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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>This is Steve Kulp’s blog, where he curates his collection of things and ideas that he finds interesting and deposits the occasional rambling about the state of the world. His professional interests include design, advertising, consumer behavior and account planning. His personal interests include everything else.



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</description><title>Free Association</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @freeassociation)</generator><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/</link><item><title>"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas."</title><description>“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" target="_blank"&gt;Raymond Chandler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/120639748</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/120639748</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:58:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama at Five guys.</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="372"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.thedailybeast.com/swf/TheDailyBeastVideoPlayer.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt;&lt;param name="menu" value="false" /&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="video=http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/05/29/vid-obama-goes-on-burger-run_181318641326.flv&amp;still=http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/05/29/img-090529-ap-obama-burger-run-386_181135749757.jpg&amp;title=" /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.thedailybeast.com/swf/TheDailyBeastVideoPlayer.swf" id="tdbvideo" name="tdbvideo" bgcolor="#ffffff" quality="high" menu="false" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="372" flashvars="video=http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/05/29/vid-obama-goes-on-burger-run_181318641326.flv&amp;still=http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/05/29/img-090529-ap-obama-burger-run-386_181135749757.jpg&amp;title="&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Obama at Five guys.</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/116834845</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/116834845</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:14:54 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."</title><description>“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_s_patton_2.html" target="_blank"&gt;George S. Patton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/114486241</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/114486241</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:33:12 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Alex Cornell: The Wes Anderson Film Festival </title><description>&lt;img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/L1eR0iW8ro1ixgpvgOUFzL5to1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.behance.net/alexcornell/frame/229415" target="_blank"&gt;Alex Cornell: The Wes Anderson Film Festival &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/114485300</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/114485300</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:30:36 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath</title><description>&lt;a href="http://w5blog.com/2009/05/13/gladwell-how-david-beats-goliath/"&gt;Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/113332927</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/113332927</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 13:43:19 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>What would Patrick Bateman think about my previous post?</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zijRtrPSaTI&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zijRtrPSaTI&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;What would Patrick Bateman think about my previous post?</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/111085626</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/111085626</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:54:15 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Better Than A Plain Ol' Business Card | Smashing Magazine</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/20/effective-business-card-design-better-than-a-plain-ol-business-card/"&gt;Better Than A Plain Ol' Business Card | Smashing Magazine&lt;/a&gt;: Great collection if interesting alternatives to the same-old business card.</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/111085251</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/111085251</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:53:07 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Luck is the residue of design."</title><description>“Luck is the residue of design.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Rickey" target="_blank"&gt;Branch Rickey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/108246455</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/108246455</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 13:11:44 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"If time travel were possible, we’d be inundated with tourists from the future."</title><description>“If time travel were possible, we’d be inundated with tourists from the future.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Stephen Hawking&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/107234691</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/107234691</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:17:33 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Of Montreal - I’m So Tired (The Beatles) in-studio on The...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BIX4hd7_w7c&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BIX4hd7_w7c&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Of Montreal - I’m So Tired (The Beatles) in-studio on The Alternate Side (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/thealternateside907" target="_blank"&gt;thealternateside907&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/99337303</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/99337303</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:53:07 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"If you didn’t like Harry Kalas, you didn’t like anybody."</title><description>“If you didn’t like Harry Kalas, you didn’t like anybody.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Bob Uecker&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/96105516</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/96105516</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:24:31 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Card Observer</title><description>&lt;a href="http://cardobserver.com/"&gt;Card Observer&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/94613514</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/94613514</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:12:27 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Interesting Poster.
via www.hollywood-elsewhere.com</title><description>&lt;img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/L1eR0iW8rlur3g4r4LDzpQ0Wo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interesting Poster.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/41509/girlfriendex.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.hollywood-elsewhere.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/92640374</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/92640374</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:25:24 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Computers are worthless. They can only give you answers."</title><description>“Computers are worthless. They can only give you answers.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Pablo Picasso&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/92562260</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/92562260</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:09:06 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>via farm3.static.flickr.com</title><description>&lt;img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/L1eR0iW8rlj2t5wfaz9Ta27ao1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;via &lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2336/2363227391_3d3278890e.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;farm3.static.flickr.com&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/90026388</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/90026388</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:20:05 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>The Ten Commandments of Dieter Rams</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/gooddesign"&gt;The Ten Commandments of Dieter Rams&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/81717125</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/81717125</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:30:22 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"I always mean what I say, but I don’t always say what I’m thinking."</title><description>“I always mean what I say, but I don’t always say what I’m thinking.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/dean_smith/2.html" target="_blank"&gt; - Dean Smith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/75139952</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/75139952</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:20:48 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>The Work of Josef Müller-Brockmann</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/josefmuller-brockmann/pool/"&gt;The Work of Josef Müller-Brockmann&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/75139421</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/75139421</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:18:18 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"Common sense is not so common."</title><description>“Common sense is not so common.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/common_sense_is_not_so_common/145875.html" target="_blank"&gt;Voltaire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/74048716</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/74048716</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:59:03 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>What a smart, beautiful poster.
via OMG Posters</title><description>&lt;img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/L1eR0iW8rjb3hnmyn1FbcEZXo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a smart, beautiful poster.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://omgposters.com/2009/01/29/andrew-bird-poster-by-brandon-knowlden/" target="_blank"&gt;OMG Posters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/74048420</link><guid>http://www.stevekulp.com/post/74048420</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:57:34 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
