Find me a more varied, cooler crew than these dudes! By Ilan Adler I recently stumbled onto this amazing picture by way of listening to one of the best podcasts out there; Uhh Yeah Dude, a weekly podcast by two American Americans. Highly recommended. Anyways, this picture is from the 1993 Saturday Night Live show (Season 19 premiere) featuring NBA Legend Charles Barkley as the host and Nirvana as the musical guest. In this
How a simple paragraph in the NYTimes shows how bad Wall Street has become By Ilan Adler Like everyone in the past 48 hours, you probably heard about the new company formed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Alphabet. Alphabet will incorporate all Google holdings (i.e Nest, Ventures, etc.) under one umbrella with financial reports for each one. I won’t get into the specifics of the deal, because there are
When did you first become aware of Twitter? By Ilan Adler On a recent podcast Bill Simmons was talking about the Mayweather Pacquiao fight with Bryan Curtis. Simmons speculated about what would have happened had this fight occurred before 2008, before the rise of Twitter, social media on a mass scale, and the constant 24 hours news and blog cycle. This was in relation the Internet taking on the villain,
Breaking Down Aerosmith’s ‘Cryin’ By Ilan Adler For those who grew up in the 1990’s, music videos by Aerosmith were a staple of our MTV viewing habits. Whether it was the Bonnie & Bonnie hotness of Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone in the ‘Crazy‘ music video, Edward Furlong from T2: Judgement Day starring in ‘Livin’ on the Edge‘, The weirdness of fake computer generated people, the power glove, and Silverstone being smoking
Tragedy Strikes Nepal Again By Ilan Adler 10/25/14 Update: Another tragedy has struck Nepal, as a bus veered off the road and killed 14 people. This is the same bus route that I wrote about in my 2006 Nepal Bus Trip – Blast from the Past. Nepal has long been one of my favorite places in the world, and a look through the photo section of Putchka.com, can warrant how
Kids, Listen to him! By Ilan Adler David Choe is a renowned graffiti/street artist, probably best known in the mainstream as the millionaire Facebook painter. As the story goes, Choe was contacted by Sean Parker to paint a mural at Facebook HQ. After talking to Parker and Zuckerberg, Choe was on board with the idea of receiving stock in lieu of cash payment for his work. This stock is now
Casey Neistat, YouTube Hero and fascinating storyteller By Ilan Adler Me and Shalhevet have been following Casey Neistat’s YouTube videos for quite some time now. Besides the fact that he is now well established and get generous amounts of budget money to do practically whatever he wants, he still has his own unique and personal touch on the films that he makes. I really think that we can learn a lot
A Wedding Card Optimized for SEO… By Ilan Adler A colleague of mine, Shira Blank, recently got married. Shira is the main content writer on the SEO/Content team, and does fantastic work. I thought that I would geek out and have a little fun with her wedding card, making it SEO friendly. Check it out below:
Stefan Sagmeister talks about the amazing things Digital Technology contribute to Art and Design The Creative Class ep. #5 – Stefan Sagmeister from The Creative Class on Vimeo.
Your Average Nineties Music Playlist By Ilan Adler This post is just a cool little 90’s playlist that I drew up one day. The reasoning behind it is not songs that were hard to find, or B-sides, but just the nineties music that I grew up on listening to on the radio. Remember this was long before the iPod, and when a discman with a 3 second anti-skip was still