“Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don’t last, but bad guys do.” These words were spoken by Scott Hall during his first of two WWE Hall of Fame inductions in 2014. Today they have a deeper meaning as the legendary pro wrestler died on Monday at the age of 63. News initially broke by Pw Torch on Sunday that Hall was placed on life support after suffering three heart attacks as a result of a blot clot. Complications following hip replacement surgery at the Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia. Long-time friend and tag team partner Kevin Nash shared a heartbreaking post on Instagram Monday morning revealing plans were in place to discontinue life support. By the evening, WWE and outlets including TMZ confirmed Hall’s death. Scott Hall in 1995 (John Barrett/PHOTOlink/Everett Collection) Hall’s career began in the 1980s in the Awa and later WCW as the Diamond Studd.
- 3/15/2022
- TV Insider
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films being made available by Netflix for instant streaming. Important Note: There may be some films that do not become available on the specified dates. This is merely a report of the most accurate release dates I can find, but is not directly confirmed by Netflix themselves.
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/07/2011
Synopsis: Just days before his scheduled release from a reformatory, teenage delinquent Silviu takes a pretty social worker hostage and threatens to kill her unless his estranged mother promises not to separate him from his younger brother.
Average Netflix Rating: 3.4 Salt Of The Sea (2008)
Streaming Available: 06/07/2011
Synopsis: Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry...
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/07/2011
Synopsis: Just days before his scheduled release from a reformatory, teenage delinquent Silviu takes a pretty social worker hostage and threatens to kill her unless his estranged mother promises not to separate him from his younger brother.
Average Netflix Rating: 3.4 Salt Of The Sea (2008)
Streaming Available: 06/07/2011
Synopsis: Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry...
- 6/7/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I've got a theory about service design: Great design will never save bad service, but great service will always save bad design.
I say this with a certain level of confidence as I fly from Seattle to Atlanta in seat 31D (yes that's way down in the back and stuck in the middle). I'm uncomfortable, restrained, claustrophobic and bored. I'm forced to wonder, why when so much of the world's service provision has innovated over the past 20 years, the airline economy seat remains devoid of any meaningful improvement?
No doubt a missed opportunity. The iconography of the airline economy seat is a legacy. The coach-class seat could be a testament to intelligent design at its best, serving as an example of ingenuity over adversity, creativity over restriction, and common sense over commerciality. But instead, it fails miserably.
When running a finger across the armrest molded cap end detail, ignoring the trapped chip crumbs,...
I say this with a certain level of confidence as I fly from Seattle to Atlanta in seat 31D (yes that's way down in the back and stuck in the middle). I'm uncomfortable, restrained, claustrophobic and bored. I'm forced to wonder, why when so much of the world's service provision has innovated over the past 20 years, the airline economy seat remains devoid of any meaningful improvement?
No doubt a missed opportunity. The iconography of the airline economy seat is a legacy. The coach-class seat could be a testament to intelligent design at its best, serving as an example of ingenuity over adversity, creativity over restriction, and common sense over commerciality. But instead, it fails miserably.
When running a finger across the armrest molded cap end detail, ignoring the trapped chip crumbs,...
- 8/14/2009
- by John Barratt
- Fast Company
Most of us can picture this Time cover from 1949 featuring Raymond Loewy. It was probably the first time a designer--in this case, an industrial-design renaissance man who sculpted the shapes of everything from Studebakers to Coke bottles--received such significant and mainstream media attention. But can anyone really remember what came after that?
There weren't any "covers wars" I'm aware of post-Loewy and his fellow design pioneers, but times are changing. During the past decade we've seen the dramatic rise of a media-generated celebrity design culture--which is beginning to make me wonder, are we accurately presenting a balanced picture of the complexities of the design industry, or simply catering to a celebrity obsessed society?
We unquestionably live in a culture that delights in the success and celebritization of modern day heroes/personalities--those special people endowed with swashbuckling abandon that we can bet our dreams on, that can lead us without fear into the unknown.
There weren't any "covers wars" I'm aware of post-Loewy and his fellow design pioneers, but times are changing. During the past decade we've seen the dramatic rise of a media-generated celebrity design culture--which is beginning to make me wonder, are we accurately presenting a balanced picture of the complexities of the design industry, or simply catering to a celebrity obsessed society?
We unquestionably live in a culture that delights in the success and celebritization of modern day heroes/personalities--those special people endowed with swashbuckling abandon that we can bet our dreams on, that can lead us without fear into the unknown.
- 8/12/2009
- by John Barratt
- Fast Company
Lately I've been thinking a lot about thinking. For reasons that are difficult for me to identify, it seems that the design industry lacks any real form of critical thinking. By that I mean a careful and deliberate analysis that's intended to identify genuine existing conditions, rather than the conditions that those with vested interests may want us to believe are true. Could be that the design industry isn't large enough to warrant professional critics, or that the market isn't great enough to consume these critiques, or perhaps that designers are uncomfortable criticizing their colleagues' work? Or maybe it's just that as an industry we are content, or that the intended audience has yet to develop a criterion for evaluation? For whatever reason, my observation still stands: critical thinking in design, whether from historians, educators, authors or journalists, is largely absent.
Like it or not, critical thinking is extremely important...
Like it or not, critical thinking is extremely important...
- 8/10/2009
- by John Barratt
- Fast Company
Several years ago, I moderated a panel at a design conference in Dubai. Among the panelists was a guy from Boeing, who dazzled the crowd with a slide show of the interior of the 787 Dreamliner. It was a view into an aviation experience that could make you forget what a nightmare travel has become: spacious, bright, with big windows, and a cabin that glowed. It made you want to grab your passport and go.
We all know that the Dreamliner has been riddled with structural problems, putting its debut on hold. So that delicious interior experience is still all pie, no sky. But I think of it every time I board some dismal, spine-destroying bus-with-wings. Some day!
Turns out, the designers behind that vision of aviation's future (as well as the bulk of Boeing's portfolio) mostly hail from Teague, one of the powerhouse design firms of the Pacific Northwest for the past 80 years.
We all know that the Dreamliner has been riddled with structural problems, putting its debut on hold. So that delicious interior experience is still all pie, no sky. But I think of it every time I board some dismal, spine-destroying bus-with-wings. Some day!
Turns out, the designers behind that vision of aviation's future (as well as the bulk of Boeing's portfolio) mostly hail from Teague, one of the powerhouse design firms of the Pacific Northwest for the past 80 years.
- 8/10/2009
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
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