Weekly Overdose: Sex Sells Sneakers Too, Karl Lagerfeld, Red Octobers

Portland Business Journal – A $10,000 Nike? Meet Kanye West’s ‘Red October’: Moral of this story, even “business” journals sensationalize for pageviews. At least they didn’t mention the $100k pair of Yeezys. But at least they reached out to Jacques! Highsnobiety – Karl Lagerfeld Turns The Grand Palais Into A Grocery Store for Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2014 … Read more

Life of a Blogger

I created my first website back in 1998 while I was in college. The term “blog” or “blogger” didn’t exist back then. Neither did WordPress, Tumblr, Twitter or Pinterest. In fact, the Internet has changed drastically in the way we create content and consume information but what I’ve come to realize, is that, contrary to … Read more

From Nike Sweatshops to Buzzfeed

http://video.inc.com/plugins/player.swf?v=f5aab3e89dc7c I guess this is an example of taking a negative and turning it into a positive. I never realized that Jonah Peretti was the person behind all the Nike sweatshop chain emails all those years ago (years? at the speed of the internet now, maybe decades is more appropriate). I’m not a regular visitor … Read more