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Every San Francisco car fan's dream sequence.
Any crime show that takes cues from Michael Mann's Heat is must see TV in my book.
San Francisco's Haight Street always puts things in perspective. (PHOTO)
Must-read research for anyone marketing to the wealthy.
Everything about what I’m doing right now—and everyday—is influenced by Steve Jobs: hammering on a stainless keyboard, watching the crisp words appear on a Cinema Display, powered by a MacBook Pro with an iPhone tethered, writing the latest installment of bTunes, my blog’s music tag blatantly named after yet another Jobs creation. The man was
On Monday high net worth marketer April Rudin told her Twitter followers “for the epitome of coolness, follow @thebasispoint” and I responded with “Tx April! but now I’m worried: coolness is gone once found.” But she held the line with: “coolness is eternal.” It prompted me to dig up some coolness writings I’d done many
Boardwalk Empire season two starts this Sunday. There’s no better show that captures politics, both personal and professional. The tagline on the poster below sums it up perfectly: Know Who’s Behind You. I posted it on The Basis Point’s Facebook page yesterday and said “what a great tagline for Boardwalk Empire” which my friend Al
Boardwalk Empire season two starts this Sunday. There’s no better show that captures politics, both personal and professional. The tagline on the poster below sums it up perfectly: Know Who’s Behind You. I posted it on The Basis Point’s Facebook page yesterday and said “what a great tagline for Boardwalk Empire” which my friend Al
Today is National Sweater Day in Canada. So in protest to the North country, I vow to leave my suit jacket on all day today. There’s also this cold weather tidbit from The Onion: Perfect Soup Weather Coming. Click soup map below for story (but the soup map is the highlight).
Happy holidays! Click image to enlarge. By photographer Peter Samuels.
For guys who don’t know about Bonobos, it’s a men’s mail order clothing company. They started in 2007 with pants and have expanded significantly since then, but pants are their strong suit. Normally I’d never buy a pair of pants without trying them on, but Bonobos dress pants fit most people well (only needing a
Another massive $100m+ art heist was just pulled off clean in Paris. The prize: a Picasso, a Matisse and three other masterpieces. Can people who do this move art in the circles they run in? Probably. Or maybe they just do it for the thrill. Either way, everyone loves a good caper, so we’re just
This is off topic from a finance perspective, but notable from a retail industry standpoint. There’s a new lifestyle, nightlife magazine in San Francisco called InGen and their premier issue had an article about ‘Sophisticated Urban’ style which is shown in full below (since it’s a print mag and their website only shows the flash
