Jake Ludens’ Mental Environment

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Entries for the ‘30 day blog challenge’ Category

30 Day Challenge, truth be told, by Ed Dale.

Several years ago, John, Jason and I joined up with the 30 Day Challenge, not the 30 day blog challenge that we are in the middle of now. Rather the 30 Day Challenge that is hosted by Ed Dale and several of his friends. In a nutshell, the 30 Day Challenge started out at a [...]

The death of the slogan

Last night I made a blog post about Greasecar.com and their use of a very poor slogan. After that we ordering a pizza and I started reading my newest issue of FastCompany. In this issue there is an article from Dan Heath and Chip Heath about the slogan, entitled “Kill the Slogans Dead”. Dan and [...]

Internet Intelligence #2 – GreaseCar.com

I saw my first vegetable oil powered car yesterday. It was a small red truck with the URL www.greasecar.com I checked out their website and the first thing that I read was their tag line “Save Money! Help the Environment! Reduce America’s need for foreign oil!” This might be the first time I have ever [...]

The strange things people say

Today was a day full of shopping and overhearing things that were really out there, but I’ll get to that in a minute. First of all I would like to thank everyone who came out last night to our first Friday get together. While we didn’t make it too late of a night I was [...]

First Friday Early Post

Wow, this is strange making a blog post so early in the day. It is First Friday here in Las Vegas and the weather is great in comparison to what I hear it is like back in Wyoming today. For any of you who are not familiar with the Las Vegas First Friday events, check [...]

Idea Overload Disorder, or “I, OD” as it is known.

I honestly think I have come up with my very own disorder. Now I just need a good pitch for the pharmaceutical companies. I know, I will use my real life story as the basis for my marketing pitch. Here it goes.. “Do you ever find yourself spaced out? trying to do five things at [...]

Logo Lounge and 1936 Typography

Today while I was working on one of our client’s new websites and in between Twitter posts and IM’s, I came up with an idea for a new project. Don’t worry you will all get a glimpse of it soon. With this new idea I needed to come up with a new logo and I [...]

Toys, Twitter and Today’s Advertising

All I have to do is post this photo and many of you are going to go crazy remembering all the great things you have gotten for the holidays over the years. Are you ready? Ok to be honest I just wanted Jason’s ADD to really kick in tonight. (you’re welcome Jason!) This is a [...]

End of 2008 – Time for 30 Day Blog Challenge part 2

I am down to the last few minutes here of day one of a second 30 Day Blog Challenge. This time it shouldn’t be as difficult to accomplish one post a day for 30 days since I have no travel plans this month. So here we go… This past weekend I helped my brother clean [...]

Big Brother, 1984, and Distractions

I have been a student of Orwellian Theory for a very long time. I write about it a lot over at Feeding The Blind. Yesterday I wrote a post about the economic down fall that the United States could be facing in the next few months. Yet today I have caught a sort of conspiracy [...]