"Chinese search leader Baidu and Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce player, have announced an agreement to jointly invest US$50 million over three years in a joint venture to build a huge online ‘B2B2C’ shopping mall for Chinese Internet users. …The online mall, which is expected to go live in the second half of 2010, aims to provide customers with merchandise from well-known Chinese and foreign brands as well as small and medium sized enterprises at ‘competitive prices’. The mall is anticipated to quickly become the largest online B2B2C shopping mall in China."
— Baidu And Japan’s Rakuten To Invest $50 Million In Giant Online Shopping Mall
12:27 pm • 27 January 2010
Finally made it to Moma today and saw the Tim Burton exhibit. So many creatures, so many teeth, eyes, and tentacles. Tonight I will dream of being swallowed or squeezed to death.
9:14 pm • 23 January 2010 • 1 note
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Boy From School by Grizzly Bear
originally by Hot Chip
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4:01 pm • 23 January 2010 • 124 notes
"But Mr. McQueen seemed to recognize that creative designers needed to give online audiences a wholly different experience. They can’t just duplicate the runway presentation, a format that has been used for 50 years. As Mr. Knight said, “The fashion world has to reach a much bigger audience, but it has to justify why that audience is going to come to you."
— Fashion Designers Just Starting to Grasp the Web’s Power - NY Times
11:54 am • 1 January 2010