Urban Station - Buenos Aires

Not everyone is lucky to work in a cool and inspiring office, and even those who are, can become stuck in an uncreative rut, or disturbed by loud coworkers, boring music, smells of someone’s lunch, outside noise. And those who work at home have all of the distractions — and attractions — of home to lure mind and body away from productive work. No wonder coffee shops around the world look more like offices than many offices. People sitting at their computers, talking on their phones, conducting business with coffee and muffins nearby. Yet anyone who’s done the coffee-shop-as-office thing knows that it is not without problems either. Too many people, loud conversation, screaming kids, familiar faces, bad wifi, no plugs, uncomfortable chairs, line-ups for coffee, managers wanting you to leave.

Luckily, creative people have started to think up solutions to meet the very clear need of cool working spaces for mobile workers. Urban Station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has taken the best of both office and coffee shop and wrapped it all up in a funky urban space.

Urban Station is appropriately located at Malabia and El Salvador Streets in Buenos Aires’s hip Palermo Soho where fashion, design and art mix with the densest concentration of bars and restaurants in the city. You sit at one of the wide tables, pay by the hour and benefit from the calm atmosphere and comforts of an office with plugs and locks for your computer and super-fast wifi. The coffee shop part comes in the form of unlimited coffee, tea, mineral water, fruit, croissants and cookies, all part of the fee.

In addition, the large and airy Urban Station offers art and business magazines and books to read, comfortable armchairs for lounging and casual meetings, fully equipped meeting rooms, printers, fax and scanners, plus lockers for your gear. If you get bored, or need to dash out for a moment, they even offer a few bikes at the door for you to borrow. It feels like office, coffee shop AND home. More of this, please! - Bill Tikos

Address: El Salvador 4588 Palermo Soho.

The Cool Hunter

¿Te obsesionan las cosas correctas?

Campaña de la Fundación de Cancer de Mama de Singapur.

Sugiere que quizás las mujeres deberían enfocarse más en su salud y hacer los chequeos de sus pechos más que obsesionarse por traseros grandes, granos y los días en que el cabello está mal.

Buen concepto, notoriedad, mensaje directo y un gran trabajo de arte y producción gráfica.

 

Are you obsessed with the right things? ask the new print ads of Breast Cancer Foundation of Singapore. But it is not the words but the images used in these ads that draw attention and require a double take. Using Kryolan body paint and Daler Rowney Expression angled brushes and sponges, illustrator Andy Yang Soo painted a model's body and photographer Allan Ng took the pictures for the ads that suggest that perhaps women should focus on health and have their breasts checked rather than obsess about their big butts, pimples and bad hair days.

The visuals were created at Republic Studios. The agency in charge was DDB Worldwide, Singapore. Bill Tikos

The Cool Hunter

Descojonándome de la risa releyendo "Carry on, Jeeves"

Del inimitable P.G.Wodehouse.


Ésta foto es de la serie de ITV Jeeves and Wooster. El papel de Wooster fue interpretado por Stephen Fry (impecable en su rol).
¿Reconocéis quien es el actor que interpreta a Wooster? 

Pues si, el médico más odiado y amado de la TV, el inefable Dr. House, o sea Hugh Laurie.

Para el que quiera reírse y pasar un buen rato, en YouTube hay muchísmo material.

Disfrutad.

Releyendo a Bécquer, una pequeña maravilla, verdad como un templo...

No Son Los Muertos

No son los muertos los que en dulce calma
la paz disfrutan de su tumba fria,
muertos son los que tienen muerta el alma
y viven todavia.
No son los muertos, no los que reciben
rayos de luz en sus despojos yertos,
los que mueren con honra son los vivos,
los que viven sin honra son los muertos.
La vida no es la vida que vivimos,
la vida en el honor, es el recuerdo.
Por eso hay hombres que en el Mundo viven,
y hombres que viven en el Mundo muertos.

Gustavo A. Bécquer

Afinación Diaria de la Conciencia de Kabbalah

SÁBADO, 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2010


Cuando golpeas cazuelas y sartenes, las vasijas más huecas son las que suenan a mayor volumen. Sólo porque alguien hable fuerte y suene como si fuese sabio, no quiere decir que tenga las respuestas correctas.


Hoy, lee entre líneas lo que la gente dice y descifra su verdad. La verdad es apacible, no escandalosa.