Shinya Kimura
More on the theme of making things:
shinya kimura @ chabott engineering from Henrik Hansen on Vimeo.
Posted in Other Leave a comment
The Mast Brothers Chocolate
Awesome:
The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo.
The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo.
I like what they say in the video:
As opposed to the goal being consistency and mass distribution, we are looking for – in a way – an inconsistent product so your taste buds are not only enjoying the sensuality of it, but your brain is also learning while you eat it.
Dreaming of the land
Recently I’ve been on an agricultural kick, often finding myself day-dreaming about working outside, reminiscing about how I used to roam my great-grandparent’s farm in Ukraine when I was little. Living in Colorado, it’s so easy to fall in love with the beauty of the land.
Here are a couple of dreams:
A California Avocado Story from Evolution Multimedia on Vimeo.
A California Avocado Story from Evolution Multimedia on Vimeo (via WhiteonRice)
<object width=”640″ height=”385″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HBVCea8Zc_Y&hl=en_US&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HBVCea8Zc_Y&hl=en_US&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”640″ height=”385″></embed></object>
About this blog
I realized today that I’ve had this blog for 4 years now, since 2006. And over those years, I’ve found that I’m not a particularly good blogger. I’ma lousy blogger because I don’t update frequently and my content is all over the place – and I’m beginning to realize that the two are related. I want to blog about my professional life, my side business projects and everything in between and become paralyzed by too much information and end up writing nothing at all.
So, starting today, I’m going to clearly delineate my interests by my projects and other interests. It’s still all on one blog – but separate by categories for those only interested in one of the subjects.
There is now a category for my “Honey Project”, “Tutoring Company”, “Sales and Marketing, Startup Operations”, and “All Other.”
Update on my projects
Besides my full-time job, and I am also always working on several side projects.
In the last several weeks, there’ve been two that have been eating up most of my free time: tutoring and honey.
My tutoring company, No Excuses Tutoring, has had an unexpected bump in activity recently. I had several web leads that came in, and as a result I found 3 more students to tutor this semester. Which meant that I had to go out and find/vet/interview tutors for them, and in general become more serious about the company. This of course is great news, and my next challenge is making the website better. Easier to find on Google, easier to navigate and more focused in terms of what the company is and why it exists.
The other project, has been to help a local beekeeper sell honey to new, and hopefully more upscale, markets. The first thing we did is re-label the honey. In order to differentiate honey from all of the other honey options out there, we decided to tell a story of what makes the this honey special. Through the new label of Grampa’s Gourmet we can tell the story of a multi-generational beekeeper based in a unique location (San Luis Valley) – and attract a higher price as a result. I’ve been busy building the website, and looking for partnerships with other companies to sell the honey.
