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Restaurants Adapting to Covid-19 / Food Truck Edition

Improvise, adapt, overcome – who knew Bear Grylls would be the patron saint of corona virus business survival?

Vertical Video Framing

Vertical Video is here to stay (at least for a bit). ‘Might as well make the best of it.

The Quest for the Perfect Drive-thru Experience

The ‘Rona is causing disruption in the restaurant industry and national chains are fine-tuning the drive-thru experience. FastCompany takes a look at the big players. The fact that they neglect to even mention Chick-Fil-A is an indication that this is less than exhaustive. Local restaurants surviving the pandemic have taken to curbside pickup (See Elizabeth’s […]

Innovate!

From client and construction leadership consultant Wally Adamchik, Now is not the Time to Hunker Down

Local Restaurants Face Staffing Shortages

Businesses that survive will be the ones that adapt and maybe even abandon what was “normal” in the past.

Sony Cameras as Webcams

Sony has followed along with other camera manufacturers and lets you use some recent cameras as webcams.

Posing Men

Digital Photography School has a handy guide to posing men. Pictured above: pose #1.

Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans

Dorothea Lange’s images of Japanese Americans incarcerated at internment camps during World War 2.

Design, Ah!

Teaching Japanese children design thinking

Ikea Catalogs Archive

My mother lived in Charlotte when they opened the first Ikea in North Carolina there. I think the closest one might have been in Atlanta before then. We went one morning to see what it was all about, expecting to spend maybe an hour or so. Later that afternoon, we finally emerged with our purchases […]

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave

I remember some of these from my childhood in the 70’s. Also, George thinks a lot about LEGO Source: The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave

Test Post

Testing a thing. Nothing to see here. Thanks for playing.

LinkedIn Algorithm Insights

Doing a little research for a client and came across this Hootsuite post from last year about the LinkedIn algorithm. The more you know….

Electric Wave

As you know, we love surf media here and this is just a beauty. Daniel Askill shot this at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch and wow, it’s amazing.

you@bizec.rr.com

If your email address looks like this, I’ve maybe got some bad news for you.

#ShopLocal

This is my son and the guitar he bought today from the Music Loft (even tho I did’t build their website, but that’s ok). He looked online, but we decided to support our local music store and #shoplocal. Money you spend with local business goes back into your community and helps keep us all from […]

Fall Back

DST ends this weekend.

Humberto Swell Saturday September 21, 2019

I woke up at the crack of dawn Saturday because the surf was supposed to be pretty good and I thought it would be a good day to get a few shots in. Well, the surf wasn’t all that great, but there were quite a few folks out making the best of it so here […]

The Ballad of Clayton & Lacy

Social media is weird.

Logo Design: Skilled Trade Up

Two unchosen iterations and the final winner.