Inspiration: Nuria Mora

Nuria Mora has been an inspiration of mine for quite sometime (see this post), and so when I heard about her new installation where she painted on a rooftop by the East River in New York City, I had to go take a look. See the result (just below) and the process here.



NEKO (photos)

Then I came across this video and thought you'd like to see more of her work too. I love her use of colours and the graphics. I'd love to somehow translate some of this block coloured graphics on a wall in a house.












More from Nuria Mora:

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Also you can watch her latest takeover downtown Madrid, at Preciados street by clicking here.

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My NYC Hotel Stay...(Via Made By Girl)

NYC has been amazing, minus the weather.  It was raining most of the time - so I didn't get as much done as I was hoping!  I also missed the last two days of Blogfest!!  I know....but I ended up doing other things that were quite beneficial business-wise, so it all worked out nicely in the end! 


Either way, I got to meet some nice people at Blogfest and saw several old school friends as well as family. One of the best parts of my trip was definitely the hotel room.  The internet connection was a bit crappy.....up & down the whole time - but at least I got my money back for the internet room charge.  


As promised, here are pictures of the room at the Royalton.



 



The service at the hotel was spectacular - they were always attentive & helpful - especially the door guy who helped with my bags & tried to hail a cab for 20 minutes! CRAZY.... 






































I ABSOLUTELY loved that the room was high up on the 14th floor & faced 44th street (front of building). 


And get this....it had a LARGE balcony with original wrought iron railings, gorgeous arches & columns!  


If you ever stay at the Royalton ask to stay in ROOM 1417 as it's the only standard room with this feature. I'll post several more pictures of my trip, including a tour of the Kate Spade store- which is sooo pretty for those who haven't visited the SOHO location!  

I'll be heading home Friday evening & I'm already feeling sad. I miss NYC, my friends, family and all the different varieties of food you find here. I'm really thinking about coming here every 6 months....hmmmm


Are you from NYC?? Do you love it? Have you had enough? Never been but want to visit?!??


 


-images by jen ramos

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Daily Photo

Today is another two-parter... Mainly because today was so incredibly busy. I guess it can also serve as a teaser for everyone else reading. (Real update tomorrow, I hope!)






Today I woke up feeling very sick. Sore throat and a vicious cough to boot. I forced myself to sleep a little while longer. But it was all remedied with a trip to Red Bamboo and Coney Island with Lisa today. These are two wonderful things I can't wait to share with you when you come back to the city. Though I think we'll wait until August for a Coney Island adventure, simply because the crowds are a bit overwhelming. Doesn't my vegan [soy] chicken parmesan look incredible?! There was a swing ride that lifted you up way way high and it made me nervous just looking at it. Maybe I can work up the courage to ride it... I'm not holding my breath though. You'd really enjoy Coney Island and Luna Park... there's a 7 year old inside of you dying to get out, I just know it (hey, I wear a shark backpack! no hating!). I only wish I had a photo from the aquarium... Love you. (See Mike's Daily Photo by CLICKING HERE)


xoxo

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It's hard to accept intelligence that breaks your heart.

It must be very difficult to accept intelligence that foretells your demise or says your dearest strategies and models have failed. That’s the situation in which the major investment banks found themselves in the last few weeks and where many commercial banks also find themselves. It’s also the situation some US-based law firms are in now.

As most readers from law firms know, two Bay Area-based firms, Heller and Thelen, are visibly struggling with “you’re probably not going to make it” warnings, as they seek to find merger partners.

Eleven months ago I prepared a report for a client that was considering expanding in the Bay Area, which included this statement:

At least half a dozen large Bay Area law firms are showing signs of stress. If one or more of these firms were acquired or dissolved, the health of the remaining major firms practicing in the Bay Area—in San Francisco and the Valley and even beyond—would improve. Such change(s) would make a dramatically positive difference for a few firms.

Heller and Thelen were among the six stressed firms I reviewed, although they were in trouble for different reasons.

Over the years, Heller did many things right and built an admirable brand with a strong culture. Following the tech bubble, the firm was quick to jump on the life sciences bandwagon in 2002-2003. But in 2004 and 2005 the firm’s revenue and profit trends faded. The firm responded with partner de-equitizations, staff cuts, and other cuts and lowered expectations. If the firm made any strategic changes, those weren’t visible from the outside, although considerable business development flogging was evident. Still, “work harder, build revenue, cut costs, and de-equitize partners” is not a strategy.

Nearly three years later, after seeking and not finding a merger partner, Heller is considering dissolution, among other options. Their candor on this point is refreshing and, although deeply depressing to loyal Hellerites, will probably ensure that Heller’s best remaining legal DNA mates with the best possible other legal DNA at other firms.

Thelen, another Bay Area firm whose brand is less burnished than Heller, is regularly losing partners and groups while they seek a merger partner—their third. The firm has already squandered opportunities to grow and diversify through mergers it initiated with two New York-based firms, Reid & Priest and Brown & Raysman, but both mergers resulted in little permanent gain. Thelen’s growth strategy, to expand beyond its old-economy practices like construction law into financial, IP, and other practices, was upended by internal West Coast vs. East Coast rivalries. The West Coast winners were merciless, and the East Coast losers fled, as did some West Coast partners who found more peaceful places to practice law.
Memo to file: Collaborate, don’t compete, to achieve post-merger assimilation.

The Bay Area is not the only US geographic market that would be healthier with fewer corporate law firms; Atlanta, Boston, and Philadelphia have long been too crowded. And now it seems New York will experience law firm mergers and failures too. Obvious NYC candidates for hastened demise are firms that have lost big clients and will see double-digit percentage losses in firm-wide revenue and that have a very high transactional to litigation capability ratio.

Bruce MacEwen, the estimable law firm economist who blogs at www.adamsmithesq.com, reminded readers on Sunday that the most basic strategy key intelligence topics now apply: What are your firm’s strengths, and how much does the marketplace need what you have to offer?

Fortunes, careers, and reputations are made in exciting times like these. And hearts are broken, too.

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