Archive for the ‘Culture Vulture’ Category
“Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.”
By now I’m sure everyone has heard that Maurice Sendak, world-renowned illustrator and beloved author of some of the most impactful and enduring children’s books, died this morning in his Connecticut home. The New York Times said he was “widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche.” For those of us who grew up with his work, Maurice Sendak is linked inextricably with our love of reading and our most early experiences of feeling “hey, someone out there gets me.” Continue Reading
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CommentFriday Follow: A Few Favorite Writing Blogs
When you are a blogger, you tend to spend a lot of time online and to read and pay attention to the work of other bloggers. And when you also are a writer, your ears (or whatever the online equivalent of ears is) prick up when you stumble across blogs by other writers. Here are a few of my favorites. Continue Reading
Follow Friday: Some Fave Seattle Bloggers
In the month or so since I moved to Seattle, I’ve had the great good fortune to meet some of Seattle’s blogger community. A few in person, and others online through the terrific group Seattle Bloggers Unite! For this first Seattle Follow Friday, I’d like to introduce to you a few of my fave Seattle bloggers. (Trust me, there are plenty more where they came from!) Continue Reading
DIY Health
Obviously, my plan for a weekly series on on the “12 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2012″ got pre-empted by my big move to Seattle, but I’m trying to get back into the groove here and it’s even a Tuesday. Let Trend Tuesdays recommence!
My first post in this series was Red Carpet, in which I examined retailers’ current fascination with all things Chinese, including the wallets of the fastest growing consumer audience in the world. Today’s topic: DIY HEALTH Continue Reading
Red Carpet
This is the first in a series of posts commenting on trendwatching.com’s “12 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2012.”
The first trend noted this year is RED CARPET, wherein businesses around the world are expected to shower Chinese customers and visitors with specifically tailored services and perks, and in general, lavish them with attention and respect. To see this trend in action, one need only look at how the world’s most elite luxury brands raced to create special Year of the Dragon merchandise intended for the Chinese market. According to McKinsey & Co., by 2015 China will account for around 20% of global luxury sales, surpassing Japan as the world’s largest luxury market.
So essentially, businesses are going to direct their focus where the money is. Well, duh. Continue Reading
Trend Tuesdays 2012
Each January, trendwatching.com releases a briefing on the trends they see as most likely to affect consumers and brands in the coming year. Independent and opinionated, trendspotting.com is one of the world’s leading consumer trends firms, relying on a global network of hundreds of spotters to track consumer behaviors and analyze what they mean for the culture at large.
Reviving a series I began in 2010, every Tuesday for the next twelve weeks, I am going to dive into this year’s report on the 12 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2012, exploring these twelve trends and themes to offer my own unique perception and point of view. As a consumer myself, as a former public relations and marketing executive, and as an interested observer and occasional participant in the cultural zeitgeist of the 21st century. Continue Reading
The Song of Lunch
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Poetry in film seems to be a thing with me lately. How else to explain my serendipitous discovery of both motionpoems and the wonderful dramatization of Christopher Reid’s acclaimed narrative poem, The Song of Lunch, starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. Continue Reading
My name is Angela Eloise and I am a freelance writer. I recently moved to Seattle because I wanted a better home base to support my creative goals. And my shaman told me to. Cloud of Chaos was born from my desire to dance with the absurdity of life, to create a space where I could write and share all of the gorgeous, fun, snarky deliciousness I find spinning around me every day. What does a spinning cloud of chaos have to do with writing? Everything, as it turns out.
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