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Viewing james Blog Posts (View All) Sneak Peak:  Firm 151 10.25.11 - Alan We just couldn't resist sharing a sneak peak at the new site for our friends at Firm 151 in Portland, OR. Launching this Fall, the site features a lot of white space and super slick navigation… 2nd Annual Symposium on Creativity & Good Living 09.26.11 - Alan This year's Symposium in NYC was filled with creativity, inspiration, ideas, and karaoke. Take a peek at what went down and some hints as to what's in store for the future. How Much Faith Do You Put in Technology? (a memoir of Skype’s suckiness) 05.13.11 - Alan Letterpressing Our Biz Cards 05.10.11 - Brian Sometimes you just have to go old school. We've received lots of love on our diy business cards, so thanks to the guys at Uno for teaching us the way and letting us use all the great old… Happy 2011, from One Long House 01.5.11 - Alan Well, here it is. The moment you've all been waiting for... our Little Baby Hip-Hop Holiday Card. Let’s Hang 07.20.10 - Sarah If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, but instead create a movement to re-adopt the use of simple clothesline and clothespins, which is a brilliant,… Why even bother? 05.22.10 - Alan Dan Pink talks about our motivations as creators, employees, innovators, and contributors to the world, and why money is definitely not the answer. As a small, new company, OLH tries to… I am Invinsible! (and so are you) 05.8.10 - Alan Just listened to a fantastic Radiolab podcast called Limits. What I took from it was that we, as humans, really don't have any limits... or at least we don't know what they are,… [Incubator Project] Women’s Voices Now 04.23.10 - Alan One of our core visions at One Long House is to pursue what we call Incubator Projects. These are projects that we produce with our own resources—no client, no paycheck. Some have the… Guidebots Show You the Way! 04.8.10 - Brian Guidebot swarm addresses crowd control and navigation of visitors. Plus a cool albeit archaic, interactive map/model. Niice. Efficiency, My Love 03.7.10 - Alan I'm standing in the kitchen while the pasta is on the stove in it's final minutes of prep mentally debating what the best way to get all the meal items from the kitchen to the dining table.… Bad Economy = Good Creative 02.14.10 - Alan There's been a lot of complaining about the crap economy. But what about the positives of these massive financial screw-ups? I (for one) got laid off b/c of the crap economy—but as it… Stand All the Way Back, Around the Corner Please! 01.20.10 - Matt For the first time, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) is giving a blockbuster retrospective on Tim Burton. CG is OMG 01.19.10 - Alan This whole film is computer generated, and sure we've all seen amazing CG pieces before. But what gets me about this one is the perfection of imperfection: the scratches on the camera,… The Art of Selling Out 01.18.10 - Josh Over the past decade or two it has become increasingly acceptable for bands/artists to sell their songs for use in commercials. In fact, these days the right song in the right commercial… Triangles are Cool 01.15.10 - Alan Digging this work from Jelle Martens. Partly because he digs triangles as much as we do. Steve Duncan: Guerilla Historian & Urban Explorer 01.14.10 - Brian Steve Duncan is the one man who can get you excited about your city again. He documents the abandoned and long-forgotten nooks at his own peril—once climbed one of the World’s Fair… How Do You Cook an Idea? 01.9.10 - Alan We at One Long House have always encouraged projects outside of client work. Deemed Incubator Projects, our goal is to actually get OLH time spent to 50/50—50% of time spent on client… The Movie is a Biz First 01.8.10 - Alan This is a very long panel discussion of the inner workings of producing movies, particularly filming + distributing internationally. It's super interesting (and a bit disheartening) to… A Decade in 7 Minutes 01.2.10 - Alan We could put a bunch of postings up recapping what happened in the last 10 years. Or we could just embed this video from Newsweek. A sobering, albeit sarcastic take on the first decade… Art Nouveau Revival 12.29.09 - Alan There is a great exhibit going on at the Musée d'Orsay at the moment, in Paris. Comparing Art Nouveau, at the turn of the century, and the psychedelic art of record covers and poster in… Building With Bombs 12.22.09 - Alan This was one of the more inspiring pieces I've seen in a long time, created by The Great Society over in Portland. On my last trip out there I met Randall (at the hardware store)... Well, Here We Are 12.22.09 - Alan We wanted to build a site that put equal emphasis on the three aspects of our business: the work, the people, and inspiration... hopefully that's what we've done.