The gap between ability and taste

Ira Glass of NPR's This American Life talks about the battle young creative people have between their ability and their taste. What a great insight.

Odell Brewing Brews up the First Twitter Beer

Odell Brewing in Fort Collins, CO has decided to brew up the first "Twitter Brew." The beer's style, ingredients, tap handle, etc will all be chosen by followers of Odell's twitter. A few people have pointed out that 21st Amendment Brewing in San Fran did a twitter brew this spring, but it would seem to have been a twitter brew only in name, not in the way it was produced as the Odell version will be. Pretty cool stuff. From the press release:

A Twitter Taste in Your Mouth

Odell Brewing Releases First Twitter Community Brew

On May 30, 2009, Odell Brewing will release the first Twitter community inspired brew.

Followers have until April 19, 2009 to tweet their suggested beer styles for the first Twitter Brew poll. Subsequent polls will be conducted to determine beer qualities like color, strength, body, and hop character. Twittering beer lovers can also tweet ideas for beer names and tap handle designs.

The voting will end on May 8, 2009 and brewer, Jeff Doyle will then brew the Twitter Brew on Odell Brewing’s Pilot brewing system. “There are so many people who are interested in brewing but don’t really have the means to do it,” said Doyle. “The Twitter Brew will give them the chance to get involved with the whole process.”

Twitter brewers can try their beer at the brewery’s Tap Room during the tapping party on May 30, 2009.

Odell Brewing is a proud sponsor of the Cicerone Certification program and an award winning brewery, nationally and internationally: 2008 North American Beer Awards – gold medal for 5 Barrel Pale Ale. 2008 World Beer Cup® – gold medal for IPA, silver medal for Double Pilsner, silver medal for Cutthroat Porter. 2007 Great American Beer Festival® – gold medal for IPA, silver medal for Easy Street Wheat, bronze medal for Extra Special Red. 2007 Stockholm International Beer Festival – bronze medal for 5 Barrel Pale Ale. 2007 Australian International Beer Awards – silver medal for 90 Shilling, silver medal for Cutthroat Porter, silver medal for Easy Street Wheat and bronze medal for 5 Barrel Pale Ale.

Tag a Dummer

This is great, the site www.tagadummer.com provides you with a template you can print out that just so happens to match the font on the nameplates of Hummers that allows them to be transformed into Dummers. Brilliant, funny, and a great way to get people into action fighting against stupidity and excess.
(via Josh Spear)

Honda's Singing Road

Whoever thought of this gets a gold star.

A road in Lancaster, CA was grooved such that when a Honda Civic drives over it at 55mph it plays the William Tell Overture (The Lone Ranger Theme part.) As you can tell from the video below, it's not perfect. Also, apparently residents in nearby houses are upset with the amount of noise being created. Still, a damn good idea if I ever heard one.



(via AdAge)

Smart VW Guerilla from Brazil

This is smart, very smart. I love it.

Can't go to Cannes? Have a Bake Sale

That's what these four students from Creative Circus in Atlanta did. They found out last week that they've won two future lions, but the trip to France would set them back $6000. So they did what any college student would do: have a bake sale. They sold cookies for $500 a piece and they got plenty of business from agencies and individuals around the country. Now they're on their way to Cannes. Of course the real question everyone's asking is: what's their recipe?

Smart Car Vending Machine is, well, Smart

Here's a giant vending machine with a Smart Car inside. You can't actually buy the car, but rather get packets of information on it instead. (via Gizmodo)

You are Fallon: A melting pot of awards

Have you ever won an award while working at Fallon? If so they're asking you to donate it to be melted down and turned into the new name plate "We are Fallon" to be hung at the entrance to their new building. It's a pretty great idea, and so far 41 people have stepped up and donated their awards. If you want to donate or see who has already, check out http://youare.fallon.com/

(via If this is a blog then what's Christmas)