The Experience Economy
A week ago I speculated that more money would be flowing toward buying experiences and marginally less to buying stuff....
Category: Simon Says
A Change of Status – 4 – Swag
Swag is the stuff you get to mark that you have had an experience. People go to Disneyland and buy a Disney branded...
A Change of Status – 3
It was announces this morning that Constellation Brands a beverage conglomerate bought Ballast Point, a craft beer...
A Change of Status Two
"The Paramount concern of man is status: how to achieve it, how to display it." Tom Wolfe, author Status is already...
A Change of Status
It appears that people are buying less things and more experiences. Observation from Disneyland Big implications...
New Bridge
In San Marino, where I have been walking lately, they have almost completed the rebuild of the Circle Drive bridge over...
Fashions Change
We all know that fashions change in clothing and fashions change in cars. But do we also all know that fashions also...
Public Art
R Kenton Nelson the excellent Pasadena artist has started making large mosaics. I just saw my first one installed...
The First Selfie
This could be a photo of the first selfie, one of the first selfies or it could be staged. It doesn't matter. It...
20 Mule Team Borax
20 Mule team Borax falls into the category of forgotten but not gone. It is available at OSH in Pasadena. I...
