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A lot of folks like Yelp. As a user, it's probably fun. You can read reviews, get previews, learn the inner secrets of places, and more. In the end, everyone's a critic and everyone's a reviewer, even if they shouldn't be, right? The internet has created overnight food experts, movie critics, and whiners everywhere. Yet Yelp is handy, yet from my perspective, aside from the content issues of Yelp,...
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A lot of folks like Yelp. As a user, it’s probably fun. You can read reviews, get previews, learn the inner secrets of places, and more. In the end, everyone’s a critic and everyone’s a reviewer, even if they shouldn’t be, right? The internet has created overnight food experts, movie critics, and whiners everywhere. Yet Yelp is handy, yet from my perspective, aside from the content issues of Yelp, it’s sales folks are annoying. It’s great they hustle, and I’m sure it’s commission based and we all need more money, but the repeated phone calls, shifty marketing words, and their persistence and a-hole style is just too much. So Yelp… although we thank you for the kind words, the hard sell is always a drag and it doesn’t stop. If it’s not one person, it’s another. If you ask them not to call, they’ll still call. Here’s another post I did a while ago about Yelp salesmanship. I hope posting this doesn’t give us more negative comments on yelp. Here’s our sites. You can’t but help read the negative comments!GRSF YelpGRLA YelpGR2 Yelpgr/eats YelpGR SilverlakeGRNY Yelp
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Casio LAX. Fred Segal's shops are high end. Walking in, I see Lindsay Price who gave me a big double take. No, I never met you. I was looking for the Casio event at Conveyor store. It's supposed to be a photo exhibition, but I was there to meet some heads that I indirectly helped out. I actually "designed" the LAX edition of the G Shock above. My friend Seven Under Topa, (also see my column on the...
Casio LAX. Fred Segal’s shops are high end. Walking in, I see Lindsay Price who gave me a big double take. No, I never met you. I was looking for the Casio event at Conveyor store. It’s supposed to be a photo exhibition, but I was there to meet some heads that I indirectly helped out. I actually “designed” the LAX edition of the G Shock above. My friend Seven Under Topa, (also see my column on the 7under.net site) called me, and while sitting with him and a couple of others at gr/eats, I came up with a idea, and he sat with his laptop and put the colors in. At the end, and well under an hour, we had an idea and concept. The watch came out shockingly nearly as planned. Perhaps it’s exact, it was a long time ago. We were all quite stoked. LAX (LA) has an eco-vibe as compared to NY or Tokyo (the other two places where special edition watches were made for this project). Snow boarding, oceans, mountains, hiking, it’s all close by. Prius, green homes, and solar are cool here since people are building like crazy. So that’s why the watch actually makes sense. Of course, it could have been black or something really plain, but this stands out hard, and if you take a quick peek, you’ll remember this color scheme. David Perez Shadi, the photographer who shot the line for G-Shock. The girl sitting looking at her cell must have been a model or something. Spicy tuna on crackers. Can any local food heads guess where this came from? Hirotaka and Akiyuki
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I knew this painting would catch your eye. It looks almost like a photo and well of course it'll catch your eye. It's work by the woman pictured below Natalia Fabia at the Corey Helford Gallery. The original plan was to see the KAWS show like the rest of the kids in LA. The Culver City bound La Cienega offramp was packed. You couldn't get off from the 10 freeway going south. Driving by the line...