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Facepalming Brokers
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With the economy going bad this most-useful blog springs: a site dedicated to chronicling various brokers doing the face-palm – just what you need on the ‘hopeless’ slide for your Powerpoint deck.
What does 1 Trillion look like?
With the recent financial crisis and the responses by US government to inject a trillion here and another trillion there, it may seem like a trillion is just a slightly bigger number that we’ve become used to. PageTutor helps us visualize the difference -
$10,000
$1 million
$1 billion
$1 trillion (the pallets are double-stacked)
So…a trillion is really a lot of money! And, personally I was quite surprised at how small a $1 million pile can be – I’ve always have this image of at least a duffel-bag full of bills to qualify for a million – perhaps just influenced by the typical cop-and-robber movies.
Tiny Art Director
Kids have the most imagination. Kids are honest. Kids aren’t afraid to say the darndest things. And that, seems to make a kid to be just about the perfect candidate as an art director.
Artist/illustrator Bill Zeman started a blog chronicling his attempts at fulfilling his daughter’s brief and art direction. For instance:
I’d say his illustrations are definitely up to the mark – but alas, it seems his daughter has a much more stringent/eccentric/random set of criteria. Perhaps not too far apart from real, grown-up art directors too. Check out more examples over at Tiny Art Director.
He’s collected enough of it to make it into a book -
If you’re interested, get it here.
