[nonostantement #193] - marginalia / ideal buddha / amazon copy
Now with MORE secrets on postcards!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with exhilarating, facetious and unacceptable stuff found all over the Internet.
Hi everyone, I'm Joele, I'm an Italian online communication consultant based in Barcelona. I spend a lot of time in front of my computer connected to the internet and find myself full of interesting links. I created this same newsletter more or less 1.350 days ago to collect these links and send them to friends, every Sunday.
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#TECH
Paris fashion-tech startups on luring luxury: fashion “Shazam” to virtual try-on
France’s most promising fashion-tech startups have ideas that can become world beaters. Before that, the challenge is to develop partnerships with French luxury brands.search.marginalia.nu
”Remember when used to explore the Internet, when you used to discover cool little websites made by people and it wasn't just a bunch of low effort content mill listicles and blog spam?”
#PEOPLE
PostSecret
A collection of personal secrets sent on real postcards.[Video] - Karim Rashid on Design Losing Ground as a Respected Profession
”An oversaturation of design schools and designers, a high number of designers willing to work for little or free, and the effect that's having on the overall business model whereby someone pays you to add value to their product or process.”[Video] - Sean Brock And Anthony Bourdain Eat At The Waffle House
”After Anthony Bourdain and Sean Brock finish many, many, many rounds of drinks, they visit the best/only choice for late-night dining in Charleston, the Waffle House, an irony free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts; where everybody regardless of race, creed color or degree of inebriation, is welcomed.” - I think this is one of my favorite Bourdain moments.The Tibetan Book of Proportions
An eighteenth-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the Buddha and Bodhisattva figures. […] The concept of the 'ideal image' of the Buddha emerged during the Golden Age of Gupta rule, from the 4th to 6th century. High res pics of the book available here.
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#THEDARKSIDE
Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show
”A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India - practices it has denied engaging in. And at least two top Amazon executives reviewed the strategy.”
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