Gape Into The Void: Recent Episodes

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"Gape Into The Void," steps into the mind and business of cartoonist and blogger Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid) and the gapingvoid team. Tune in for candid discussions about the intersection between art and business...

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Gape Into The Void Episode 10 - Converge with Ray Velez Show notes: In this episode we have the opportunity to speak with Ray Velez, the CTO of legendary digital agency Razorfish, and co-author of the book, "Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology." Ray's story is an interesting one as he's gone though Razorfish's numerous changes in ownership while working with clients ranging from Citibank, to Ford Motor Company, to the National Football League (NFL). You can check out Ray's book "CONVERGE" here. Enjoy! Thanks again for lis­te­ning. If you are enjo­ying Gape Into The Void, please tell your friends and leave us a review on iTu­nes. If you have any ques­tions or topics you want us to cover on the show email us at pod­cast at gapingvoid.com.

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In this episode of the Gape Into The Void podcast, Hugh and Jason have a discussion with bestselling author, speaker, and marketer, Seth Godin. Seth has been an inspiration to many, including Hugh, and over the years gapingvoid has produced many popular images that were based upon, or included the words of Seth Godin. We even have a dedicated Seth Godin Store! Most recently, Hugh illustrated one of Seth's three new books, "V Is For Vulnerable." Here are links to some of the thinks that Seth, Hugh and Jason talk about in the show: Seth's Kickstarter Project Seth's New Book Ignore Everybody Poke The Box Linchpin V Is For Vulnerable Niagara Falls... Russell Davies and Nike Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny Nike Fuel Band Red Bull vs. Coke Apple Stores Seth at Yahoo. The Lizard Brain... Extreme Sports Liz Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love Hugh's ChangeThis Manifesto Don Quixote Tribes Purple Cow We hope you enjoy listening to the talk with Seth. If you like the show, please tell your friends about the "Gape Into The Void" podcast and leave us a review on iTunes. Rock on!

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Gape Into The Void Episode 8 With Tim Ferriss Show notes: We had the chance to catch up with the amazing Tim Ferriss. Tim is a fascinating, inspiring guy, and our interview with him is full of great quotes and memorable Ferriss-isms... Listen carefully and enjoy! Tim is the master of many things, but mostly he's figured out how to successfully Hack Life (hence the image above.) Here are links to some of things touched on in the show... Enjoy! TimFerriss.com 4-Hour Workweek 4-Hour Body 4-Hour Chef Book boycott? Amazon Publishing Bittorrent Partnership Tim's Book Trailer Video Director Adam Patch Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Josh Waitzkin - Searching for Bobby Fischer Mastery Jiro Dreams of Sushi Marcus Aurelius Seneca 2.0 Gary Vaynerchuk on the show Lift App Herd by Mark Earls

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In this episode of the Gape Into The Void Podcast Hugh and Jason have a chance to catch up with Gary Vaynerchuk. If you don't know Gary, you should. He's an incredibly smart, dynamic and outgoing personality, and most of all he's an incredible salesman. Here are some of the things touched on in our discussion with Gary: WineLibrary - Store WineLibrary.TV Vaynermedia Viddler Kim Kardashian Hugh does "live drawing" at events. Gary's brother AJ Plurk and Jaiku Microsoft Blue Monster Robert Parker's Wine Ratings $3 wine from Whole Foods Buying the NY Jets Grey Goose $15 Super Premium Gum

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Gape Into The Void Episode 6 – Office Art & The Wedding Planner

It’s time for another episode of Gape Into The Void! Join us as Hugh, Jason and Jeff talk about gapingvoid’s evil plan to disrupt the “office art” industry. We also are reminded about some celebratory events in Hugh’s world and we give you a peek behind the scenes of some of our current client projects.

Here are some links for things we discuss in the show:

Social Object Factory

Hugh is The Wedding Planner

Happy Birthday To Hugh!

The gallery GapingvoidArt.com

Follow us on Twitter: @gapingvoid, @gapingvoidart

@garyvee

Steve Jobs print

Scoble’s Web Page

Peter Diamandis

Asteroid misses Earth

Brian Solis

Facial Recognition – No Smiling on ID’s

Miles Davis Ringtone

New Republic

Babson College

Xerox Machine

Art.com

Successories.com

Demotivators

HughTrain

Disrupting The Office Art Market

Rackspace Briefing Center

Rob La Gesse

LIKE US ON FACEBOOK!

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In this episode of Gape Into The Void we talk about Creativity and something very important to marketers, and now, to Hugh: engagement. Here are some of the things discussed in the show:

Debate night = late night...

Drawings for Wired.com

Mike Arrington

Punk Rock!

Cloudy Candidates

The Other Guy Is The Antichrist

The Daily Cartoon Newsletter

Google Results: gapingvoid Blue Monster

Hugh's BIG news...

Sass gets another gadget

How To Be Creative

Sustaining your voice is much harder than finding it...

Steve Rubel's Tweet about images...

Edelman.

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Gape Into The Void Episode 4 - Disrupt

We're back from San Francisco where we attended the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. In this episode we Gape Into The Void of disruption and share some of our impressions of the conference and speakers. Here are some of the topics and people mentioned in the show:

Hugh hate's Sass's Intros... what do you think?

Good Chinese Food

Daily Animations gapingvoid created for TC Disrupt

Ben Horowitz or Jack Dorsey?

Cory Booker gets "Delusional"

Dave Morin, Path CEO

Marc Benioff or Mark Zuckerberg

Salesforce.com

Anthony Robbins

Facebook's Mission

Mike Arrington

David Sacks vs. Biz Stone

Yammer

The TC Disrupt Winner: YourMechanic

Vinod Khosla

"Software Is Eating The World"

Margaret Thatcher closes the coal pits...

Cool Startups: Electric Skateboard, LIT Motors

Pinterest For Cats

Censored Animation???

Gapingvoid does events.

SXSW

Scoble & Shel's "Naked Conversations."

August Capital Party

We're all in the Create or Die business...

Decorate. Motivate.

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Show Notes: Recorded just before we left for San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt, in this episode of Gape Into The Void we tackle the topic of "culture" and the importance of a business articulating its purpose. Here are links to some of the things we mention during the show: Robert Owen Mark Earls - Welcome to the Creative Age Simon Sinak - Start With Why Blue Monster Tattoo Emperor Diocletian Rackspace Zappos In the next Gape Into The Void we'll talk more about our experiences at TechCrunch and Hugh's passion for "Live Tooning." Stay tuned! Tooned? If you have been enjoying the Gape Into The Void podcast, please tell your friends and leave us a comment or review on iTunes. You can also email us with your comments and feedback at podcast@gapingvoid.com. Thanks for listening! Rock on.

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In this episode of "Gape Into The Void" we talk about "Effective Visual Strategies for Business" and why cartoons work. Here are some links to things we mention in the show:

  • Slideshare: "Effective Visual Strategies" deck
  • Neuroscience Expert Robert Cooper
  • Len Schlesinger, Babson College
  • Charlie Brown
  • Mark Earls
  • Microsoft Blue Monster
  • Werner Herzog
  • David DeAngelo

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Welcome to the premiere episode of "Gape Into The Void," featuring cartoonist and blogger Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid).

In this first episode Hugh talks with his business partner, Jason Korman, about how they first started working together and the genesis of gapingvoid ltd. as a visual communications business...