Shay Spence
- PEOPLE.com
From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The father of cyberpunk, William Gibson, follows a “cool-hunter” in his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition. Cayce’s profession of hunting cool unconsciously echoes Naomi Klein’s No Logo. Cayce is successful at the cool hunt partially because of her unusual reaction to marketing materials. Cayce’s allergy to logos reveals more than the just the insidiousness of corporate marketing. Her unusual talent/affliction illustrates how pattern recognition is culturally bound.
Marketing’s use of symbols and signs is intended to tap into a collective unconscious, in the Jungian sense; however, Cayce’s allergy is bound in a cultural unconsciousness. When she arrives in Tokyo, Cayce thinks about “the way certain labels are mysteriously recontextualized here: Whole seas of Burberry plaid have no effect on her, nor Mont Blanc nor even Gucci. Maybe this time it will even have started to work for Prada” (127). As an American in Tokyo, Cayce does not...
Marketing’s use of symbols and signs is intended to tap into a collective unconscious, in the Jungian sense; however, Cayce’s allergy is bound in a cultural unconsciousness. When she arrives in Tokyo, Cayce thinks about “the way certain labels are mysteriously recontextualized here: Whole seas of Burberry plaid have no effect on her, nor Mont Blanc nor even Gucci. Maybe this time it will even have started to work for Prada” (127). As an American in Tokyo, Cayce does not...
- 7/29/2010
- doorQ.com
So you want to be a futurist? Better be ready to do a lot of reading.
As you probably picked up from earlier entries in the Futures Thinking series, foresight work is intensely information-based. If you're going to make grounded projections of future possibilities, you have understand both what has led us to the point we're at today, and what kinds of issues seem to be shaping up as emerging drivers. A few pieces to trigger some creative thoughts can help, too.
As I suggested in Futures Thinking: Scanning the World, a good deal of the reading you'll be doing will be in the form of websites and journals. This isn't surprising; part of the service provided by foresight workers is sensitivity to early warnings of big changes. It will be tempting to focus on science and technology materials, in part because there tends to be an overlap between people...
As you probably picked up from earlier entries in the Futures Thinking series, foresight work is intensely information-based. If you're going to make grounded projections of future possibilities, you have understand both what has led us to the point we're at today, and what kinds of issues seem to be shaping up as emerging drivers. A few pieces to trigger some creative thoughts can help, too.
As I suggested in Futures Thinking: Scanning the World, a good deal of the reading you'll be doing will be in the form of websites and journals. This isn't surprising; part of the service provided by foresight workers is sensitivity to early warnings of big changes. It will be tempting to focus on science and technology materials, in part because there tends to be an overlap between people...
- 4/16/2010
- by Jamais Cascio
- Fast Company
Patrik Giardino
Patrik Giardino
Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash shines brightest during on-court chaos, and he's got a plan to do the same in business.
Twelve seconds left in the season opener.
Phoenix Suns 107, Los Angeles Clippers 107.Twelve seconds for Steve Nash to find a way to win.The Phoenix coaches outline a plan. Suns' ball. Nash, the team's wily point guard, will let the clock nearly expire before executing a play. As Nash dribbles, Clippers point guard Baron Davis defends him closely. Guarding against the very play the Suns called. Guarding against Nash going right. Nash abandons the plan and darts left. Time to make up a new play. On the fly.
To watch Steve Nash is to observe someone uncannily at ease with change. Rapid change. Whenever possible, he plays on the run, starting a fast break rather than a set play, orchestrating a free-form attack. What...
Patrik Giardino
Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash shines brightest during on-court chaos, and he's got a plan to do the same in business.
Twelve seconds left in the season opener.
Phoenix Suns 107, Los Angeles Clippers 107.Twelve seconds for Steve Nash to find a way to win.The Phoenix coaches outline a plan. Suns' ball. Nash, the team's wily point guard, will let the clock nearly expire before executing a play. As Nash dribbles, Clippers point guard Baron Davis defends him closely. Guarding against the very play the Suns called. Guarding against Nash going right. Nash abandons the plan and darts left. Time to make up a new play. On the fly.
To watch Steve Nash is to observe someone uncannily at ease with change. Rapid change. Whenever possible, he plays on the run, starting a fast break rather than a set play, orchestrating a free-form attack. What...
- 1/21/2010
- by Chuck Salter
- Fast Company
[This article is part of our Radiohead Fanatic Fortnight -- check out our box set giveaway here.]
As this week's earlier list illustrates, Radiohead's music has inspired a number of videos shot with the artistry of a short film. Something about the band's dramatic, intensely emotional sound calls out to the screen, and a number of both film and commercial directors have responded. Below are some of the best and most notable uses of Radiohead's music in films and ads. (The band, big fans of Naomi Klein's "No Logo," don't license their music to big corporations, but they have donated songs to ads for non-profits, as well as the NBA.)
1. The image of Claire Danes holding a gun to her own head at the end of Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" inspired "Exit Music (for a film)," the song that plays over the credits of the film. Another Radiohead song, "Talk Show Host," figures in the film; the former was not allowed onto the soundtrack though the latter was.
As this week's earlier list illustrates, Radiohead's music has inspired a number of videos shot with the artistry of a short film. Something about the band's dramatic, intensely emotional sound calls out to the screen, and a number of both film and commercial directors have responded. Below are some of the best and most notable uses of Radiohead's music in films and ads. (The band, big fans of Naomi Klein's "No Logo," don't license their music to big corporations, but they have donated songs to ads for non-profits, as well as the NBA.)
1. The image of Claire Danes holding a gun to her own head at the end of Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" inspired "Exit Music (for a film)," the song that plays over the credits of the film. Another Radiohead song, "Talk Show Host," figures in the film; the former was not allowed onto the soundtrack though the latter was.
- 4/10/2009
- by Michelle Orange
- ifc.com
Naomi Klein is known around these parts for butting together sort of pop-activist bibles, one on branding and the shrinking of public space, “No Logo,” and the other on disaster capitalism and free market theory, “The Shock Doctrine.” The latter of which was turned into a short documentary, with Klein herself on narration duties, from Alfonso Cuaron, that played the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, and CBC television afterwards before more or less vanishing into the documentary ether. Now it seems that things have stepped up a notch. Michael Winterbottom has a habit of flipping back from conventional dramas to activist documentary-like films and after his foray into the small intimate emotional cinema slash suspense thriller Genova, he is already underway making The Shock Doctrine into a feature film.
The film is based on a book by Naomi Klein which aims to expose what she calls “disaster capitalism”. The theory...
The film is based on a book by Naomi Klein which aims to expose what she calls “disaster capitalism”. The theory...
- 9/21/2008
- by Kurt Halfyard
- Screen Anarchy
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