Saturday night music: Nneka, a guitar, and a small street in Paris ("Do you love me now", live)

Great stuff.

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Found here: Nneka - Do you love me now (live session @ streets of Paris) - YouTube

Great political art from Shepard Fairey and Stanley Donwood, here

The above is by Donwood, found here, Thought You Should See This, where you can see a much better representation of it, as well as find out more about it.

 

Here's Fairey's, remixing his classic HOPE poster:

 

Found here: Occupy HOPE - OBEY GIANT

Check out the 18th Annual Festival of Smalls at art interiors in Toronto

 

Every year, the Toronto gallery, art interiors, holds their annual event whereby they sell small pieces of their artists' work for very reasonable prices. (For example, this great painting by Peter Andrew, from his Highway Series). I highly recommend that anyone interested in wonderful works of art check out their web site and pay them a visit here: Affordable Artwork / Canadian Art / Gallery / Framing / Canvas / Art Interiors - Toronto, ON

Paintings are going from $55 to $250. You can't go wrong. Canadiana at its best. (And Peter Andrew's paintings are fine examples of 21st century Canadiana.)

Those stories about Steve Jobs parking in handicapped parking spots?

Are clearly not urban legends, based on this photo:

 

From Sachin's Space. Sachin Agarwar parked next to Steve Jobs' car on the day he went for an interview at Apple, years ago, and he took this photo.

 

A great interview of Borges from the 1960s

Can be found here: Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 39, Jorge Luis Borges.

How Bank of America failed with debit fees

This article has a good run down on the recent mistake that BoA made in introducing a fee on debit cards, Bank of America: A Case Study in Tone Deafness - Rita McGrath - Harvard Business Review.

Another thing to add is that customers didn't see any value to the fee for them. It looked like a cash grab. True, baggage fees also looked like a cash grab, but at least air lines could talk about the hard times that they were undergoing. Can any of the banks do the same? Nope!

Well worth a read.

So you want to make an eBook? Good news! It's easy (at least the publishing part is)

Now, coming up with good material for an eBook is not so easy, but if you want to know How To Make An eBook, then Smashing Magazine has lots of good information to get you going. If you're worried you will need alot of technical ability, relax. As they say:

Making an eBook is easy, regardless of your coding experience. This is good, because 99.9% of your time should be spent on writing and getting your book out there, rather than on technology.

I highly recommend this Smashing Magazine article. It is packed with good information.